Boston Area Events

Full details and links at http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~medieval/events/

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EVENTS IN AND AROUND BOSTON

Monday, April 16, 4:15 p.m.: Luis Giron Negron (Harvard University)
"'There's food in Egypt! It is floating down the river': Notes on
Judeo-Spanish Belle-lettres and the Medieval 'Coplas de Yosef.'"
Harvard University, Barker Center, Room 211, 12 Quincy Street,
Cambridge, MA. Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar.

Monday, April 16, 4:30 p.m.: Roger Wilson (University of British
Columbia) "Living it up in the Late Roman World: the Country Mansions
of the Mega-Rich." Mount Holyoke College, Gamble Auditorium, South
Hadley, MA. AIA Lecture, co-sponsored by Mt. Holyoke Classics
Department Norton Lecture. For more information contact Geoffrey Sumi
(gsumi@mtholyoke.edu).

*Wednesday, April 18, 3:30 p.m.: Maria Evangelatou (Radcliffe
Institute for Advanced Study) "Weaving Christ's Body: Clothing,
Femininity and Sexuality in the Marian Imagery of Byzantium."
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, 34 Concord Avenue, Cambridge,
MA.

Thursday, April 19, 5:00 p.m.: Anke Bernau (University of Manchester)
"A very good place to start: National Beginnings in the Albina
Legend." Harvard University, Warren House, Kates Room. English
Department Medieval Graduate Doctoral Conference.

Friday, April 20, 4:00 p.m.: Richard Taylor (Marquette University)
"Averroes' Mature Doctrine of Separate Intellects: The Function of
Insights from Themistius." Boston College, Cushing Auditorium,
Cushing 001, Chestnut Hill, MA. A buffet dinner and discussion led by
Stephen F. Brown will follow the lecture in the McElroy Faculty
Dining Room. Please RSVP to Stephen F. Brown (brownst@bc.edu,
617-552-0436) by Tuesday, April 17, if you plan to attend the dinner.

**Monday, April 23, 4:15 p.m.: Jouëlle Burnouf (Université de Paris I
Panthéon-Sorbonne). "Towns and Rivers, River Towns: Environmental
Archaeology and the Archaeological Evaluation of Medieval Urban
Activities and Trade." Harvard University, Barker Center, Room 114,
12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA. Humanities Center Medieval Studies
Seminar. A pre-circulated paper for the talk can be found on the
Humanities Center website
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~humcentr/seminars/precirculatedpapers.shtml
(password: tulip).

Monday, April 30, 4:15 p.m.: Elly Truitt (Harvard University)
"Talking Heads: Divination, Sorcery, and Speaking in Tongues."
Harvard University, Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street,
Cambridge, MA. Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar.

Thursday, June 14, 5:00 p.m.: The Orlando Consort: The Rose, the
Lily, and the Whortleberry: Medieval and Renaissance Gardens in
Music. Music inspired by the symbolic and allegorical allure of
flowers, based on their best-selling CD. Emmanuel Church, 15
Newberry Street, Boston, MA. Tickets: $22-$56 at www.bemf.org or
617-868-2363.

Friday, June 15, 8:00 p.m.: Sequentia: Edda: Viking Tales of Lust,
Revenge, and Family. A magically theatrical piece recounting one of
the earliest Norse legends of the Rheingold curse: a bloody tale of
revenge and seduction that also inspired Wagner's Ring Cycle. New
England Conservatory's Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough Street, Boston,
MA. Tickets: $22-$56 at www.bemf.org or 617-868-2363.

CONFERENCES AND CALLS FOR PAPERS

27-28 April 2007: Northeast Graduate Conference on Studies of Early
Science. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. The conference will
consist of a welcoming reception and networking dinner on Friday
evening, followed by morning and afternoon sessions for presenting
research in progress on Saturday. The ESWG will cater each day's
events, and Harvard graduate students will host those in need of
overnight accommodation. Parking will also be made available to
participants arriving by car. We welcome presentations of research by
graduate students at all levels whose research addresses ancient,
medieval, and early-modern science. In keeping with the informal
nature of the event, presentations need not consist of polished
papers; the presentation of work in progress is especially welcomed.
Attendance without presentation is also encouraged. If you would like
to attend and/or participate, please contact Tope Fadiran Charlton
(fadiran@fas.harvard.edu) by Friday, April 13, 2007. Presented by the
Early Sciences Working Group of the Department of the History of
Science at Harvard University.

27-28 April 2007: The Social Spectacle: The 28th annual Medieval and
Renaissance Forum at Plymouth State University. Sessions not
necessarily limited to the central topic. For full information, call
for papers, and registration, see http://www.plymouth.edu/medieval
and/or contact Dr. Naomi Kline, Art Department MSC 21, Plymouth State
University, Plymouth, New Hampshire 03264 or e-mail:
nkline@mail.plymouth.edu.

5 May 2007: Cambridge Colloquium in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic:
Knowledge and Power. Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College,
Cambridge. Please send queries and abstracts of no more than 300
words to Brittany Schorn (bs321@cam.ac.uk) Corpus Christi College,
Cambridge CB2 1RH. For further details and previous programmes,
please visit
http://www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/currentstudents/current-cambridge-colloquium.htm.

19 May 2007: The Sixth Annual UCSB Medieval Studies Graduate Student
Conference: "Civic Culture: Cities and Towns in the Middle Ages."
University of California, Santa Barbara, McCune Conference Room, IHC.
Plenary speaker: Edward Muir (Northwestern University). Please e-mail
abstracts to Corinne Wieben at cmwieben@umail.ucsb.edu by 1 March. If
you have any questions please contact Edward D. English
english@history.ucsb.edu or Corinne Wieben.

27-29 June 2007: Memory: The 4th Annual Symposium of the
International Medieval Society-Paris. Université Paris IV-Sorbonne,
Maison de Recherche. For details please visit www.ims-paris.org.

9-12 July 2007: Medieval Cities (special thematic strand),
International Medieval Congress, Leeds. For more information see
www.leeds.ac.uk/ims/imc.

29 July-4 August 2007: XIIth Congress of the International Courtly
Literature Society (ICLS). Geneva and Lausanne. For more information,
please visit www.unil.ch/icls2007 or contact icls2007@unil.ch.

19-21 June 2008: The Oral, The Written, and Other Verbal Media:
Interfaces and Audiences: A Conference and Festival. University of
Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. For full details, see
http://www.usask.ca/english/news/Orality%20CFP.pdf.