Please join us for a lecture by Caroline Walker Bynum on Friday, November 9, 2012 at 4:00 pm in the Segel Theater of the Graduate Center, CUNY.* Dr. Bynum is Professor emerita of Medieval European History at the Institute for Advanced Study, and University Professor emerita at Columbia University.

“The Anthropomorphic and the Other: Medieval Holy Objects in Comparative Perspective”

Students of comparative religion, cognitive scientists, art historians, and historians sometimes use paradigms from non-western religions to raise questions about the role of material objects in Christianity.  Recently, such discussion has focused on images and controversies about them. In her talk, Prof. Bynum argues that the most important material manifestation of the holy in the western European Middle Ages was the Eucharist and suggests both that understanding it is enhanced by the use of comparative material and that considering it as a case study of divine materiality leads to a more sophisticated formulation of comparative paradigms.  

*The Graduate Center is located at 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY.

This event is co-sponsored by the Pearl Kibre Medieval Study and The Center for Humanities.

Thanks to all of our presenters at the PKMS Grant Workshop that was held on Friday, September 7 and to all who attended.

Below is a list of resources from the workshop.

Professor Anne Stone recommends Scholarly Pursuits, an ebook by Cynthia Verba, available online from the Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. http://www.gsas.harvard.edu/current_students/scholarly_pursuits.php

Professor Dagmar Herzog has shared Grant Writing Strategies, a PDF that you can download here.
GRANT-WRITING STRATEGIES HERZOG

Deborah Hillborn demonstrated resources from the Graduate Center’s Office of Research and Sponsored Programs (RSP) including Pivot/COS. For more information contact the RSP: http://www.gc.cuny.edu/About-the-GC/Provosts-Office/Sponsored-Research-Grant-Funding

She also demonstrated Grant Advisor Plus, accessible in the Mina Rees Library list of databases online:
http://www.grantadvisor.com.ezproxy.gc.cuny.edu/tgaplus/