CELCE

Please join CELCE to celebrate two new books by NYU faculty.

Bryan Waterman
Republic of Intellect: The Friendly Club of New York City and the Making of American Literature

and

Martha Rust
Imaginary Worlds in Medieval Books: Exploring the Manuscript Matrix

Professors Waterman and Rust will read from their new books, with graduate student respondents Chantal Johnson and Ruth Simon.

Friday, September 28, 3:00 p.m.
NYU Languages and Literatures Building
19 University Place, Room 222

The Colloquium on Early Literature and Culture in English is pleased to announce our first graduate student conference, scheduled for Thursday and Friday, March 13 and 14, 2008. We invite papers that take interdisciplinary approaches to representations of borders (spatial, temporal, semiotic, and sensory), and the ways in which respecting or crossing them affected individuals and societies in English-speaking worlds from the medieval period up to the eighteenth century.

Some possible topics include (but are not limited to):
- Cultural exchanges within the Old World (e.g. the French in medieval England; interactions between East and West; Africa in Europe, etc.)
- Trans-Atlanticism
- Slavery and captivity
- Cultural translation
- Early print culture and the changing face of literacy
- When language fails: Visual, aural, and other extra-linguistic representations in texts
- Cultural/Systemic change and representation of transitional periods

Please send your 250-word abstract to the CELCE coordinators by November 15, 2007.

Thank you,

Lea Puljcan Juric
lpj212@nyu.edu

Ruth F. Simon
ruth.simon@nyu.edu

CELCE - CRALS - Modern Colloquium present a Mock MLA Panel

Date: Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Time: 6:00 to 8:00 pm
Location: 13-19 University Place, Room 222

Presenters:
Sara Landreth - Breaking the Laws of Motion: “Literary” Language and the Science of the Brain Sarah Nash - The Purifying Licenser: Creating the Sympathetic Reader for Dickens' Bentley's Miscellany Beth Kramer - Sensational Strategies: Fiction, Feminism and Victorian Employment Reform

Respondent: Professor Mary Poovey

Please mark your calendars and join us in providing a forum for these doctoral candidates to workshop their MLA papers.

Refreshments will be provided!

Date: Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Time: 6:00 to 8:00 pm
Location: 13-19 University Place, Room 222

Dear colleagues,

CELCE is pleased to invite you to our final event of the fall 2007 semester! Please join us in supporting the work of two of our doctoral students and a distinguished faculty, all specialists in the early modern period.

Presenters:

Kathryn Elizabeth Vomero -- “The Metamorphosis of Lucrece”

Ross M Knecht -- "Humanism, Geography, and the Racialized World Picture"

Respondent:

Professor Ernest Gilman

Let us celebrate our colleagues and the end of another exciting semester at NYU. Refreshments will be served in the holiday spirit! All welcome!

Presenter:
Cody Brooks Reis, “Monism and the rhetoric of personality: De Doctrina Christiana and Paradise Lost”
Cody works on Renaissance studies, rhetoric, and theory, and on the problem of materialism in the comparative histories of literature, science, religion, philosophy, and politics. He is a third-year PhD student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a visiting fellow at NYU for 2007-2008.

Respondent:
Professor John Guillory

Join us for great scholarship and fine refreshments!

Please join us for Crossing Borders, CELCE's first Graduate Conference, to be held Thursday and Friday, March 13 and 14, in the Great Room of 19 University Place at NYU.

The conference features five graduate student panels with papers by graduate students from around the country, and a keynote address by distinguished NYU professor Carolyn Dinshaw.

For complete conference details and a schedule of panels, please visit the conference website.

The Medieval Forum (MF) segment of CELCE and the Medieval and Renaissance Center (MARC) are proud to present our medieval manuscript workshop, “Manuscripts in the Making: from Parchment to Illumination,” which will take place Friday, October 1st, in the Great Room at 19 UP. The event will begin at 11am with a coffee reception. There will be a break from 3pm-5pm, and it will end at 7:30pm. We plan on going to dinner at 8pm, location TBA.

We have three special guest speakers: Karen Gorst, a professional scribe in New York City; Elaine Treharne, Professor of English at Florida State University; and Richard Emmerson, Dean of the School of Arts and Professor of English and Art History at Manhattan College. Our very own Martha Rust will speak with Elaine about parchment making at the beginning of the workshop.

An email will be sent out in a week with more details, and you can expect to see flyers around the English building soon. Since space is limited and a head-count is necessary in order for us to supply materials for a hands-on activity, please email Carla Thomas (cmt358@nyu.edu) to register by September 24th.

If you have any questions or comments, please email Carla Thomas (cmt358@nyu.edu) or Martha Rust (martha.rust@nyu.edu). However, to register, please just email Carla.

