Past Events

Spring 2011 Events:

MARS Filmfest
2 nights, 2 films
Celebrating 400 Years of The King James Bible

Thursday, February 10
7:00 p.m., RAWLS 1062
Cry the Beloved Country

Friday, February 11
7:00 p.m., RAWLS 1062
The Book of Eli

Fall 2010 Events:

October 7, 2010
Medieval & Renaissance Studies Symposium on Music
4:30 p.m., Krannert Auditorium

Introductions by Professor Clayton Lein (English) and Professor Harry Bulow (Head, Visual & Performing Arts)
The Symposium will feature presentations by two outstanding scholars. Dr. Stephanie Schlagel, Associate Professor of Musicology (College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati), will speak on "Josquin's Ghost at the Bavarian Ducal Court"; and Dr. Richard Freedman, John C. Whitehead Professor of Music (Haverford College), will present "Listening to Melancholy: The Chansons of Orlando di Lasso"

The campus community and general public are invited.

Spring 2010 Events:

Second Annual Medieval & Renaissance Studies Film Fest
"The Vikings"
All screenings will occur from 7:00-11:00 p.m. in Grissom Hall, Room 280

January 28 - "The Vikings" starring Kirk Douglas

January 29 - "The Longships" starring Richard Widmark & Sidney Poitier

January 30 - "The Viking Sagas" starring Ralph Moeller

January 31 - "Outlander" starring Jim Caviezel

Sponsored by MARS and the Department of English

Fall 2009 Events:

Medieval and Renaissance Studies Annual Symposium

Monday, September 14
7:30 P.M.
Krannert Auditorium
"The Unbearable Jewishness of Being in Medieval Spain"
Presented by David Nirenberg, Deborah R. and Edward D. Jannotta Professor of Medieval History and Social Thought, University of Chicago

"Paradigms of Transition: Jews and the Discourse of Renewal in Anglo-Saxon England"
Presented by Andrew Scheil, Associate Professor of English, University of Minnesota

Tuesday, October 20
7:00 p.m., IUPUI Lilly Auditorium

The IUPUI British and Irish Studies Group Presents:
"The Rules of Kissing in Shakespeare's England"
Presented by Dr. Helen Berry

Helen Berry is Reader in Early Modern History at Newcastle University, UK, and an Adjunct Associate Professor in British and Irish Studies at IUPUI.

 

 

What were the rules of kissing in Shakespeare's time? Did people kiss more freely as a form of greeting than we do today? What were the rules about kisses between lovers, family members, or between friends of the same or opposite sex? In an era of poor dental hygiene, were kisses ever considered sexy? Using a range of evidence from art history to eyewitness accounts, court records and literary texts, historian Helen Berry explores some of the pleasures and pitfalls of puckering up in Elizabethan England, and considers how the history of a gesture can open up new insights into the customs, and mentalities, of past generations.

 

Spring 2009 Events:

The Seventh Annual Graduate Student Conference
(organized by Comitatus)

Fall 2008 Events:

The Purdue Shakespeare Symposium
On Stage, On Screen and Online

Featuring:
David Bevington, University of Chicago
Peter Holland, University of Notre Dame

September 18
5:00-6:45 p.m.
Krannert Auditorium
Reception in Krannert Drawing Room at 4:30 p.m.

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MARS Film Fest
November 13-16
7:00 p.m., Lilly Hall, Room 3118


Spring 2008 Events:

"A Marriage Made in Hell: Female Spirituality and the Rise of Witchcraft"
by Dyan Elliott, Northwestern University
Wednesday, April 9, 2008, 4:30 p.m.
Stewart Center, Room 206

See flier.

Dyan Elliott, John Evans Professor of History at Northwestern University, is historian of western Europe in the Middle Ages. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 1989. Her interests center around gender, spirituality, and sexuality and the way these three variables interact. She is especially intrigued by how the margins help to define the center of a given society.

This talk is sponsored by the Religious Studies Program, the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program and the Department of History.

Fall 2007 Events:

Medieval Double-Bill
November 14, 3:30-4:45, PMU 118
Dorsey Armstrong (English, Purdue), "Arthur's Neighbors: The Case of Cornwall in Malory's Morte Darthur"

Patricia Clare Ingham (English, Indiana University), "Chaucer's Little Nothings: The Squire's Tale and the Ambition of Gadgets"

 


Renaissance Reading Brown Bag - Fall 2007 

 

MARS Fall Symposium "Contemporary Old English Philology"
Thursday, September 27
5:00 p.m.
RAWL 1011

Keynote Speakers:
Robert D. Fulk, Chancellor's Professor of English, Indiana University
"Philology and the Changing Text of Frederick Klaeber's _Beowulf_".
Alger N. Doane, Professor of English (Emeritus), University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Documenting the Death of Old English: The King's English and the Monks."

 


 

Fall 2006 Events:

As part of the Illuminations Series in Philosophy & Literature
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
4:30-5:45, MTHW 111
Ann Astell, "When Pardon is Impossible: Two Talmudic Tales, Chaucer's 'Pardoner's Tale,' and Levinas"

November 1, 2006
5:30, TBA
David Parrish (Art History, Department of Art and Design) will be speaking about the collection of icons recently donated to Purdue University.

"Faith Based Political Engagement"
November 9, 2006
8:00 p.m., Beering Hall, Room 2280
Dr. Jean Bethke Elshtain

5th Annual Comitatus Conference for Medieval Studies
February 23-24, 2007
"On the Edge: Representations of Liminality in Medieval Europe"
Plenary Session Speaker: Professor Patricia Claire Ingham, Indiana University
Please check back for further details.

Spring 2006 Events:

Comitatus Graduate Student Conference
February 17-18, 2006
"(Re)imagining Arthur: Cultural and Theoretical Contexts of the Arthurian Legends"
Plenary Session Speaker: Professor Bonnie Wheeler, Professor of English and Medieval Studies at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX and Editor of Arthuriana.

 


 

Fall 2005 Events:

TWO VISIONS OF THE CROSS: The Anglo-Saxon "Dream of the Rood" and the Ruthwell Cross

Thursday, September 22, 2005

What does it mean to "see" a religious vision, to "hear" a saint's speech? To what extent is the authenticity of such experiences to be measured by their sheer unexpectedness and unusualness? Is it possible to practice meditating consciously upon scriptural and liturgical symbols, on works of religious art, in such a vivid and imaginative way that they can, as it were, suddenly "come alive" before one's spiritual eye? Can a work of religious art (re)appear in a vision? Conversely, to what extent can a religious experience be memorialized in a work of visual art?

Over a thousand years ago, an anonymous poet and an unnamed sculptor envisioned the cross of Christ in strikingly beautiful ways that have awakened questions about the possible connections between their separate artistic expressions; about the reception of the Christian cross and its acculturation in a pagan society with its own religious symbols; and broader, theo-aesthetical questions about the relationship between the spiritual and physical senses: sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch.

In this year's Medieval Studies September Symposium, two respected scholars will reflect upon these historical and theoretical issues. Professor Thomas Hall (Department of English, University of Illinois at Chicago) will speak on "Prophetic Vision in 'The Dream of the Rood,'" and Professor Catherine E. Karkov (Department of Art History, Miami University of Ohio) will address the topic, "Envisioning the Ruthwell Cross."
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