Department of English Visiting Speaker, Dr. Laura Ashe (Worcester College, Oxford)
‘The ‘Cniht’ and Chivalry: The Formation of Knighthood in English Culture’
Thursday 13th September, 2012. @ 5.15 pm. Buchanan, B 313.
All welcome.
Continue reading Laura Ashe: Thurs. 13 Sept., 2012
THE NEXT MEDIEVAL WORKSHOP: The 41st UBC Medieval Workshop (7-9 November 2013) welcomes submissions appropriate to its theme, “Interpretive Conflations: Exegesis and the Arts in the Middle Ages.” Please see the call-for-papers (PDF).
Deadline for submission of an abstract: 15 September 2012.
Please submit an electronic copy to Professor Gernot Wieland, UBC English (gernot-dot-wieland-at-ubc-dot-ca).
Of potential interest to all Medievalists…
Information c/o Courtney Booker (UBC Dept. of History & Chair of UBC Medieval Studies).
The Newman Association of Vancouver invites you to the last talk of the series “Faith and Science” :
Speaker: Professor Gernot Wieland PhD, Department of English, UBC
Title: “Bede: Faith through Science”
Where?
St Marks College 5935 Iona Drive
When?
On Sunday April 1st at 1:00 pm
(following 11:30 Mass at St. Marks and Pancake Breakfast served by the Knights of Columbus).
About the speaker
Gernot Wieland received his primary and secondary education in the German Benedictine schools of Schaeftlarn and Ettal. He came to Canada in 1966 and studied Classics and English at University of Toronto (BA 1971). He went on to complete an MA (1972) and PhD (1976) in Mediaeval Studies at the Centre for Mediaeval Studies in Toronto.
He is the author/editor of six books and has written numerous articles in his primary area of research interest – Anglo-Latin literature (i.e. the Latin literature of the Anglo-Saxons). Prof Wieland is also the Editor of the Journal of Mediaeval Latin.
An engaging speaker, Professor Wieland will speak on the scientific knowledge embedded in Bede’s (673 – 735 A.D.) exegetical works, and may surprise you with Bede’s knowledge and sophistication, and will almost certainly change some of your preconceptions about the time that is often referred to as the “Dark Ages.”
Parking at the College or in the UBC North Parkade
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| The Saint Petersburg Bede (Saint Petersburg, National Library of Russia, lat. Q. v. I. 18), formerly known as the Leningrad Bede, is an early surviving illuminated manuscript of Bede’s 8th century history, the Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (Ecclesiastical History of the English People). It was taken to the Russian National Library of Saint Petersburg at the time of the French Revolution. Although not heavily illuminated, it is famous for containing the earliest historiated initial (one containing a picture) in European illumination. The opening three letters of Book 2 of Bede are decorated, to a height of 8 lines of the text, and the opening h contains a bust portrait of a haloed figure carrying a cross and a book. This is probably intended to be St. Gregory the Great, although a much later hand has identified the figure as St. Augustine of Canterbury. |
| Date: c. 731-746 |
| Source: HistoryofScience.com and Russian National Library, St Petersberg |
12:00 noon
Buchanan Tower 826
Marina Lushchenko (FHIS alumna)
“Doon de Mayence et Gaufrey: la chanson de geste tardive (XIVe-XVe siecles) et la formation des cycles epiques”
In conjunction with FREN 360: Introduction to Old French (Prof. Chantal Phan)
(This talk will be in French.)
L’objectif de la présentation est de montrer, en prenant comme exemple le cycle des barons révoltés (autrement dit le cycle de Doon de Mayence), par quels procédés les poètes épiques de la fin du Moyen Âge établissent une filiation entre personnages et chansons initialement disparates afin de créer un cycle épique consacré à l’histoire d’un lignage. L’attention sera portée notamment sur les procédés suivants: la construction, la jonction, l’amplification et le mélange de cycles.
The final preparations for the Medieval Workshop are well underway, and we’re hoping to welcoming many of you here in March (the 16th to 18th).
Full details, the programme, and information on the keynote speakers is all here:
http://ubc2012medieval.wordpress.com
The workshop registration form is now up online:
http://ubc2012medieval.wordpress.com/registration/
Please do pass the news along to colleagues, students, and friends.
