Medieval Club of New York Schedule of Events 2010-11

Friday, October 1, 2010, 7:30 PM

Medieval Devotion: A Roundtable Discussion

Cynthia Hahn, Hunter College and The Graduate Center, CUNY

Sara Lipton, SUNY, Stonybrook

Michael Sargent, Queens College and The Graduate Center, CUNY

Friday, November 12, 2010, 7:30 PM

Robert Mills @ Medieval Club

MEDIEVAL CLUB OF NEW YORK

Twentieth Annual Rossell Hope Robbins Lecture

April 9, 2010 at 7:30 p.m. (followed by reception)

Room 4406 (English Program Lounge)

CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue

Robert Mills

Department of English

King’s College London

Respondent: Carolyn Dinshaw, New York University

“Vézelay, Counterpleasure, and the Sex lives of Monks: Experiences in Translation”

ABSTRACT:  Loosely inspired by Virginia Burrus’s analysis of the erotics of ancient hagiography, this excursion into twelfth-century religious sculpture engages with what might be termed the ‘counterpleasures’ of monastic enclosure. What looks on the surface to be a site of repression and regulation also potentially facilitates the displacement of pleasure into the spiritual realm – a substitution or translatio that contributes not so much to desire’s elimination as to its intensification. Using the church of Vézelay as a case study, the paper confronts this countererotic impulse as it shapes the famous sequence of nave capitals (several of which explicitly address sexual themes)

Rutgers Events

Rutgers’ Program in Medieval Studies is pleased to announce two medieval
talks next Monday, March 29:

Kristin Bliksrud Aavitsland
University of Oslo
“Visual Orders? A discussion on ornament and iconography in Romanesque art”
4:30 p.m.
Voorhees Hall Graduate Student Lounge (basement)
College Avenue Campus
(co-sponsored by the Department of Art History)

AND

Seeta Chaganti
University of California at Davis
“Figure and Ground: Elene’s Nails, Cynewulf’s Runes, and Hrabanus Maurus’s
Painted Poems”
6:00 p.m.
Murray Hall room 302
College Avenue Campus
(co-sponsored by the Department of English and Anglo-Saxon Studies)

All are welcome to both. For directions or parking information, please
contact Samantha Kelly at Samantha.kelly@rutgers.edu

Medieval Devotion

MEDIEVAL DEVOTION: PERFORMATIVE READING AND VISUALITY


FEBRUARY 26, 2-4 pm, ROOM C-202,
CUNY GRADUATE CENTER, 365 FIFTH AVE.
Wine and Cheese Reception to Follow)

Jessica Brantley
(English, Yale University)
"Sir Thopas and the Devotional Reader."

Marlene Hennessy
(English, Hunter College, CUNY)
"London, British Library, Egerton MS 1821 and the Late Medieval Somatic Book"

Pamela Sheingorn
(History/Theatre, CUNY Graduate Center)
“Hearing an Illuminated Manuscript: The Role of the Auditory System in Performative Reading”

Dante and Boccaccio: Mythographers of Modernity

The Center for Medieval Studies at Fordham University
Spring 2010 Lecture Series

Dante and Boccaccio: Mythographers of Modernity

A Lecture by
Prof. Pier Massimo Forni
Johns Hopkins University

Wednesday, February 24th, 5:00 p.m.
Faculty Lounge, 12th Floor, Leon Lowenstein Building, Lincoln Center Campus

The lecture is free and open to the public. A Reception will follow the talk.

For both Dante and Boccaccio, paleophilia(i.e., love for things past) was the passport into a realm of intellectual aristocracy. A love of Antiquity shaped their identities and their works with the intensity of a first love. This talk will illustrate the dynamics through which Dante put the love of Antiquity to the service of his project to become the pre-eminent poet-prophet of modernity. A glance at Boccaccio’s identity-building as a process much influenced by the figure and the work of Dante completes the talk. This lecture is co-sponsored with Literary Studies, the Department of Modern Languages and Literature, and the Dean of Arts and Sciences Faculty.

For more information, contact:
Center for Medieval Studies
Fordham University
(718) 817-4655
medievals@fordham.edu

Directions: http://www.fordham.edu/discover_fordham/maps_and_directions_26615.asp

Matthew Richmond
Administrative Assistant
Center for Medieval Studies
Fordham University
medievals@fordham.edu
(t) 718.817.4655
(f) 718.817.3987