Events

Events of interest in the fields of medieval, Renaissance and early modern studies will be posted here as they become known. If you know of a pertinent upcoming event that ought to be listed here, please contact Alan Stewart at ags2105@columbia.edu.

 

 

Tuesday, September 20
GUIDO'S EAR presents THE BIRTH OF BAROQUE
Guido's Ear performers Aaron Brown and Dongmyung Ahn, Baroque violins, Gabe Shuford,
harpsichord, and Grant Herreid, voice, guitar, and lute, will perform works by
Monteverdi, Castello, Caccini, Rossi, Frescobaldi, and more.
8:00-10:00 PM
Morningside Campus, St. Paul's Chapel
Free and open to the public.
http://music.columbia.edu/mpp/event/394

Wednesday, September 21
Columbia University Seminar on the Middle Ages
LOUIS HAMILTON (Drew University)
"'You should be Aaron:' Exegesis, Reform, and the Second Crusade" 5:30 PM
Faculty House

Wednesday, September 21 [at NYU]
Casa Italiana Zerilli-Mariṃ, New York University
Book Presentation
VIRGINIA COX (NYU)
The Prodigious Muse: Women's Writing in Counter-Reformation Italy
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011)
With the author and JANE TYLUS (NYU) and DEANNA SHEMEK (University of Santa Cruz)
Moderated by GERRY MILLIGAN (College of Staten Island, CUNY)
6:00 PM
Casa Italiana Zerilli-Mariṃ, 24 West 12th Street
casa.italiana@nyu.edu www.CasaItalianaNYU.org

Thursday, September 22
Society of Fellows in the Humanities Lunchtime Lecture Series
LEAH WHITTINGTON (Society of Fellows/Lecturer in Classics)
"Shakespeare's Vergil: Clemency and The Tempest"
12:15 PM
Second Floor Common Room, Heyman Center, East Campus
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/societyoffellows/
Lunch will be provided.

Thursday, September 22 [at NYU]
The Program in Ottoman Studies, New York University
SAM WHITE (Oberlin College)
"The Little Ice Age: Crisis in the Ottoman Empire"
12:30 PM
The Richard Ettinghausen Library, Hagop Kevorkian Center
50 Washington Square South at 255 Sullivan Street
Light lunch will be served at 12:15
Contact: Guy Burak (gb894@nyu.edu) or Leslie Peirce (leslie.peirce@nyu.edu)

Thursday, September 22 [at NYU]
Casa Italiana Zerilli-Mariṃ
DEANNA SHEMEK (University of Santa Cruz)
"Neither Hope Nor Fear: Dispatches from the Bastions of Isabella d'Este's Government"
6:00 PM
Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo, 24 West 12th Street
casa.italiana@nyu.edu www.CasaItalianaNYU.org

Friday, September 23 [at NYU]
The Medieval Forum and Medieval and Renaissance Center at New York University
Second Annual Manuscript Workshop
ILLUMINATION AND ICONOGRAPHY IN MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS
With Guest Speakers:
Jonathan Alexander (IFA-NYU)
Karen Gorst (professional scribe, NYC)
Karen Overbey (Tufts University)
Kathryn Smith (NYU)
9:00-4:30 PM
19 University Place
Great Room, 9:00-2:00pm
Room 222, 2:00-4:30pm
Coffee Reception
Due to space, there will be a mandatory registration for the morning hands-on portion
of the workshop. The afternoon session with the guest speakers is open and free to the
public. If you have any questions or would like to register, please contact CARLA THOMAS
(cmt358@nyu.edu)

Friday, September 23
Columbia Center for International History
MILK: A LOCAL AND GLOBAL HISTORY
A discussion with Deborah Valenze, Daniel Kevles, and Eugenia Lean
10:30-12:00
Fayerweather 411

Monday, September 26 [at Penn]
History of Material Texts Seminar
PAUL PEUCKER (Moravian Archives)
"Moravian Recordkeeping"
5:15 PM
Martin and Margy Meyerson Conference Room, second floor of Van Pelt Library, diagonally across from the elevator bank.
Contact: Marla Pagan-Mattos

Friday, September 30-Saturday, October 1
9th Annual Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine
TRANSLATING THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE
From reframing epistemologies of medicine to identifying novel medical
and public health challenges through historical analysis, historical
scholarship has the capacity to inform contemporary understanding and
practice of medicine and public health.
Hosted by the Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health,
the Department of Sociomedical Sciences, the Department of History,
and the Public Health Doctoral Students Association at Columbia University
for further information, visit www.jasmed.org.

Monday, October 3 [at Penn]
History of Material Texts Seminar
JESSICA BRANTLEY (Yale)
"The Vernacular Hours: Literary Culture and Private Prayer"
5:15 PM
Martin and Margy Meyerson Conference Room, second floor of Van Pelt Library, diagonally across from the elevator bank.
Contact: Marla Pagan-Mattos

Tuesday, October 11
Columbia University Seminar on the Middle Ages
JUDITH OLIVER (Colgate), MICHAEL CURSCHMANN (PrincetoN), and SHARON GERSTEL (UCLA)
"Music and the Visual Arts in the Middle Ages"
5:00 PM
Faculty House

Wednesday, October 12
Barnard Humanities Initiative
AMY HOLLYWOOD (Harvard Divinity School)
"Enthusiasm and Critique"
7 PM
Event Oval, Diana Center, Barnard College
http://barnard.edu/events/barnard-humanities-initiative-enthusiasm-critique

Thursday, October 13 [at Fordham]
Fordham University Center for Medieval Studies
JOCELYN WOGAN BROWNE (Fordham)
"Blood Matters: Reading with the Heart in Medieval Devotional Literature"
(Inaugural Lecture, Thomas F. X. Mullarkey Chair in English Literature)
5:30 PM
Tognino Hall, Duane Library, Rose Hill Campus
A reception follows. All are invited.
Contact: (718) 817-4655 medievals@fordham.edu

Friday, October 14-Saturday, October 15 [at Princeton]
RE-DEFINING BYZANTIUM: ART & THOUGHT IN THE BYZANTINE WORLD
The full program for the forthcoming conference is now available on the Index of Christian Art website at
http://ica.princeton.edu/conference.php

Friday, October 14
Columbia University Seminar on Shakespeare
ANDRAS KISERY (City College, CUNY)
"Drama and diplomacy: the case of Hamlet's Denmark"
Social hour 5-6; dinner 6-7; talk 7-8:30 PM
Faculty House

Contact: Ashley Streeter columbiahakespeareseminar@gmail.com

Friday, October 14 [at CUNY]
Medieval Club of New York
RUBIN MUSEUM VISIT
"Pilgrimage and Faith: Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam"
7:30 PM
159 West 17th Street
http://medievalclubofnewyork.blogspot.com/
email us at medievalclubofnewyork@gmail.com

Monday, October 24 [at Penn]
History of Material Texts Seminar
JULIA REINHOLD LUPTON (University of California, Irvine)
"The Renaissance Res Publica of Furniture"
5:15 PM
Martin and Margy Meyerson Conference Room, second floor of Van Pelt Library, diagonally across from the elevator bank.
Contact: Marla Pagan-Mattos

Monday, October 31 [at Fordham]
Fordham University Center for Medieval Studies

HELEN DAMICO (University of New Mexico)
"The Power of the Anglo-Saxon Concubine: Aelfgifu of Northampton"
5:15 PM
Faculty Lounge, McGinley Center, Rose Hill Campus
A reception follows. All are invited.
Contact: (718) 817-4655 medievals@fordham.edu

Wednesday, November 9
Columbia University Libraries Book History Colloquium
PETER MACK (Warburg Institute)
"Print and Innovation in Sixteenth Century Rhetoric: Agricola, Erasmus and Melancthon"
6:00 PM
523 Butler Library
Contact: Michael Ryan, mtr2109@columbia.edu

