Graduate Student Invitation Lecture Series
Each year, beginning in 2004, the Medieval Institute graduate students organize a lecture, inviting a scholar to speak and conduct a subsequent graduate seminar.
The details of the 2024 speaker will be added shortly.
PAST SPEAKERS
2023
Chris Jones, ESRR Professor of English, University of Utah, "Neo-Old English, Anglo-Saxonism and the New English Nationalism."
2022
Eugenio Refini (Associate Professor of Italian at NYU), "Whose Aristotle? Latinate Knowledge and Vernacular Translation in Medieval Italy"
2021
Hussein Fancy (Associate Professor of History at the University of Michigan), "The Impostor Sea: The Making of the Medieval Mediterranean"
2020
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the spring 2020 lecture with Hussein Fancy was postponed to spring 2021.
2019
Rémi Brague (Professor Emeritus of Medieval and Arabic Philosophy at the University of Paris I), "Aquinas' Doctrine of Providence and its Relevance Today"
2018
Mary Carruthers (Remarque Professor Emeritus of Literature at New York University and Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford), "Polyfocal Perspective and the Perplexity Principle in Medieval Aesthetics"
2016
Peter Loewen (Rice University), "Music in Early Franciscan Practice"
2015
Fr. Maximos Constas (Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology), "Through a Glass Darkly: Paradox and Perception in Byzantine Iconography"
2013
Christopher Wickham (Oxford), "Administrator's Time: The Social Memory of the Early Medieval State in Iraq and China"
2012
Alastair Minnis (Yale), "Between Paradises"
2011
Peter Casarella (DePaul University), "Trinitas creatrix: Aesthetic Expressionism in the Theology of St. Bonaventure"
2010
Wayne J. Hankey (Dalhousie University and King's College), "Aquinas' New Aristotle and the Platonists: Plotinus unus de magnis ... inter commentatores de Aristotilis (Aquinas, De unitate intellectus contra Averroistas)"
2009
Michelle P. Brown (University of London), "Words to be Seen and Images to be Read: Visual Literacy and the Book in Pre-Conquest Britain"
2007
Mary J. Carruthers (New York University), "The Art of Forgetting and the Art of Recollecting in the Middle Ages"
2006
Jan M. Ziolkowski (Harvard), "Juggling the Middle Ages: The Reception of 'Our Lady's Tumbler' and 'Le Jongleur de Notre-Dame'"
2006
Fr. Gilles Emery, O.P. (Fribourg University), "The Reciprocal Interiority of the Divine Persons: Trinitatrian Perichoresis in Saint Thomas Aquinas"
2005
Fr. Brian Shanley, O.P. (The Catholic U of America), "Aquinas's Exemplar Ethics"
2004
Michael Allen (University of Chicago), "The Text in the Medieval Vineyard: Philology as Historical Science"