MBS Events
Spring 2013
POSTPONED to Fall 2013: MBS Workshop: Very Dead Languages: Linear B, Etruscan, and Friends.
Directed by Dr. Sarah Brown Ferrario (CUA, Dept. of Greek and Latin) and CUA faculty.
7th Annual Graduate Student Conference on Medieval Studies: "Medieval Bodies".
Keynote lecture: Prof. Lawrence R. Poos (CUA, Dean of Arts & Sciences and Professor of History),
"The Population of Europe 1300-1600: A Big-Picture View, and Some New Data for Life Expectancy."
Thursday, April 18, 2013, 5:15 pm.
Caldwell Hall, 100 Happel Room
Conference sessions: April 19, 2013.
Followed by the annual Medieval Banquet.
Pryzbyla Center, Great Room C
Medieval Day 2012: A public celebration of all things medieval.
Organized by CUA's Medieval Society.
Saturday, April 20, 2013.
2 Day Event with Professor Christopher Schabel
Public Lecture: Prof. Christopher Schabel (University of Cyprus, Professor of Medieval History, and Senior Visiting Fellow of the Onassis Foundation, USA University Seminars Program),
"The Greek Church of Cyprus under Latin Rule, 1191-1474."
Tuesday, April 23, 2013, 5:10pm
Pryzbyla Center, Room 351
Lunchtime Seminar: Prof. Christopher Schabel (University of Cyprus, Professor of Medieval History, and Senior Visiting Fellow of the Onassis Foundation, USA University Seminars Program),
"Honorius III and Frankish Greece: the Papal Correspondence."
Wednesday, April 24, 2013 1:00-4:00 p.m.
McMahon Hall, Room 300
~ Please RSVP in advance for both events to Lastrapes@cua.edu, by April 17, 2013 ~
Fall 2012
New Graduate Student Orientation
Thursday, August 23, 2012, 2:00 pm, McMahon 300.
Student Info Meeting (and ice cream social)
Wednesday, September 12, 2012, 12:00-1:00 pm, McMahon 300.
Come and meet our director and advisors, help plan events and activities for 2012-13, find out about the Medieval Society, a student group for both undergraduate and graduate students interested in the Middle Ages, and learn about the MBS major, minor, and our graduate programs. All students interested in the Middle Ages are welcome.
Wednesday, September 12, 2012, 12:00-1:00 pm, McMahon 300.
Come and meet our director and advisors, help plan events and activities for 2012-13, find out about the Medieval Society, a student group for both undergraduate and graduate students interested in the Middle Ages, and learn about the MBS major, minor, and our graduate programs. All students interested in the Middle Ages are welcome.
MBS & ECS Opening Reception
Thursday, September 13, 2012, 6:30-8:00 pm, McMahon 300,
Thursday, September 13, 2012, 6:30-8:00 pm, McMahon 300,
following Prof. Philip Rousseau's Annual Mellon Lecture on
"Redefining the Ascetic in the Late Roman World" at 5:15 pm in the Happel Room (100 Caldwell Hall).
Faculty and students (graduate and undergraduate, majors and minors) of MBS and ECS are cordially invited to join us for our annual reception in honor of our new students, faculty, and the new academic year.
MBS Workshop: Runes and Runic Inscriptions
directed by Dr. Gaby Waxenberger (Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany, Dept. of English and Project RuneS).
Saturday, September 22, 10:00 am-5:00 pm, 321 Pryzbyla Center.
Registration required (email Dr. Kopár at kopar@cua.edu), seating limited to 20 participants. Suggested donation to cover course materials and pizza lunch: $10. Open to students, faculty, and staff. Non-CUA participants are welcome.
Dr. Gaby Waxenberger (Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany, Dept. of English and Project RuneS),
"Named Celebrities and Unnamed Masses: Text and Image on the Franks Casket."
Tuesday, September 25, 2012, 5:15 pm, Happel Room (100 Caldwell Hall).
Medieval Society & Orientation Extended event:
Tour of the Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in America,
led by Dr. Jennifer Paxton (CUA, Dept. of History and Undergraduate Advisor of MBS).
Saturday, September 29, 2012, 2:00 pm. Meet at the steps of Mullen Library.
The Franciscan Monastery contains a replica of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and it is a site of pilgrimage for all those who would like to visit the Holy Land but cannot travel there in person. The monastery is also the home of many important holy relics. Dr. Paxton will meet participants on the steps of Mullen Library at 2 pm, and then the group will walk as pilgrims to the monastery and take a guided tour of the church and the monastery gardens. On the way to the monastery, Dr. Paxton will give a very brief introduction to the crusades and the history of the Franciscans and their relationship to the Holy Places.
