The CMRS electronic calendar attempts to include all events in Medieval and Renaissance Studies in the Triangle, especially at Duke and the University of North Carolina, but also including other area events. New items are posted as soon as announcements are received. Send announcements or corrections to Michael Cornett. Before scheduling a new event, please consult this calendar to try and avoid major conflicts; there is a great deal of activity in our field and we don't want to be counterproductive in scheduling. See the website of the Carolina Association for Medieval Studies (CAMS) at UNC for more information on this organization's activities.

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        Maps of Duke University

        Maps of University of North Carolina

        SPRING 2003

        FALL 2003

        FALL 2004

SPRING 2004

JANUARY

Monday, January 12
Deadline to receive abstracts
Fifth Annual North Carolina Colloquium in Medieval and Renaissance Studies
A graduate student colloquium co-sponsored by Duke and UNC
"Inner and Outer Worlds"
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Thursday, January 15
Duke Department of Romance Studies "Romancing the Humanities" series
"Queer Families: Race, Sexuality, and National Bodies"
Geraldine Heng, University of Texas at Austin
Co-sponsored by the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Deptartment of English, and Women's Studies
Title, location, and time TBA

Friday, January 23
Duke Medieval and Renaissance Studies Graduate Colloquium
Discussion with Bruce Smith, University of Southern California
11:00, English Dept. Lounge, 328 Allen Bldg., West Campus
Refreshments to be served

Friday, January 23
Duke Music Department " The Modern Ear" Lecture Series
Co-Sponsored by the Dept. of English and Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Bruce Smith, University of Southern California
"Listening to the Wild Blue Yonder: The Challenges of Acoustic Archaeology"
4:00 p.m., 101 Biddle Music Building, East Campus

Sunday, January 25
Duke Medieval/Renaissance Graduate Writing Workshop
Kate Crassons, Duke English Department
"Performing Poverty: Labor, Charity, and the Guilds in the York Corpus Christi Plays"
5:00 p.m., home of Cord Whittaker
Refreshments will be served

Monday, January 26
Franklin Humanities Institute Faculty Seminar "Monument, Document: From Archive to Performance"
Anthony Grafton, Princeton University
Public Lecture: "Obeliscomania in Early Modern Rome"
4:00 p.m., 240 Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road
Free parking available at this time of day in the Pickens lot across Trent Drive from the Franklin Center

Tuesday, January 27
Classical Studies Brown Bag Lunch Talk
Anthony Grafton, Princeton University
"Magic and Humanism in Renaissance Europe"
12:00 noon, 223C Carpenter Boardroom, Perkins Library

Friday, January 30
Duke Philosophy Department Colloquium Series
Catherine Wilson, University of British Columbia
"Interpreting Descartes's Sixth Meditation"
Co-sponsored by the Robert Leet Patterson Endowment for Philosophy
3:00 p.m., 108B West Duke Building
Reception follows
Contact Shelly Goodin for additional information: sgoodin@duke.edu

Friday, January 30
Duke Dept. of Classical Studies lecture
Harry Evans, Fordham University
"Exploring Ancient Latium in the Seventeenth Century: Athanasius Kircher's Contributions and Critics"
5:15 p.m., 226 Allen Building, West Campus
Reception to follow


FEBRUARY

Friday, February 6
Duke Center for Late Ancient Studies lecture
Diskin Clay, Duke University
"The Art of Hell from Late Antiquity to Dante"
4:00 p.m., 220 Gray Building, West Campus
Refreshments will be served

Thursday, February 5
UNC Renaissance Workshop
Jim Banker, North Carolina State University
"The Scientific Humanism of Piero della Francesca and Francesco del Borgo in Rome in the 1450s"
4:30 p.m., 569 Hamilton Hall, UNC

Tuesday, February 10
Duke Department of English Symposium Series
Co-Sponsored by the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Wendy Wall, Northwestern University
"Just a Spoonful of Sugar: Dying Domestically in Early Modern England"
4:00 p.m., Carpenter Boardroom, 223C Perkins Library

Thursday-Friday, February 12-13
Duke Symposium: Theory and the Study of Premodernity

  • Thursday, February 12
    Paul Strohm, Columbia University
    "Water Flowing Underground: The Martyrdom of Richard, Duke of York, and Shakespeare's First Tragic Hero"
    5:00 p.m., Franklin Center Conference Room (240)
    Duke University, 2204 Erwin Road
    Parking is available in the Pickens Health Center lot across the street from the Franklin Center

