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2019-2020 PKMS Events
Check back on this website and on our Facebook page for updates! September 13, Friday, 2019 Welcome Back + Business Meeting 6:00pm-7:00pm Room 5105, The Graduate Center, CUNY — October 4, Friday, 2019 Workshop with David Perry The Public Scholar in the Precarious University: A Workshop with David Perry 2:00pm-3:30pm Room 5409, The Graduate Center, […]
October 4, 2019: The Public Scholar in the Precarious University, a workshop with David Perry
The Public Scholar in the Precarious University: A Workshop with David Perry Friday, October 4, 2019, 2:00pm-3:30pm Room 5409, The Graduate Center, CUNY https://www.centerforthehumanities.org/programming/the-public-scholar-in-the-precarious-university Should academics go public? How does it work? What are the risks of speaking out? What are the risks of being silent? What are the benefits? How to go about it? […]
Paleography and Manuscript Studies Workshop
Dear all, Please join the Pearl Kibre Medieval Study on Friday, Nov. 6th in Rm. 5409 from 1-3 PM for a paleography and manuscript studies workshop. Facilitated by Dr. Michael Sargent, the workshop is designed to introduce Medieval and Early Modern handwritings and manuscript studies. We hope you are able to join us! Sincerely, The […]
Publishing for Graduate Students: A Recap
PublishingforGraduateStudents Chad Turner’s comprehensive notes Panel Questions Karl Steel’s Facebook post https://www.facebook.com/karl.steel/posts/10205622561577917 Panelists: Karl Steel, Associate Professor of English Literature at Brooklyn College and CUNY Graduate Center Jennifer Ball Brooklyn College and CUNY Graduate Center Moderator: Mary Catherine Kinniburgh Both panelists admitted to unusual first publication experiences: Karl Steel’s first article as a Master’s student was […]
Publishing for Graduate Students: A (Premodern) Panel
The Pearl Kibre Medieval Study is pleased to announce an interdisciplinary faculty panel on publishing for graduate students, to be held Wednesday, April 15, 3:30pm-5:00pm at The Graduate Center, CUNY, Room 5409. Students will hear from Karl Steel (Assistant Professor of English, Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center, CUNY), Jennifer Ball (Professor of Early Christian […]
Event Honoring Gordon Whatley – Nov. 21
On November 21, 2014, starting at 3 p.m., the Ph.D. Program in English at the CUNY Graduate Center will host an event honoring Gordon Whatley on the occasion of his retirement. At 3 p.m., students and colleagues will speak about Gordon’s work at CUNY, and at 4 p.m., there will be a lecture: Robert Upchurch, […]
“Erecting Sex: Hermaphrodites and the Making of Surgery in Medieval Europe” – lecture by Leah DeVun, Friday, Oct. 3
Please join us for a lecture by Leah DeVun on Friday, October 3, 2014 at 6:00 PM in Room 5409 of the Graduate Center, CUNY. Reception to follow! Dr. DeVun is an Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender History at Rutgers University. “Erecting Sex: Hermaphrodites and the Making of Surgery in Medieval Europe” In this […]
Medieval Congress (K’zoo) Run Through
Salutations, medievalist friends! We are planning a run-through for anyone that is giving a paper at Kalamazoo (or anywhere, really). We are meeting in the medieval study (room 5105) on Friday, May 2, at 4:00pm. At 4:45, we will hold an official group meeting. Following the meeting, everyone is welcome to stay for pizza and […]
SYMPOSIUM To commemorate the retirement of DAVID GREETHAM
SYMPOSIUM To commemorate the retirement of DAVID GREETHAM from the doctoral faculty of the CUNY Graduate Center. FRIDAY APRIL 11 ENGLISH DEPARTMENT, ROOM 4406 CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Ave, New York, NY 10016 Schedule of Events 12:00: Welcome: Carrie Hintz, Deputy Executive Officer; Master of Ceremonies: Ammiel Alcalay, Deputy Executive Officer. 12:15: Textual Workshop, […]
More Medieval Studies Events
Annual IUDC Graduate Student Colloquium The Annual Graduate Student Medieval New York Colloquium SUNY Stony Brook Manhattan Campus Friday, March 14, 2014 – 9:30 – 4:30 http://medren.columbia.edu/events/annual-iudc-colloquium/ The French of Outremer: Communities and Communications in the Crusading Mediterranean 34th Annual Conference of the Center for Medieval Studies Fordham University, Lincoln Center Campus Saturday, March 29-30, […]
Boccaccio’s 700th Birthday Party
Greetings, friends of the medieval and early modern eras! 2013 is the 700th birthday of our boy Giovanni Boccaccio, and before the year is out, we’d would like to throw him a party. The party will be co-chosted by the Pearl Kibre Medieval Study and the Early Modern Interdisciplinary Group. Monday, December 16 (reading day) […]
New Directions in Medieval Scholarship – Roundtable
Friday, November 15, 3:00pm CUNY Graduate Center, room 5409 New Directions in Medieval Scholarship Fifth Annual Roundtable Pearl Kibre Medieval Study Moderator: David Greetham, Graduate Center, English Lauren Mancia, Brooklyn College, History “Affective Devotion as Emotional Reform in the Eleventh-Century Benedictine Monastery” William McClellan, Baruch College, English A reading of the Clerk’s Tale and the […]
Guest Speaker: Jocelyn Wogan-Browne
Friday, November 8, 2013 – 3:00 pm Graduate Center, CUNY – room 5409 Utility French and the Making of English Literate Culture In recent years, historical socio-linguistics and attention to manuscript culture have broadened our approach to ‘literary history,’ and re-contexualised our post-medieval term, ‘literature’. These perspectives help to bring into view a broader spectrum […]
Symposium: Christ Among the Medieval Mendicants
Friday August 23, 2013 8:30am-6:30pm We would like to invite everyone to a symposium at the Graduate Center on August 23, commemorating the 750th anniversary of Corpus Christi as a feast day and in conjunction with the Morgan Library’s exhibit “Illuminating the Faith” www.eventbrite.com/event/7450226829
Dec. 7, Film Screening: “Restless Heart: The Confessions of Augustine”
Please join us for a screening of the 2010 film “Restless Heart: The Confessions of Augustine,” on Friday, December 7, 2012 at 3:30 pm in the Segel Theater of the Graduate Center, CUNY.* After the film, Marcia Colish (Yale University) will be the respondent. Seating is limited, so we recommend that you RSVP to [email protected]. […]
Medieval Holiday Feast – Dec. 2, 2pm
The feast season is at hand, and the Pearl Kibre Medieval Study intends to celebrate like it’s 1099! Our Medieval Feast with be Sunday, Dec. 2 at 2pm here at the GC in room 5414. Because this is a weekend event, be sure to bring your ID. (And if you bring a guest, have them […]
Caroline Walker Bynum Lecture
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 […]
Grant Workshop Resources
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. […]
Grant writing workshop
The PKMS will host a Grant Writing Workshop on Friday, September 7 at 3:30 pm in GC room 5409. Speakers will give short talks about their own grant writing experience or advice for grad students; there will be a short demonstration of a grant database that is available to GC students; and there will be […]
