Upcoming Events
If you have announcements you would like to add to this list, please email amckeown@tulane.edu
Past Events
Spring 2018
Tulane Department of French and Italian Job Talks: French Medievalist position
Mon, Jan. 22 2018, 5pm
Dr. Charles Samuelson, Kings College London
"Indulgent Spouses, Indulgent Readers: The Poetics of Immoderate Conjugal Desire in Chretien de Troyes 'Eric et Enide'"
Newcomb Hall 403
Talk followed by reception in Newcomb Faculty Lounge (NH 114)
Mon. Jan. 29, 2018, 5pm
Dr. Jonathan Morton, Kings College London
"Beyond the Trojan Horse: Craft, Ingenuity, and Secret Knowledge in the High Middle Ages"
Newcomb Hall 403
Talk followed by reception in Newcomb 411
Fri. Feb. 2, 5:15pm
Dr. Lucas Wood (Texas Tech)
"Father, Son, and Holy Romance: Genealogies of Redemption"
Newcomb Hall 403
Talk followed by reception in Newcomb 411
February 24, 2018
"Beyond Index and Auto de fe: New Directions in Spanish Inquisition Studies"
An all-day symposium held at Tulane University 8:30am-4:30 pm, sponsered by the Department of History, the Royer Thayer Stone Center for Latin American Studies, and the Colonial Latin American Review.
Locations TBA
For further information, please contact Professor Kris Lane, klane1@tulane.edu
Fall 2017
September 23, 2017
Woldenberg Art Center, Stone Auditorium
Eighth Annual Salon de Jeanne d'Arc
A daylong conference and celebration of Joan of Arc, hosted by the Krewe de Jeanne d'Arc.
Free and open to the public.
Keynote speech: 11:00-12:15
"Saint and Starlet: Joan of Arc Invades Popular Culture"
Stephanie L. Coker, Ph.D
For the full schedule, see joanofarcparade.org
October 2, 2017
Tulane Law School, Room 110
From Martin Luther King to Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Here I stand I can do no other, so help me God."
Dr. Michael Haspel
Director of the Evangelical Academy in Thuringia and
Professor for Systematic theology at the Friedrich Schiller University-Jena
event to be followed by a reception.
In conjunction with two exhibits on Luther and the Reformation at the Howard-Tilton Library
on view Oct. 2-31, 2017
October 2, 2017, 3-4 pm
Woldenberg Art Center 304
Nicholas Herman, Curator of Medieval Mansucripts at the Schoenberg Institute, University of Pennsylvania
Workshop on the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies Database
https://schoenberginstitute.org
October 2, 2017. 6pm
Woldenberg Art Center, Stone Auditorium
"Ivory for Copper: Sculpture Between West Africa and France circa 1300"
Sarah Guérin, University of Pennsylvania
October 19-20 2017
Research Symposium:
Performances, Archives, and Repertories in the Francophone Circum-Atlantic World
Tulane Department of French and Italian
Thursday, October 19 6:30-8:30 Newcomb Hall 207
Friday, 9am-5pm LBC 218
Free and open to the public
For complete schedule of talks see www.parifa.org
November 9, 2017@ 4pm
Gibson Hall 325
MEMS Faculty Talk
"Episodic Theater and the Digital Text: Editing the Fortunatus Play of the Englische Komödianten"
Kevin M. Chovanec
Tulane, Department of English
To be followed by light refreshments
Spring 2017
March 2, 2017 @6pm
Woldenburg Art Center, Room 201 (Menschel Art History Wing)
"Michelangelo and the Dissolution of Disegno"
Jessica Maratsos, American University of Paris
Reception to follow talk.
March 7, 2017 @6pm
Rogers Memorial Chapel
The Tulane English Department hosts its Inaugural Undergraduate Colloquium:
"(An)Other Shakespeare: National Borders and Latinx Belonging"
Prof. Rubén Espinosa, University of Texas, El Paso
Talk followed by a Q & A with 5 English department undergraduates.
March 9, 2017 @6pm
Woldenburg Art Center, Room 210 (Stone Auditorium)
Donatello's Idol Play
Daniel Zolli, Getty Research Institute
Reception to follow talk
March 15, 2017 @6pm
Woldenburg Art Center, Room 210 *Stone Auditorium"
Title TBD
Leslie Geddes, Tulane University
Reception to follow talk.
