If you have announcements you would like to add to this list, please email dshuger@tulane.edu
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
"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
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
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
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
"Ivory for Copper: Sculpture Between West Africa and France circa 1300"
Sarah Guérin, University of Pennsylvania
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
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
"Michelangelo and the Dissolution of Disegno"
Jessica Maratsos, American University of Paris
Reception to follow talk.
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.
Donatello's Idol Play
Daniel Zolli, Getty Research Institute
Reception to follow talk
Title TBD
Leslie Geddes, Tulane University
Reception to follow talk.
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
Terry. K. Simmons Lecture
"Michelangelo's Inner Anatomies"
Prof. Christian Kleinbub, Ohio State University
210 Woldenburg Art Center (Stone Auditorium)
6pm
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
Round Table with Henry Sullivan (Tulane, emeritus), Carmela Mattza (LSU), Dale Shuger (Tulane)
April 18, 2016
12pm Newomb Hall 446
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
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 Get Tickets
Performed in French with Supertitles
More Info: http://calendar.loyno.edu/sites/cmfa/dept/montage/event/fjnzc9x4fy
Monday April 4, 2016
7:30 pm, Nunemaker Audtitorium, Loyola University
Callais Lectures on the Catholic Intellectual Tradition
Rebecca Zorach, Professor of Art History, Northwestern University
March 2, 2016 6:30 pm
Waldenberg Art Center, Stone Auditorium (Room 210)
Leslie Geddes, Tulane
Art History and MEMS Works-in-Progress Talks
November 5, 2015
209 Woldenburg Hall
6 pm
Sept. 19, 2015
10am-6pm
Danna Center, Loyola University
Free and open to the public
For details, visit joanofarcparade.org
October 29-30, 2015
Schedule TBA
Professor Jeffrey Moser, McGill University
Woldenburg Art Center 210 (Stone Auditorium), 4:30pm
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
Stephanie Porras, Art History
Emily Floyd, Art History
2pm. Woldenburg Conference Room
Tuesday April 7, 2015
Professor Michel Zink, College de France
Freeman Auditorium, Woldenburg Art Building 6pm
(in French)
Professor Michel Zink, College de France
Dinwiddie Hall 102, 2pm
(in French)
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.
Alain Boureau’s Satan the Heretic: The Birth of Demonology in the Medieval West
8pm, Loyola University (Room TBA)
Oumelbanine Zhiri, University of California San Diego
Newcomb Hall 316A, 5pm
New Orleans Astor Crowne Plaza Hotel
for more information and the conference program: see http://www.sixteenthcentury.org/conference/
Joana Woodall, Professor of Art History, Courtald Institute of Art, London
Woldenburg Art Center Room 210, 5pm
Cordelia Warr, Art Historian, Manchester University
Woldenburg Art Center Room 210, 6pm
MEMS Professors Anne Dunlop (Art), Jean Dangler (Spanish and Portuguese)
Room TBA, 2pm
Work in Progress, Prof. Henry Sullivan
"The Problematics of Tragic Drama in the Golden Age of Spain"
2:00PM, Newcomb 407
Research Panel: NONMODERN REALMS, HUMAN AND DIVINE
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
3:00PM, Newcomb 405
Thursday, October 6
Elena Calvillo, University of Richmond
"Exporting Michaelangelo to Counter-Reformation Spain"
6:00PM, Woldenberg 209
Thursday, October 20
Reception for current and future MEMS students (faculty, please attend)
4:30PM Newcomb Faculty Lounge, room 114
Thursday, October 20
Herbert L. Kessler, Johns Hopkins University
"Geometry of the Ineffable: Artificial Perspective in Medieval Art"
6:00PM, Woldenberg 210, Stone Auditorium
Friday, January 20
Faculty Panel: "Encounters"
3:00-4:30PM, Newcomb Faculty Lounge, Newcomb Hall 114
Rachel Burk, Spanish & Portuguese
Scott Oldenburg, English
Toby Wikstrom, French & Italian
Steven Harvey, Bar Ilan University and Johns Hopkins University
"Concepts of Erotic and Divine Love in Medieval Jewish Thought"
4:00PM, Lavin-Bernick Center, Kendall Cram Lecture Hall, room 218
Thursday, March 1
Rafael Mérida Jiménez, Universitat de Lleida
"Women and Literary Culture in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia"
3:30PM Newcomb 209
Reception to follow in the Newcomb Faculty Lounge, room 114
Friday, March 2
Rafael Mérida Jiménez, Universitat de Lleida
"Magia y brujería en la literatura caballeresca durante la época de los Reyes Católicos (1474-1516)"
3:30PM, Newcomb 407
Reception to follow in the Newcomb Faculty Lounge, room 114