Columbia: Women and Society Seminar, Tiffany D. Vann Sprecher

Columbia University Women and Society Seminar invites you to the next meeting of the semester on Monday, March 21. Tiffany D. Vann Sprecher (Kingsborough Community College, CUNY) will be presenting:

“Vigilante Justice, Women, and the Church Courts in Paris, 1483-1505”.

The seminar will meet at 6:00 pm for dinner and 7:30 pm for the talk in Faculty House at Columbia University. For dinner, please RSVP to rapporteur Billur Avlar at [email protected] as soon as possible.

Please RSVP to rapporteur Billur Avlar at [email protected] as soon as possible if you plan to attend dinner.  The dinner costs $25 and should be paid for by a check made payable to Columbia University.  It is not necessary to RSVP if you will be attending only the presentation.

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Speaker Bio:

Tiffany D. Vann Sprecher is Assistant Professor of History at Kingsborough Community
College in Brooklyn, NY. She has published on medieval midwives, priests, and
extralegal enforcement of church regulations, with her most recent article appearing in the January, 2016 issue of  Speculum, Vann Sprecher is  also active in public outreach, having lectured in prisons and community educational facilities. She has also worked as a subject matter consultant in the private sector.

Discussant Bio:

Sara McDougall is Associate Professor of history at John Jay College and appointed in French at the CUNY Graduate Center, She published _Bigamy and Christian Identity in late medieval Champagne_ in 2012 with Penn Press and her second book _Royal Bastards: The birth of illegitimacy_, is under contract with Oxford. She was a Mellon fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton in 2014-2015. She has published in the Journal of the History of Sexuality, Law and History Review, and Gender & History. She is currently editing a volume on Marriage’s Global Past for Gender & History and also a 6-volume Cultural History of Crime for Bloomsbury Press.