Fall 2016
September 17, 2016,
9:30am-6:30 pm
Salon Jeanne D'Arc.
A Full Day conference sponsored by the Joan of Arc Project/ Krewe Jeanne d'Arc, Producers of the Annual Joan of Arc Parade.
Events free and open to the public.
Keynote lecture: "Joan of Arc as a Military Leader" Dr. Kelly DeVries, Loyola University Maryland, 12:50-1:50
Location: Loyola University. Audubon Room, Danna Student Center. Loyola University Campus 6363 St. Charles Ave.
For more info, visit JOANOFARCPARADE.ORG or
October 25, 2016
Terry. K. Simmons Lecture
"Michelangelo's Inner Anatomies"
Prof. Christian Kleinbub, Ohio State University
210 Woldenburg Art Center (Stone Auditorium)
6pm
Nov. 10-12, 2016
Andrew Ladis Trecento Conference
An International Conference of Trecento Specialists joining together to share their research on the arts of Italy during the "long fourteenth century"
Organizers: Tom Luongo (History), Holly Flora (Art). Leslie Geddes (Art)
Keynote Speaker: Marvini Trachtenberg, Institute of Fine Arts
Spring 2016
April 23, 2016 marks the 400th anniversary of the deaths of William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes. Below you can find a list of activities commemorating 400 years of Shakespeare and Cervantes.
400 Years of Cervantes. "La cueva de Montesinos: Three Readings, Three Approaches"
Round Table with Henry Sullivan (Tulane, emeritus), Carmela Mattza (LSU), Dale Shuger (Tulane)
April 18, 2016
12pm Newomb Hall 446
Illustrating "Don Quijote": Live Drawing Performance and Conversation With Miguel Rep
April 26, 2016
Live Mural Painting and Quijote Reading 1 pm
Lavin-Bernick Center "Pocket Park" : In case of rain, LBC Pedersen Lobby
Q and A w/Rep at 3 pm: LBC-Stibbs Conference Room
Loyola Opera presents Gounod's: Roméo et Juliette
Date: Saturday, January 23, 2016
Time: 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm
Contact: CMFA Box Office · tickets@loyno.edu · http://www.etix
Location: Roussel Performance Hall, 2nd Floor, Comm./Music Complex (corner St. Charles and Calhoun)
Cost: $40 Preferred, $25 Reserved, $15 students
Performed in French with Supertitles
More Info: http://calendar.loyno.edu/sites/cmfa/dept/montage/event/fjnzc9x4fy
Other Spring 2016 events
"Hildegard's Cosmic Egg"
Dr. Margot Fassler
Monday April 4, 2016
7:30 pm, Nunemaker Audtitorium, Loyola University
Callais Lectures on the Catholic Intellectual Tradition
How Nature Geometrizeth:' Image, Figure, and Play in Early Modern Europe
Rebecca Zorach, Professor of Art History, Northwestern University
March 2, 2016 6:30 pm
Waldenberg Art Center, Stone Auditorium (Room 210)
Fall 2015
"Drawing Operations"
Leslie Geddes, Tulane
Art History and MEMS Works-in-Progress Talks
November 5, 2015
209 Woldenburg Hall
6 pm
"Salon de Jeanne of Arc"
Sept. 19, 2015
10am-6pm
Danna Center, Loyola University
Free and open to the public
For details, visit joanofarcparade.org
"Performances, Archives and Repertories in the Francophone Circum-Atlantic World"
October 29-30, 2015
Schedule TBA
Spring 2015
"Catalytic Intelligence and Kiln Transformation in the Making of China"
Professor Jeffrey Moser, McGill University
Thursday, February 26, 2015
Woldenburg Art Center 210 (Stone Auditorium), 4:30pm
Tulane Judeo-Christian Studies The Hugh McCloskey Evans Memorial Lecture
"Dante's Inferno: Biblical Tradition and Greek Philosophy"
Tuesday, March 3, 2015
Speaker: Steven Berg
Department of Philosophy, Bellarmine University, Louisville, KY
Author of Eros and the Intoxications of Enlightenment: on Plato’s Symposium (SUNY 2011);
“An Introduction to the Reading of Dante: Inferno, Cantos I-VII (Interpretation 35/2, 2008)
Discussion Leader: Michael Golluber
St. John’s College, Santa Fe
Author of “Aristotle on How One Becomes What One Is” (Review of Metaphysics 53/2, 1999);
“Aristotle on Knowledge and the Sense of Touch” (Journal of Philosophical Research 26, 2001)
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm Rogers Memorial Chapel Seminar Room
Re/conversion at home and abroad: the case of Maerten de Vos"
Friday, March 20, 2015
Stephanie Porras, Art History
"Europe and America in the Print Culture of Early Modern Lima"
Emily Floyd, Art History
2pm. Woldenburg Conference Room
Tuesday April 7, 2015
"La Chanson de Roland: Une épopée francaíse?"
