English follows below; images link to PDF posters. If you are interested in participating or in volunteering to help, please contact the conference organizers directly.

NB: FREE FOR UBC STUDENTS except for the banquet!

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8e colloque annuel de l’Institut grégorien du Canada

Présenté par

Le Comité des études médiévales de l’Université de Colombie-Britannique

PLAIN-CHANT ET CULTURE

6 au 9 août 2013

Université de la Colombie-Britannique, Vancouver (C-B)

La période des inscriptions est ouverte pour le colloque de cet été qui promet d’être un événement remarquable.  Notre conférencier principal sera William Mahrt, professeur émérite de musique à l’Université Stanford.  Le programme comprendra également une grande variété de communications et d’ateliers pratiques.

**Pour plus d’information, visitez notre site internet : www.gregorian.ca.

D’intérêt aux membres de FHIS: Le programme académique comportera un certain nombre de présentations sur la culture de langue romane, dont des communications sur le Codex Calixtinus (Espagne, 12e s.), la Messe de Toulouse (13e s.), un opéra italien de Peri (c.1600), un oratorio d’Allegri (17e s.), des pièces destinées à l’Ecole de Saint-Cyr (France, 17e s.), des oeuvres de Tournemire (France, 20e s.).

Vous pouvez vous inscrire en ligne ou par courrier.

En espérant vous y voir.

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8th Annual Colloquium of  The Gregorian Institute of Canada

presented by

The University of British Columbia’s Committee for Medieval Studies

CHANT AND CULTURE

August 6-9, 2013

University of British Columbia, Vancouver (BC)

Registration is now open for this summer’s colloquium. It promises to be a great event: William Mahrt (Professor Emeritus of Music at Stanford University) will be our keynote speaker and there is a range of academic papers together with practical workshops.

**For more information please go to our website www.gregorian.ca

Of special interest to members of FHIS: The academic program will include several papers on Romance culture, for example papers on the Codex Calixtinus manuscript (Spain, 12th c.), the Toulouse Mass (13th c.), an Italian opera by Peri (c.1600), an oratorio by Allegri (17th c.), works written for Saint-Cyr school (France, 17th c.), works by Tournemire (France, 20th c.).

Registration is on-line or by mail.

Hope to see you there.

The last of the Anthony Grafton talk-series at UBC is on Saturday evening:

HOW JESUS CELEBRATED PASSOVER: THE RENAISSANCE DISCOVERY OF THE JEWISH ROOTS OF CHRISTIANITY
Lecture Hall No. 2, Woodward Instructional Resources Centre (2194 Health Sciences Mall, UBC)
Presented by the Vancouver Institute
8:15 pm, Saturday, March 23, 2013 (doors open at 7:30pm)
Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century scholars came to see, as clearly as contemporary specialists on the New Testament, that Christianity began as a Jewish sect.  As they learned more about Jewish teachings, rituals and traditions, they came to see counterparts to many of them, unexpectedly, in the New Testament itself.  And as always, where the New Testament text gave few details, imaginative scholarship filled them in. This lecture tells the story of how these scholars reconstructed the last Seder that Jesus celebrated with his disciples, on the evening of the Last Supper, and seeks to explain why they found this enterprise compelling and revealing. See here for the Vancouver Institute event page.

For more about Cecil H. and Ida Green Visiting Professor program, please see the Green College website here.

CECIL H. AND IDA GREEN VISITING PROFESSOR AT UBC, 19-23 MARCH 2013

ANTHONY GRAFTON

Anthony Grafton is the Henry Putnam University Professor of History at Princeton University. His special interests lie in the cultural history of Renaissance Europe, the history of books and readers, the history of scholarship and education in the West from Antiquity to the 19th century, and the history of science from Antiquity to the Renaissance. His many acclaimed books include studies of major figures in early modern European intellectual history (Leon Battista Alberti, Girolamo Cardano, Joseph Scaliger, Isaac Casaubon), The Footnote: A Curious History (1997), What Was History? (2006), Christianity and the Transformation of the Book (2006), Codex in Crisis (2009), andHumanists with Inky Fingers: The Culture of Correction in Renaissance Europe (2011). He is a regular contributor to the The New Republic and The New York Review of Books, winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Balzan Prize for History of Humanities, and the Mellon Foundation’s Distinguished Achievement Award, and a past President of the American Historical Association. His current research project focusses on the collapse of the biblical regime of historical time in Europe in the first half of the 17th century.

