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.
Wednesday, January 26
UNC Medieval Studies Brown Bag Lunch Lecture
Dorothy Verkerk, Dept. of Art, UNC
"Tattoos and Rings: The Transatlantic Appropriation of the Irish
Cross"
12:00 p.m., German Reading Room (4th floor, Dey Hall)
Friday, January 28
Deadline for proposals
North Carolina Colloquium in Medieval and Renaissance Studies
"Life and Liveness in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance"
A Duke/UNC Graduate Student Conference
Duke University
See the call for papers
Saturday, January 29
Duke English Dept. Literature Out Loud Series
Edmund Spenser’s The
Faerie Queene
7:00 p.m. until ..., Allen 305, West Campus
Thursday, February 3
UNC Renaissance Workshop
Jessica Wolfe, UNC
"Homer and the Problem of Strife in the Renaissance"
5:00 p.m., Graham 011, UNC
(near the Morehead Planetarium and Franklin Street)
Thursday, February 3
UNC Medieval History Asst. Prof. candidate lecture
Jay Rubenstein, University of New Mexico
"1095-1149: What Makes a Man Want to Go on a Crusade?"
3:30 p.m., Hamilton 569
Monday, February 7
Duke Art History Lecture
Kenneth Baxter Wolf, Pomona College
"Evangelical Poverty in a Female Form: The Cases of Clare and Elizabeth"
5:00 p.m., 108 East Duke Building, East Campus
Thursday, February 10
UNC Medieval History Asst. Prof. candidate lecture
Brett Whalen, Stanford University
"Christendom Divided and Restored: The Latin and Greek Churches in
the Apocalyptic Imagination of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries"
3:30 p.m., Hamilton 569
Monday, February 14
Duke Dept. of Romance Studies lecture
Martin Eisner, Columbia University
"Incarnations of Dante's Vita Nuova"
7:15 p.m., Languages Building 305, West Campus
Thursday, February 17
UNC Medieval History Asst. Prof. candidate lecture - CANCELLED
Katherine Smith, New York University
"Memory, Authority, and Monastic Identity in the Eleventh Century"
3:30 p.m., Hamilton 569
Friday–Saturday, February 18–19
North Carolina Colloquium in Medieval and Renaissance Studies
"Life and Liveness in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance"
A Duke/UNC Graduate Student Conference
Duke University
See the complete program in PDF format.
Tuesday, February 22
Duke Dept. of Romance Studies lecture
Susanna Barsella, Georgetown
University
"In the Light of Angeles: Dante's Angelology and the Role of Beatrice
in the Divine Comedy"
5:15 p.m., Languages Building, Room 305, West Campus
Friday, February 25
Duke Music Dept. Lecture Series
Linda Austern, Northwestern
University
"'Teach Me to Heare Mermaides Singinge': Embodiments of (Acoustic)
Pleasure and Danger in the Early Modern and Modern West"
4:00 p.m., Room 101, Mary Duke Biddle Music Building, East Campus
Co-sponsored by the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and Women's
Studies
Friday, February 25
Duke Late Ancient Studies lecture
Andrew Jacobs, University of California, Riverside
"Heresy, Theology, and the Divine Circumcision in Early Christianity"
4:00 p.m., Alumni Memorial Common Room, Divinity School
Refreshments served
Friday–Saturday, February 25–26
Duke Art History Graduate Symposium
with Christopher Wood, Yale
University
Monday, February 28
UNC Art Dept. lecture
John Lowden,
Courtauld Institute, London
"A Gift from King Louis IX of France to King Alfonso X of Castile
and Leon: The Moralized Bible in Toledo Cathedral"
5:00 p.m., Hanes Art Center Auditorium, Room 121
Tuesday, March 1
UNC Art Dept. Graduate
Seminar
John Lowden,
Courtauld Institute, London
Seminar on manuscript studies
12:00-3:00 p.m., Wilson Library, UNC
RSVP requested to Evan Gatti egatti@email.unc.edu
Wednesday, March 2
UNC Medieval Studies Brown Bag Lunch Lecture
Joseph Wittig, Dept. of English, UNC
12:00 p.m., German Reading Room (4th floor, Dey Hall, 413)
"Deconstructing Remi and Constructing Boethius: Glossing the
Consolation in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries"
Thursday, March 3
Duke Performances Series
Shenandoah Shakespeare
performance of Oliver Goldsmith's She
Stoops to Conquer
8:00 p.m., Nelson Music Room, East Duke Building, East Campus
Co-sponsored by the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
$20 general public, $5 students
Thursday, March 3
UNC Renaissance Workshop
Deborah Harkness, University of Southern California
"Edward Barlow’s Books: Collecting and Circulating Scientific,
Medical, and Technical Books in Elizabethan London"
4:30 p.m., Graham 011, UNC
Thursday, March 3
Medieval and Renaissance Studies lecture and Franklin Center "Risky
Knowledge" lecture series
Anne Hudson, Oxford University
