10-11:30: Interpretation
Yakov Reuven Ellenbogen, History, Columbia University
To Die a Good Jew: Madness and Conversion in Late Medieval Northern Europe
Cortney Berg, Art History, The City University of New York Graduate Center
The Morality of the Gawain Manuscript: Deviations Between Reading Text and Image
Dario Lucero, Comparative Literature, New York University
“A little gothic castle”: Authenticity, Imitation, and Anachronism at Strawberry Hill House
11:30-12:30: Pop-up exhibit of manuscripts in Columbia’s collections
Curated by Stephanie Reitzig (History, Columbia University)
Chang Room, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 6th Floor, Butler Library
1:30-3:00: Contemplation
Alice Grissom, English, Rutgers
Preparing for Death in the Old English Fortunes of Mortals
Joseph Romano, English and Comparative Literature, Columbia
A Middle English Polemic on Contemplation: Critique of the Cloud of Unknowing in Walter Hilton’s Scale of Perfection
Elissa Johnston, English, Fordham University
Tomb, Text, and Time: Locating Richard Rolle’s English Psalter at Hampole Priory
3:30-4:30: Reception
Chiara Battisti, Classics, Princeton University
Classical Erudition and Liminality in the Medieval Greek Culture from Sicily and the Land of Otranto
Hannah Waterman, Music, Stony Brook University
The Early Modern Afterlife of Musica Humana: Sonic Circulation in Robert Fludd’s Meta-Physiology
