Schedule
of Events 2014-15
With the exception of the museum
tour on September 5, all meetings will be in the Graduate Center at 7.30 p.m. (room
TBA) with a wine and cheese reception to follow the talk.
September 5, 2014. Guided tour
at the Morgan Museum by curator Roger
Wieck of “Miracles in
Miniature: The Art of the Master of Claude de France” at 6.00 p.m. or 6.30 p.m. Entrance fee
required—a few places still available—please email vallen@jjay.cuny.edu for details.
[We are not meeting in October as the first Friday is Yom Kippur]
November 7, 2014. David Wallace (Department of English, University of Pennsylvania), “November 1414:
Nations, Schisms, and the Work of Literary Cultures”
December 5, 2014. “Global Medieval: A Roundtable” featuring:
Hyunhee
Park (Department of History, John Jay College,
CUNY), “Transfers of Geographical
Knowledge in Eurasia during the Global Middle Ages”;
Toy
Tung (Department of English, John Jay
College CUNY), title TBA;
Tansen
Sen (Department of History, Baruch),
title TBA;
Nayhan
Fancy (Department of History, DePauw
University), "The
Movement of Medical Texts and Commentators in Western Eurasia after 1300.”
February 6, 2015. Bob Hasenfratz (Department of English,
University of Connecticut), “The Old English Poetry Project
”
March 6, 2015. Christopher
MacEvitt (Department of Religion,
Dartmouth College), “Saracen Jerusalem, Crusader Jerusalem:
Fourteenth-Century Pilgrims in the Holy City”