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PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS A TENTATIVE SCHEDULE AND IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE

UNLESS OTHERWISE SPECIFIED, ALL TALKS TAKE PLACE IN WIEBOLDT 207, FRIDAYS AT 12:00 PM

-Fall 2008-

 
October 3 
University of Chicago
Divinity
Professor Willemien Otten:
"The Open Self: Augustine and the Early-Medieval Ethics of Order"
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October 31
University of Chicago
Divinity
Nicolas Meylan:
"Using the discourse of "magic" 
in 13th-14th century Iceland"


November 7
Co-sponsored by the Department of Art History
and the Workshop on Late Antiquity and Byzantium
University of Notre Dame
Art History
Professor Charles Barber
"Byzantium Before and Beyond Modernism"


November 14
University of Toronto
English and Medieval Studies
Professor Suzanne Conklin Akbari
"Becoming Narcissus: The Moment of Transformation in Medieval 
Literature"

Please note: This workshop will be held in Cochrane-Woods 153


November 21
University of Chicago
English
Alexander Wolfe
" Two Medieval Luxury Foods: Sugar in England, Tea in the Mongol World"
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