Past Lectures and Conference: Fall 2006

Lecture: "Is Latin Really Dead? Why the Academy and the Church Should Preserve the Latin Language"

Rev. Reginald Foster, O.C.D. Latin Letters section, Secretariat of State, the Vatican

August 24, 2006

Cosponsored with the Law School and the Departments of Theology, Philosophy, and Classics

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The 2006 Conway Lectures: "Our Lady: the Apse and the Icon," September 21, 26, 28

2006 Conway Lecturer: Beat Brenk, Distinguished Professor of Early Christian and Medieval Archeology, University of Rome 'La Sapienza'

"The Imagery of the Apse"
September 21, 2006

"Veneration and Adoration of Images"
September 26, 2006

"The Private Origin of the Icon"
September 28, 2006

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Lecture: "Latin Culture in Practice in Adomnán's 'Life of Columba' and the 'Voyage of Brendan'"

Maura Lafferty, Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

September 29, 2006

Cosponsored with the Department of Classics.

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Lecture: "The Wounded Body in Late Sixth-Century Hagiography"

Giselle de Nie, Emeritus Professor, University of Utrecht

October 5, 2006

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Workshop: "Dynamic Patterns in Imagery and Images"
Saturday, October 14

Catherine Conybeare, Bryn Mawr College, "Call and Response: Patterns of Language in Augustine's Confessions"

Giselle de Nie (workshop organizer) "Imaging Miracles in Early Fifth-Century North Africa"

Eugene Vance, University of Washington, "Movement and Participation, Sant' Apollinare Nuovo"

Thomas Noble, University of Notre Dame, "What Did Maura See, or Do, or Believe? Reflections on a Passage in Prudentius of Troyes"

Charles Barber, University of Notre Dame, "Movement and Miracle in Michael Psellos's Account of the Blachernae Icon of the Theotokos"

Bernard McGinn, University of Chicago, "Joachim of Fiore's Figurae and the Pedagogy of Apocalypticism"

Karl Morrison, Rutgers University, "Moving Pictures: (1) Dante and Botticelli (Purgatorio 10.12.28-33), and (2) the Millenial Celebration of St. Romuald's Martyrdom (Malines 1775)"

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Conference: "European Transformations: 950-1200" October 26-28

More than 20 leading scholars of the 12th Century addressed the current state of research on the topic and offered perspectives on the major issues: cultural identity, geographic differences, administrative continuities and differences, theological and philosophical innovations.

Thursday, October 26

Thomas F. X. Noble (conference organizer), Welcoming Remarks
John Gillingham, “The Kingdom of England between the French and the Celts”
Dominique Barthelemy, “The Origins of French Chivalry”
Maureen Miller, “Legitimating Public Authorities: Italy 1059-1183”
Adam Kosto, “Iberia, and Iberia in Europe, 1000–1200 (Two Histories)”
Hanna Vollrath, “Dramatic Events in Medieval German History: The Perception of the Neighbours”
Piotr Gorecki, “Ambiguous Beginnings: East Central Europe in the Making, 900-1215”
Sverre Bagge, “The Europeanization of Europe:  the Case of Scandinavia”

October 27

Olivia Remie Constable, “Muslims and Christians in the Long Twelfth Century”
Brigitte Bedos-Rezak, “Semiotic Anthropology: The Twelfth-Century Approach”
Anders Winroth, “The Legal Revolution of the Twelfth Century”
Anna Sapir Abulafia, “Continuity and Change in Twelfth-Century Christian-Jewish Relations”
John Van Engen, ““Reading, Reform, and Revolt in a World of Custom”
Paul Freedman, “Peasants and the Seigneurial Regime in the Twelfth Century”
David Nicholas, “Lords, Markets, and Communities: The Urban Revolution of the Twelfth Century”

October 28

Rachel Fulton, “Making God: Theology as a Practical Art in Century Liturgy and Devotion”
C. Stephen Jaeger, “John of Salisbury and the Schools”
John Marenbon, “Philosophy and Theology in the Twelfth Century”
Barbara Newman, “Liminalities: Literate Women in the Long Twelfth Century”

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Lecture: "In the Wake of the Rasulids: The 18th-Century Almanac of Yusuf al-Mahalli in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana Collection"

Daniel Varisco, Professor of Anthropology, Hofstra University

November 9, 2006

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Lecture: "Juggling the Middle Ages: The Reception of 'Our Lady's Tumbler' and 'Le Jongleur de Notre-Dame'"

Jan Ziolkowski, Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Medieval Latin, Harvard University

November 30, 2006

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