Professor Valerie Traub will be visiting UBC on February 9, 2012. She will deliver a lively talk, “Making Sexual Knowledge,” at 4PM in Henry Angus 254 on that afternoon. In it, she plans to share the general contours of her latest project (Making Sexual Knowledge: Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns), focusing especially on obscurity in sexual knowledge and sexual pedagogy, and on the relations between historicism, psychoanalysis, feminism and queer theory. Please join us for this hour-long event!
Professor Valerie Traub is Frederick G.L. Huetwell Professor of English and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is also the former Chair of the Women’s Studies Department at Michigan.
Her research concerns gender and sexuality in early modern England. She is the author of The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England, which won the best book of 2002 award from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women. Other books include Desire & Anxiety: Circulations of Sexuality in Shakespearean Drama (1992) and two co-edited collections: Feminist Readings of Early Modern Culture: Emerging Subjects (1996) and Gay Shame (2009). Her current projects are entitled Mapping Embodiment in the Early Modern West: A Prehistory of Normality, which analyzes the emergence of new discourses of gender, sexuality, race, and class in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century anatomical and cartographic illustrations; and Making Sexual Knowledge: Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns. She sits on the advisory boards of PMLA, GLQ, and Studies in English Literature. She is the recipient of the John D’Arms Award for graduate mentoring and the Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award.
Funding for Professor’s Traub’s visit has been provided by CSIS, the Department of English, CWAGS, WAGS, Medieval Studies, and the Dean’s Office in the Faculty of Arts.
6:00-7:30 p.m., Buchanan Tower 799 (FHIS Lounge)
Monika Edinger (FHIS, UBC)
“Ovid’s Narcissus and Echo in 17th-century peninsular theatre: the voice from the distance in Calderón de la Barca’s Eco y Narciso”
The next ERS event, and our first talk of the year, will be:
1:00-2:00 p.m., Buchanan Tower 799 (FHIS Lounge)
Courtney Booker (History, UBC)
“History, Identity, and the First French Text: Nithard’s Historiae and the Politics of Value”
Upcoming lectures for the week of the 9th of January, of interest to audiences in Early Modern Hispanic and Latin American studies. These events are within or attached to the Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies, and the information that follows has been linked to the “Dates to Watch” section on the FHIS website. Continue reading Rocío Quispe-Agnoli and Eyda M. Merediz: Mon. 9 & Tues. 10 January 2012
MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN ROMANCE LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES, AT UBC AND IN THE VANCOUVER AREA, SEPTEMBER—DECEMBER 2011.
Friday 9 September 3.00-4.00 p.m.
Buchanan Tower 799, FHIS lounge
First Early Romance Studies meeting of the new academic year. The information and minutes are here.
Saturday 10 September 1.30-3.00 p.m.
SFU Vancouver, Harbour Centre Room 1900
Lecture: Niall Christie: The Crusades: What are they and why are they still relevant?
Friday 30 September – Saturday 1 October 2011
The Labyrinths: Fourth bi-annual graduate conference of the Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies, UBC
—FHIS, UBC. Includes papers on earlier Spanish and French topics
OCTOBER
Mon. 3 October 2011
Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Study, UBC
“From Scroll to Screen”: UBC symposium on translation
Thurs. 6 October 2011
Margherita Romengo
talk: “Repenser les rapports entre théorie littéraire et philologie : un enjeu épistémologique, méthodologique, éthique de la recherche littéraire”
Thurs. 20 October 2011
Marilyse Turgeon-Solis
talk: “Philosophie et anti-philosophie au XVIIIe siècle. Le cas du pamphlet ‘Le fanatisme des philosophes’ par Simon-Nicolas-Henri Linguet”
27-30 October 2011
Nancy Frelick: “Consuming Mirrors in Le Miroir des melancholiques” (session 24–also chairing session 77)
Margherita Romengo: ” L’Heptaméron de Marguerite de Navarre : pour une poétique de l’oeuvre ouverte ?” (session 43)
Sixteenth-Century Society and Conference (SCSC), Fort Worth, TX, USA
NOVEMBER
Thurs. 3 November 2011
Chantal Phan
talk: “Translating Annihilation: Observations on the Medieval French, Italian and English Versions of Marguerite Porete’s ‘Mirouer des simples ames anienties’ (early 14th c.)”
Thurs. 17 November 2011
Rene Bautista
talk: ““San Juan de la Cruz: the homoerotic transgression”
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