  • Friday, February 13
    Duke Medieval and Renaissance Studies Graduate Colloquium
    Discussion with Paul Strohm, Columbia University
    Time 11:00 a.m., English Dept. Lounge, 328 Allen Bldg., West Campus
    Refreshments to be served

Monday, February 16
Lilly Seminar on Religion and the Humanities
Gabriella Zarri, University of Florence
historian of women and religion in early modern Italy
3:00 p.m., Main Conference Room, National Humanities Center
7 Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park
For advance copies of the paper, contact Kent Mullikin kent@ga.unc.edu

Wednesday, February 18
UNC English Dept. lecture
Jessica Wolfe, UNC
"Homer, Erasmus, and the Problem of Strife"
3:30 p.m., Donovan Lounge, 2nd floor of Greenlaw Hall, UNC
Refreshments to follow

Friday and Saturday, February 20-21
Fifth Annual North Carolina Colloquium in Medieval and Renaissance Studies
A graduate student colloquium co-sponsored by Duke and UNC
"Inner and Outer Worlds"
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
See the program.

Wednesday, February 25
UNC Medieval Studies Brown bag Series
Shantanu Phukan, UNC
"None Mad as a Hindu Woman: Indianizeing the Islamic Imaginaire"
12:00 p.m., Donovan Lounge, 223 Greenlaw Hall

Friday, February 27 TO BE RESCHEDULED
UNC Medieval Studies lecture
Stephen Murray, Columbia University and NHC Fellow
"Telling the Story of Gothic"
3:00 p.m., Hanes Art Center 117, UNC
Reception to follow at home of Jaroslav Folda
715 Gimghoul Road, off of Country Club Road, Chapel Hill

Friday, February 27
Duke Late Ancient Studies lecture
Kathryn Ringrose, Univ. of California, San Diego
"Mistaken Identities: Eunuchs and Angels in Byzantium"
4:00 p.m., Gray Building, West Campus
Refreshments to be served


MARCH

Monday, March 1
Paper proposals due
"Creating Identity and Empire in the Atlantic World, 1492-1888"
Interdisciplinary conference, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
September 8-12, 2004
For information, contact Christopher Hodgkins atlanticworld@uncg.edu

Thursday, March 4
UNC Renaissance Workshop
Daniel Bornstein, Texas A&M University
"Civic Religion in Renaissance Cortona"
4:30 p.m., Toy Lounge, Dey Hall, UNC

Wednesday, March 17
UNC Medieval Studies Brown Bag Series
Maura Lafferty, UNC Classics Dept.
"The Metamorphosis of St Patrick: Unlearned Sinner to Learned Scribe"
12:00 p.m., Hamilton Hall 569
Bring your lunch!

Wednesday, March 17
Duke Center for Late Ancient Studies lecture
Daniel Boyarin, Univ. of California at Berkeley
"Why is Rabbi Yohanan a Woman? Platonic Love in the Talmud"
5:00 p.m., Alumni Commons Room in the Divinity School (Gray Building)

Thursday, March 18
Duke Symposium: Theory and the Study of Premodernity
 Daniel Boyarin, University of California-Berkeley
"Hybrids and Heretics: Postcolonial Theorizing and the Making of Religion"
5:00 p.m., Franklin Center Conference Room (240), 2204 Erwin Road
Free parking available after 4 pm in the Pickens Clinic parking lots across the street from the Franklin Center

Thursday-Saturday, March 18-20
Petrarch Symposium, UNC-Chapel Hill
Locations of sessions TBA
See complete program

Friday, March 19
Lilly Seminar on Religion and the Humanities
Patrick Geary, UCLA
Topic TBA
3:00 p.m., Main Conference Room, National Humanities Center
7 Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park
For advance copies of the paper, contact Kent Mullikin kent@ga.unc.edu

Friday-Sunday, March 19-21
Carolina Conference on Romance Literatures
Sponsored by the UNC Dept. of Romance Languages and Literatures

Friday-Saturday, March 19-20
Inhabiting the Body / Inhabiting the World
An Early Modern Cultural Studies Conference
Sponsored by the Department of English
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
See the complete program.