October 26-28 [at NYU]
LUCRETIUS AND MODERNITY
Participants:
Jean-Charles Darmon (Literature, Versailles)
Alain Gigandet (Philosophy, Université de Paris XII Val de Marne)
Philip Hardie (Classics, Trinity College, Cambridge)
Brooke Holmes (Classics, Princeton)
Thomas Kavanagh (French, Yale)
David Konstan (Classics, NYU)
Jacques Lezra (Comparative Literature, NYU)
Phillip Mitsis (Classics and Philosophy, NYU)
Warren Montag (Literature, Occidental)
Gerard Passanante (English, University of Maryland)
Katja Vogt (Philosophy, Columbia)
Catherine Wilson (Philosophy, Aberdeen)
Yves Charles Zarka
Joseph Farrell (Classics, UPenn)
Hemmerdinger Hall, New York University

Thursday, October 27
Barnard Humanities Initiative
ANTHONY GRAFTON (Princeton)
"Humanistic Scholarship - Why It Matters"
7 PM
Event Oval, Diana Center, Barnard College
http://barnard.edu/events/barnard-humanities-initiative-humanistic-scholarship-why-it-matters

Friday, November 4 [at CUNY]
Medieval Club of New York PANEL: ILLICIT RELATIONSHIPS IN MUSLIM AND CHRISTIAN MARRIAGE LAW
Marion Holmes Katz (New York University)
Miriam Shadis (Ohio University)
Sara McDougall (John Jay College)
7:30 PM
CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Ave, English Department, Room 4409.
Followed by a wine and cheese reception.
http://medievalclubofnewyork.blogspot.com/
email us at medievalclubofnewyork@gmail.com

Friday, November 11
Columbia University Seminar on Shakespeare
BRIAN WALSH (Yale)
Title tbc
Faculty House

Monday, November 14
The Heyman Center for the Humanities
QUENTIN SKINNER
"Shakespeare and Rhetorical Invention"--lecture 1:
"The Renaissance Theory of Rhetorical Invention"
6:15 PM
Second Floor Common Room, Heyman Center

Tuesday, November 15 The Heyman Center for the Humanities
QUENTIN SKINNER
"Shakespeare and Rhetorical Invention"--lecture 2:
"Shakespeare on Beginning to Speak"
6:15 PM
Second Floor Common Room, Heyman Center

Wednesday, November 16
Columbia University Seminar on the Middle Ages
JAY RUBINSTEIN (University of Tennessee-Knoxville)
"Rivers of Blood and Armies of Saints: Historical Narrative and the Invention of the First Crusade"
5:30 PM
Faculty House

Wednesday, November 16
The Heyman Center for the Humanities
QUENTIN SKINNER
"Shakespeare and Rhetorical Invention"--lecture 3:
"Shakespeare on Rhetorical Narratives and Proofs"
6:15 PM
Second Floor Common Room, Heyman Center

Thursday, November 17
Fordham University Center for Medieval Studies
JAY C. RUBENSTEIN (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
"The Apocalyptic First Crusade, 1095-1099"
1:00 PM
Campbell Multipurpose Room, Campbell Hall, Rose Hill Campus
A reception follows. All are invited.
Contact: (718) 817-4655 medievals@fordham.edu

Thursday, November 17
The Heyman Center for the Humanities
J.B. SCHNEEWIND, QUENTIN SKINNER, RICHARD SORABJI, & PAUL STROHM
"The Diversity of Conscience"
6:15 PM
Second Floor Common Room, Heyman Center

Friday, November 18
The Heyman Center for the Humanities
QUENTIN SKINNER & CHRISTOPHER RICKS
"Up for Interpretation: or, What Is this Thing That Hearsay Is Not?"
4:15 PM
Sulzberger Parlor, Third Floor, Barnard Hall
Co-sponsored by Women Poets at Barnard

