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 […]
Friday, 25 September – 4:00 – 5:00 pm Walker Hall 200 2015-2016 Rothman Doctoral Fellowship Brown-Bag Series: Orosius to Fructuosus: Bishops and Community in Northwestern Hispania Rebecca A. Devlin (Department of History) Prior to the conversion of the emperor Constantine and the legalization of Christianity in the early fourth century, the influence of bishops was […]
We would like to extend a warm invitation to a lecture which forms part of the Graduate Student Talks Series (formerly known as “Stammtisch”). Joanie Murta from the Classics department will be presenting “Writing Political Assassination in the Middle Ages: An exploration of the Monographic Historiography of Galbert of Bruges and Guibert of Nogent” in […]
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Conference, Thursday September 3, 1:55-3:55 302 Pugh Hall Plenary Speaker, Dr. Ema Vyroubalová, School of English, Trinity College Dublin: “Pedagogy of Global Shakespeare” Prof. Richard Burt, Dept. of English, UF: “Filming OTHELLO: Orson Welles’s Cinemal d’archive” Dr. Kole Odutola, Dept. of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, UF: “Prof. Femi Osofisan’s ‘Wesoo, Hamlet! Or, the Resurrection of […]
Dr. Konrad Eisenbichler, Professor of Italian Studies, University of Toronto The Good Life Common Lecture Wednesday, February 11 at 5:30 pm University Auditorium Sponsored by HUM 2305: What is the Good Life? and cosponsored by the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, the lecture is free and open to the public. Bio: Dr. Konrad […]
Registration is now open! Conference dates 19-21 February Smathers Library (East) 100, UF Campus Program and schedule: http://vagantesconference.org/conference-program/ Vagantes is North America’s largest graduate student conference for medieval studies. Since its founding in 2002 at Harvard, Vagantes has traveled to a new university every year. The University of Florida will host the 2015 conference, which will […]
Saturday, February 7, 2015 History Department Conference Room, 005 Keene-Flint Please note: Papers will be no longer than 20-25 minutes so that there is sufficient time for discussion after each. 8:30 Coffee and Bagels 8:45 Welcome 9:00-9:45 Florin Curta (Department of History, University of Florida), “Of amphorae and seals: the sub-Byzantine’ Avars and the quaestura […]
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Andrew Welton, 2014-2015 Rothman Doctoral Fellow (Department of History): Spears, Smiths, and Iron in Anglo-Saxon England Tuesday, 21 October 2014, 12:00-1:00 pm, Walker Hall 200 Spears are one of the most important, but least understood, archaeological artifacts from early medieval England (c. 450-650 CE). Thousands of spears have been recovered from cemeteries, where nearly […]
Image: Sandow Birk, “On the Steps of Purgatory.” Giuseppe Mazzotta –Sterling Professor of Humanities for Italian; Chair, Department of Italian, Yale University– Dante and the Future Thursday, November 20, 2014 5pm-7pm Judaica Suite (Smathers Library East Second Floor) Presented by: Italian Studies in the Department of Languages and Literatures co-sponsored by the Isser and […]