Friday, October 18, 10:40-11:40AM –Dauer 219 (Ruth McQuown Room) The Palatine Anthology is a collection of Greek poems (epigrams) that were discovered in the early 17th century. The material included in the manuscripts are narratives originating from between 7th BCE to late antiquity. The manuscripts are currently housed at the Library of the University of Heidelberg […]
Connected to the “Setting Global-Cultural Limits 30-Years after Berlin 1989” Campus Weeks events: https://songs.clas.ufl.edu/setting-global-cultural-limits-30-years-after-berlin-1989-fall-2019-campus-weeks-events/, there are three creative student group projects focusing on Border-Walls, Fire-Walls, and Sea-Walls respectively. Creative projects address the ongoing histories of these different kinds of Walls (whether as problems or solutions), how they have been used in the past, how they […]
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A Workshop with Professor David Frye. October 10, 12:00-1:00 pm Pugh Hall 302 David Frye is Professor of History at Eastern Connecticut State University and author of Walls. A History of Civilization in Blood and Brick (Simon and Schuster, 2018). This recent book on walls has been reviewed by journals such as the National Geographic, […]
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Professor Rebecca Maloy University of Colorado, Boulder Friday, September 6, 2019 at 1:55 pm Friends of Music Room, University Auditorium Abstract: This paper considers the role of liturgical chant–both texts and melodies—in the cultural renewal of early Medieval Iberia. Between the seventh and eleventh centuries, Christian worship on the Iberian Peninsula was structured by rituals […]
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Global-Cultural Resources as Limits How do walls—man-made and otherwise—define global-cultural limits? How do the physical/material characteristics of walls bear on/inform/reflect/etc. their religious, political, social, and economic meanings, and vice versa? How do walls mark cultural relations of infinity and finiteness, abundance and lack, presence and absence, etc.? What kinds of cultural dynamics are generated in/by […]
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Global-Cultural Resources as Limits How do walls—man-made and otherwise—define global-cultural limits? How do the physical/material characteristics of walls bear on/inform/reflect/etc. their religious, political, social, and economic meanings, and vice versa? How do walls mark cultural relations of infinity and finiteness, abundance and lack, presence and absence, etc.? What kinds of cultural dynamics are generated in/by […]
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 […]
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 […]
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