"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).

"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).

Time after Time: A Roundtable on History and Temporality

Participants: John Archer, Ross Knecht, Sarah Ostendorf, Kathryn Vomero Santos

The Early Modern Forum's final event of the year is a roundtable on history and temporality. Each participant will give a brief presentation on current work, after which the discussion will be opened up to the entire group. Topics to be discussed include dramatic translation, genealogy, Shakespeare's history plays, rhetoric, and prophecy.

Thursday, April 21st
6:30 p.m.
Great Room, 19 University Place

For more information, please email sco229 [at] nyu [dot] edu.

Time after Time: A Roundtable on History and Temporality

Participants: John Archer, Ross Knecht, Sarah Ostendorf, Cody Reis, Kathryn Vomero Santos

The Early Modern Forum's final event of the year is a roundtable on history and temporality. Each participant will give a brief presentation on current work, after which the discussion will be opened up to the entire group. Topics to be discussed include dramatic translation, genealogy (Nietzschean and otherwise), Shakespeare's history plays, rhetoric, and prophecy.

Thursday, April 21st
6:30 p.m.
Great Room, 19 University Place

We hope you'll join us. For more information, contact sco229 [at] nyu [dot] edu.

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).

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.

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).

Since our primary focus has been on developing the medieval manuscripts workshop with MARC on October 1st--the first session of which is full, but the second session is open to all interested; please just let me know if you plan to attend--this first meeting will be purely informational. However, since we would also like to make the Medieval Forum more focused on graduate work (e.g., turning papers into publishable articles, etc.), we would like you to come to the meeting with suggestions that will allow us to better cater to your needs as a burgeoning scholar. What are your interests? What would help you most right now in your progress to becoming a medieval scholar?

The Fall Schedule is as follows:

Sept. 16 - Introductory MF Meeting
Oct. 7 - MARC Lecture: Margreta de Grazia
Nov. 4 - workshop
Dec. 2 - Martin Foys, title TBA

If you have any questions, please email me at cmt358@nyu.edu or carlathomas@mac.com. Otherwise, I will see you Thursday!

Cheers!

Carla Thomas

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!

If you have questions, contact Liza Blake, elizabeth[dot]blake[at]nyu[dot]edu, Katie Vomero Santos, kathryn[dot]vomero[at]nyu[dot]edu, or Sarah Ostendorf, sco229[at]nyu[dot]edu.

January 28
CELCE Spring Kick-Off Happy Hour
The Wine Spot, 127 Macdougal Street (below The Tea Spot)
6:00 – 8:00 p.m.

February 4
Paris is Worth a Massacre: Marlowe and the Death of Ramus
(pre-circulated paper; email the organizers for a copy)
John Guillory
(NYU)
Room 222

February 25
The Poetics of Praise
Cary Howie
(Cornell)
Room 222

March 12 (Friday)
The Untimely Mammet of Verona
Gil Harris
(GWU)
Room 222

April 8
Feeling Time: Prose Aesthetics in the Cloud of Unknowing
Eleanor Johnson
(Columbia)
Room 224

April 22
Keeping Things Still in Renaissance England
Julian Yates
(Delaware)
Room 224

Please join us for our next event:

"The Sorrow of Being"
Nicola Masciandaro (CUNY)

Thursday, November 12th, 6:30 p.m.
19 University Place, room 224
(non-NYU guests, please bring photo ID to sign into the building)

From Professor Masciandaro:
Sorrow seems universally related, in one way or another, to the principle of evil or privation. Sorrows of love, of loss, of pain, of disappointment, of conscience—all are barely thinkable without reference to some problematic object, the negative thing that one sorrows over. This relation is exemplified by Augustine’s definition of sorrow as counter-volition or refusal: “cum . . . dissentimus ab eo quod nolentibus accidit, talis voluntas tristitia est” [sorrow is the will’s disagreement with something that happened against our will]. But is there a form of sorrow that remains or emerges when all possible objects of sorrow are taken away, when there is nothing to sorrow over, a sorrow of being? The idea of such sorrow, a sorrow that takes sorrow beyond its own possibility, appears at once obvious and absurd. Existence simultaneously is and is not the greatest “something that happened against our will.” A pure sorrow, a perfect sorrow, a sorrow whose meaning is infinite? In dialogue with The Cloud of Unknowing and other late-medieval mystical texts, this lecture speculates about the nature of such sorrow and its relations to facticity, actuality, work, interpretation, and ecstasy.

We will work to reschedule this event. To learn the new date and details of the event, you can join our mailing list, or check for updated information here at the CELCE blog.

Our apologies for this last-minute cancellation.

If you have questions, contact Liza Blake, elizabeth[dot]blake[at]nyu[dot]edu, Katie Vomero Santos, kathryn[dot]vomero[at]nyu[dot]edu, or Sarah Ostendorf, sco229[at]nyu[dot]edu.

September 10
CELCE Fall Kick-Off Reception
6pm
Great Room

September 17
The French Disease
Karen Newman
(NYU)
Room 224

October 8 -- POSTPONED!!
The Untimely Mammet of Verona
Gil Harris
(GWU)
Room 222

November 2 (Monday)
Renaissance Typos and Philosophies of Chance: A Colloquium
Jacques Lezra and Juliet Fleming
(NYU)
Room 224

December 3
Romance Ekphrasis: A Language of Sociability
Elizabeth Bearden
(University of Maryland)
Room 222
Co-sponsored with the Comparative Literature Department

If you have questions, contact Liza Blake, elizabeth[dot]blake[at]nyu[dot]edu, Katie Vomero Santos, kathryn[dot]vomero[at]nyu[dot]edu, or Sarah Ostendorf, sco229[at]nyu[dot]edu.

September 10
CELCE Fall Kick-Off Reception
6pm
Great Room

October 1
In the Merchant's Bedchamber
Glenn Burger
(CUNY)

November 12
The Sorrow of Being
Nicola Masciandaro
(CUNY)

November 19
Trojan Itineraries: The Fall of Troy and the Francophone Court of Robert of Anjou, King of Naples
Marilynn Desmond
(Binghamton University)
Room 222
Co-sponsored with MARC and with the NYU French Department

Monday, March 30, 7pm
Silver Center, Room 503, Department of Classics, 100 Washington Square East

Professor Trüstedt will be speaking about Carl Schmitt's essay "Hamlet or Hecuba: The Intrusion of Time in the Play." She has pre-circulated a copy of the Schmitt essay; if you would like a copy, please email us at the address(es) given below.

All are welcome!

If you have questions, contact Liza Blake, elizabeth[dot]blake[at]nyu[dot]edu, or Katie Vomero, kathryn[dot]vomero[at]nyu[dot[edu].