Date/Time
Date(s) - 1 Apr 2016
9:30 AM - 6:00 PM
Location
Segal Theatre, CUNY Graduate Center
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Please join us at the CUNY Graduate Center April 1 for the annual Interuniversity Doctoral Consortium Medieval Conference. Representatives of the Medieval Studies programs at our seven consortial campuses – Columbia, the CUNY Graduate Center, Fordham, NYU, Princeton, Rutgers, and Stony Brook – will give talks and there will be a faculty roundtable. The full program is below.
The event is free and open to the public.
Please address any questions to Steven Kruger, at [email protected]
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Interuniversity Doctoral Consortium Medieval Conference 2016
The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Avenue
Segal Theatre
April 1, 2016
9:30-10:30 Registration / Coffee
10:30-11:45 Session #1: Courts
Moderator: Brigitte Miriam Bedos-Rezak, NYU
Papers:
Danielle Bradley, History, Rutgers University: “‘Perplexus inter Christum et Caesarem’: Careerism, Court Criticism, and Sage Administrators in Twelfth-Century England”
Lee Mordechai, History, Princeton University: “From Suspects to Successors: Imperial Families and Inheritance in Eleventh-Century Byzantium”
11:45-1:00 Session #2: Encounters
Moderator: Alex Novikoff, Fordham University
Papers:
Masoud Ariankhoo, History and Asian & Asian American Studies, Stony Brook University: “Tolerance in Medieval Islam”
Jeffrey Doolittle, History, Fordham University: “Reframing the Works of Pliny in the Early Middle Ages: Montecassino and Monastic Medical Culture”
Eugene Petracca, English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University: “‘What man artow?’ Chaucer, Dante and the Prioress”
1:00-2:15 Lunch
2:15-3:30 Roundtable: “Trigger Warnings and Free Speech: The Politics of Teaching the Middle Ages”
Moderator: Steven F. Kruger, Queens College and The Graduate Center, CUNY
Participants: Sara Lipton, Stony Brook University
Andrew Romig, New York University
Jill Stevenson, Marymount Manhattan College
Jesús R. Velasco, Columbia University
3:30-4:45 Session #3: Representations
Moderator: Sara McDougall, John Jay College and The Graduate Center, CUNY
Joy Partridge, Art History, The Graduate Center, CUNY: “Picturing Order: The Mechanistics and Aesthetics of Cosmological Diagrams in the Breviari d’amor”
David Pederson, English, Fordham University: “Old English Apologetics: The Search for Epistemological Certainty in The Old English Boethius”
James C. Staples, English, New York University: “Drowning in a Flood of Meanings: The Intertextual Ambiguities of Language in Cleanness”
4:45-6:00 Reception