Medieval Club of New York Schedule of Events 2011 - 2012

All lectures (with the exception of the museum visit) take place at 7:30 p.m at the:

CUNY Graduate Center
English Department, Room 4409
365 Fifth Avenue

Events are followed by a wine and cheese reception.



Friday September 16
Speculative Medievalisms Conference
CUNY Graduate Center
For more information see: http://speculativemedievalisms.blogspot.com/

Friday October 14
RUBIN MUSEUM VISIT (*Please note date and location change)
"Pilgrimage and Faith : Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam"
159 West 17th Street

Friday November 4
PANEL: "Sex in Muslim and Christian Marriage Law"
Marion Holmes Katz, New York University
Miriam Shadis, Ohio University
Sara McDougall, John Jay College

Friday December 2
"'Ful lik a moder': The Affective Circuit in the Griselda Story"
Glenn Burger, Queens College and CUNY Grad Center

Friday February 3
"Post-Anglo-Saxon: Early Saints in the Later Middle Ages"
Karen Overbey, Tufts University

Friday March 2
"The Golden Age of Anglo-Norman Historiography—or What Connects the Works of William of Malmesbury, Henry of Huntingdon and Geoffrey of Monmouth"
Paul Hayward, University of Lancaster

CANCELLED Friday April 6
"Writing, Numeracy, and the Poetics of Reckoning in Late-Medieval England"
Martha Rust, New York University
Due to terrible scheduling on our part, Dr. Rust's talk was scheduled for both Good Friday and the first day of Passover. Unfortunately, we were not able to reschedule her for this year. We encourage all of our members to attend the "Digital Middle Ages and the Renaissance" conference that will be held at NYU on the following Friday, April 13. We will be sure to get Dr. Rust's lecture on our fall schedule! Our February, March, and May talks will all proceed as scheduled!

Friday May 4
The Twenty-Second Annual Rossell Hope Robbins Lecture
"The Medieval, the Pagan and Us"
Sarah Salih, Kings College, London

NYU English Medieval Forum Events, Fall 2009

We are pleased to announce the list of the Fall semester events for the NYU English Department Medieval Forum. The Medieval Forum meets on Thursday evenings at 6:30pm. All events will be held in 19 University Place, room 224, unless otherwise noted (visitors from outside NYU should bring photo ID to sign into the building). All are welcome!

If you have questions, contact Liza Blake, elizabeth[dot]blake[at]nyu[dot]edu, Katie Vomero Santos, kathryn[dot]vomero[at]nyu[dot]edu, or Sarah Ostendorf, sco229[at]nyu[dot]edu.

NYU English Medieval Forum
Fall 2009 Events

October 1
In the Merchant's Bedchamber
Glenn Burger
(CUNY)

November 12
The Sorrow of Being
Nicola Masciandaro
(CUNY)

November 19
Trojan Itineraries: The Fall of Troy and the Francophone Court of Robert of Anjou, King of Naples
Marilynn Desmond
(Binghamton University)
Room 222
Co-sponsored with MARC and with the NYU French Department

NYU Medieval and Renaissance Center Events

Wednesday, September 24 at 6 pm

Auditorium, Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò (co-sponsored with the Department of Italian)

"Performing Dress in Renaissance Italy"

Evelyn Welch (Professor of Renaissance Studies, Department of English, Queen Mary, University of London)

Tuesday, September 30 at 6 pm

Room 222, 19 University Place

"Noli me tangere: Cripple Aesthetic, Medieval & Modern Desires"

Christopher Baswell (Ann Whitney Olin Professor of English, Barnard College and Columbia University)

Thursday, October 30 at 7 pm

Room 222, 19 University Place

"Improvisation and the Genesis and Structure of the Quijote"

Roberto Echevarria (Sterling Professor of Hispanic and Comparative Literature, Yale University)

Thursday, November 20 at 6 pm

Room 222, 19 University Place (co-sponsored with CELCE and the Medieval Forum)

'Translating the Diversity of the Middle Ages'

Simon Gaunt (Professor of French, King's College, London)

Thursday, 11 December at 6 pm

Roundtable: "The Ethical and Political Responsibilities of the Medievalist: Iberia and Beyond"

Simon R. Doubleday, Organizer (Associate Professor of History, Hofstra University, and Visiting Scholar, NYU.

Celia Chazelle (Professor of History, The College of New Jersey)

Jerrilynn D. Dodds (Distinguished Professor of Art History and Theory, City University of New York)

María Rosa Menocal ( Director of the Whitney Humanities Center and Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University)

Amy Remensnyder (Associate Professor of History, Brown University)

Jesús Rodríguez Velasco (Visiting Professor of Spanish, Columbia University)