Tuesday, September 8, 2009, 6:00pm, UNC Medieval & Early Modern Studies Crossroads Lecture Series
University Room of Hyde Hall
David Nirenberg, University of Chicago
"Poetry, Art, and the Danger of Judaism: From Saint Paul to the Present"   [abstract]

Monday, September 14, 2009, 5:00pm, Duke Late Ancient Studies Lecture
Allen Building 226, west campus
Hidemi Takahashi, Tokyo University and the Yale MacMillan Center
"The Reception of Greek Sciences in Syriac: From Sergius of Resh'aina to Barhebraeus, and to the Gregorian Calendar Reform"   [abstract]

Tuesday, September 15, 2009, 4:00pm, UNC Furst Forum Lecture Series
Donovan Lounge, Dey Hall, UNC campus
E. Jane Burns, UNC-Chapel Hill
"The Head of a Woman and the Tail of a . . . : Hybridity and Dynasty in the Roman de Melusine"   [abstract]

Monday, September 21, 2009, 12:00pm, Duke Medieval & Renaissance Studies
Faculty Commons
Ann Marie Rasmussen and Michael Cornett
"Undergraduate Luncheon"   [abstract]

Thursday, September 24, 2009, 5:00pm, UNC Institute for the Arts & Humanities Mellon Lecture
University Room, Hyde Hall, UNC campus
Sharon Strocchia, Emory University
"The Melancholic Nun: Women and Mental Health in Renaissance Italy"   [abstract]

Friday, September 25, 2009, 5:00pm, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies/Romance Studies Seminar
Languages 305
Miguel Garci-Gomez, Duke University
"CiberTextos Interactivos: A Seminar on Making and Using Textual Databases with Search Capability for Teaching and Research"   [abstract]

Tuesday, September 29, 2009, 12:00pm, Duke Medieval & Renaissance Studies
Faculty Commons
Ann Marie Rasmussen and Michael Cornett
"Undergraduate Luncheon"   [abstract]

Thursday, October 1, 2009, 3:00pm, Duke Medieval and Renaissance Studies Graduate Colloquium
Breedlove Room, 204 Perkins Library
Jennifer Herdt, University of Notre Dame
"Workshop: The Breakdown of the Medieval Synthesis"   [abstract]

Wednesday, October 7, 2009, 12:00pm, UNC MEMS Lunchtime Colloquium Series
Hamilton Hall 569, UNC campus
Paroma Chaterjee, UNC Dept. of Art
"'Little Black Stones,' or St. Francis's Stigmata"   [abstract]

Thursday, October 8, 2009, 12:00pm, Duke CMRS Graduate Colloquium
326 Allen Building, east campus
Six new faculty panelists
"Lunchtime Panel Discussion with New Faculty"   [abstract]

Friday, October 16, 2009, 4:00pm, Duke Festival for Medieval and Renaissance Music
Room 101 Biddle Music Building
Anne Stone, Queen's College CUNY
"'Because Everyone is Taking up Forging': Jacob de Senleches, Late Medieval Lyric Persona, and the Chantilly Manuscript"   [abstract]

Friday, October 16, 2009, 8:00pm, Duke Festival for Medieval and Renaissance Music
Nelson Music Room, East Duke Building
Trefoil
"In the Chamber of the Harpers: Late Medieval Music from the Iberian Peninsula"   [abstract]

Saturday, October 17, 2009, 8:00pm, Duke Festival for Medieval and Renaissance Music
Duke Chapel
Anonymous 4
"Secret Voices: The Sisters of Las Huelgas, Music of Thirteenth Century Spain"   [abstract]

Sunday, October 18, 2009, 12:00pm, Duke Festival for Medieval and Renaissance Music
Nelson Music Room, East Duke Building
Anonymous 4
"Vocal Music Masterclass with Anonymous 4"   [abstract]

Monday, October 19, 2009, 5:00pm, UNC MEMS Lecture
Murphey Hall 104, UNC campus
David Ganz, King's College London
"Einhard, Theodoric, and the Doves Who Would not Nest"   [abstract]

