Schedule:
9:30-10:00 Registration, Coffee and pastries, Welcome.
10:00-11:00 Session One
Carolyn Cargile, English, Fordham University, "Form and Memory in the Peterborough Anglo-Saxon Chronicle."
Silvia Gianolio, Art and Archaeology, Princeton University, "Forging the Middle Ages in early 20th century Paris: a case study."
discussant: Mohamad Ballan, Stonybrook University.
11:10-12:10 Session Two
Margaret McCurry, English, New York University. "Différance and Difference: Deconstructing Voice in the Roman de Silence."
Catherine Shepard Bloomer, Italian, Columbia University, "Banishing the Blind: Medieval Florence and Dante's Convivio."
discussant: Sarah Novacich, Rutgers University.
1:45-2:50 Session Three
Isabella Weiss, Art History, Rutgers University, “Veritas and Verdure: on the role of meadow vegetation in late medieval theories of reality and representation.”
Soojung Choe, English, CUNY Graduate Center, “Culinary Encounters and Race-Thinking in William of Rubruck and John of Plano Carpini.”
discussant: Jennifer Ball, Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, CUNY.
3:00-4:00 Roundtable on Careers with IUDC Medieval Studies Alumni
Daria Foner, Columbia, Cataloguer, Old Master Paintings, Sotheby's.
Ellis Light, Fordham, Managing Editor of Renaissance Quarterly.
Jeffrey Wayno, Columbia, Collection Services Librarian and Lecturer in History, The Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary, Columbia University Libraries.
John Jay College's New Building has entrances on W59th Street, and on 10th and 11th Avenues. It will be easiest to enter either on W59th between 10th and 11th, once you pass security turn right and go all the way down the hall to the elevators, or enter on 11th and you'll see elevators to your right and left after security, they all can get you to the 9th floor.
Please contact Sara McDougall to RSVP and gain access to the building.
