“Infrastructure of Tolerance,” Lecture by Simon Goldhill

The Mellon Intersections Group on Imagineering the Technosphere, Department of Classics, and the Center for Greek Studies would like to invite you to join them for two lectures with Prof. Simon Goldhill from the University of Cambridge. The Infrastructure of Tolerance with Simon Goldhill TFriday, October 18, 4pm, Smathers Library 100 This lecture examines how we might understand the relationship between […]

“The Amazing Adventures of Alexander Agricola’s Tiny Motet: Si dedero and Communities of Practice.”

Lecture by Professor Jennifer Thomas University of Florida Friday, September 27, 2019 at 1:55 pm MUB 146 Abstract: From a twenty-first-century perspective, Alexander Agricola’s diminutive, three-voice song-style motet from the 1480s, Si dedero, seems an unlikely candidate for stardom. Musically commonplace and textually perplexing, its style and scope skirted the late-fifteenth-century contrapuntal developments that took […]

MUSICOLOGY COLLOQUIUM Chant, Identity, and Christian Formation in Early Medieval Iberia

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 […]

New York Times Story: Medieval Scholars Joust With White Nationalists. And One Another.

Fall 2019: Daoism and Chinese Culture

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, […]

“Atlantic Empires” in Summer B: A Survey of the Early Modern Atlantic World

CFP: 2015-16 MEMS Stammtisch

Matt Koval, Ph.D. student in the History Department, will be coordinating the MEMS “Stammtisch” Graduate Student Talks next academic year. Mead Bowen, who was going to do this, is heading to UCLA for further graduate work (bravo Mead!) and Matt agreed to take on the Stammtisch. Matt is working on the medieval history of childhood […]

Kalamazoo Congress sessions 2016

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 […]

Landmark Achievement: Florin Curta marks a Quarter-Century Shaping Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the Kalamazoo International Congress on Medieval Studies.

After organizing another round of successful panels last May 2017, 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 Modern Studies (many […]

Kalamazoo Congress Sessions 2018

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 […]

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