Tuesday, October 20, 2009, 5:00pm, Duke Art, Art History & Visual Studies Lecture
108 East Duke Building, east campus
Avner Amiri, Israel Antiquities Authority and WIZO Academy of Design and Education
"Jerusalem: Remaking the Jewish Quarter"   [abstract]

Tuesday, October 27, 2009, 4:30pm, NCSU English Dept. & University Honors Program Lecture
210 Parks Shop Building, NCSU North Campus
Russ McDonald, Goldsmiths College, University of London
"Shakespeare and the Suspicion of Style"   [abstract]

Friday, November 6, 2009, 3:30pm, Duke Philosophy Dept. Conference
West Duke Building, Room 202, east campus
Various speakers
"Metaphysics and Psychology in Late Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy"   [abstract]

Saturday, November 7, 2009, 9:00am, Duke Philosophy Dept. Conference
West Duke Building, Room 105, east campus
Various speakers
"Metaphysics and Psychology in Late Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy"   [abstract]

Monday, November 9, 2009, 3:30pm, UNC MEMS Lecture
Donovan Lounge, Greenlaw Hall, UNC campus
Debora Shuger, UCLA
"Cultural Critique in the 1630s; Or, Reid Barbour Discovers a Feminist Masterpiece"

Tuesday, November 10, 2009, 12:30pm, Duke Medieval and Renaissance Studies Graduate Colloquium
328 Allen Building, west campus
Sarah Beckwith and Fiona Somerset, Duke University
"Beyond Heresy versus Orthodoxy: Ideas about Confession and Forgiveness in Fifteenth-Century England"   [abstract]

Tuesday, November 10, 2009, 5:30pm, Bullitt History of Medicine Club
UNC Health Sciences Library, 5th Floor Conference Room (527)
Michael McVaugh, UNC Chapel Hill
"Arabic into Latin (Or, Why Medical Schools Got Started)"   [abstract]

Thursday, November 12, 2009, 4:30pm, Duke Islamic Studies Center, Islam in the Public Square Series
103 Carr Building, east campus
Madeline Zilfi, University of Maryland, College Park
"The New World Meets the Old: Rethinking Slavery Across the Early Modern Middle East"   [abstract]

Thursday, November 12, 2009, 5:00pm, Duke Center for Late Ancient Studies Lecture
0012 Westbrook, Divinity School
Jason BeDuhn, Northern Arizona University
"The Last Word on Augustine's Conversion"   [abstract]

Saturday, November 14, 2009, 11:30am, Duke Universitas Scholarium Event
Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill
Duke undergraduate students
"Visit to the Ackland Museum of Art"   [abstract]

Sunday, November 15, 2009, 3:00pm, UNC Jewish Studies Seminar
Carr Building Room 229, east campus
Miri Rubin, Queen Mary, University of London
"Ecclesia and Synagoga: Visual Dynamics and Historical Change"   [abstract]

Monday, November 16, 2009, 1:00pm, Carolina Center for Jewish Studies
Coates Hall Seminar Room, William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education
Miri Rubin, Queen Mary, University of London
"Lunchtime Seminar"   [abstract]

Monday, November 16, 2009, 7:30pm, Carolina Center for Jewish Studies
The William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education
Miri Rubin, Queen Mary, University of London
"Ritual Murder in Norwich, 1144"   [abstract]

Tuesday, November 17, 2009, 1:00pm, Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies
328 Allen Bldg.
Executive committee members
"Executive Committee Meeting"

Friday, November 20, 2009, 11:30am, Duke Medieval and Renaissance Studies Colloquium
Languages 305, west campus
Tom Robisheaux, Duke University
"Discussion of The Last Witch of Langenburg: Murder in a German Village"   [abstract]

Friday, November 20, 2009, 5:30pm, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Home of Meg Greer
Faculty, students, and colleagues
"Annual Fall Reception"   [abstract]