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Past
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Spring 2005 | Fall 2004
SPRING 2009
Feb 5
Thursday
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Jeffrey Jerome Cohen (George Washington University)
"The Weight of the Past"
Reception at 6.00 pm
Lecture at 6.30 pm
13 University Place, Room 222
at New York University
Co-sponsored with the NYU English Medieval Forum
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Feb 20
Friday
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Fifth Annual Graduate Student Conference
at the University of Connecticut
Schedule
9:45-10:30 Breakfast
UConn Student Union room 304 C
10:30-12:00 Session 1: Material Spaces, Places of Value
Jeremy DeAngelo (University of Connecticut):
"Things of Real Value: The Dragon, the Hoard, and Society"
Joseph Ackley (New York University):
"Once Feminine, Now Masculine: Treasured Spaces in the Encomium Emmae Reginae"
Michael Bintley (University College London):
"Buildings, Burrows, and Barrows: Wood and Stone in the Landscapes of Beowulf"
Respondent: Andrew Pfrenger (University of Connecticut)
12:00-1:00 Poetry Reading: Lytton Smith
UConn Co-op
1:00-2:00 Lunch
UConn Student Union room 304 B
2:15-3:45 Session 2: Travellers in the Landscape
Lytton Smith (Columbia University):
"'Þu mid rihte rædan scealdest' ("you ought, by right, to read"): The Interpretation of Travelers in Beowulf"
Christopher Riedel (Boston College):
"Manipulating Miracles: Instructing Pilgrims with St Swithun"
Respondent: Jordan Zweck (Yale University)
4:00-5:30 Session 3: Spaces of Individuality and Collectivity
Daniel Remein (New York University):
"Where Wisps of Being Mingle: Theorizing The Space of the Wræclast in Christ and Satan"
Mary Kate Hurley (Columbia University):
"Beowulf's Collectivities"
Mo Pareles (New York University):
"The Devil Inside: Mapping Self-Mutilation and Exorcism in the Old English Gospel of Mark"
Respondent: Britt Rothauser (University of Connecticut)
6:30 Dinner at the house of Robert Hasenfratz
Click here for Conference Registration form
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April 21-22
Monday and Tuesday |
Stephen Harris (University of Massachussets)
"Did the Anglo-Saxons Understand Beauty?"
Seamus Heaney obliquely observed of North Germanic poetry its tendency to "trust the feel of what nubbed treasure/ your hands have known." With few exceptions, the poetic vocabulary of Old English shies from explicit abstraction. There is no mention of the True or the Good, let alone of physical beauty--descriptions of people and landscapes are exceedingly rare, for example. As a consequence, post-Enlightenment critics trying to recover an Anglo-Saxon Weltanschauung are faced with methodological difficulties that become increasingly pronounced as we come to search for literary reflexes of identity, ethnicity, gender, and so forth. What form did their abstract world take? How was it manifested in material form? How did their poetry relate to ideas of the Beautiful—if it did at all? And if we are to answer such questions, what would our answers look like? In this talk, I discuss Hebrew, Latin, Greek, and Anglo-Saxon ideas of the Beautiful and how one might go about looking for Beauty in Old English poetry.
6.00 PM Lecture
April 20
302 Murray Hall
at Rutgers University
Workshops at Columbia University
April 21
Workshop One: "Beautiful Materialities"
401 Hamilton Hall
1 pm to 2.30 pm
Workshop Two: "Community"
501 International Affairs Building (SIPA)
4.10 pm to 5.30 pm
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FALL 2008
Nov 6
Thursday |
Mark Amodio (Vassar)
"Embodied texts, entexted bodies: performance and performative poetics in and of Beowulf"
Reception at 6.00 pm
Lecture at 6.30 pm
13 University Place, Room 222
New York University
Co-sponsored with the NYU English Medieval Forum
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Dec 2
Tuesday |
Scott Gwara (University of South Carolina)
"Appreciating the Heroic Catastrophe: Why Beowulf's Dragon Fight Resembles The Battle of Maldon and What It Means for Germanic Heroic Literature"
Developing a case made in his new book, Heroic Identity in the World of Beowulf, Dr. Scott Gwara (University of South Carolina) proposes unobserved narrative homologies between Beowulf's dragon fight and Byrhtnoð's rout at Maldon. Gwara suggests that the trope of "Men Dying for Their Lord" motivates aspects of Beowulf's dragon fight. A new definition of "Men Willing to Die to Avenge Their Lords" highlights potentially reckless engagement by exploring the limits of vengeable action. In these terms Gwara finds that oferhygd (overconfidence) functions in Beowulf as ofermod does in Maldon. Appreciating Maldon as a reflex of Beowulf's dragon fight means evaluating how reckless heroism confronts the responsibilities of leadership in portrayals of ambivalent heroic action. Supporting reference will be made to continental Latin, Germanic, and other Anglo-Saxon sources.
