Spring Semester 2008

Tuesday, January 29 (rescheduled from December)

Medieval Studies Graduate Colloquium
302 Schaeffer Hall
3:00-5:00 p.m.

Travis Johnson, Department of English
"Weeping Like a Widow: Breaking the Boundaries of Emotional Community in the Alliterative Morte Arthure"

Jeroen Laemers, Department of History
"Christina Mirabilis and the Scholastic Notion of Truth"

John Pendell, Department of English
"Trouble with the Neighbors: Representing Anglo-Saxon/Viking Contact in Old English Literature"

Thursday, February 14
Ludovico Geymonat, The University of Iowa, Art and Art History
"A Third Way Between Byzantine and Gothic? On a Sculpted Nativity Cycle from San Marco, Venice"
116 Art Building West
4:30-5:30 p.m.

Thursday, March 27
Benjamin Liu, University of Minnesota/University of Connecticut
"East of Iberia: Locating Asia in the Fifteenth Century"
315 Phillips Hall
4:00-5:00 p.m.

Tuesday, April 15

Medieval Studies Spring Colloquium
3315 Seamans Center
3:30-5:00 p.m.

Danya Crites, UI Art and Art History
"The Churches of Crusading Kings: Meaning in the Mudejar Religious Architecture of Post-Conquest Seville"

Denise Filios, UI Department of Spanish and Portuguese
"Legends of the Fall: History and Fiction"