Guided Tour of Arms and Armor Exhibit
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26
6:00 pm
Metropolitan Museum of Art

So sorry this took a while to organize, but I am pleased to announce that we will have our first meeting of the 2012-2013 session of the Medieval Club of New York at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Friday, October 26 at 6:00 p.m. The NY Times article describing the exhibit can be accessed here. You may pay your dues to us that Friday if it is convenient for you.

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2012-2013 Schedule

MCNY 2012-2013 Lecture and Event Series

All Lectures, unless otherwise noted, will take place at the CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, 

in the English Department Lounge, RM 4406 at 7:30 p.m.

All lectures will be followed by a wine and cheese reception.

Friday, October 26: We are visiting the Arms and Armor Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art as that department celebrates its centennial. *We will meet at the jousting figure at 6:30

Friday, November 2 - "Late Medieval Spirituality and...", a panel with Andrew Cole, Princeton University; Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, University of Pittsburgh; and Kathryn Smith, New York University  ** CANCELED DUE TO HURRICANE SANDY, MOVED TO Friday, MAY 3.

Friday, December 7 - We have rescheduled Martha Rust, whose talk fell through last year because of bad scheduling on our part. We are delighted she will be speaking in December! The title of her talk is "Lists, Numeracy, and the Culture of Reckoning in Late-Medieval England" ** Please note, this talk will be in room 9204.

Friday, February 1 - Leah DeVun, Rutgers University, "Infidels, Hermaphrodites, and Other Animals: On the Boundaries of the Human in the Middle Ages."

Friday, March 1 - Sarah McNamer, Georgetown University -- The Rossell Hope Robbins Lecture, "Doubt."

Friday, April 5 - Nina Rowe, Fordham University, "Images of Rulership and Idolatry in a 1402 Weltchronik"

Friday, May 3 - "Late Medieval Spirituality and...", a panel with Andrew Cole, Princeton University; Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, University of Pittsburgh; and Kathryn Smith, New York University

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CALL FOR PAPERS

The Medieval Club of New York is sponsoring two sessions in Kalamazoo in 2013 on "Lateran IV: Before and After."  Abstracts from a variety of disciplines are welcome.

Lateran IV: Before and After

As the 800th anniversary of the Fourth Lateran Council (1215) fast approaches, it is important to consider both the forces that led Innocent III to convene the council and the wide-ranging consequences of its canons. From transubstantiation to confession, from the Albigensian Crusades to the founding of the Dominican Order, from distinctions between Christians and Jews, Saracens, and others to condemnations of heresy, the canons of the council were far-reaching, with enormous impact on (to name just a few areas) ecclesiastical organization, clerical behavior, the sacraments, the relations of Christians to non-Christians, inquisitions, crusades, etc.  The aim of these two interdisciplinary sessions, therefore, is to bring together scholars who approach Lateran IV from a variety of perspectives, including history, theology, art and architecture, literature, etc., with the aim of developing a more complete understanding of this historic assembly.

For more information on the conference and the general call for papers, see: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/files/call-for-papers-2013.pdf

Deadline for submission of abstracts to these two sessions is September 15, 2012.  Please send them directly to me, at the email address below.

Sylvia Tomasch

Professor

Department of English

Hunter College (CUNY)

695 Park Avenue

New York, NY 10065

(212) 772-4052

fax: (212) 772-5411

stomasch@hunter.cuny.edu

http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/english/

The Pagan, the Medieval, and Us

Sarah Salih, King's College London

The Twenty-Second Annual Rossell Hope Robbins Lecture

Friday, May 4
7:30

The Graduate Center of City University of New York

365 Fifth AvenueEnglish Department Lounge, Room 4406

Abstract:

Late medieval writers were fascinated by the idea of the pagan; both ancestor and stranger, the pagan was an infinitely flexible figure and the subject of various thought-experiments. Imagining paganity enabled examination of questions of history, memory and time. Paganity in Lydgate’s Troy Book is analysed as a flawed system of memorialising, centred on the live and dead, glorious and horrible preserved body of the hero Hector. Hagiography, meanwhile, tells the story of how the world that pagans built came to be appropriated for Christian use by the deployment of the live yet dead bodies of the saints. Yet paganity is never quite over; traces of the pagan persist in the Christian world. The pagan is to be found in the future as well as the past; indeed, the pagan may even be identified with our own post-Christian present-day.

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Women and Gender in Medieval Studies
Pearl Kibre Medieval Study, Fifth Annual Spring Roundtable


Friday, April 27th, 2:30 p.m.
CUNY Graduate Center, room 6421


Moderator: Sara McDougall, Assistant Professor of History at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY

*Fiona J Griffiths, Associate Professor of History at New York University The Garden of Delights: Reform and Renaissance for Women in the Twelfth Century (2007)

* Mary Erler, Professor of English at Fordham University Records of Early English Drama: Ecclesiastical London (2008) Women Reading, and Piety in Late Medieval England (2002)

* Rebecca Lynn Winer, Associate Professor of History at Villanova University Women, Wealth, and Community in Perpignan c.1250-1300: Christians, Jews, and Enslaved Muslims in a Medieval Mediterranean Town
(2006)

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