5:30 pm
523 Butler Library
Columbia University
co-sponsored by the Medieval Seminar Series
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SPRING 2008
Feb 7
Thursday
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Andy Orchard (University of Toronto)
"Placing the Patterns of Old English Poetry"
reception to follow
6.00 pm
Teleconference Lecture Hall,
Scholarly Communications Center, 4th floor
Archibald S. Alexander Library,
Rutgers University, College Ave. Campus
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Feb 8
Friday
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Andy Orchard (University of Toronto)
"Writing Wrong: Beowulf, the Scribes, and the Editors"
A workshop
In this workshop, Professor Orchard will explore Anglo-Saxon editing practices, with a particular focus on the various corrections made to Beowulf by the scribes themselves and the implications of such corrections. He will also provide a critical look at how Old English has been edited in modern times.
9.30 am - 10.00 am: Coffee and Bagels
10.00 am - 12.00 pm: Workshop
12.00 pm - 1.00 pm Lunch
Plangere Writing Center
Room 303 Murray Hall
Rutgers University, College Ave Campus
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Feb 16
Saturday
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Pleasure in Anglo-Saxon England
The Fourth Annual ASSC Graduate Student Conference
at Yale University
Click here for the participants and a schedule of talks.
The Call for Papers (Click Here)
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Mar 4
Tuesday
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David F. Johnson (Florida State University)
“Forensic Philology and the Interventions of the Tremulous Hand of Worcester"
6:00pm
Columbia University
Butler Library 523, reception following
How can we know that medieval manuscripts were actually read by
medieval people? What traces of their readerly activities did
medieval readers leave behind in the texts they read? What can
these traces tell us about the reception and functions of these
texts? This paper will consider the interventions in a range of
manuscripts of one medieval reader in particular, the so-called
Tremulous Scribe of Worcester, in order to discover more about how
and why he read the texts he did.
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Apr 3 Thursday
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David Damrosch (Columbia University)
"A Rune of One's Own: Negotiating Latinity in Medieval Iceland and
Colonial New Spain"
5.30 pm reception
6:00 pm lecture
13 University Place, Room 222
New York University
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Apr 16
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Haruko Momma (New York University)
"Anglo-Saxon Borders: The Representation of Text and Christ on the Ruthwell Cross"
a Faculty Work-In-Progress
In this work-in-progress session, Haruko Momma will discuss her project on the borders of Anglo-Saxon England and use the Ruthwell Cross as an example of an artifact that stands at both geographical and temporal thresholds--temporal, because this stone monument contains arguably one of the earliest specimens of writing in the Anglo-Saxon period, and geographical, because Ruthwell is located on the southern border of Scotland today. Of particular interest are the materiality of writing, the ekphrastic use of inscriptions, and the function of texts in post-conversion England, which itself is located on the periphery of hegemonic culture. The runic inscription on the cross will be compared to its counterpart in The Dream of the Rood to consider how the positioning of the Cross’s self-narrative varies as it appears on an eighth-century cross and in a tenth-century manuscript. She will also argue that the representation of Christ serves as a point of reference for exploring texts produced in a liminal space.
