Announcing a New Forum for Scholars of Early Medieval England

THE ANGLO-SAXON STUDIES COLLOQUIUM


The Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium aims to foster intellectual exchange among faculty and graduate students whose interests embrace the language, literature, and culture of early medieval England. Currently based in Columbia, New York University, the University of Rhode Island, Rutgers, UC Berkeley, and King's College London, the Colloquium seeks to expand the resources available to Anglo-Saxonists from these universities and other institutions in the area, and also to create a welcoming intellectual community for anyone who is interested in Anglo-Saxon studies.

To join our email list, please send a message to: ASSC@columbia.edu

Core Faculty Committee: Patricia Dailey, Columbia University; Kathleen Davis, University of Rhode Island; Stacy Klein, Rutgers University; Clare Leeds, King's College, University of London; Haruko Momma, New York University; Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe, UC Berkeley.

Sponsored by: The Department of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University; The Office of the Dean for the Humanities, FAS, New York University; The Department of English, Rutgers University; University of Rhode Island; The Department of English, UC Berkeley.

CURRENT COURSES OF INTEREST in Consortium Universities (Fall 2008 - Spring 2009)

PAST COURSES OF INTEREST in Consortium Universities

ASSC Graduate Student Bios


COLLOQUIUM EVENTS

The following events have been scheduled for the 2008-2009 academic year. Further details will be added in due course. To learn about past events with ASSC, from Fall 2004 to Spring 2009 click here.


Fall 2009

Nov 18
Wednesday
Martin Chase (Fordham University)

"Siðbót´: A Late Medieval Icelandic Trúarkvæði about the Judgment of Susannah"

Columbia University
co-sponsored by the Columbia University Medieval Studies Seminar



Spring 2010 Schedule

Jan 22
Friday
David Townsend (University of Toronto)

"Latinities in England, 894-1135"
a workshop in two parts

13-19 University Place, room 229
New York University

Co-sponsored with the NYU English Department

Morning Session (11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.)
Asser and Æthelweard

Afternoon Session (2 p.m.-3:30 p.m.)
Goscelin and William of Malmesbury

Please note: the event is open to pre-registered participants only; for pre-registration and recommended reading, please contact Gerald Song (geraldsong@mac.com)

Feb 19
Friday
Sixth Annual ASSC Graduate Student Conference
Harvard University

Fear and Loathing in Anglo-Saxon England

To register please email harvardanglosaxon@gmail.com

Program

10:30-12:00 Session I (Thompson Room, Barker Center):
Encountering the Other: Psychoanalytic Readings
Audrey Walton (Columbia University): “‘Ungelic is Us’: Separation Anxiety and the Search Hypothesis in the Old English Elegies” David Lennington (Princeton University): “The Dream of the Rood and the Cross as Fetish”
Natasha Sumner (Harvard University): “Efnisien ‘Othered’: A Case Study of a Medieval Psychopath-Trickster”
Respondents: Mary Kate Hurley (Columbia University) and Brandon Hawk (University of Connecticut)

12:00-1:30: Lunch

1:30-3:00: Session II (Thompson Room, Barker Center):
Place and Geography
Matthieu Boyd (Harvard University): “‘Paganism, woman, and the ocean, these three desires and these three great fears of man,’ in Latin and Old English Lives of Machutus (St. Malo)”
Tomás O'Sullivan (Saint Louis University): “Early Insular Eschatology: The Apocalyptic and Eschatological Texts in Vat. Pal. lat. 220”
Kevin Caliendo (Loyola University Chicago): “Land Grants in Old English Poetry: Beating the Boundaries of Hell in Christ and Satan”
Respondents: Katherine McCullough (New York University), Andrew Grubb (University of Connecticut) and Eric Weskott (Yale University)

3:00-3:30: Coffee Break

3:30-5:00: Session III (Thompson Room, Barker Center):
Fear and Loathing: Encountering the Non-Christian
Benjamin Saltzman (University of California, Berkeley): “Suspicion, Secrecy, and the Hermeneutics of Elene”
Eunice Fun (Brown University): “Fear of the ‘Femme Fatale’: The Feminine Threat in a Masculine Society”
Len Neidorf (New York University): “Hæþene æt hilde: Rethinking Heathenism at Maldon”
Respondents: Brigit McGuire (Columbia University) and Mo Pareles (New York University)

Click here for the CFP

Feb 24
Wednesday
Daniel Donoghue(Harvard University)

"Reading Poems with Anglo-Saxon Eyes"

5:30 pm
Reception to follow

523 Butler Library
Columbia University
co-sponsored by the Rare Books and Manuscripts Library

Mar 29
Monday
Seeta Chaganti (UC Davis)

6:00 pm Rutgers University
Details TBA

Apr 1
Thursday
Eileen Joy (Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville)

6:30 pm New York University
Details TBA

Apr 12-13
Mon-Tues
Martin Foys (Drew University)

Monday April 12
Lecture, 6:00 pm

Rutgers University
Details TBA

Tuesday April 13
Workshop, 4:10 pm - 6:00 pm

Columbia University
Details TBA



COLLOQUIUM EVENTS ARCHIVE