CHT 3513/REL 3938/MEM 3931 (07CE) Taoism and Chinese Culture All readings are in English. Course Description Taoism (now often written “Daoism”) is a Chinese cultural tradition focused primarily on methods, strategies and communities for individual and socio-political integration with the totality of reality, including its transcendent dimensions. Taoism encompasses a broad array of moral, social, […]
-NEW COURSE , Spring 2020 MEM 4931 Special Topics: Imagineering the Technosphere. section 36GB, class number 21091, Tuesdays 1:55 to 4:55 p.m. (7th, 8th, and 9th periods) in MSL L136, How have technologies shaped our lives, and how can we draw on them to meet 21st century challenges? This team-taught multidisciplinary course attempts to […]
Matt Koval, Ph.D. student in the History Department, will be coordinating the MEMS “Stammtisch” Graduate Student Talks next academic year. Mead Bowen, who was going to do this, is heading to UCLA for further graduate work (bravo Mead!) and Matt agreed to take on the Stammtisch. Matt is working on the medieval history of childhood […]
MEMS is sponsoring five sessions at the International Congress for Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo (May 12-15, 2016) Florin Curta is responsible for our involvement with these wonderful sessions (see below). In addition, the Congress will host the following presentations by UF faculty and graduate students: Session 53, Thursday, May 12 1:30 The […]
Jewish History: 711-1492: MEM 3931 sec. 36A4 (also EUH 3670) Professor Nina Caputo (History) This course will survey major historic developments in medieval Jewish society under both Islam and western Christendom. We will look at the divergence of Judaism and Christianity, the rise of the Babylonian geonim, the social and cultural history of Jews in […]
Taking place at the 54th International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 9-12, 2019: (For complete program click here.) Remembering Professor William Calin I May 10, Friday 1:30 p.m. 242 SCHNEIDER 1145 Organizer: Emerson S. F. Richards, Indiana Univ.–Bloomington; Matthieu Boyd, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Presider: Matthieu Boyd 1. Rebels of Leaderless Men: The Jacquerie as Chronicled […]
Bill Calin, our colleague and friend, is no longer with us. His illustrious academic career, his books ranging from French epic poetry to the role of literary language in modern nationalist movements, the awards and the hundreds of lectures and readings, were always for him part of a lifelong teaching mission that he delighted in […]
After organizing another round of successful panels last May 2017, this month Florin Curta marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of his intensive involvement in the International Congress for Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo. During this quarter of a century, Professor Curta has annually organized multiple panels sponsored by UF’s Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (many […]
MEMS is sponsoring a session at the International Congress for Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo (May 10-13, 2018) Matt Koval is responsible for organizing and presiding over this session, which includes UF’s Ethan Williamson: Friday, May 11, 10 AM, Session 194: Networks of Religious Exchange in Central and Eastern Europe during the Middle […]