The MALS Student Association will be hosting an End-of-Year 90s Karaoke Pizza Party to celebrate our upcoming graduates and the end of this school year. The party will be on Friday, May 3rd at 7:00 pm in Room 5409. All Graduate Center students are welcome to join us! Pizza, cupcakes, snacks and drinks will be provided. Kathryn Alessi, Jelena […]
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April 27 | Play of Wisdom @ Fordham
Ever found medieval morality plays self-serious, a little preachy, kind of boring? The Fordham Medieval Dramatists are here to prove otherwise! Presenting Wisdom: a psychomachic romp where Wisdom’s true love and Lucifer’s devilish games run roughshod over a world in which anything can happen. (There is a dance party. There will be twerking.) Come join […]
April 12 | “The Tower and the Garden: The Task of the Translator in Medieval Vernacular Fiction”
Among the modern tropes controlling the sense we have of translation today there are perhaps two main ones: first, that multilingualism is a curse –the linguistic curse– visited upon a fallen human race, and, second, that translation always involves a loss in signification, an exile from the intentions of the original text, a decay from […]
April 12 | Friends of the Saints – “Miracles & the Medieval Mind Revisited”
“Miracles and the Medieval Mind Revisited: Interpreting Miracle Stories in Medieval Hagiography” A Discussion Moderated by Professor Eric A. Ivison (CUNY College of Staten Island and CUNY Graduate Center) CUNY Graduate Center (365 5th Avenue), Pearl Kibre Medieval Study (Room 5105), 7:00 p.m., Friday, April 12, 2019 Instead of a presentation this month, the Friends of […]
April 11 | Whan That Aprille Day: A Celebration of Medieval Languages and Poetry
Next Fri April 5 | Symposium Rime: Dante’s Workshop of the Heart
An International Symposium; The Global Dante Project of New York Friday, April 5, 9:00 am, at the Italian Academy and 3:00 pm-6:00 pm, at Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò at NYU More Information [columbia.us8.list-manage.com] Free and open to the public. Directors: Maria Luisa Ardizzone (NYU) & Teodolinda Barolini (Columbia) PRESENTED BY NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: Department of Italian Studies; […]
April 18 | The Bearing of History: Byzantine Objects in Early Medieval Spain
Dear colleagues, We are so excited to announce the final lecture of a rich and stimulating 2018-2019 academic year. Professor Cecily Hilsdale (McGill University, Montreal) will come to the Branner Forum. Her talk, “The Bearing of History: Byzantine Objects in Early Medieval Spain” will take place on Thursday, April 18 at 4:00pm. As ever, we […]
April 5 | Global Dante Project of New York
NYU Department of Italian Studies & Columbia University Present: Rime: Dante’s Workshop of the Heart An International Symposium The Global Dante Project of New York DIRECTORS Maria Luisa Ardizzone, NYU & Teodolinda Barolini, Columbia U. Event Details [as.nyu.edu] & RSVP April 5, 2019 One Day Conference Morning Session Italian Academy for Advanced Study in America, Columbia University 9:00AM-1:00PM […]
March – April 2019 CUNY Academy Events
Dear CUNY Academy members and friends, Please ask your: Adjunct colleagues to take advantage of the CUNY Academy Adjunct Faculty Travel Awards; Assistant Professors colleagues to apply for CUNY Academy Stewart Travel Awards; Associate Professors colleagues to consider to take advantage of CUNY Academy Stefan Bernard Baumrin Travel Award. (more…)
Mar 15 | Medieval Studies Colloquium: “How Opera Taught Me to Read”
The Medieval Studies Certificate Program and the Department of Music, CUNY Graduate Center, Present: Sarah Kay Professor of French Literature, Culture and Thought, NYU “How Opera Taught Me to Read” Friday, March 15, 4:00 CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Avenue Room 6494 Now that medievalists read most of their works more on screen than […]