Date/Time
Date(s) - 24 Nov 2014
4:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location
Barnard Hall
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Monday, November 24th, from 4 p.m.to 6 p.m. – Barnard 302
Thinking and Feeling:
Approaches to Philosophy and Theology in Medieval Literature
The Medieval Colloquium invites you to a round-table discussion that focuses on ways that literature does philosophical or/and theological work. Medieval literature can often be read as a site where philosophical or theological concerns are at stake. However, this talk invites an open conversation about how the ‘literary’ might be read as a participating agent in larger discussions of understanding throughout the middle ages. Can certain medieval literary modes be read as not just responding to contemporary problems of thought, but as enacting a space in which problems of thought can play-out in discretely productive ways?
There will be short presentations from Patricia Dailey (Columbia), Jesús Rodríguez-Velasco (Columbia), Brian Reilly (Fordham), Jonathan Morton (Oxford/Columbia), Aled Roberts (Columbia – Grad Student), followed by an open discussion on the issues raised.
Refreshments served.