Duke/UNC direct bus: A new Duke/UNC direct bus, funded by the Robertson Scholars Program, departs frequently and makes traveling between the two campuses easier than ever before. See the Robertson Scholars website for the departure and arrival schedule for this bus.
September 12-18
"Creating Identity
and Empire in the Atlantic World, 1492-1888"
Interdisciplinary conference, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
For information, contact Christopher Hodgkins atlanticworld@uncg.edu
Thursday, September 30
UNC Medieval Studies Reception
4:00-7:00 p.m., Toy Lounge, Dey Hall (4th floor)
Wednesday, October 6
UNC Medieval Studies Brown bag Series
Jaroslav Folda, UNC Art History Dept.
"Eurasian Contacts: Crusade Art and the Mongols" (work in progress)
12:00 p.m., 413 Dey Hall
Wednesday, October 6
UNC Medieval Studies Film Series
Kristin Lavransdatter (1995), dir. Liv Ullman
5:30-8:00 p.m., Kresge Commons Room, 039 Graham Memorial
Free! Refreshments will be served
Thursday, October 7
UNC Renaissance Workshop
"The Gender of the Casa: Wives in the Renaissance Palace"
Stan Chojnacki, UNC History Dept.
4:30 p.m., Hamilton 569
Thursday, October 21
Duke Dept. of English lecture
Julian Yates, University of Delaware
"Stealing Shakespeare's Oranges"
4:00 p.m., McClendon Commons (undergraduate admissions annex)
For more information, contact Fiona Somerset somerset@duke.edu
Friday, October 22
Duke Center for French and Francophone Studies lecture
John Lyons, Commonwealth Professor of French, University of Virginia
"Before Imagination: Embodied Thought in Early Modern France"
4:00 p.m., John Hope Franklin Center, Room 230
Cosponsored by Duke's Dept. of Romance Studies and Center for Medieval
and Renaissance Studies
Reception following
Friday, October 22
Duke Center for Late Ancient Studies lecture
Werner Riess, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"Hunting Robbers in Third Century Central Italy: The Epigraphical
Evidence"
4:00 p.m., 220 Gray Building
Duke West Campus
Refreshments offered
Monday, October 25
UNC Medieval Studies lecture
Lynda Leigh Coon, University of Arkansas, NHC Fellow
"'What Is the Word If Not Semen'?: Priestly Bodies in Carolingian
Exegesis"
4:00 p.m., Toy Lounge, Dey Hall, 4th floor
Friday, October 29
Duke Medieval and Renaissance Studies Graduate Colloquium
Ann Marie Rasmussen,
Duke Dept. of Germanic Languages and Literatures
10:30 a.m., English Dept. Lounge, 328 Allen Bldg., West Campus
(muffins and coffee served)
Monday, November 1
Duke Medieval & Renaissance Studies/FOCUS lecture
John Gillingham, Emeritus,
London School of Economics
"After Victory: The Treatment of Prisoners of War in the Medieval
West"
5:30 p.m., Rare Book Room, Perkins Library
Followed by refreshments.
Sponsored by the Duke FOCUS Program, Dept. of History, Franklin Humanities
Institute, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Dept. of Classical
Studies.
Tuesday, November 2
Duke Medieval and Renaissance Studies Graduate Colloquium
John Gillingham, London
School of Economics
11:00 a.m., English Dept. Lounge, 328 Allen Bldg., West Campus
(muffins and coffee served)
Wednesday, November 3
UNC Medieval Studies Brown Bag Lunch Lecture
Michael McVaugh, Dept. of History, UNC
" The Latin Maimonides"
12:00 p.m., German Reading Room, 4th Floor, Dey Hall 413
Refreshments served
Thursday, November 4
UNC Renaissance Workshop
Melissa Bullard, UNC History Dept
"Medici Gem Diplomacy: How Objects Speak in Multiple Contexts"
4:30 p.m., Graham Hall 011 (near Morehead Planetarium)
Tuesday, November 9
Duke lecture
Donatella Calabi, Instituto Universitario de Architettura, Venice
"The City of the Jews: The Ghetto of Venice 1516-1860"
4:30 p.m., 107 White Lecture Hall, East Campus
Co-sponsored by the Dept. of Art & Art History, Dept. of Religion,
Judaic Studies Program, and Center for European Studies
Thursday, November 11
UNC Department of English lecture
"Mechanic Babel: Artificial Languages, the Image of the World, and
Talking about God in Seventeenth-Century England"
Rhodri Lewis, Jesus College,
Oxford
4:00 p.m., Greenlaw Hall, Donovan Lounge, 2nd floor
Thursday–Friday, November 11–12
Duke Performances Series
Actors from the London Stage
performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream
8:00 p.m., Reynolds Theater, Bryan Center, West Campus
Co-sponsored by the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Friday, November 12
Duke Late Ancient Studies lecture
Antigone Samellas, Open University, Athens
"Dead to the World: Asceticism and Its Pleasures"
4:00 p.m., 220 Gray Building, West Campus
Refreshments will be served
Saturday, November 13
Duke English Dept. Literature Out Loud
Reading of Ovid’s Art of Love
7:00 p.m. 'til ...
English Dept. Undergraduate Lounge (Allen 305), West Campus
Refreshments served
Thursday, December 2
UNC Renaissance Workshop
Andrea Marie Frisch, NHC Fellow
"From Divine Pardon to Collective Oblivion: Royal Legislation during
the French Wars of Religion"
4:30 p.m., Graham 011
Parking available in the Morehead Planetarium lot
Thursday, December 2
Duke Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Fall Reception
5:30-7:30 p.m., Faculty Commons, West Union Bldg. (2nd floor)
All Duke, UNC, NCSU faculty and students, and other affiliates are invited
to this annual catered party!