Friday December 2
Medieval Club of New York
GLENN BURGER (Queens College and CUNY Grad Center)
"'Ful lik a moder': The Affective Circuit in the Griselda Story" 7:30 PM
CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Ave, English Department, Room 4409.
Followed by a wine and cheese reception.
http://medievalclubofnewyork.blogspot.com/
email us at medievalclubofnewyork@gmail.com

Friday, December 9-Saturday, December 10
The Heyman Center for the Humanities
CEMIL AYDIN, DEBORAH COEN, JAMES DELBOURGO, MARWA ELSHAKRY, CATHY GERE,
GEORGE SALIBA, STEVEN SHAPIN, PAMELA SMITH, GEERT SOMSEN, & OTHERS
"Golden Ages: Universal Histories and the Origins of Science"-a two-day conference
9:30 AM-6:00 PM
Second Floor Common Room, Heyman Center
Co-sponsored by Columbia University Seminars, Department of History, and Center for International History

Friday, December 9
Fordham University Center for Medieval Studies
MARVIN TRACHTENBERG (Institute of Fine Arts, NYU)
"Building-in-Time: Thinking and Making Architecture in the Premodern Age"
4:30 PM
12th Floor Lounge, Leon Lowenstein Building, Lincoln Center Campus
A reception follows. All are invited.
Contact: (718) 817-4655 medievals@fordham.edu

Friday, December 9
Columbia University Seminar on Shakespeare
IVAN LUPIC (Columbia)
Title tbc
Faculty House

Tuesday, December 13
Columbia University Seminar on the Middle Ages
PAUL HAYWARD (Lancaster University and Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
"Chronicles, the Liturgy and Romanitas, c.900–1200"
5.30 PM
Faculty House

Friday February 2 [at CUNY]
Medieval Club of New York
KAREN OVERBEY (Tufts University) "Post-Anglo-Saxon: Early Saints in the Later Middle Ages" 7:30 PM
CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Ave, English Department, Room 4409.
Followed by a wine and cheese reception.
http://medievalclubofnewyork.blogspot.com/
email us at medievalclubofnewyork@gmail.com

Friday, February 10
Columbia University Seminar on Shakespeare
STEPHEN BOOTH (UC Berkeley)
Title tbc
Faculty House

Friday, March 2 [at CUNY]
Medieval Club of New York
PAUL HAYWARD (University of Lancaster)
"The Golden Age of Anglo-Norman Historiography--or What Connects
the Works of William of Malmesbury, Henry of Huntingdon and Geoffrey of Monmouth"
7:30 PM
CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Ave, English Department, Room 4409.
Followed by a wine and cheese reception.
http://medievalclubofnewyork.blogspot.com/
email us at medievalclubofnewyork@gmail.com

Friday, March 9
Columbia University Seminar on Shakespeare
BARBARA TRAISTER (Lehigh)
Title tbc
Faculty House

Friday, April 6 [at CUNY]
Medieval Club of New York
MARTHA RUST(New York University)
"Writing, Numeracy, and the Poetics of Reckoning in Late-Medieval England"
7:30 PM
CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Ave, English Department, Room 4409.
Followed by a wine and cheese reception.
http://medievalclubofnewyork.blogspot.com/
email us at medievalclubofnewyork@gmail.com

Friday, April 13
Columbia University Seminar on Shakespeare
ANNE LAKE PRESCOTT (Barnard)
Title tbc
Faculty House

Friday, May 4 [at CUNY]
Medieval Club of New York
The Twenty-Second Annual Rossell Hope Robbins Lecture
SARAH SALIH (King's College London)
"The Medieval, the Pagan and Us"
7:30 PM
CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Ave, English Department, Room 4409.
Followed by a wine and cheese reception.
http://medievalclubofnewyork.blogspot.com/
email us at medievalclubofnewyork@gmail.com

Friday, May 11
Columbia University Seminar on Shakespeare
KATHARINE GOODLAND (College of Staten Island, CUNY)
Title tbc
Faculty House