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Past Lectures and Conference: Fall 2007

Lecture: “‘Torture me, rend me, burn me, kill me!’ Female Sanctity in Anglo-Saxon England”

Rosalind Love, University Lecturer, Fellow of Robinson College, University of Cambridge

September 27, 2007

Cosponsored with the Notre Dame Chair in English.

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Lecture: "The Art of Forgetting and the Art of Recollecting in the Middle Ages"

Mary Carruthers, Erich Maria Remarque Professor of Literature, New York University

October 4, 2007

Prof. Carruthers' visit was sponsored by the graduate students of the Medieval Institute.

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The 2007 Conway Lectures: "Medieval Autographies: The 'I' of the Text"

October 11, 16, and 18

2007 Conway Lecturer: A. C. Spearing, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor, University of Virginia

"The Textual 'I': Chaucer's Prologues and French 'Dits'"
October 11, 2007

"Writing and Speech: The 'Wife of Bath's Prologue' and Free Composition"
October 16, 2007

"Autography After Chaucer: Hoccleve and Bokenham"
October 18, 2007

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Lecture: "When Masonry Speaks, Who's Listening? John de Cobham, the Rising of 1381, and Cooling Castle's Charter Poem"

Cristina Maria Cervone, Assistant Professor of English, Villanova University; 2007-2008 Mellon Fellow, University of Notre Dame

November 1, 2007

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Lecture: "What's at Stake with Alcuin?"

Michael Fox, Assistant Professor of English, University of Alberta

November 8, 2007

Cosponsored with the Department of English.

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Lecture: The Rise of the Stavanger Church (Norway), c. 10th C. - 1128

Eldbjørg Haug, Associate Professor of Medieval History, University of Bergen

November 14, 2007

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Conference: Dante and the Contemplative Tradition

The Devers Program in Dante Studies, in conjunction with the Medieval Institute, sponsored a conference on "Dante and the Contemplative Tradition" on November 7 and 15, 2007.

The concluding session was held in the Medieval Institute on November 15, 200 .

Speakers:
Vittorio Montemaggi, Junior Research Fellow, Churchill College, Cambridge University: "Contemplation and Charity in the Commedia"

Zygmunt Baranski, Serena Professor of Italian, Cambridge University, and 2007-08 Ravarino Family Distinguished Visiting Professor in Italian Studies, University of Notre Dame: "Between Laus and Vituperatio: Doctrine in Paradiso 27-29"


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