5.30 pm
103 Chancellor Green
Princeton University
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May 23-24
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Anglo-Saxon Futures II: About Time
an international workshop of seminars and roundtables
King's College London
Council Room, Strand Campus
Schedule
Friday May 23 (Council Room, Strand)
2:15-2:45 pm Coffee and Registration
2:45-3:00
Welcome (Clare Lees, King's College London)
3:00-4:30
Current Times
Kathleen Davis (Princeton), 'Time, Poetry, and the Stillness of Speech'
Patricia Dailey (Columbia), 'He is ure heafod. and we sind his lima: How Ælfric Times the Body'
Sharon M. Rowley (Christopher Newport University), 'Who Read Æthelbert's Letter? Translation, Mediation and Authority in the OE Bede'
4:30-5:00
Tea
5:00-6:30
Translating Old English Poetry: The Ruin and Durham Workshop led by Marijane Osborn (UC-Davis). Discussants: Aaron Hostetter (Princeton) and Matt Kohl (NYU). Respondent: Chris Jones (University of St Andrews)
6:30-7:30
Reception
Saturday May 24 (Council Room, Strand)
10:30-12:00
Queer Futures
Lisa Weston (California State, Fresno), 'Desire and the Anglo-Saxon School Girl'
Eileen A. Joy (Southern Illinois, Edwardsville), `Queer Times, Queer Bodies, and the Erotics of a Nomadic Anglo-Saxon Studies'
Gillian Overing (Wake Forest), 'Beowulf on Gender'
12:00-1:00
Lunch
1:00- 2:30
Disciplines through Time
Hal Momma (NYU) and Josh Davies (King's College London), 'Past Presents: Temporality Collaboration'
Diane Watt (Aberystwyth) and Clare Lees (King's College London), 'GenderQueer Collaboration'
2:30-3:00
Coffee Break
3:00-4:30
The Old English Life of Mary of Egypt Roundtable discussion, Brigit McGuire (Columbia), Stacy Klein (Rutgers), Carrie Ho (Rutgers), Laura S. Bailey (King's College London)
5:30-6:30
Reception
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FALL 2007
Oct 5
Friday |
Celia Chazelle (The College of New Jersey)
"Ritual, Reverence and Art in the Churches of Wearmouth and Jarrow"
4.30 pm
at Princeton University
Chancellor Green 105
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Oct 17
Wednesday |
Joyce Hill (University of Leeds)
"Identifying Aelfric's Version of Paul the Deacon's Homiliary: Principles, Processes and Problems"
5.30 pm Reception
6.00 lecture
at New York University
13-19 University Place, Room 222 (First Floor)
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Oct 30
Tuesday |
Heide Estes (Monmouth University)
"'Stige nearwe, enge anpaðas’: Landscape and Ecology in Beowulf"
6.30 pm
at Columbia University
657 Schermerhorn Extension
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SPRING 2007
Jan 30
Tuesday |
Elaine Treharne (University
of Leicester)
lecture at Rutgers University
further details TBA
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Jan 31
Wednesday |
Elaine Treharne (University
of Leicester)
Anglo-Saxon Paleography workshop at Rutgers University
further details TBA
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Feb 16
Friday |
Third Annual ASSC Graduate Student
Conference
Echoing Anglo-Saxon England:
Continuities, Encounters, Influence
at Columbia University
Ware Lounge, 6th floor Avery Hall
Call
for Papers Available Online: please click here.
Conference Poster
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Mar 1
Thursday |
Christopher Jones (Ohio State
University)
4.30 pm
at Princeton University
103 Chancellor Green
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Apr 3
Tuesday |
Clare Lees (King's College,
University of London)
"Gender Indifference? Women, Sexuality and Anglo-Saxon
Studies"
6:30 pm
at Columbia University
Ware Lounge, Sixth Floor, Avery Hall
for directions see http://www.columbia.edu/about_columbia/map/avery.html
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Apr 12
Thursday |
Medieval Academy Panel at the University
of Toronto
"Refiguring the Fall: Genesis B for the Twenty-First
Century"
4 pm
Roundtable discussion with Kathleen Davis (Princeton);
Catherine Karkov (Leeds); Stacy Klein (Rutgers); Haruko
Momma (NYU); Paul Remley (U. Washington)
Chair: Patricia Dailey (Columbia)
in Vic Chapel, Victoria College, University of
Toronto
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Apr 26
Thursday |
Jocelyn Wogan-Browne (University
of York, UK)
"Cultural Traditions and Anglo-Norman Women in
Earlier Medieval England"
6 pm
at New York University
19 University Place, first floor, Great Room
This event is co-sponsored by the Medieval and Renaissance
Center at New York University
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FALL 2006
Nov 9
Thursday |
Christopher Jones (University
of Saint Andrews)
"Strange Likeness: the use of Old English in Twentieth
Century Poetry"
4.30 pm
at Princeton University
209 Scheide Caldwell House
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Dec 1
Friday |
Robert Young (New York University)
A Workshop: "Multilingualism, or a New Approach to HEL"
at New York University
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Dec 8
Friday |
Mary Ramsey (Fordham University)
"Texting the Dead: Lament and Loss in Medieval
Germanic Literatures"
4 pm
at Columbia University
628 Kent Hall
CANCELLED
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SPRING 2005
Jan 20
Friday |
Marlene Ciklamini (Rutgers)
Workshop: "The Call of Britain in Old Norse Sagas"
Lunch 12 to 1 pm, followed by the workshop from 1 to 2.30
East Pyne 010,
Princeton University
Sagas are renowned for exploration: exploration of character in
dramatic form, of ethical questions and of the world that lay close
to, and beyond, Iceland's geographical confines. Anglo-Saxon
England was part of this world. The question before us is thus an
expansive and elusive one. How did thirteenth-century sagas
preserve or transform the oral tradition that commemorated Viking
activities in Britain?