Professor Michel Zink, College de France
Freeman Auditorium, Woldenburg Art Building 6pm
(in French)
"Les chansons de femmes: sont-elles des chansons pour les simples?"
Wednesday, April 8, 2015
Professor Michel Zink, College de France
Dinwiddie Hall 102, 2pm
(in French)
"The Dynamics of Gender in France: the 17th and 21st Centuries"
Friday, April 10, 2015
Professor Domna C. Stanton (CUNY Graduate Center)
LBC 201, 4:30pm
Prof. Stanton will discuss her new book, The Dynamics of Gender in Early-Modern France: Women Writ, Women Writing, and talk about the heated debates over gender studies in France today.
GNOMes (Greater New Orleans Medievalists Society) Book Discussion Club
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Alain Boureau’s Satan the Heretic: The Birth of Demonology in the Medieval West
8pm, Loyola University (Room TBA)
Fall 2014
“Ahmad al-Hajari: A Moroccan Citizen of the Republic of Letters in the Early Seventeenth-Century”.
Thursday, October 16
Oumelbanine Zhiri, University of California San Diego
Newcomb Hall 316A, 5pm
Sixteenth-Century Society Conference
Thursday, October 16-Sunday, October 19
New Orleans Astor Crowne Plaza Hotel
for more information and the conference program: see http://www.sixteenthcentury.org/conference/
Ad vivum?
Thursday, October 23
Joana Woodall, Professor of Art History, Courtald Institute of Art, London
Woldenburg Art Center Room 210, 5pm
Lecture (Title TBA)
Monday, October 27
Cordelia Warr, Art Historian, Manchester University
Woldenburg Art Center Room 210, 6pm
"Beauty and Gender"
Tuesday, December 9
MEMS Professors Anne Dunlop (Art), Jean Dangler (Spanish and Portuguese)
Room TBA, 2pm
Spring 2012
Work in Progress, Prof. Henry Sullivan
"The Problematics of Tragic Drama in the Golden Age of Spain"
2:00PM, Newcomb 407
Friday, April 27
Research Panel: NONMODERN REALMS, HUMAN AND DIVINE
Friday, May 4
Prof. Yehuda Halper, Philosophy and Jewish Studies
Prof. Antonio Rueda, Spanish and Portuguese
3:00PM, Newcomb 114
Reception to follow.
Work in Progress, Prof. Laura Bass
Friday, September 30
3:00PM, Newcomb 405
"Exporting Michaelangelo to Counter-Reformation Spain"
Thursday, October 6
Elena Calvillo, University of Richmond
6:00PM, Woldenberg 209
Reception for current and future MEMS students (faculty, please attend)
Thursday, October 20
4:30PM Newcomb Faculty Lounge, room 114
Thursday, October 20
Herbert L. Kessler, Johns Hopkins University
6:00PM, Woldenberg 210, Stone Auditorium
Faculty Panel: "Encounters"
Friday, January 20
3:00-4:30PM, Newcomb Faculty Lounge, Newcomb Hall 114
Rachel Burk, Spanish & Portuguese
Scott Oldenburg, English
Toby Wikstrom, French & Italian
"Concepts of Erotic and Divine Love in Medieval Jewish Thought"
Thursday, February 16
Steven Harvey, Bar Ilan University and Johns Hopkins University
4:00PM, Lavin-Bernick Center, Kendall Cram Lecture Hall, room 218
"Women and Literary Culture in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia"
Thursday, March 1
Rafael Mérida Jiménez, Universitat de Lleida
3:30PM Newcomb 209
Reception to follow in the Newcomb Faculty Lounge, room 114
"Magia y brujería en la literatura caballeresca durante la época de los Reyes Católicos (1474-1516)"
Friday, March 2
Rafael Mérida Jiménez, Universitat de Lleida
3:30PM, Newcomb 407
Reception to follow in the Newcomb Faculty Lounge, room 114