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Lectures and Conferences
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help maintain its leading place in medieval studies, every year the Medieval
Institute sponsors individual lectures, small workshops,
and larger conferences. The Institute also co-sponsors many events
with other departments and programs on campus.
Annually, the graduate students invite a distinguished medievalist to visit the campus,
discuss work with the students, and deliver a lecture, and, each fall, a renowned medievalist presents the Conway Lectures.
UPCOMING
A brief calendar of events for the coming semester follows. Click the links for further details. Information about academic events appears below.
MI Research Colloquium (Maureen Boulton), September 17
Midwest Medieval History Conference, September 25-26
Lecture (Robert Somerville), October 8
Lecture (Sarah Kay), October 29
MI Film Festival, October 30, 31, November 1
2009 Conway Lectures (John Marenbon), November 12, 17, and 19
MI Research Colloquium (Marina Smyth), December 3
MI Research Colloquium
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Approximately twice each semester, a Medieval Institute faculty member or advanced graduate student presents his or her research for collegial discussion.
Presenter: Maureen Boulton, Department of Romance Languages (French).
Topic: "Epic, Romance, & Allegory: Lives of Christ and the Virgin in Medieval French Literature"
Time: 5:00 - 6:30 p.m.
Location: MI seminar room (715J Hesburgh Library)
Midwest Medieval History Conference
September 25-26, 2009
The Midwest Medieval History Conference is the oldest regional association devoted to medieval studies. For forty-eight years it has served as a forum for the discussion and presentation of new directions in historical research as well as a place of warm collegiality. The University of Notre Dame’s Medieval Institute is the host institution for this year’s conference. Graduate student papers will open the proceedings on Friday afternoon. Saturday’s meeting will feature a plenary address entitled "Cluny and Rome" by Prof. Giles Constable (Medieval History Professor Emeritus, Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton) as well as eleven paper presentations in the course of the day. The meeting concludes with a reception and banquet.
Location: McKenna Hall (Center for Continuing Education)
Program: Program details and a full schedule are available here. Information about MMHC membership can be found at: http://mmhc.slu.edu.
On-line Registration: Register for the conference by going to https://marketplace.nd.edu/cce and click on "September Events" where you will find a listing for the MMHC. Hotel reservations can be made on the registration web site until August 24.
After that time, check directly with the conference hotel (the Morris Inn on the Notre Dame campus) for availability at 574.631.2000.
Lecture: "Pope Urban II: Councils, Canons (and the First Crusade)"
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Presenter: Robert Somerville, Ada Byron Bampton Tremaine Professor of Religion and Professor of History, Columbia University
Prof. Somerville's research focuses on the history of Christianity through the 16th century Reformation, the medieval Latin Church, the papacy in the High Middle Ages and medieval Latin manuscripts. He has just completed a monograph on the Council of Piacenza (1095).
Location: Medieval Institute Reading Room (715 Hesburgh Library)
Time: 5:00 p.m.
A short reception will follow the lecture.
Lecture: "'I am Arnaut': from Daniel to Dante."
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Presenter: Sarah Kay, Professor of French, Princeton University
Prof. Kay has written extensively on troubador poetry and chansons de geste (including an edition of Raoul de Cambrai). Her current research is on the relationship between poetry and knowledge in late medieval France.
Location: Medieval Institute Reading Room (715 Hesburgh Library)
Time: 5:00 p.m.
A short reception will follow the lecture.
MI Film Festival
For details, go to: http://www.nd.edu/~medinst/news/news.html#film.
2009 Conway Lectures: "Abelard in Four Dimensions"
Every year, through the generosity of Robert M. Conway, a distinguished, senior medievalist offers a series of three public lectures that subsequently are collected and published as a single volume.
Thursday, November 12: "The Present: Abelard Himself"
Tuesday, November 17: "The Past: Abelard's Dialogue with Anselm's Ethics"
Thursday, November 19: "The Future: Abelard's Contention that God Can Do Only What It Does and Its Fortune"
John Marenbon, Senior Research Fellow at Trinity College, University of Cambridge, is the 2009 Conway Lecturer. He has written extensively about Peter Abelard and has produced survey volumes on medieval philosophy. He is interested in considering methodological issues about the history of philosophy and his most recent research projects focus on Boethius and the medieval concept of good pagans. Additional information about his work is available at: http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/index.php?pageid=510.
Time: 5 - 6:00 p.m. for each lecture
Location: Eck Center auditorium
A reception will follow the November 12 lecture.
MI Research Colloquium
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Presenter: Marina Smyth, Librarian, Medieval Institute.
Topic: "The Ambrosiana Collection"
Time: 5:00 - 6:30 p.m.
Location: MI seminar room (715J Hesburgh Library)
For other campus events of interest to medievalists, see below.
See the bottom of this page for a list of past events.
Other Campus Events of Interest to Medievalists
St. Mary's College Christian Culture Lecture
William Chester Jordan, will be the Humanistic Studies department's annual Christian Culture Lecturer at St. Mary's College. Prof. Jordan is Dayton-Stockton Professor of History at Princeton University. The topic of his lecture is "Crusader Prologues: Preparing for War in the Gothic Age." The lecture addresses how crusaders prepares themselves and those they were leaving behind psychically and spiritually for a holy war.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
7:30 PM
O'Laughlin Auditorium, Moreau Hall
St. Mary's College
It is free and open to the public.
Devers Program in Dante Studies
The William and
Katherine Devers Program in Dante Studies sponsors a series
of lectures each term that will be of interest to scholars of
medieval literature. The schedule of lectures is posted at Devers
Program in Dante Studies.
Previous Lectures and Conferences
Spring 2009
Fall 2008
Spring 2008
Fall 2007
Spring 2007
Fall 2006
Spring 2006
Fall 2005
Spring 2005
Fall 2004
Spring 2004
Fall 2003
Spring 2003
Fall 2002
Spring 2002
Fall 2001
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