Friday, April 1, 3:30 PM ~~ Marston Science Library, Room L136: New Perspectives on Medieval Archaeology. A mini-conference Speakers: Aleks Pluskowski, University of Reading, United Kingdom “Re-evaluating the fear of wolves in late medieval Europe: A multi-disciplinary survey of converging ecological and cultural change” Santiago Castellanos, University of León, Spain “Between kings and peasants: archaeological […]
The following sections of MEM3931 will be offered in Fall 2016: All course readings are in English. Taoism and Chinese Culture MEM 3931sec. 183E (also CHT 3513 & REL 3938) Professor Richard Wang (Chinese) Taoism is aspecific set of cultural traditions that evolved within the historical context of ancient, medieval,and modern China, evolving to […]
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 […]
The 2016 program will be especially exciting! Look under “courses” for more information! Participate in the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Study’s summer program abroad in Mannheim, Germany: Study and travel in Europe and earn six credits of upper-division Humanities credit. Work closely with UF Center Directors Bonnie Effros (Professor of History, Rothman Chair […]
Alberto De Simoni (Classics), “Tradition in Its Making: the Example of Benvenuto Da Imola” Thursday, February 11 2:30-3:30 160 Pugh Hall Some 50 years after Dante’s death, Benvenuto is already the 14th commentator of the Divine Comedy. Benvenuto exhibits at least some familiarity with the work of his predecessors. Although he almost always neglects to […]
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Elizabeth R. Wright, Associate Professor of Spanish, University of Georgia A Brown-Bag Lunchtime Seminar, Thursday February 11, 12:00 (Keene-Flint 05—History Conference Room) Scholars of the African Diaspora celebrate Juan Latino (ca. 1516 – ca. 1590) as the first sub-Saharan African to publish a book of poems in a European language. Elizabeth Wright will discuss how […]
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Another year for MEMS Graduate Student Talks is upon us! Last year we had a number of remarkable presentations, and we hope to add to this in Spring 2016. If you have something you would like to present, please send an email to Matthew B. Koval, who is organizing these talks. Presenters usually speak for […]
Friday, November 20 at 4:00 PM in Pugh 160,the third MEMS Graduate Student Talk of the semester Tim Blanton (History) “Whose Time? Which Past?: Some Reflections on Medieval and Modern Historiographies of Time” We are constantly under the surveillance of clocks. We wake up in the morning to the sound of an alarm; we anxiously […]
On Tuesday, November 17th at 11.30am, Dr. Nina Caputo, UF Department of History, will be giving a Lunchtime Symposium on Medieval Religious Conversion. She will focus on the case of Petrus Alfonsi, born Moses Sephardi, a Jewish Spanish physician, writer, astronomer and polemicist. The talk will be held in the CES Conference Room – Turlington […]
Friday, October 30, at 4:00 PM in Pugh 160, the second of our MEMS Graduate Student Talks Ken Silverman (Classics) “…steep my senses in forgetfulness”: The Temptation of Shakespeare’s King Henry IV The king of 2 Henry IV is a very sick man. The anxieties of containing a civil war, of suspecting the intentions of […]