A talk by Professor Shifra Armon Entre Nos series sponsored by the Spanish and Portuguese Studies Department Wednesday November 9 3 pm Dauer 240A –When you resorted to force, … you didn’t know where you were going. If you got deeper and deeper, there was just no limit except … the limitations of force itself.* […]
A lecture by Michael Kulikowski (Pennsylvania State University) Wednesday, 2 November, 5:30 pm, Marston Visualization Lab (L136) The motif of barbarians invading from the endless wastes of the north is an ancient motif in the historical traditions of Mediterranean, Near Eastern, and East Asian civilizations. This becomes particularly clear in Late Antiquity and the early […]
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Sergiu Musteață, public lecture on “The Soroca stronghold between Poland, the Ottoman Empire, and Muscovy” Thursday, November 3, 5:00-6:00 pm Judaica Suite, Smathers Library (East) Sergiu MUSTEAŢĂ is an archaeologist from the Republic of Moldova, Professor and Dean of the History and Geography Faculty, of the „Ion Creangă” State Pedagogical University of Moldova. He holds […]
The following courses are cross-listed with MEMS for Spring term 2016. Many other courses can be used to contribute to the minor or IDS major. MEM 2500 (03AF)/FRT 3004 (087F): “The Tales of King Arthur” William Calin, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Great literary works of the Arthurian tradition and the manner in which […]
Some MEMS courses: MEM 4931 (2C28) / CHT 4603: “Journey to the West” Richard Wang, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures This course is designed to explore the religious culture, cultural history and literary expression of traditional China through a 100-chapter novel known as Journey to the West, or Monkey. Based on the famous Tang […]
Friday, September 30, 4-5 pm, 150 Pugh Hall Ken Silverman of Classics discussing ἅγιον πνεῦμα παιδείας : The Wisdom of Solomon, and Education in Hellenistic Alexandria and Palestine The Wisdom of Solomon is a late-Hellenistic addition to the proverbial and poetic literature attributed to king Solomon. My paper will focus on how this book interacts with Hellenistic philosophy, and how it responds […]
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As last year, MEMS will sponsor a series of Graduate Student talks. This year, we have two different co-ordinators to whom graduate students are encouraged to submit proposals. This is a splendid opportunity to sound out ideas or get practice on the way to a more formal presentation. In the Fall, Rachel Walkover (History – […]
See the 2016 Congress Report of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence for reports on some of the sessions which MEMS at UF co-sponsored with this organization at the 2016 International Congress on Medieval Medieval Studies.
DATE CHANGE. A talk by Matt Koval, Thursday, April 21, 4 pm, Pugh Hall 120: “Childhood as Metaphor in the Medieval Polish Chronicle Gallus Anonymous” Scholars since the 1990’s have argued that children were far more important in medieval life than previous scholars assumed. But just how important was the consciousness of childhood in the […]
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