4:00 p.m.
Buchanan Tower 826
FREN 502 graduate student round-table presentation session on Renaissance French literature: short papers on Marguerite de Navarre, Maurice Scève, and Hélisenne de Crenne.
Featuring:
(This session will be in French.)
1:00 p.m.
Buchanan Tower 826
Sheila Delany (Emerita Professor of English, Simon Fraser University)
“An atheist egalitarian in the French Revolution: Introducing Sylvain Maréchal” Continue reading Sheila Delany: 1 March 2013
12:00 noon
Buchanan Tower 826
Hélène Gautier (ENS-Lyon)
“Joachim Du Bellay lecteur de Virgile”
Ms Gautier is a sixteenth-century scholar at the École normale supérieure de Lyon. Her Masters thesis was on connections linking Du Bellay, Horace, and Juvenal. Her current work continues this exploration of the Bellayan œuvre, deepening understanding of its borrowings from Latin poetry.
(UBC Early Romance Studies) Continue reading Hélène Gautier: 25 February 2013
4:00 p.m.
** IN WOODWARD IRC, Lecture Hall 3.**
(Woodward Instructional Resources Centre, 2194 Health Sciences Mall: see further down for directions)
TWO LECTURE-RECITALS ON MEDIEVAL MUSIC:
❊ PAT UNRUH (member of Duo Laude, Anima Medieval Music Duo, Vancouver Viols),
“A ‘viella’ is best of all” – the medieval bowed vielle, and its repertoire (c. 1200 – c. 1400)
❊ CHANTAL PHAN (Dept of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies; formerly of Ensemble Marcabru de Montréal),
“Los motz e.l so”: What can we know about the pronunciation and performance of troubadour song (c. 1100- c. 1300)?
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Directions from Buchanan Tower: Walk South along East Mall; two blocks past the Bookstore turn left and walk along the path. Woodward IRC will be on your right, a large building with bright red doors. Woodward 3 is on the main floor, see the huge green numbers on the walls and go for the green 3! Walking time: 10 min.
**DIRECTIONS FROM BUCHANAN TOWER:
Walking distance: 10 minutes.
*DIRECTIONS FROM THE TROLLEY BUS LOOP:
Walking distance: about 5 minutes.
MAPS
Free admission.
All are welcome!
2:00 p.m.
Buchanan Tower 799 (FHIS Lounge)
Mauricio Drelichman (Vancouver School of Economics)
“Rent and Housing in Golden Age Spain: Evidence from the Archive of the Cathedral of Toledo”
(Joint work with David González Agudo, Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
A treasure trove of archival documents brings to life the fascinating world of sixteenth-century urban Toledo. This paper expores the real estate holdings of the Cathedral; the people who managed them; and those who rented, worked, and lived in them.
Mauricio Drelichman is an economic historian (in the department of economics) whose work revolves mostly around sixteenth century Spain. His current projects include a recently completed manuscript on sovereign debt in the time of Philip II, and a study of rental markets in early modern Toledo.
Poster (PDF)
MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN ROMANCE LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES, AT UBC AND IN THE VANCOUVER AREA, SEPTEMBER-DECEMBER 2012
SEPTEMBER
• 13 September
Laura Ashe (Worcester College, Oxford)
‘The ‘Cniht’ and Chivalry: The Formation of Knighthood in English Culture’
5.15 pm. Buchanan, B 313
(UBC Department of English)
• 15 September
Deadline for submissions for the 41st UBC Medieval Workshop
(UBC Medieval Studies Committee / Gernot Wieland, Department of English)
• 20 September
First meeting (for planning etc.) of the ERS Research Cluster this year
(UBC Early Romance Studies)
• Friday 21 September
First lunchtime informal anti-session
(UBC Early Romance Studies)
• Friday 28 September
Lunchtime informal anti-session
(UBC Early Romance Studies)
OCTOBER
• Wednesday 3 October
Chantal Phan (FHIS, UBC)
“La légende du cœur mangé”
(UBC FHIS Séminaire de recherche en études françaises et francophones, special “microlectures” series)
• Friday 5 October
Lunchtime informal anti-session
(UBC Early Romance Studies)
• Thursday 11 October
Daniel Helbert (English, UBC)
“Playing Near the Edge: ‘Breuddwyd Rhonabwy’, ‘Fouke le Fitz Waryn’ and the Anglo-Welsh Border”
6 p.m., Buchanan Tower 826
(UBC Early Romance Studies)
• Friday 12 October
Lunchtime informal anti-session
(UBC Early Romance Studies)
• Friday 19 October
Lunchtime informal anti-session
(UBC Early Romance Studies)
• Friday 26 October
Lunchtime informal anti-session
(UBC Early Romance Studies)
NOVEMBER
• Friday 2 November
Lunchtime informal anti-session
(UBC Early Romance Studies)
• Monday 5 November
Louisa Mackenzie (University of Washington)
Research talk on landscape poetry of the Renaissance
5.00 p.m., Buchanan Tower 799
(UBC Early Romance Studies)
• Friday 9 November
Lunchtime informal anti-session
(UBC Early Romance Studies)
• Friday 16 November
Lunchtime informal anti-session
(UBC Early Romance Studies)
• Friday 23 November
Marvin Cohodas (Art History, Visual Art, and Theory; UBC)
”The Dance of the Conquest of Guatemala”
12.00 noon, Buchanan Tower 826
(UBC Early Romance Studies)
• Friday 30 November
Lunchtime informal anti-session
(UBC Early Romance Studies)
DECEMBER
• end of term celebratory fun sociable event, further details t.b.a.
