CFP for 2017 International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI
CFP: Persecution, Punishment, and Purgatory I-II: Methodological Considerations, Historical Explorations Sponsored by the Medieval Studies Certificate Program, Graduate Center, CUNY 52nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 11-14, 2017, Kalamazoo, MI Societies and cultures shape themselves in part through a series of exclusions, and those exclusions may involve both individual punishment and the persecution of […]
12th Annual PKMS Graduate Student Conference CFP
Pre-Modernisms: Friday, October 28th, The Graduate Center, CUNY As the famous sayings go, everything old is new again, and history repeats itself. How many times have we heard someone described as a Renaissance man or woman, or something that seems old-fashioned called “medieval?” Scholars of these periods often find, of course, that such evaluations are, […]
Conference Livestreaming
To view a livestream of the conference, visit http://videostreaming.gc.cuny.edu/videos/ and click on the Medieval Graduate Student Conference.
“Sanctity and Sinfulness: Hagiographical Studies in Memory of Thomas Head” – 2016 Conference Schedule
We are pleased to announce the schedule for the Pearl Kibre Medieval Study’s upcoming annual graduate student conference, “Sanctity and Sinfulness: Hagiographical Studies in Memory of Thomas Head.” The conference will be held on Friday, February 26 from 10:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. in Room 9204 of the CUNY Graduate Center. 10:30 Registration 11:00 Panel 1: […]
Call for Papers for 11th Annual PKMS Graduate Student Conference
“Sanctity and Sinfulness: Hagiographical Studies in Memory of Tom Head” 11th Annual Pearl Kibre Medieval Study Graduate Student Conference The Pearl Kibre Medieval Study, the CUNY Graduate Center’s student-run organization for medieval studies, announces its eleventh annual Graduate Student Conference at the CUNY Graduate Center on Friday, February 26, 2016. This year’s conference is dedicated […]
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, […]
“Persecution, Punishment and Purgatory in the Long Middle Ages” – Grad Student Conference, Nov. 7, 2014
10th Annual Graduate Student Conference in Medieval Studies Persecution, Punishment and Purgatory in the Long Middle Ages November 7, 2014 Graduate Center – CUNY Room 9205 9:30 — Registration 10:00 — Panel one Esther Bernstein “Enmity and Amity: The Ambivalent Nature of Medieval Jewish-Christian Religious Borrowings” David Heayn “Urban Violence: Riot Culture and Dynamics in […]
“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 […]
ICMS (Kalamazoo) 2015 Call for Papers: “Medieval Celebrations”
ICMS 2015 Panel Medieval Celebrations The people of the medieval world found plenty of reasons to celebrate and many ways to do so. They celebrated the seasons and the passage of time. They celebrated the life and resurrection of Christ and His host of saints. They celebrated kings and fools. They celebrated with formal ritual […]
Call for Papers: “Persecution, Punishment and Purgatory in the Long Middle Ages”
10th Annual Pearl Kibre Medieval Study Graduate Student Conference CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY November 7, 2014 Persecution, Punishment and Purgatory in the Long Middle Ages The Pearl Kibre Medieval Study, the CUNY Graduate Center’s student-run organization for medieval studies, announces its tenth annual Graduate Student Conference at the CUNY Graduate Center on Friday, […]
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, […]
Medieval Celebrations — Ninth Annual PKMS Interdisciplinary Student Conference
Friday, February 28: 10:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. CUNY Graduate Center, room 9207 10:30 Registration 11:00 Panel 1: “The Uses of Rhetoric, Ritual and Wood in Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale” Jason Hoelzel (Brooklyn College) “Medieval Festivals” Margaret Stella (University of Virginia) 12:00 Lunch Break 1:00 Roundtable: Medieval Celebrations Richard Gyug (Fordham […]
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 […]