Cheers!

The Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium presents:

Peter Dendle (Pennsylvania State University)
"The Old English Life of St. Malchus: Desert Creatures and Spiritual Primitivism"
October 27, 6:30pm
New York University
19 University Place Great Room
co-sponsored by the Medieval Forum

Two short tales of the Desert Fathers, along with Saint Jerome's complete "Life of Malchus the Captive," appear in Old English as a cluster in a unique manuscript (MS Cotton Otho C.i, volume 2). These tales contain lively scenes with demons, seductresses, ravenous lions, and daring escapes, alongside philosophical musings and quiet meditations. Aside from being inherently fascinating stories, these texts provide compelling glimpses into late Anglo-Saxon responses to monasticism and spirituality. The talk will unpack some of the recurring anxieties and narrative trajectories of this brief series of texts, drawing special attention to some of the changes in meaning that have been introduced in the Old English version from the Latin originals.

Readings will be circulated prior to the event. Contact Mo Pareles (pareles@nyu.edu).

The Medieval Forum at New York University Presents:

Martin Foys, Drew University
"The Ringing in My Ears: Towards the Auditory Culture of Early Medieval England"

December 2, 2010, 6:30-8:00pm
100 Washington Square East
Silver Center, Room 301

Foys will discuss some of his early work regarding sound in Anglo-Saxon England, which is packed inside a critique of the visualist heuristic that drives most of the ways we study the medieval past.

Martin Foys is an Associate Professor of English at Drew University, in Madison, NJ. He's the author of The Digital Edition of the Bayeux Tapestry (2003), and Virtually Anglo-Saxon: Old Media, New Media, and Early Medieval Studies in the Late Age of Print (2007). More recently, he's co-edited The Bayeux Tapestry: New Interpretations (2009) and is continuing work on the NEH- and Mellon-funded Digital Mappaemundi project. Next goals include actually writing a long essay on the twelfth-century afterlife of King Harold Godwinson, and gathering momentum for a book on the nature of media in Anglo-Saxon England. Martin also likes roller derby and is a class 3 certified Women's Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA) referee.

Wine and Cheese Reception to Follow

For more information, please contact Carla Thomas (cmt358@nyu.edu) or Angie Bennett Segler (angela.segler@gmail.com). Co-sponsored by NYU's Medieval and Renaissance Center.

Spring Schedule for Medieval Forum Events:

Kathryn Smith (New York University)
"Literalism, Metaphor, and the Imitation of Christ in the Fourteenth Century: The Monk Who Crucified Himself"
Open to All
Wednesday, March 30th
6:30-8:00pm, 19 University Pl, Great Room

Dissertation Proposal Workshop
Receiving Proposals to Workshop from Post-Examinees
Limited to Doctoral Students Only
Friday, April 15th
1:00-3:00pm, 19 UP, Great Room

Graduate Student Happy Hour with Jocelyn Wogan-Browne (Fordham University)
'What should we do about multilingual medieval England, and will you be teaching it in your career?': An Informal Discussion
Open to All
Tuesday, April 26th
6:30-8:30pm, 19 UP, Room 222

Also of note: The Medieval Forum will co-sponsor an ASSC talk sometime in the semester, but the plans are still in the making. Please stay tuned!

All Medieval Forum events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted, such as the Proposal Workshop above. If you have any questions or concerns, please email Carla Thomas (cmt358@nyu.edu) or Angie Segler (angela.segler@gmail.com).

The Medieval Forum and Medieval and Renaissance Center at New York University Present the Second Annual Manuscript Workshop

"Illumination and Iconography in Medieval Manuscripts"

With Guest Speakers

Jonathan Alexander, Art History, IFA-NYU
Karen Gorst, professional scribe, NYC
Karen Overbey, Art History, Tufts University
Kathryn Smith, Art History, NYU

September 23, 2011
19 University Place
Great Room, 9:00-2:00pm
Room 222, 2:00-4:30pm

Coffee Reception

Due to space, there will be a mandatory registration for the morning hands-on portion of the workshop. The afternoon session with the guest speakers is open and free to the public. If you have any questions or would like to register, please contact Carla Thomas (cmt358@nyu.edu).

Medieval Forum Presents:

"Reading in and out of Time": a discussion with Carolyn Dinshaw & Amy Hollywood

Thursday, October 27
6:45 pm
The Silver Center, Room 207

New York University

Accompanied by a Wine and Cheese reception

All Medieval Forum events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted. For more information, please contact Angela Bennett Segler (angela.segler@gmail.com) or Carla Thomas (cmt358@nyu.edu).