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Events and Colloquia

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The UCSB medieval studies program is involved in various activities during the year, including the annual graduate student conference (held in the spring), as well as colloquia on various topics of interest within the discipline. To receive updates and information about future events, please subscribe to the medannounce email list.

Medieval Studies Events, 2007-2008

A lecture by Jeffrey Hamburger, Harvard University. “Inscribing the Word -- Illuminating the Sequence: Epithets in Honor of John the Evangelist in the Graduals from Paradies bei Soest. Thursday, 4 October 2008, 4:00 PM, Flying A Studios Room, University Center, UCSB.
A workshop "Emergence of 'the West': Shifting Hegemonies in the Medieval Mediterranean." Brian A. Catlos, History Department, University of California , Santa Cruz will present “ Is Mediterranean Studies Nothing More than an Excuse for Goat Cheese and Olives? (or Power, Institutions, Identities in the Medieval Mediterranean )” and Sharon A. Kinoshita, University of California , Santa Cruz , will present "What is Medieval Mediterranean Literature?" Friday, 26 October 2007, 3-5 PM, Room HSSB 4041, UCSB.They are currently directing a residential research group during the Fall of 2007 at the UCHRI at UC Irvine. http://www.uchri.org/main.php?nav=sub&page_id=1232
The Readings for the Mediterranean Workshop:
- Brian Catlos: Reader
- Sharon Kinoshita: "Silk & French Feudal Imagination," "Deprovincializing the Middle Ages," and "Ports of Call: Boccaccio .. Medieval Mediterranean."
Conference: Disciplining Texts. February 9, 9:30 to 5, McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, UCSB.
Colloquium: Writing History and Lyric in Trilingual England. Friday, April 11, 3-5 p.m., 2635 South Hall.

Ralph Hanna, Oxford University, will speak on “The Matter of Fulk: Romance and History in Fourteenth-Century Shropshire,” and Seth Lerer, Stanford University, “The English Lyric in a Trilingual World.”

Lecture and day of learning: Till-Holger Borchert, Viewing Van Eyck.
Graduate Conference: Emotion and the Environment. May 3, 2008. Keynote speaker: Jacqueline Jung, History of Art, Yale University.

Medieval Studies Events, 2006-2007

A lecture by Judith Bennett, University of Southern California. "Phillipa Russell and the Wills of London's Late Medieval Single Women." Monday, 23 October 2006, 4:00 PM, McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, UCSB.
A seminar on her research by Mary Lampe, a PhD candidate in History. "Survival and Profit: Notarial Witnesses in Medieval Palermo." Tuesday, 14 November 2006, 12:15 PM, HSSB 4020, UCSB.
Faculty Seminar on Current Research, 4:00PM, Friday, 8 December 2006 ,HSSB 4020, University of California , Santa Barbara, Sharon Farmer, History Department, UCSB “The Empire Comes Back: Mediterranean Immigrants in Paris and Northern France in the Age of the Crusades”.
A lecture by Monica Green of Arizona State University. "The Trial of Floreta d'Ays (1403): Jews, Christians, and Obstetrics in Later Medieval Marseilles." Friday, 26 January 2007, 4:00 PM, The McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB in the IHC.
A lecture by Christopher C. Baswell, English Department, UCLA, "The Medieval Virgil Meets the Italian Humanists: MS Cambridge, Jesus College 33." Thursday, 15 February 2007, 5:00, 1415 South Hall, UCSB.
A lecture by Lester K. Little, Smith College. "Medieval Pandemics: The Plague of Justinian and the Black Death." Wednesday, 28 February 2007, 4:00 PM, in the McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB in the IHC.
A lecture by Jane Geddes, University of Aberdeen. “Christina of Markyate and the St Albans Psalter.” Thursday, 5 April 2007, 4:00 PM, 2635 South Hall, UCSB.
A lecture by Maura B. Nolan, Department of English ,University of California , Berkeley. “The Fortunes of Piers Plowman and Its Readers.” Thursday, 26 April 2007, 4:00-6:00 South Hall 1415, UCSB.
A lecture by William Tronzo of the Stanford Humanities Center. "Zisa and Cuba: Gardens and the Image-Performative." Thursday, 24 May 2007, 4:00 PM, Lobero Room, UCen, UCSB.
A lecture by Deborah McGrady of Tulane University "Medieval Reading Lessons: What Machaut Can Teach Us About Reception." Tuesday, 20 February 2007, 1:30 PM. Note Location Change: Delattre Library, Phelps 5309 (Co-sponsoring with The French and Italian Department of UCSB).
Annual Colloquium: "Conversion and Apostasy in the Medieval World". Friday and Saturday , 2-3 February 2007, McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, UCSB.
Sixth Annual UCSB Medieval Studies Graduate Student Colloquium."Civic Culture: Cities and Towns in the Middle Ages.”Centennial House, Saturday, 19 May 2007, 9:30-5:00. This year's plenary speaker will be Edward Muir, Northwestern University Professor and Clarence L. Ver Steeg Professor in the Arts and Sciences. This interdisciplinary conference features original research by graduate students at UCSB and other UC campuses and will present a composite picture of urban life in the Middle Ages by examining aspects of life within and around cities and towns. Speakers will examine court cases, sieges, intercultural interaction, art and literary production and distribution, and plays as performed as part of civic identity.
A lecture by Bernard McGinn of the University of Chicago Divinity School and JE and Lillian Byrne Tipton Distinguished Visiting Lecturer Religious Studies, UCSB for 2007. "Divine and Human Love in Two Twelfth-Century Letter Collections" Friday, 1 June 2007, 4:00 PM, 4020 HSSB.

Events for 2005-2006 included:

David Abulafia: Lecture (15 March 2006): "Aragon versus Turkey: Tirant lo Blanc and Mehmet the Conqueror"
2006 Graduate Student Colloquium: keynote speaker - Thomas Forrest Kelly, Harvard University (8 April 2006).
Lectures by David Abulafia, Robert Swanson, and Pamela Long; faculty and graduate student seminars: Carol Lansing, Mark O'Tool, Karen Frank, and James Maiello.
February 2006 Colloquium -- Death and the Hereafter

Events for 2004-2005 included:

Events for 2003-2004 included: