Archive for February, 2011

Workshop Meeting: Torsten Edstam, March 4

Please join the Medieval Studies Workshop for our last graduate student presentation of winter quarter. … Torsten Edstam (History) “Reading Hugh of St. Victor in a Late Medieval Miscellany” Respondent: Prof. Aden Kumler … 12:00-1:30pm on Friday March 4 in Wieboldt 207. … The pre-circulated paper is available here: Reading Hugh of St. Victor in a Late [...]

Medieval Studies Travel Awards

The Program in Medieval Studies and the Medieval Studies Workshop are pleased to announce that travel awards are available this year to University of Chicago graduate students attending the 46th International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, MI from May 12-15, 2011. … Graduate students presenting papers, moderating or organizing sessions, or just attending the [...]

Lecture: Giacomo Todeschini, Feb. 21

THE DEPARTMENT OF ROMANCE LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES, THE CHICAGO CENTER FOR JEWISH STUDIES, THE COMMITTEE ON SOCIAL THOUGHT, AND THE WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN CULTURE AND MEDIEVAL STUDIES WORKSHOPS … Present … GIACOMO TODESCHINI Professor of Medieval History, University of Trieste “Judas and the Christian common people: infidelity and economic inaptitude in the Middle Ages” … Monday, [...]

Nicholson Center for British Studies: Rita Copeland and David Wallace, Feb. 16-18

The Nicholson Center for British Studies at the University of Chicago is pleased to present a series of events by … Rita Copeland Professor of Classical Studies and English Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Endowed Professor in the Humanities University of Pennsylvania … and … David Wallace Judith Rotin Professor of English University of [...]

Roundtable: Julius Kirshner, David Nirenberg, Richard Strier, Feb. 14

Please join the Medieval, Renaissance, and Early Modern Workshops for a roundtable featuring: … Julius Kirshner (History; University of Chicago, Emeritus) “Jews as Citizens in Renaissance Italy” … David Nirenberg (Committee on Social Thought and History, University of Chicago) “Massacre or Miracle? Sovereign Indecision and the Forced Conversion of the Jews in 1391″ … Respondent: Richard [...]