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.

Duke/UNC direct bus: A new Duke/UNC direct bus, funded by the Robertson Scholars Program, departs frequently and makes traveling between the two campuses easier than ever before. See the Robertson Scholars website for the departure and arrival schedule for this bus.

JANUARY

Wednesday, January 26
UNC Medieval Studies Brown Bag Lunch Lecture
Dorothy Verkerk, Dept. of Art, UNC
"Tattoos and Rings: The Transatlantic Appropriation of the Irish Cross"
12:00 p.m., German Reading Room (4th floor, Dey Hall)

Friday, January 28
Deadline for proposals
North Carolina Colloquium in Medieval and Renaissance Studies
"Life and Liveness in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance"
A Duke/UNC Graduate Student Conference
Duke University
See the call for papers

Saturday, January 29
Duke English Dept. Literature Out Loud Series
Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene
7:00 p.m. until ..., Allen 305, West Campus

FEBRUARY

Thursday, February 3
UNC Renaissance Workshop
Jessica Wolfe, UNC
"Homer and the Problem of Strife in the Renaissance"
5:00 p.m., Graham 011, UNC
(near the Morehead Planetarium and Franklin Street)

Thursday, February 3
UNC Medieval History Asst. Prof. candidate lecture
Jay Rubenstein, University of New Mexico
"1095-1149: What Makes a Man Want to Go on a Crusade?"
3:30 p.m., Hamilton 569

Monday, February 7
Duke Art History Lecture
Kenneth Baxter Wolf, Pomona College
"Evangelical Poverty in a Female Form: The Cases of Clare and Elizabeth"
5:00 p.m., 108 East Duke Building, East Campus

Thursday, February 10
UNC Medieval History Asst. Prof. candidate lecture
Brett Whalen, Stanford University
"Christendom Divided and Restored: The Latin and Greek Churches in the Apocalyptic Imagination of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries"
3:30 p.m., Hamilton 569

Monday, February 14
Duke Dept. of Romance Studies lecture
Martin Eisner, Columbia University
"Incarnations of Dante's Vita Nuova"
7:15 p.m., Languages Building 305, West Campus

Thursday, February 17
UNC Medieval History Asst. Prof. candidate lecture - CANCELLED
Katherine Smith, New York University
"Memory, Authority, and Monastic Identity in the Eleventh Century"
3:30 p.m., Hamilton 569

Friday–Saturday, February 18–19
North Carolina Colloquium in Medieval and Renaissance Studies
"Life and Liveness in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance"
A Duke/UNC Graduate Student Conference
Duke University
See the complete program in PDF format.

Tuesday, February 22
Duke Dept. of Romance Studies lecture
Susanna Barsella, Georgetown University
"In the Light of Angeles: Dante's Angelology and the Role of Beatrice in the Divine Comedy"
5:15 p.m., Languages Building, Room 305, West Campus

Friday, February 25
Duke Music Dept. Lecture Series
Linda Austern, Northwestern University
"'Teach Me to Heare Mermaides Singinge': Embodiments of (Acoustic) Pleasure and Danger in the Early Modern and Modern West"
4:00 p.m., Room 101, Mary Duke Biddle Music Building, East Campus
Co-sponsored by the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and Women's Studies

Friday, February 25
Duke Late Ancient Studies lecture
Andrew Jacobs, University of California, Riverside
"Heresy, Theology, and the Divine Circumcision in Early Christianity"
4:00 p.m., Alumni Memorial Common Room, Divinity School
Refreshments served

Friday–Saturday, February 25–26
Duke Art History Graduate Symposium
with Christopher Wood, Yale University

• Friday lecture
  "Counter-Enchantment: Dosso Dossi's Image of the Witch"
  4:30 p.m., East Duke Bldg. 204B, East Campus
  Reception to follow
  


• Saturday Medieval & Renaissance Studies Graduate Colloquium
  Presentation of graduate papers with discussion led by Prof. Woods
  2:00 p.m., East Duke Bldg. 108, East Campus

Monday, February 28
UNC Art Dept. lecture
John Lowden, Courtauld Institute, London
"A Gift from King Louis IX of France to King Alfonso X of Castile and Leon: The Moralized Bible in Toledo Cathedral"
5:00 p.m., Hanes Art Center Auditorium, Room 121

MARCH

Tuesday, March 1
UNC Art Dept. Graduate Seminar
John Lowden, Courtauld Institute, London
Seminar on manuscript studies
12:00-3:00 p.m., Wilson Library, UNC
RSVP requested to Evan Gatti egatti@email.unc.edu

Wednesday, March 2
UNC Medieval Studies Brown Bag Lunch Lecture
Joseph Wittig, Dept. of English, UNC
12:00 p.m., German Reading Room (4th floor, Dey Hall, 413)
"Deconstructing Remi and Constructing Boethius: Glossing the Consolation in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries"

Thursday, March 3
Duke Performances Series
Shenandoah Shakespeare
performance of Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer
8:00 p.m., Nelson Music Room, East Duke Building, East Campus
Co-sponsored by the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
$20 general public, $5 students

Thursday, March 3
UNC Renaissance Workshop
Deborah Harkness, University of Southern California
"Edward Barlow’s Books: Collecting and Circulating Scientific, Medical, and Technical Books in Elizabethan London"
4:30 p.m., Graham 011, UNC

Thursday, March 3
Medieval and Renaissance Studies lecture and Franklin Center "Risky Knowledge" lecture series
Anne Hudson, Oxford University
"On the Lectern or under the Floorboards: Lollard Techniques for Handling Risky Knowledge"
4:30 p.m., Old Trinity Room, West Union Building, West Campus
Cosponsored by the Depts. of English, Religion, and History