Monday, March 22
Duke Romance Studies lecture
Simone Pinet, Cornell University
"On the Subject of Fiction: A Theory of Conjecture in Medieval and Early Modern Spain"
7:00 p.m., in 305 Languages Bldg. West Campus

Wednesday, March 24
Lilly Seminar on Religion and the Humanities
James O'Donnell, Georgetown University
Topic TBA
3:00 p.m., Main Conference Room, National Humanities Center
7 Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park
For advance copies of the paper, contact Kent Mullikin kent@ga.unc.edu

Wednesday, March 24
2004 Dorothy Ford Wiley Lecture, UNC-Chapel Hill
Kate Lowe, University of London and Wiley Distinguished Visiting Professor of Renaissance Culture
"Embassies from Sub-Saharan Africa to the Renaissance Papacy: Cultural Assumptions and Connections"
5:15 p.m., 116 Murphey Hall, UNC
Refreshments to follow

Thursday, March 25
UNC Renaissance Workshop
Meredith Gill, University of Notre Dame
"Augustine's Light"
4:30 p.m., 569 Hamilton Hall, UNC

Friday-Sunday, March 26-28
"In the Footsteps of Petrarch: Poetry, Music, Art, Culture"
An International Symposium on Petrarch and Petrarchism
Honoring Professor Ronald Witt on the occassion of his retirement
Sponsored by the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences, John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Affairs, Dean of Graduate School, Department of Romance Studies, Department of History, Department of Art History, Department of Classical Studies, Department of English, Italian Program, European Studies

Monday, March 29
UNC Dept. of History lecture
Joan Pau Rubies, London School of Economics
"India and China and the World History of Religion in Seventeenth-Century European Thought"
4:00 p.m., Hamilton Hall 569

Monday, March 29
Carolina Association for Medieval Studies
Spring 2004 "Bring It Home" lecture panel
5:30 p.m., Murphey Hall 116
Dorothy Verkerk, UNC Art History
"Life after Death: The Biographies of Funerary Sculpture"
and
Richard Pfaff, UNC History
"How Did the Eadwine Psalter Come About?"
Reception with refreshments will follow
For more information contact Mary Raschko at raschko@email.unc.edu


APRIL

Friday-Sunday, April 2-4
Duke/UNC Departments of Germanic Languages Interdisciplinary Conference
"Beginnings and Endings of Modernity in German-Speaking Lands"
Co-sponsored by the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
See the conference website for registration, accommodations, and the program

Thursday, April 8
Duke History Deptartment and Medieval and Renaissance Studies lecture
Randolph Head, University of California-Riverside
"Archival Knowing: Materiality, Inventories, and the Production of Political Knowledge in Early Modern Switzerland"
5:15 p.m., Carr 229, East Campus

Thursday-Friday, April 15-16
UNC Medieval Studies "Joan of Arc on Film"
7:00 p.m., Greenlaw Hall 302, UNC
Free Pizza and Soda on both evenings

Friday, April 16
National Humanities Center lecture
 Moshe Sluhovsky
"Demonic Possession, Discernment of Spirits, and the Problem of Modernity"
4:00 p.m., NHC, 7 Alexander Dr., Research Triangle Park

Monday, April 19
Lilly Seminar on Religion and the Humanities
Dyan Elliott, Indiana University
Topic TBA
3:00 p.m., Main Conference Room, National Humanities Center
7 Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park
For advance copies of the paper, contact Kent Mullikin kent@ga.unc.edu

Wednesday, April 21
Jutta Eming, Free University of Berlin and Max Kade Visiting Associate
Professor of German at Duke and UNC-CH
"Affect as Body-Style in Courtly Literature"
3:30 p.m., Pleasants Family Assembly Room, Wilson Library, UNC

Wednesday, April 21
Duke Center for Late Ancient Studies lecture
Jas Elsner, University of Oxford
"Late Antique Art: The Problem of the Concept and the Cumulative Aesthetic"
5:15 p.m., 204B East Duke Building, East Campus
Refreshments will be served

Friday-Saturday, April 23-24
Southeastern Renaissance Conference
Duke University
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road
Sponsored by Duke's Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, the Vice-Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies, the Graduate School, and the English Department
See complete program

Thursday, April 29
UNC Renaissance Workshop
John Headley, UNC-Chapel Hill
Title TBA
4:30 p.m., 569 Hamilton Hall, UNC

MAY