Inter-University Doctoral Consortium Medieval Studies Colloquium, Columbia University

Inter-University Doctoral Consortium Medieval Studies Colloquium, Columbia University April 30, 2010, Butler Library, 10:00AM-6:00PM

10:00-10:30 AM Coffee and welcome, Room 522 Butler Library

10:30-12:00, Room 523 Butler Library: New Directions in Manuscript Studies Chair: Consuelo Dutschke, Columbia University Participants: Christopher Baswell, Columbia University; Richard Gyug, Fordham University; Kathryn Smith, New York University; Anne Stone, CUNY Graduate Center; Laura Weigert, Rutgers University

12:00-1:00, 522 Butler Library: Lunch

1:00-2:30, 523 Butler Library: Session 1, Transforming Processes (Chair: Susan Boynton) John Moreau, Princeton: The Judgment of Jupiter: Some Thoughts on Froissart’s Petrarchism Christopher Swift, CUNY: Puppet, prop, sacred presence: The Virgen de los Reyes of the Cathedral of Seville Katharina N. Piechocki, NYU: From Constantinople to Cracow: Filippo Buonaccorsi (Callimaco) and the Fringes of Late Medieval Translation Processes

2:30-3:00, 522 Butler Library: Coffee

3:00-5:00, 523 Butler Library, Session 2: Reinterpretations (Chair: Christopher Baswell) Andrea Boffa, Stonybrook: A Gendered Analysis of Theories of Amicitia Arvind Thomas, Fordham: Audacity in Word and Deed: Margery Kempe and her Appropriations of Canon Law Darryl Ellison, Rutgers: Take it as a Tale: Reading the “Plowman’s Tale” as if it were Gania Barlow, Columbia: Laughter in the Court: Bertilak and the Performances of Aristocratic Identity in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

5:00-6:00 Reception, 522 Butler Library

Free and open to the public

If you wish to attend but do not have a Columbia ID, please RSVP to [email protected]