Fr. Timothy Bellamah, OP (Dominican House of Studies),
"Quod credimus debemus auctoritati. Perspectives on Authority in the Works of a Few Late Medieval Biblical Commentators."
Wednesday, October 17, 2012, 5:15 pm, Happel Room (Caldwell Hall 100).
Dr. Larissa Kat Tracy (Longwood University, Dept. of English),
"Brutalized Bodies: The Forms and Frequency of Medieval Punishment."
Tuesday, November 13, 2012, 5:30 pm, Happel Room (100 Caldwell Hall).
Highlights of 2011-12
Lectures, Workshops, and Seminars on Cross-Cultural Encounters:
Prof. Michelle P. Brown (University of London),
“From Eastern Deserts to Western Isles: A review of early medieval cultural relations between Britain, Ireland and the Near East.”
Wednesday, October 19, 2011.
Roundtable discussion with Prof. Brown and members of the CUA faculty.
Thursday, October 20, 2011.
Prof. Jan M. Ziolkowski (Harvard University/Dumbarton Oaks),
"West Meets East: Medievals Latinizing in Asia."
Wednesday, November 9, 2011.
Prof. John Tolan (University of Nantes),
“Saint Francis and the Sultan.”
Monday, November 28, 2011.
Seminar with Prof. Tolan on religious minorities in the Middle Ages and the RELMIN Project.
Monday, November 28, 2011.
Prof. Patrick Geary (UCLA),
"Keeping Sacred Scripture Hidden: Vernacular Language and Power from the Ninth to the Eleventh Centuries."
Wednesday, November 30, 2011.
Prof. Nancy L. Wicker (University of Mississippi, Dept. of Art),
"Negotiating between the Mediterranean and Scandinavian Worlds: Gold Bracteates in the Early Medieval Period."
Thursday, February 2, 2012.
MBS Seminars:
Dr. Chet Van Duzer (John Carter Brown Library, Providence, RI/Kislak Fellow, Library of Congress),
"Monsters in the North; Sea Monsters on Maps."
Monday, February 13, 2012.
Dr. Joshua A. Westgard (UCLA),
"The Art of Manuscript Description in the Digital Age: The Case of The Virtual Libraries of Reichenau and St. Gall Project."
Friday, March 30, 2012.
Friday, February 17 and Saturday, February 18, 2012.
Aquinas Hall Library.
Joan of Arc's 600th Birthday Party
Celebrated by a lecture by Prof. Nora Heimann (CUA, Art Dept.),
"Still Young at 600: Joan of Arc Across the Millennium."
Tuesday, April 17, 2012.
6th Annual Graduate Student Conference on Medieval Studies:
"Cross-Cultural Encounters in the Middle Ages".
Keynote lecture:
Prof. Thérèse-Anne Druart (CUA, School of Philosophy),
"Moses and the Magicians: Prophecy or Magic? Or, al-Ghazali on Certitude."
Thursday, April 19, 2012.
Conference sessions and Medieval Banquet: Friday, April 20, 2012.
For more information see here.
Medieval Day: A public celebration of all things medieval.
Organized by CUA's Medieval Society.
Saturday, April 21.
Highlights of 2010-11
MBS Lecture Series
Professor Jeffrey Hamburger (Harvard University),
"The Hand of God and the Hand of the Scribe: Craft and Collaboration at Arnstein Abbey."
Monday, September 20, 2010.
Professor Joshua Benson (The Catholic University of America),
"Fons sapientiae verbum Dei in excelsis: John Pecham's Lost Inaugural Lecture at Paris?"
Wednesday, October 20, 2010.
Professor Tia Kolbaba (Rutgers University),
"Other Partings of the Ways: Christian Separation from Judaism and its Lessons for Later Church Schism." (Co-sponsored with Early Christian Studies)
Thursday, November 11, 2010.
Dr. Dimiter Angelov (University of Birmingham/Dumbarton Oaks),
"The Byzantine Hellene: Theodore II Laskaris and the Transformation of Byzantine Culture in Exile."
Wednesday, April 6, 2011.
Prof. Daniel L. Smail (Harvard University)
"Deep History. What's in it for Medievalists?"
Thursday, April 14, 2011.
MBS Workshops
Professor Henrik Williams (Uppsala University, Sweden)
"From Thor to Christ on Viking Runestones (Or Is it That Simple?)"
Wednesday, September 22, 2010.
Old English Crash Course
directed by Prof. Lilla Kopár (CUA, Dept. of English/MBS)
Saturday, January 22, 2011.
5th Annual Graduate Student Conference on Medieval Studies (& Medieval Banquet)
Friday, April 15, 2011.
Last reviewed: April 13, 2013
