Purdue University College of Liberal Arts

Information for

MARS Mondays

Spring 2008
(All sessions 12:30-1:20 in BRNG 1284)
  • February 4, Professor Michael A. Ryan (Department of History) will be presenting "Pilgrimage and Power: The Restriction of Mudejares' Movement in the Kingdom of Valencia."
  • February 25, Professor Paul W. White (Department of English) will offer us "Plague, Pageantry, and Nashe's Summer's Last Will and Testament."
  • March 24, Department of History doctoral students Joshua Flanery and Angela Catalina Ghionea will present, respectively, "A Shepherd for the Poor: The Rhetoric of Carolingian Poverty," and "Contributions to Voynich Manuscript's Mystery."
  • April 14, Professor Ana Gomez-Bravo (Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures) will offer "Wandering Poems, Material Support, and the Making of Early Modern Textuality."

Fall 2007
  • October 1:  Dr. Jay Gates (Post-doc in the Department of English) will be offering his paper, "Ealles Englalandes Cyningc: Cnut’s Definition of His Territorial Rule Over England"
  • October 22: Assistant Professor Samuel McCormick (Department of Communications) will present "The Rhetoric of Exemplarity: Virtue and Intemperance in Christine de Pizan's Épistre à la Reine de France"
  • November 12: Professor Allen Wood (Professor of French in Foreign Languages and Literature) will offer the Purdue community his paper "Rabelais and Comic Birth ".
  • November 19: Charles Ross (Professor in the Department of English) rounds out the MARS Monday Series for Fall with his paper, "Raleigh's Estate at Sherborne".

Spring 2007

  • March 26: Ann Astell (Department of English), "The Eucharist as Judge in the Trial of Joan of Arc"
  • April 2: Shaun F.D. Hughes (Department of English), "The Evolution of Monster Fights: From Beowulf versus Gendel to Jon Guomundsson loeroi versus the Snaefjalladraugur
  • April 9: James Farr (Department of History), "The Meanings of Work in Early Modern France"
  • April 16: Paula Leverage (Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures), "Love in a Tub? Sex Changes and the Divine in a chanson de geste"
  • April 23: Amy Bosworth (Department of History), "Puella, presbyter et princeps: The People of the Carolingian World as Seen through Heiric of Auxerre's Miracula Sancti Germani," and Joshua Flanery (Department of History), "To the Least of My Brothers: The Evolution of Carolingian Social Justice in the Royal and Episcopal Capitularies"

Fall 2006

  • October 16: Charles Ross (Department of English) "Medieval Logic and Renaissance Literature: The Marginalia of C.S. Lewis; or, Ariosto and Apologetics"
  • October 30: Howard Mancing (Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures) "Cervantes' Narrative Experiment: Don Quixote"

Spring 2006

  • February 13: Professor Jean-Pierre V.M. Hérubel (Library Science) "Disciplinarities and Subject Dispersions in Medieval Studies: A Bibliometric Exploration".
  • March 6: Professor Yonsoo Kim (Foreign Langauges and Literatures) "The Passion of Sor Teresa: Transgressing Religious and Gender Boundaries".
  • April 3: Amy Bosworth (History) "In Search of Saint Germnaus: The Topography of Sainthood in Heiric of Auxerre's Miracula Sancti Germani"; Joshua Flanery (History) "Blessed are the Poor: Carolingian Exegetical Perspectives on Social Responsibility and Justice."
  • April 17: Professor Michael Ryan (History) "Reckoning the Great Schism from Outside Christendom: The Astrological Prophecy of Anselm Turmeda."

Fall 2005

  • October 3: Professor Paul Whitfield White (English) "From Corpus Christi to 'Club Law': Tudor Cambridge's Town/Gown Conflict and the Ends of Festive Culture".
  • October 17: Professor Paula Leverage (Foreign Languages and Literatures) "Macrobean Dreams in Girart de Roussillon".
  • November 7: Professor Ann Astell (English), "Exegetical Criticism: Dead or Alive?"

Fall 2004

  • October 11: Professor Ann Astell (English Department)
    "Concerning the Usefulness of Books: A Question in Medieval and Modern Rhetoric and Philosophy."
  • October 25: Dr. John Martin (Visiting Assistant Professor, Foreign Languages & Literatures)
    "The Three Hanses of Nuremberg: Hans Rosenblut, Hans Folz, and Hans Sachs, and the Development of Late Medieval Drama into an Instrument of Political and Religious Polemic in Germany."
  • November 15: Professor Paula Leverage (Foreign Languages and Literatures)
    "Childbirth in the Masculine Discourse of Old French Epic and Romance."
  • November 29 :Professor Shaun Hughes (English Department)
    "The Myth of Medieval Tolkien."

Spring 2004

  • February 2: Professor Thomas Ohlgren (English Department)
    "Preaching Robin Hood"
  • February 16: Professor Daniel Hsieh (Foreign Languages and Literatures)
    "The Story of Love in Tang Dynasty (618-907) China"
  • March 1: Carole Edwards (Foreign Languages and Literatures)
    "A Bergsonian View of Laughter in the French Fabliaux"
  • March 22: Professor John Contreni (History Department)
    "Who composed Byrthferth of Ramsey's Glosses on Bede?"
  • April 5: Professor Ana Gomez-Bravo (Foreign Languages and Literatures)
    "A Space for Culture: Literacy, Space and Cultural Production"

Fall 2003

  • September 29: Professor Dino Felluga (English Department)
    Sir Walter Scott's "Medievalist Fiction of State"
  • October 20:Professor Ann Astell (English Department)
    "The Virgin Mary and the 'Voices' of Joan of Arc"
  • October 27:Professor Paul Whitfield White (English Department)
    "Holy Robin Hood"
  • November 3:Professor David Flory (Foreign Languages & Literatures)
    "Whose Mary is it? How Rutebeuf and Jacques de Vitry tell the same Marian tale."
  • November 17:Professor Dorsey Armstrong (English Department)
    "Postcolonial Palomides"