The Medieval Studies Workshop is pleased to announce our workshop and event schedule for Autumn 2019. All workshops will be held Fridays from 12:30-2:00 in Cobb 403 unless otherwise noted!

OCTOBER 4: New Faculty Roundtable with Tamara Golan (Art History), Noel Blanco Mourelle (Romance Languages and Literatures), Sarah Pierce Taylor (Divinity), and Erin Galgay Walsh (Divinity)

OCTOBER 11: Karl Steel (Associate Professor, English, Brooklyn College), “Cuthbert and the Gesturing Geese: Reason, Language, and Accommodation in a Medieval Animal Story”
Co-sponsored with the Department of English at the University of Chicago
Location: Rosenwald 405

OCTOBER 18: Sam Baudinette (PhD Student, Divinity), “Nostra divina scientia: Dietrich of Freiberg and the German Dominican understanding of philosophical and Christian theology”

OCTOBER 25: “The Aesthetics of Devotion in Medieval England”
A one-day symposium hosted by the Department of English at the University of Chicago and co-sponsored by Frederic Ives Carpenter Fund, the Medieval Studies Workshop, the ASSC, and the Nicholson Center for British Studies (10:00-5:00 in SIFK Classroom). Visit this post for additional information, including speakers.

NOVEMBER 22: Jo Nixon (PhD Candidate, English), “Chaucer’s Clerk’s Tale and the Patience of Public Domesticity”

DECEMBER 6: Charlotte Denoël (Chief Curator of Medieval Manuscripts, Bibliothèque nationale de France) and Isabelle Marchesin (Conseillère scientifique, Institut national d’histoire de l’art), “The Performative Codex: The Gellone Sacramentary”

MARCH 2020: Geraldine Heng

APRIL 2020: Julia Bray

May 2020: “Midcentury/Medieval”: a symposium featuring lectures by Cord Whitaker, D. Vance Smith, and Jane Newman with confirmed responses by Kenneth Warren and Sophia Azeb