NYU MARGIN TALKS: Esther Kim and Margaret McCurry

Editor's note:

Thursday, December 5 at 6:30pm at 19 University Place, Great Room (first floor) 

 

December 05, 2019

We will hear from Esther Kim (PhD Candidate, Art History, Univ. of Toronto) and Margaret McCurry (MA Candidate, English, NYU). Esther’s talk is entitled Fifteenth-Century English Books of Hours / Fifteenth-Century, English, Books of Hours: Taxonomies of the Medieval Book. Margaret’s talk is entitled The Medium is Her Message: Ineffability in the Book of Margery Kempe.

Following this year's theme of Materiality and the Virtual, Esther’s paper will use the ‘typical’ fifteenth-century English Book of Hours--for which we tend not to have concrete information about patrons and artists--to “examine the virtual and immaterial task of filing medieval books into temporal and regional categories in the post-medieval study of materiality.” Margaret’s paper will use medieval grammatical theory and the psychoanalytic linguistics of Julia Kristeva to argue that “Margery’s cries are a form of paralanguage which are not ineffable, but rather inexpressible in the symbolic order.”

The event will begin with wine, cheese and snacks at 6:30pm and the talks will begin promptly at 6:45pm. The event will end promptly at 8:00pm. If you are able, please let us know if you will be attending using this RSVP form.