2007-8 Schedule of Events

Friday, October 5, 2007, 7:30 PM
Iconicity and Alliterative Poetry: Piers Plowman and the Bohun World
Andrew Galloway
Cornell University
The Eighteenth Annual Rossell Hope Robbins Lecture

Friday, November 2, 2007, 7:30 PM
In the Footsteps of Marco Polo
Denis Belliveau and Francis O’Donnell

Thursday, December 6, 2007, 6:30 PM
at The Museum of Biblical Art
Presentation of Manuscripts and Incunabula
Liana Lupas
Curator of the Scripture Collection
American Bible Society

Friday, February 15, 2008, 7:30 PM
The Saint and the Chopped-Up Baby: Shaping the Image of St. Vincent Ferrer
Laura Smoller
University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Friday, March 7, 2008, 7:30 PM
The Subjects of Friendship, Medieval and Medievalist
Panel Presentation and Discussion
Eileen Joy, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Franco Masciandaro, University of Connecticut
Yoshihisa Yamamoto, Chiba University

Friday, April 4, 2008, 7:30 PM
Remembering Medieval Spain in the Twenty-First Century
Maria Rosa Menocal
Yale University

Friday, May 2, 2008, 7:30 PM
Out of Darkness, or Why and How the Fifteenth-Century Middle English Doctrine of the Heart Matters
Denis Renevey
University of Lausanne

Unless otherwise noted, all lectures meet at the CUNY Graduate Center (365 Fifth Ave. @ 34th St.), Room 4406. Reception, with wine and cheese, follows.