Matt Koval, the History PHD candidate who co-ordinated the MEMS Graduate Student talks in the past, is back from his Fulbright research year and will again organize this series! These are informal events, where you may discuss your research ideas with a multidisciplinary audience. You may present a paper or PowerPoint, or it may be […]
After organizing another round of successful panels last May 2017 (click for details), 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 […]
Call for Papers Translation, Adaptation, and Interpretation. October 21, 2017. University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. First University of Florida Classics Graduate Student Symposium, Featuring keynote speaker Karl Galinsky, University of Texas. DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: AUGUST 1st 2017 Every text is at the same time translatable yet impossible to transfer into another language in its entirety. […]
MEMS Graduate Student Talk: Oren Okhovat will speak on “Trapping Sor Juana: Sor Juana in the Contemporary Imagination” Pugh Hall 302 at 3:00PM on Friday, April 14th This is a survey of how the image and writings of Sor Juana have been appropriated out of its seventeenth century context for modern contemporary issues. It is based on […]
Professor Mary Watt, Associate Dean of UF’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, has just published Dante, Columbus and the Prophetic Tradition: Spiritual Imperialism in the Italian Imagination More information at: https://www.routledge.com/Dante-Columbus-and-the-Prophetic-Tradition-Spiritual-Imperialism-in-the/Watt/p/book/9781472488886
Kelli Wood: Parody, Pleasure, and Play in Print:Game Boards in Counter-Reformation Italy Thursday, April 6 Digital Worlds Institute–Norman Gym, Room 120 Refreshments will be served This talk explores the emergence of printed gameboards in Rome in the last decades of the sixteenth century in the context of a multiplicity of audiences engaged with both a […]
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 […]
MEMS Graduate Student Talk “Ekphrasis in Ivory: ‘Reading’ Fourteenth Century Representations of La châtelaine de Vergi.” by Philip Allen (Department of Spanish and Portuguese). Friday, March 24, in Pugh 150, from 4-5 pm. La châtelaine de Vergi is a short romance which tells the love affair between an anonymous knight and the niece of the […]
Professor Hahn will give a lecture in the Death: Confronting the Great Divide series on March 16, and will also hold a lunch seminar on March 17. Relics and Reliquaries: A Matter of Life and Death Cynthia Hahn (CUNY, Hunter College) Thursday, 16 March, 6:00 pm, Chandler Auditorium (Harn Museum) A not unusual modern response […]
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Rothman Fellowship Brown-Bag Series Ralph Patrello, 2016-2017 Rothman Doctoral Fellow (Department of History) Dressing the Part: The So-Called “Aquitanian” Plate Buckles and Personhood in Early Medieval Gaul Wednesday, 1 March, 12:00-1:00 pm, Walker Hall 200 The elaborately-decorated belt buckles of southern Gaul (modern France between the Loire River and Pyrenees) have long been a focus […]
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