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Feb 2
Thursday |
Allen Frantzen (Loyola University)
"Dialogue and Drama in Old English Poetry: Juliana and Beowulf"
5.30 pm
Reception to follow.
Pane Room, Alexander Library
Rutgers University
This event is co-sponsored by the Rutgers University Libraries
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Feb 3
Friday |
ASSC Graduate Student Conference
"Friendship and Community in Anglo-Saxon England"
9.30 AM to 2 PM
Plangere Writing Center, Room 302, Murray Hall (Third Floor)
Rutgers University
For full schedule click here
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Feb 23
Thursday |
Roy Liuzza (University of Tennessee)
"Senses of Time in Anglo-Saxon England"
5.15 PM lecture, 4.30 PM reception
Language and Literature Building: 19 University Place, Room 222
NYU
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Mar 17-18
Thursday
and Friday |
ANGLO SAXON FUTURES
First International Workshop of the ASSC
at King's College, London with Clare Lees
For more information: King's College Anglo Saxon Futures Site
Poster
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Mar 23
Thursday |
Maths Bertell (Stockholm University)
"The Thundergod Thor and the World Pillar: A Comparative Perspective"
6 PM
NYU, Medieval and Renaissance Center
This event is co-sponsored by the ASSC.
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Apr 7
Friday |
"Recent Work
in Anglo-Saxon Studies"
organized by The Medieval Club of New York
7.30 pm
Speakers: Patricia Dailey, Kathleen Davis, Stacy Klein,
Haruko Momma, and Gordon Whatley.
at The Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 5th Ave (at 34th
St.), room 4406
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Apr 21
Friday
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Peter Jeffery (Princeton University)
"Traces of the Anglo-Saxon Encounter with Roman Chant"
co-sponsored by the Liturgy Group
4 pm at Mobia, 1865 Broadway at 61st Street
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May 6
Saturday |
ASSC Panel at Kalamazoo:
"The Powers
of Language and Old English Texts"
10 AM
Session 403: Valley I, 102
Old English and the Powers of Agency
Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe, University of Notre Dame
Lacnunga XIX: An Anglo-Saxon Phenomenon
Martha Dana Rust, New York University
The Work of Words: The Powers of Old English
Patricia Dailey, Columbia University
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FALL 2005
Sept 16
Friday |
Nicholas Howe (UC
Berkeley)
"Writing the Map of Anglo-Saxon England"
5:30 pm — reception beginning at 4:30 pm
628 Kent Hall, Columbia University
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Oct 7
Friday |
Bruce Holsinger (University
of Virginia)
"The Parable of Caedmon's Hymn: Liturgical
Invention and Literary History"
5:30 pm in Chancellor Green 103 at Princeton University
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Oct 21
Friday |
Stacy Klein (Rutgers
University)
Faculty Work-in-Progress
"I Sing of Arms and Yet Much More: Sex, War and Anglo-Saxon Literature"
Respondents: Olga Burakov (NYU) and Phillip Brian Harper (NYU)
2.30 PM at the Department of English, New York University
19 University Place, Room 222.
Professor Klein will also be offering a seminar on Thursday, October 20 1 p.m. to 3 p.m, 19 University Place, Room 505.
This event is co-sponsored by The Colloquium on Early Literature and Culture in English (Department of English, NYU).
