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The University of Pennsylvania English department's Medieval/Renaissance Seminar meets approximately every other week during the academic year. Med/Ren aims to foster lively conversations about the historical materials and cultural traditions central to our fields, and seeks to encourage dialogue about the critical perspectives and methodological practices that we bring to bear upon those materials. Scholars (Penn graduate students and faculty, as well as visiting scholars from other institutions) share drafts of article-length works-in-progress with the Med/Ren group, offering participants a chance to make significant scholarly contributions. Our meetings foster an atmosphere of shared intellectual vigor, with conversations ranging in form and tone from Q&As, to brainstorm sessions, to rigorous, constructive critiques of the papers themselves.
During the 2005-2006 academic year, Med/Ren will meet on scheduled Wednesdays in various locations on campus during the renovation of Bennett Hall; meetings run from 4:30 to 6:00. Our listserv address is medren@dept.english.upenn.edu, and those wishing to may subscribe here. You may contact one of this year's co-coordinators, Jonathan Hsy (jhsy@english.upenn.edu) or Cy Mulready (mulready@english.upenn.edu), to be subscribed to the list or to request more information.
Fall 2005 MED/REN SCHEDULE
Wednesday, September 21:
Nicolette Zeeman
King’s College, Cambridge University
“The Gender of Song in Chaucer”
Penn Humanities Forum: 3619 Locust Walk
Wednesday, October 5:
David Wallace
University of Pennsylvania
“Periodizing Women: Mary Ward (1585-1645) and the Premodern Canon”
Penn Humanities Forum: 3619 Locust Walk
Wednesday, October 19:
Stephanie Gibbs Kamath
University of Pennsylvania
“'Thereof was I noon auctor': Thomas Hoccleve, Authority, and Allegory”
Penn Humanities Forum: 3619 Locust Walk
Wednesday, November 2:
Jamie Taylor
University of Pennsylvania
“Piers Plowman, Book, and the Personification of Salvation”
Meyerson Conference Room, Second Floor, Van Pelt Library
Wednesday, November 16:
Stella Singer
University of Pennsylvania
“Beyond Jerusalem: Pilgrimage and Place in The Book of Margery Kempe”
Meyerson Conference Room, Second Floor, Van Pelt Library
Wednesday, November 30:
Kurt Schreyer
University of Pennsylvania
“Shakespeare and the 'Dry Bones' of Medieval Drama”
Meyerson Conference Room, Second Floor, Van Pelt Library
Wednesday, December 7:
Stephanie Trigg
University of Melbourne
“Scenes from the History of Shame: The Order of the Garter from the Medieval to Early Modern”
Penn Humanities Forum: 3619 Locust Walk
MED/REN MEMBER SITES
At Penn:
Kevin Brownlee (French/Italian; Medieval)
Rita Copeland (Classical Studies, Comparative Literature; Medieval)
Jonathan Hsy (English; Medieval)
Miriam Jacobson (English; Renaissance)
Anne Moyer (History; Renaissance)
Cyrus Mulready (English; Renaissance)
Phyllis Rackin (English; Renaissance)
Kurt Schreyer (English; Renaissance)
Larry Silver (History of Art; Renaissance)
David Wallace (English; Medieval) Elsewhere:
Katherine Rowe, Bryn Mawr University (English; Renaissance) How to subscribe (or unsubscribe) to the Med/Ren Listserv:
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Department of English
School of Arts & Sciences
University of Pennsylvania
Website designed 8/29/02 by Holly Barbaccia, Med/Ren co-coordinator, 2002.
Last updated 21 October, 2005.