Image sources: Wikimedia Commons
12.00 noon – 1.30 p.m.
Buchanan Tower 826
Given the time of this meeting, feel free to bring a sandwich. Cookies and juice provided.
MARVIN COHODAS
(Art History, Visual Art and Theory; UBC)
”The Dance of the Conquest of Guatemala (16th c. to the present)”
Professor Cohodas’s interests encompass ancient American visual representation (i.e. ‘Pre-Hispanic Art’), contemporary ritual and weaving arts of Maya peoples in Southern Mexico and Guatemala, and Native American basket weaving in California and Nevada.
His current research project concerns the “Dance of the Conquest” (http://conquista.arts.ubc.ca/) in Guatemala, a ritual proselytizing dance-drama with masks and costumes that may be nearly 500 years old, set to a text written by a Spanish Franciscan friar some time between 1570 and 1620, and in some communities is presented annually for the festival of the patron saint. Prof. Cohodas is interested in: the history of the dance, its theatrical, musical, dramatic and visual aspects; its use as a ritual offering; and its potential for expression of resistance towards the dominant non-Maya majority in Guatemala.
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HAIJO WESTRA
(Emeritus Professor of Greek and Roman Studies, University of Calgary)
“Vergil and New France: The Fate of the Trojans as Paradigm for the Jesuits in Quebec ca. 1650”
While the paper on which this talk is based is in French, there will be an English summary of it, and discussion in French and/or English. Full reference for the paper concerned: “Références classiques implicites et explicites dans les écrits des Jésuites sur la Nouvelle-France,” Tangence 92 (winter 2010): 27-37.
5.00 – 6.00 p.m.
FHIS Lounge (room 799)
Buchanan Tower
LOUISA MACKENZIE (University of Washington)
“Men Who Stare at Cats: Renaissance (Post)Humanism and Animal Inscrutability.”
Early modern humanism puts animals at the centre of many of its most profoundly ethical questions, and anticipates much of what is currently being done in Critical Animal Studies and the posthumanities. Long before Derrida’s cat stared back at him, 16th-century philosophers and poets were marvelling at the ways in which cats (and other animals) returned their gazes, throwing into question the basis of any epistemological certainty.
Louisa Mackenzie grew up in Scotland and did her graduate work in Berkeley, California before moving to the UW in 2002. Her research focus is primarily on early modern French culture which she reads through various contemporary critical lenses including ecocriticism and, more recently, queer ecology and Animal Studies. Her book The Poetry of Place: Lyric, Landscape and Ideology in Renaissance France (University of Toronto Press, 2010) is an interdisciplinary study of how a subjective and affective sense of place was produced by poetry in dialogue with cartography, land use history and other knowledge spheres. Other research and teaching interests include women’s writing from all periods, travel writing, science fiction and utopic/dystopic literature, queer theory and historiography. She is currently starting a book-length project on animals as “queer bodies of knowledge” in 16th-century France. Community activities include volunteering with the GSBA scholarship fund, providing academic scholarships to LGBT-identified students. She has also served as a College Board Commissioner for AP French.
— as a follow-up to this lecture, a general discussion meeting on nature themes in Early Romance texts has been suggested for some time next term.
2.00 – 3.45 p.m.
FHIS Lounge (room 799)
Buchanan Tower
Two research talks in French, with English hand-outs, and discussion in French and/or English.
MARGHERITA ROMENGO (UBC-FHIS),
”Une Perle au Royaume de Fémynie. Contribution à l’histoire de la réception de Marguerite de Navarre.”
NANCY FRELICK (UBC-FHIS),
”Lire les emblèmes de la ‘Délie’ de Maurice Scève”
6:00 p.m.
Buchanan Tower 826
The next meeting of the UBC Early Romance Studies Research Cluster will take place on Thursday, October 11 at 6 pm in BuTo 826. Daniel Helbert will give a presentation entitled “Playing Near the Edge: ‘Breuddwyd Rhonabwy’, ‘Fouke le Fitz Waryn’ and the Anglo-Welsh Border”.
This study examines literary conceptualizations of the Anglo-Welsh border in the 13th century Anglo-Norman romance ‘Fouke le Fitz Warin’ and the 13th-century Middle Welsh dream vision ‘Breuddwyd Rhonabwy’. As can be seen in recurring symbols throughout the texts, and especially in the central image of the board game, these authors complicate the contemporary and modern definitions of the borderland in which they are set.
(As this meeting will be held at 6:00 P.M., please feel free to bring food, for yourself or to share, if you wish to do so.)
All are welcome to attend.