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Nov 4
Friday |
Michael Sargent (Queens College
and The Graduate Center, CUNY)
"An Introduction to Anglo-Saxon Paleography"
5-6 pm — followed by a reception
Mina Rees Library in the Eighteenth-Century Reading Room
(in the basement of the library) at the CUNY Graduate
Center
This seminar is intended primarily for interested
students who have taken, or are taking, a course in
Anglo-Saxon language and literature.
The event is being sponsored by the Medieval Studies
Certificate Program, The Graduate Center, CUNY, in
addition to ASSC sponsors.
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SPRING 2005
Jan 21
Friday |
An Introduction to Old Norse,
a quick lesson in Old Norse grammar for students
of Old English,
led by Richard Sacks
(Columbia)
10:30 am-1:00 pm at Rutgers University
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Feb 25
Friday |
A Graduate Student Roundtable Discussion
Selfhood and Interiority in Anglo-Saxon Poetry:
The Wanderer, The Seafarer and Beyond
with opening remarks by Michael
Matto (Adelphi University)
10:30 am-1 pm (lunch to follow) at the NYU Medieval
and Renaissance Center
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Mar 2
Wednesday |
Gordon Whatley
(Queens College and CUNY Graduate Center)
"Hagiography and Violence: Saint Edmund and Other
Warrior Knights in Aelfric's Lives"
Reception at 5:45, Lecture
at 6:30 pm at the NYU Medieval
and Renaissance Center
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Mar 23
Wednesday |
Faculty Work-in-Progress
Kathleen Davis (Princeton
University)
"Ruling Time: the Venerable Bede and Amitov Ghosh"
from her book-in-progress, Ruling Time: Modern Sovereignties
and the Middle Ages
5 pm at Columbia University (Heyman Center, Boardroom)
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April 15
Friday |
Jonathan Wilcox (University
of Iowa)
"A Ticklish Feeling: Embarrassment and Shame in
Apollonius of Tyre and Æelfric"
4:30 pm at Rutgers University (Pane Room,
Alexander Library)
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April 22
Friday |
Katherine
O'Brien O'Keeffe (Notre Dame University)
"The Silence of Eve"
on Goscelin of St. Bertin, The book of encouragement
and consolation
4 pm at Columbia University
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April 28
Thursday |
Susan Kim (Illinois
State University)
Discussion on OE Riddles and St. Margaret
4 to 7 pm at Columbia University in Patricia Dailey's
Seminar, "Host Bodies"
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April 29
Friday |
GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE WORKSHOP
Princeton, Chancellor Green 103
10-10:30 – coffee
Conference Moderator: Wes Yu, Princeton University
History, Language, and Pedagogy
10:30-11:45
– Kate Olsen,
Columbia University, "Sounding Off in The Owl
and the Nightingale: What Sounds Signify in a Post-Conquest
Poem"
Respondent: Nicole Smith, Rutgers University
– Spencer Keralis,
New York University, "Anglo-Saxonism and Pedagogy
in Antebellum America"
Respondent: Michael Powell, New York University
Discussants for both panels: Hannah Elmer, Columbia;
Darryl Ellison, Rutgers; Ross Knecht, NYU; Matthew
Kohl, NYU; Matthew Saks, Princeton; Bess Miller, Columbia;
Benjamin Saltzman, Pace
The Spaces of Elegy
12:00 - 1:15
– Mary Kate
Hurley, Columbia University, "The Exile and
the Other: Voice and Psychological Landscape in the
Wanderer"
Respondent: Lee Fulton, City University of
New York
– Aaron Hostetter,
Princeton University, "'Swefeth After Symle':
Human Economy and its Disruption in the Production
of Conversion in the Anglo-Saxon Elegy"
Respondent: Kevin Cattrell, Rutgers University
1:15 – Lunch
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, Princeton University; The
Medieval Studies Program, Princeton University; The
Department of English, Rutgers University.
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FALL 2004
Nov 19
Friday |
Gillian Overing
(Wake Forest University)
"Anglo-Saxon Horizons: Places of the Mind in the
Northumbrian Landscape"
12 noon at 103 Chancellor Green, Princeton University
Luncheon sandwiches will be provided following the
lecture
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Dec 2
Thursday |
Robert Bjork
(Arizona State University/Institute for
Advanced Studies, Princeton)
"The Symbolic Function of Job in Aelfric's Homily
on Job, Christ II, and The Phoenix"
5:30 pm in 628 Kent, Columbia University, Reception
to follow
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