Medieval Club of New York, Schedule of Events 2009-10

Medieval Club of New York

Schedule of Events 2009-10

Friday, October 2, 2009, 7:30 PM
Medieval and Early Modern Merchants: A Roundtable Discussion
Mario DiGangi, Lehman College and The Graduate Center, CUNY
Martha Howell, Columbia University
D. Vance Smith, Princeton University
Emily Tai, Queensborough College, CUNY

Friday, November 6, 2009, 7:30 PM
“Bread and Milk for Children”: The Treatise on the Astrolabe or What Chaucer Did to the Māšā'allāh
Christopher Cannon
New York University

Friday, December 4, 2009, 7:30 PM
Non potest hoc corpus decollari: Beheading and the Impossible
Nicola Masciandaro
Brooklyn College, CUNY

Friday, February 5, 2010, 7:30 PM
Illuminating the Law
Jesús Rodriquez Velasco
Columbia University

Friday, March 5, 2010, 6:30 PM at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Art of Illumination, the Limbourg Brothers and the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry
Tim Husband
Curator, Department of Medieval Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Friday, April 9, 2010, 7:30 PM
Vézelay, Counterpleasure, and the Sex Lives of Monks
Robert Mills
King’s College London
Twentieth Annual Rossell Hope Robbins Lecture
Respondent: Carolyn Dinshaw, New York University

Officers of the Club
President: Glenn Burger
Vice-President: Jennifer Brown
Secretary: Valerie Allen
Treasurer: Emily Tai

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