Session 1
9/6/2011, 5.00 pm (715 Hesburgh)
Topic: Material Culture
Speakers:
Thomas Hall (English, ND): “What to Make of the Alfred Jewel”
Richard Oosterhoff (History and Philosophy of Science, ND): “A Marvelously- Wrought Ring and the Rise of Paper Instruments: The Material Culture of Renaissance Astronomy”
Session 2
10/4/2011, 5 pm (715 Hesburgh)
Topic: Late Antique and Medieval Sermons
Speakers:
Hildegund Müller (Classics, Notre Dame): “How to Read an Augustinian Sermon: open questions, and some answers”
Ben Reinhard (Medieval Institute, Notre Dame): “Wulfstan and the Widows”
Session 3
11/8/2011, 5.00 pm (715 Hesburgh)
Topic: Minority Religion and Language in Medieval Iberia
Speakers:
Ryan Szpiech (Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan): “The Aura of an Alphabet: Interpreting the Hebrew Gospels in Ramon Martí’s Dagger of Faith (1278)”
Belen Vicens-Saiz (History, ND): “Swearing by God: Muslim oath-taking in late medieval Christian Iberia”
Session 4
11/29/2011, 5 pm (715 Hesburgh)
Topic: Image, Work, Text
Speakers:
Aden Kumler (Department of Art History, University of Chicago): “Afterimages: why medievalists might want to reclaim the artwork (now)”
Sarah Baechle (English, ND): “Rethinking Reading, or: What the Manuscripts Tell Us about the Boundaries of Literary Criticism”
Session 5
01/24/2012, 5pm (715 Hesburgh)
Topic: Art, Italy, and the East
Speakers:
Olivia Remie Constable (History, ND): “Gentile Bellini, Venice, and A Late Medieval European Vision of Egypt”
Brandon Cook (Medieval Institute, ND): “Mosaics of Holy Women in the Cappella Palatina”
Session 6
02/21/2012, 5pm (715 Hesburgh)
Topic: Issues of Interpretation
Speakers:
Ann Astell (Theology, ND): “The Psalms as ‘Full of Grace’: Mariological Interpretations of the Psalter”
Hannah Matis (Medieval Institute, ND): “Writing a Song for Solomon: Exegesis of the Song of Songs for Caroloingian Kings”
Session 7
3/27/2012, 5 pm (715 Hesburgh)
Topic: Medieval Infancy Gospels
Speakers:
Maureen B. M. Boulton (Romance Literatures and Languages, ND): “Text and Image in Medieval French Infancy Gospels”
Danielle Joyner (Art, Art History, and Design, ND): “Dancing in the Dark – An Art Historical Two-Step”
Anna Siebach Larsen (Medieval Institute, ND): “Text, image, and the boundaries of interdisciplinarity”
Session 8
04/19/2012 (715 Hesburgh)
Topic: Place and History
Speakers:
David Wallace (English, Penn): Place and History: “Literature in Europe, 1348-1418”
Andrew Irving (Medieval Institute, ND): “Books in Space: Spatial Contexts and the Gospel Books of Montecassino”