M@P
On hiatus for AY 2024-25.
Medievalists@Penn (M@P) is a reading group committed to developing broad interdisciplinary understandings of the Middle Ages. Comprised of graduate students from departments and programs across the School of Arts and Sciences (English, Italian, French, German, Spanish, Comparative Literature, and Art History among others), M@P meets regularly throughout the semester to discuss primary and secondary readings pre-selected from among our various fields of expertise. Our meetings usually consist of informal presentations by graduate students on material that will be of interest to the broader medievalist community.
We are currently on hiatus. To be added to our listserv and receive notifications of future events, please contact Matt Aiello (maiello [at] sas.upenn.edu).
We also hold an annual graduate student conference during the spring semester. The most recent conference, on "Mediocrity," took place on February 22, 2019 (organized by Matt Aiello, Nathalie Lacarrière, and Aylin Malcolm). Previous themes include "Vulnerability" (2018), "Auctoritas" (2017), "Performance" (2016), "The Medieval Archive" (2015), "Visions of Empire" (2014), “Translatio” (2013), “Textual Intercourse: Medieval Appropriations and Appropriations of the Medieval” (2012), and “Mater(ia) Familias: Family Matters” (2011).
Past Events
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Discussion of Geraldine Heng’s "The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages"
April 17, 2018 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm -
Vulnerability: 10th Annual M@P Conference
March 17, 2018 - 9:00am to 6:00pm -
Matt Aiello: Discussion of Wulf and Eadwacer
February 20, 2018 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm -
Discussion of Steven Justice’s “Did the Middle Ages Believe in Their Miracles?”
January 30, 2018 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm -
M@P Meeting
December 11, 2017 - 10:30am to 12:00pm -
Discussion of Helen Swift's Representing the Dead
November 13, 2017 - 10:30am to 12:00pm -
Discussion of Kellie Robertson's Nature Speaks
October 23, 2017 - 10:30am to 12:30pm -
Discussion of Erich Auerbach’s Mimesis (excerpts)
September 25, 2017 - 10:30am to 12:00pm -
8th Annual Graduate Conference
"Performance," with keynote speaker Theresa ColettiMarch 18, 2016 - 9:00am to 6:00pm