| Past Lectures and Conference:
Spring 2009
Lecture: "Augustine and the Writers of the Church: The Making of a Christian Literary Profession"
Mark Vessey, Professor of English, University of British Columbia
February 12, 2009
Prof. Vessey holds an Honorary Professorship in Later Latin Literature and Culture in the Department of Classical, Near Eastern, and Religious Studies at the University of British Columbia in addition to an appointment in the Department of English. Professor Vessey's research focuses on the Christian writers of late antiquity. Some of his writings have been collected together in Christian Latin Writers in Late Antiquity and Their Texts (Ashgate Publishing, 2005). He has also coedited an edition and translation of two of the works of Cassiodorus (Liverpool University Press, 2004) and coedited four other books, including two on Augustine (1999 and 2005) and one on Erasmus (2002). His research interests also include classical and Christian traditions in European literature; scripture(s) and literature; literary theory; and bibliography/history of books.
Lecture: "Words to be Seen and Images to be Read: Visual Literacy and the Book in pre-Conquest Britain"
Michelle P. Brown, Professor of Medieval Manuscript Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London
March 16, 2009
Michelle Brown is Tutor to the History of the Book M.A. at the University of London. She was for many years the Curator of Medieval and Illuminated Manuscripts at the British Library, where she remains as a part-time project officer. She was until recently a Lay Canon and member of Chapter at St. Paul's Cathedral.
She has curated several major exhibitions, including 'Painted Labyrinth: the World of the Lindisfarne Gospels' (British Library, 2003) and 'In the Beginning: Bibles Before the Year 1000' (Smithsonian Inst., Washington DC, 2006-7).
She has lectured, published, and broadcast widely on medieval manuscripts, history, and Christian culture, catering to a wide range of audiences. Her books include:
The Book of Cerne: Prayer, Patronage and Power in Ninth-Century England;
The Lindisfarne Gospels: Society, Spirituality and the Scribe;
The Luttrell Psalter;
The Holkham Bible Picture Book;
Manuscripts from the Anglo-Saxon Age;
A Guide to Western Historical Scripts;
Understanding Illuminated Manuscripts; and
The Lion Companion to Christian Art
Mellon Seminar: Giving Voice to the People
2008-09 Medieval Institute Mellon Fellow Susan Dudash, Assistant Professor of French and Medieval Studies, Fordham University, led a seminar
discussion of her manuscript, Giving Voice to the People: Poetic and Theological Responses to Social Class Conflict in Medieval France, 1270-1422, with a panel of three scholars:
Roberta L. Krueger, Burgess Professor of French, Hamilton College
Brian Patrick McGuire, Professor of Medieval History, Institute of History and Social Theory, Roskilde University (Denmark)
Cary J. Nederman, Professor of Political Science, Texas A&M University.
April 4, 2009
Prof. Dudash earned her Ph.D. at the University of Pittsburgh as a student of Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski. Dudash studies medieval French literature and politics; social and religious conflict; women; and the art of war. Her publications include: "Christine de Pizan and the 'menu peuple'," Speculum (2003); "Eustache Deschamps: poète et commentateur politique," in Les "Dictez vertueulx " d'Eustache Deschamps: Forme poétique et discours engagé à la fin du Moyen Age, eds. M. Lacassagne and T. Lassabatère (2005); "Christinian Politics, the Tavern, and Urban Revolt in Late Medieval France," in Healing the Body Politic: The Political Thought of Christine de Pizan, eds. K. Green and C. J. Mews (2005). She is also working on articles on the politics of commemoration in the works of Eustache Deschamps and Christine de Pizan and the vices and social class in late medieval France.
Conference: The Qurʾān in Its Historical Context
This international conference, held on April 19-21, 2009, addressed the most recent theories, controversies, and discoveries in the field of Qurʾānic Studies and offered a forum for a discussion of the historical circumstances in which the Qurʾān was formed, and of its relationship to earlier literature, notably the Bible.
The conferences featurde a general lectures by Prof. Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd of Leiden University (Holland) and a second general lecture on Monday by Prof. Robert Hoyland of the University of St. Andrews (Scotland).
Leading scholars from a wide range of countries—including Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Germany, and the United Kingdom—lead panel discussions on the following topics:
The Qurʾān: Manuscript Evidence
The Qurʾān: Historical Evidence
The Qurʾān: Historical Linguistics
The Qurʾān as Literature
The Qurʾān and Earlier Religious Tradition
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