UPDATED Next meeting: Thurs. 28 Oct. 2010

Confirming the time and place for the next meeting of the EARLY ROMANCE STUDIES (ERS) research cluster: it will be held
on THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28
from 6:00 to 7:30
in the FHIS Lounge, UBC Buchanan Tower room 799 (7th floor).
ERS meetings are open to everyone and we welcome participation from members of other departments and from outside UBC.

*Please note that the tower is locked after 6:30, so you will not be able to come in after that time.

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Michael Barry: Fri. 15 Oct. 2010

1.00 – 2.00 p.m., Green College. Keynote lecture for the 39th UBC Annual Medieval Studies Workshop:

“The Moor of Venice: Averroës and the Representations of Islamic Philosophy in Medieval and Renaissance European Art”

Michael Barry has lectured in Princeton’s Near Eastern Studies Department since 2004 on the medieval and modern Islamic cultures of Iran, India, Pakistan, and most especially Afghanistan—where his work over more than four decades has ranged from anthropological research to defense of human rights and coordinating humanitarian assistance for the Paris-based International Federation for Human Rights, for Médecins du Monde, and for the United Nations. He has published extensively in both his writing languages, English and French; his academic works have been translated into Persian and a half-dozen European versions; and he holds seven literary prizes from France and Iran.

He is also Consultant to the Aga Khan for Culture on Islamic Art and Museum Issues.

  • For further information about him, see here
  • For the paper abstract, please see here.

Jean-Luc Nardone: Weds. 13 Oct. 2010

French Research Seminar, 4.00 – 6.00 p.m., Buchanan Tower 826.

“La représentation de Jérusalem et de la Terre sainte dans les récits de pèlerins européens au XVIe siècle”

Jean-Luc NARDONE graduated in Italian studies at Paris IV-Sorbonne and is now Professor of Italian Literature at the University of Toulouse II, France. After being head of the department from 1994 to 2000, he is now Director of «Il Laboratorio», the research group of Italian studies of Toulouse II, with a strong research focus on manuscripts, publishing practices and the history of the Italian book.

He is currently working on two major research projects : Petrarca and Petrarchism in Europe (14th-17th centuries) and Relations between Europe and the Orient through the writings of pilgrims, soldiers, merchants and artists during the Renaissance period.

For a full C.V., see his website.

He will also be presenting a paper at the 39th UBC Medieval Studies Workshop on Friday 15 October: “Quest and Conquest of the Self: the Pretext of the Crusades from the Fioretti (XXIV) to the Decameron (X, 9)“


Next meeting: Thurs. 28 Oct. 2010

at 6.00 p.m. Location to be confirmed.

Topics for discussion:

  • intertextuality: sharing a few articles on this theme and concerning, in some way, Romance studies, or works in a romance language and dated between 1000 and 1800 that are obviously intertextual
  • short presentation by Nancy Frelick, on a forthcoming (November) conference paper

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