Friday, March 4
Medieval and Renaissance Studies Graduate Colloquium
Anne Hudson, Oxford University
"On the difficulties of working with manuscripts of texts that were repeatedly revised"
12:00 p.m., 328 Allen Bldg., West Campus
Lunch provided

Friday, March 4
Duke Literature Program Lecture Series
Hayden White, University of California at Santa Cruz
"Historicality and Modernity"
3:00 p.m., Upper East Side, Union Building, East Campus
Co-sponsored by the Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, Classical Studies, History, Germanic Languages & Literature, Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy

Friday, March 4
Duke German Studies Lecture Series
James Schultz, UCLA
"Parzival, the Love of Courtliness, and the History of Sexuality"
4:30 p.m., Old Chemistry 119, West Campus
Co-sponsored by Medieval and Renaissance Studies and the Medieval and Early Modern German Studies Symposium

Saturday, March 5
Medieval & Renaissance Studies Graduate Colloquium
James Schultz, UCLA
"Love without Desire in Mären of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries"
10:30 a.m., 229 Carr Bldg., East Campus
Co-sponsored by the Dept. of Germanic Studies and the Medieval and Early Modern German Studies Symposium
For a copy of the workshop paper or for further information contact Ann Marie Rasmussen amras@duke.edu

Monday, March 7
Duke Art & Art History Lecture
Mark Rosen, University of California at Berkeley
"The Painted Map in the Age of Print and the Era of Exploration"
4:00 p.m., 108 East Duke Building, East Campus

Tuesday, March 8
UNC Medieval Studies Spring Film Series
The Passion of Joan of Arc, dir. Carl Dreyer 7:00 p.m., Greenlaw Hall 101
Free and open to the public

Wednesday, March 9
UNC Medieval Studies Spring Lecture
Jonathan J. G. Alexander, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Samuel H. Kress Professor, Center for the Advanced Study in the Visual
Arts, National Gallery of Art
"Book Illuminators and Their Patrons in Renaissance Italy"
5:00 p.m., Hanes Art Center, Room 121, UNC

Thursday, March 24
Duke Center for Late Ancient Studies symposium
"Issues of Sexuality in Late Antiquity"
Mary Lou Williams Center, JAH Room, West Union Building
Refreshments served

• Naomi Koltun-Fromm, Haverford College
  "Hermeneutics of Holiness: Late Ancient Notions of Sexuality and the Sacred"
  2:00-2:45 p.m.
• Derek Krueger, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
  "Monastic Desires: Ascetic Sexualities in Byzantium"
  3:15-4:00 p.m.
• Susanna Drake and Kristi Upson-Saia, Duke University
  Response to talks
  4:30-5:15 p.m.

Thursday, March 24
Duke Dept. of Art & Art History lecture
Allice Jarrard, Harvard University
"The Age of Theaters and the Ends of Marvel"
5:00 p.m., 108 East Duke Building, East Campus
Reception to Follow in Room 107

Friday, March 25
Medieval & Renaissance Studies Graduate Colloquium
Michael Cornett, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies
"Nuts and Bolts of Publishing in Journals"
10:30 a.m., English Dept. lounge, Allen 328

Wednesday, March 30
UNC Medieval Studies Spring Film Series
King Arthur
7:00 p.m., Greenlaw Hall 101
Free and open to the public

APRIL

Friday, April 1
Medieval and Renaissance Studies Graduate Colloquium - POSTPONED UNTIL FALL
Irene Silverblatt, Duke Dept. of Cultural Anthropology
Discussion of new book Modern Inquisitions: Peru and the Colonial Origins of the Civilized World
10:30 a.m., English Dept. lounge, Allen 328

Saturday, April 2
Literature Out Loud Series
Beowulf, Seamus Heaney translation
7:00-11:00 p.m., English Undergraduate Lounge, Allen 305
Free food and good fellowship!

Wednesday, April 6
Duke Early Modern Studies lecture
Thomas Kaufmann, Göttingen University
"Religious, Confessional, and Cultural Conflicts among Neighbors: Observations on the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries"
4:30 p.m., Breedlove Room (Perkins Library Room 204)

Thursday–Sunday, April 7–10
Fourth Frühe Neuzeit Interdisziplinär International Conference
“Orthodoxies and Diversities in Early Modern German-Speaking Europe”
Duke University
For more information, contact Tom Robisheaux

Saturday, April 9
Duke Collegium Musicum
Kerry McCarthy, director
Works by Guillaume Dufay and Josquin des Prez
8:00 p.m., Duke Chapel Free

Sunday, April 10
Duke Performances Series
Trio Mediaeval
14th-century medieval English motets and Norwegian ballads and songs
5:00 p.m., Duke Chapel
Co-sponsored by the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
$20 general public, $5 Duke students

Wednesday, April 13
UNC Medieval Studies Spring Film Series
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
7:30 p.m., Greenlaw Hall 101
Free and open to the public

Thursday, April 14
UNC Renaissance Workshop
Nelson Minnich, Catholic University of America, NHC Fellow
"The Decree Inter multiplices of Lateran V on the Liceity of the Montes Pietatis"
4:30 p.m., Saunders Hall 125, UNC

Sunday, April 24
Duke Vespers Ensemble
Josquin's Missa Pange Lingua
Allan Friedman, director
6:00 p.m., Duke Chapel
Free

MAY

Thursday, May 5
UNC Renaissance Workshop
Monique O'Connell, Wake Forest University
"Ambiguities of Empire in the Venetian Maritime State"
4:30 p.m., Graham 011, UNC