Session 1 10:00-11:30
Moderator: Diane Shane Fruchtman (Rutgers, Religion)
Bonnie Soper (Stony Brook, History), "Radicals, Operatives, and Sacrificial Lambs: Characterizations of Covenanter and Jacobite Women in Early Modern Scotland"
Joshua Blachorsky (NYU, Hebrew and Judaic Studies), “The Curious Case of Rabbi Eliezer ben Hyracanus: Rethinking Jewish/Christian Difference in the Early Medieval Middle East”
John Glasenapp (Columbia, Music) “The Long View of Chant and Liturgy in the Beaupré Antiphoner (Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, W. 759-762)"
Session 2 1:00-2:30
Moderator: Christopher Baswell (Barnard, English)
Maria Teresa De Luca (Rutgers, Italian), “Can a Language be Virtuous? Dante and the Limits of Language(s) in the Convivio”
Sara Rychtarik (CUNY Graduate Center, French), "Women Jousters: The Evolution of the Tournoiement des Dames Genre in Medieval French Literature"
Jeff Doolittle (Fordham, History), “Incipiamus a capite: Arranging the Body in Early Medieval Medical Recipe Collections”
Faculty Roundtable 3:00
“Remote Communities,” moderated by Danielle Allor (Rutgers, English)
Mohamad Ballan (Stony Brook, History); Susan Boynton (Columbia, Music); Jessey Choo (Rutgers, Chinese History and Religion); Sara Lipton (Stony Brook, History); Thomas O’Donnell (Fordham; English and Comparative Literature) Tamara Sears (Rutgers, Art History); D. Vance Smith (Princeton, English)
