College of Liberal Arts

Spring 2010
(All sessions 12:30-1:20, BRNG 1284)

• January 18, Angelica Duran, "Milton: 'Of the Devil's Party' per the Spanish Catholic Inquisition"
• February 15, Brady Spangenberg, "Civil Death Statues in Early Modern Europe" 
• March 8, Jennifer King, " 'Donna l'ardente fiamma' and 'Signor, la vostra fiamma': Compositional Process and Cultural Exchange"
• April 19, Lynne Dahmen: Title TBA

Fall 2009
(All sesssions 12:30-1:20, BRNG 1284)

• October 19, Richard Severe, "Friendship, Sodomitic Desire and Incest in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde"
• November 16, Angela Ghionea, "Occult Origins of Science"
• December 14, Elise Dermineur, "Rural Communities and the Reformation in Montbeliard, 1524-1660"

Spring 2009
(All sessions 12:30-1:20, BRNG 1284)

• January 26, Professor Charles Ross (Department of English) and Jason Lotz, Ed Plough, Buffy Turner, Brady Spangenberg and Russell Keck, "Environmental Spencer"
• February 9, Professor Daniel Frank (Department of Philosophy), "The Politics of Fear: Idolatry and Superstition in Maimonides and Spinoza"
• March 9, Jessica Raffleson (Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures), "Battle for the Mind of Men: A Cognitive Approach to Literature as Propaganda"
• April 6, Angela Ghionea (Department of History), "New Herbs from the Americas and their Use in Renaissance Italian Medicine"

• September 29, Professor Michael Ryan (Department of History), "Nicolau Eymerich and the End of Days," Stewart Center, Room 320
• October 27, Professor Kristin Leaman (Department of English) "Tragical Differences: The A and B Texts of Doctor Faustus," Stewart Center, Room 320
  
• November 17, Professor Michael Johnston (Department of English), "The Gentry and Romance in Late Medieval England," Stewart Center, Room 214D

• 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."

• 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"

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