Oct 3: David Orsbon (PhD Student, Comparative Literature)
“The Concept of Integumentum in Bernard Silvestris’s Cosmographia: A Reevaluation of the Interplay between Nature, Creation, Humanity, and Text in Twelfth-Century Poetry”
Wieboldt 207
Oct 17: Julie Orlemanski (Assistant Professor, English)
“Symptomatic Subjects: Bodies, Signs, and Narratives in Late Medieval England”
CWAC 153
Potluck in the evening at Prof. Delogu’s, details to be announced
Oct 31: Cameron Cross (PhD Candidate, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations)
“Too much a man, or not enough? A lover-king’s dilemma in the medieval romance of Vis and Rāmin”
Wieboldt 207
Nov 14: Jonathan Morton (Visiting Assistant Professor in French, Columbia University)
“Ingenious Genius: invention, creation, reproduction in the High Middle Ages”
Wieboldt 207
Dec 5: David Cantor-Echols (PhD Candidate, History)
“Sovereignty in Crisis: Kingship, Administration, and Historiography in Late Medieval Castile”
Wieboldt 207