"On the Lectern or under the Floorboards: Lollard Techniques for
Handling Risky Knowledge"
4:30 p.m., Old Trinity Room, West Union Building, West Campus
Cosponsored by the Depts. of English, Religion, and History
Friday, March 4
Medieval and Renaissance
Studies Graduate Colloquium
Anne Hudson, Oxford University
"On the difficulties of working with manuscripts of texts that were
repeatedly revised"
12:00 p.m., 328 Allen Bldg., West Campus
Lunch provided
Friday, March 4
Duke Literature Program Lecture Series
Hayden
White, University of California at Santa Cruz
"Historicality and Modernity"
3:00 p.m., Upper East Side, Union Building, East Campus
Co-sponsored by the Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, Classical
Studies, History, Germanic Languages & Literature, Terry Sanford Institute
of Public Policy
Friday, March 4
Duke German Studies Lecture Series
James Schultz, UCLA
"Parzival, the Love of Courtliness, and the History of Sexuality"
4:30 p.m., Old Chemistry 119, West Campus
Co-sponsored by Medieval and Renaissance Studies and the Medieval and
Early Modern German Studies Symposium
Saturday, March 5
Medieval & Renaissance
Studies Graduate Colloquium
James Schultz, UCLA
"Love without Desire in Mären of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth
Centuries"
10:30 a.m., 229 Carr Bldg., East Campus
Co-sponsored by the Dept. of Germanic Studies and the Medieval and Early
Modern German Studies Symposium
For a copy of the workshop paper or for further information contact Ann
Marie Rasmussen amras@duke.edu
Monday, March 7
Duke Art & Art History Lecture
Mark Rosen, University of California at Berkeley
"The Painted Map in the Age of Print and the Era of Exploration"
4:00 p.m., 108 East Duke Building, East Campus
Tuesday, March 8
UNC Medieval Studies Spring Film Series
The Passion
of Joan of Arc, dir. Carl Dreyer 7:00 p.m., Greenlaw Hall 101
Free and open to the public
Wednesday, March 9
UNC Medieval Studies Spring Lecture
Jonathan J. G. Alexander, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Samuel H. Kress Professor, Center for the Advanced Study in the Visual
Arts, National Gallery of Art
"Book Illuminators and Their Patrons in Renaissance Italy"
5:00 p.m., Hanes Art Center, Room 121, UNC
Thursday, March 24
Duke Center for Late Ancient Studies symposium
"Issues of Sexuality in Late Antiquity"
Mary Lou Williams Center, JAH Room, West Union Building
Refreshments served
Thursday, March 24
Duke Dept. of Art & Art History lecture
Allice Jarrard, Harvard University
"The Age of Theaters and the Ends of Marvel"
5:00 p.m., 108 East Duke Building, East Campus
Reception to Follow in Room 107
Friday, March 25
Medieval & Renaissance
Studies Graduate Colloquium
Michael Cornett, Journal
of Medieval and Early Modern Studies
"Nuts and Bolts of Publishing in Journals"
10:30 a.m., English Dept. lounge, Allen 328
Wednesday, March 30
UNC Medieval Studies Spring Film Series
King Arthur
7:00 p.m., Greenlaw Hall 101
Free and open to the public
Friday, April 1
Medieval and Renaissance
Studies Graduate Colloquium - POSTPONED UNTIL FALL
Irene Silverblatt, Duke Dept. of Cultural Anthropology
Discussion of new book Modern Inquisitions: Peru and the Colonial
Origins of the Civilized World
10:30 a.m., English Dept. lounge, Allen 328
Saturday, April 2
Literature Out Loud
Series
Beowulf, Seamus Heaney translation
7:00-11:00 p.m., English Undergraduate Lounge, Allen 305
Free food and good fellowship!
Thursday–Sunday, April 7–10
Fourth Frühe Neuzeit Interdisziplinär International Conference
“Orthodoxies and Diversities in Early Modern German-Speaking Europe”
Duke University
For more information, contact Tom Robisheaux
Saturday, April 9
Duke Collegium Musicum
Kerry McCarthy, director
Works by Guillaume Dufay and Josquin des Prez
8:00 p.m., Duke Chapel Free
Sunday, April 10
Duke Performances Series
Trio Mediaeval
14th-century medieval English motets and Norwegian ballads and songs
5:00 p.m., Duke Chapel
Co-sponsored by the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
$20 general public, $5 Duke students
Wednesday, April 13
UNC Medieval Studies Spring Film Series
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
7:30 p.m., Greenlaw Hall 101
Free and open to the public
Thursday, April 14
UNC Renaissance Workshop
Nelson Minnich, Catholic University of America, NHC Fellow
"The Decree Inter multiplices of Lateran V on the Liceity
of the Montes Pietatis"
4:30 p.m., Saunders Hall 125, UNC
Sunday, April 24
Duke Vespers Ensemble
Josquin's Missa Pange Lingua
Allan Friedman, director
6:00 p.m., Duke Chapel
Free
Thursday, May 5
UNC Renaissance Workshop