ALL TALKS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Bodies in Motion: Translating Early Modern Science
March 22-23, 2013
University of British-Columbia

Keynote: Anthony Grafton, Henry Putnam University Professor of History at Princeton University and Cecil H. and Ida Green Visiting Professor at UBC on The Marriage of Divination and Philology: An Inquiry into the Terminology and Practice of Scholarship in Early Modern Europe (and some other places)
Th. March 21, 2013 5pm
Buchanan Tower, Room 1197

This two-day workshop will bring an international group of scholars together in a project that examines modes and media of translation in the early modern world. Focusing on collaborative learning, the workshop will feature a series of mini-seminars on work in progress by leading international scholars of the narratives and theories of translation in global scientific history, as well as master classes in translating early modern texts.

Working across Eurasian contexts and into the Indian Ocean, participants will collectively explore the language-worlds of French, Chinese, Spanish, Persian, Manchu, Portuguese, Italian, and English as they have shaped the knowledge of bodies and their interactions.  This workshop is designed to be the first step in what will hopefully become a much larger “Bodies in Motion” project devoted to translation and the sciences. In the near- and medium-terms, the project aims to establish an ongoing web archive of pedagogical materials on translation and the sciences, hopefully including short interviews with scholars working on texts in the field.

To register for the workshop, please contact organizer Carla Nappi at carla.nappi [at] ubc.ca. All registered participants are invited to join the workshop notebook on Evernote, which includes access to a detailed guide to the workshop, all pre-circulated materials, and virtual discussion spaces.

“Bodies in Motion” Workshop Schedule

Buchanan Tower, 1873 East Mall, University of British Columbia

* “Seminars” are devoted to discussing pre-circulated papers. While they may focus on particular language contexts and may introduce participants to documents in particular foreign languages, they do not assume any language training or background and no special language skills are required to take part!

* “Master classes” are devoted to working closely with primary source texts in different languages, indicated below. It is assumed that participants will have some background in the language of the document to be treated.

* “Talks” and “Discussions” involve no preparation ahead of time: just come and listen and talk!

Contact: Carla Nappi, carlanappi@gmail.com

Link to more information:
http://carlanappi.com/2013/03/13/bodies-in-motion-workshop-22-23-march-2013-university-of-british-columbia/

12:00 noon
Buchanan Tower 826

MAPPINGS: A SPECIAL MEDIEVALIST DOUBLE BILL

Valerie Wilhite
(Department of Romance Languages, University of Oregon)

“Unmappable Kingdoms: The Curious Case of Identity along the Medieval Mediterranean, or, People with No Name”

This talk is part of a project on rethinking and remapping Lemosi identity, weaving together two Troubadour threads. It retraces the fast and furious allegiances and shifting identities that would be necessary to trobadors and joglars traveling from their homeland to the lands, cities, and courts of flip-flopping friends & foes. The project also presents a panoramic (over-/re-)view of Catalunya/Aragon as a troubadour ghostland where the tems c’om era jays haunt the projects of kings, poets, and philosophers.

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Robert Rouse
(Department of English, UBC)

“Medieval Maps, and why they lead us astray”

We live, today, in an increasingly map-rich culture. The technological dominance of cartography structures our normative understanding of space, place, and the relationships that lie between. Prior to the assumption of this cartographical straightjacket at the very end of the fifteenth century, the European medieval spatial imagination operated in pluralistic modes. In this short paper I will be discussing how our current scholarly fascination with medieval ‘maps’ has imposed an unhelpfully anachronistic hermeneutic on attempts to understand the medieval geographic imagination.

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All are welcome; we will also be going to lunch after (and to continue) post-talk discussion, and interested parties would be welcome to join us and continue the conversation in a more leisurely setting.

PDF poster (click on image):

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:

• Monika Edinger
• Han Fei
• Aurélie Marguerite
• Yoonbin Min
• Sinead Sprigg
• Simida Sumandea Simionescu
• Xuebing Xu

(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