The Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program hosts a variety of events each year, including a lecture series, cultural activies, and an annual awards ceremony. Also listed are events in the Lincoln area of interest to Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
Medieval and Renaissance Studies sponsors one or two programs per month, many of which are co-sponsored. In keeping with our cross-disciplinary mission, we attempt to work with other programs and departments whenever we can.
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Fall 2012 Events
Altered Ages: Medieval and Renaissance Art Fantasy and Reality
September 7, 6:00-9:00 pm, Opening at the Noyes Gallery, 119 South 9th St.
Art based on Medieval and Renaissance Fantasy and Reality
Indigo Bridge Books will have a table with books by members of the program, including Carole Levin and Stephen Buhler, who will be available for book signing
Co-sponsored by the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program
Refreshments will be served
Graduate Program in Shakespeare and Performance
September 21, 5:00pm, Temple Building in Room 104
Dr. Julie Fox, Assistant Direction, graduate program in Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature in Performance in partnership with American Shakespeare Center at Mary Baldwin College, Staunton, Virginia, will present a program on this exciting, innovative M. Litt and MFA program.
Co-sponsored by the Johnny Carson School of Theatre
Refreshments will be served
“Out of the Past: Women of the "Middle Period" re-imagined in Chinese film and visual culture, Mulan and Her ‘Sisters’
October 4, 5:00pm, Mary Martin McLaughlin Memorial Lecture at The Great Plains Museum
Professor Kristine Harris, Associate Professor of History and Director of the Asian Studies Program, SUNY/New Paltz
Co-sponsored by the Nebraska Humanities Council, the Confucius Institute, UNL Women and Gender Studies Program, the Asian Community and Cultural Center, and the Department of History
Reception to follow
Agravio: Courage, Betrayal and a Woman Scorned
October 11, 5:30pm, Dudley Bailey and the Temple Building
Discussion, pizza, and performance
Pizza and discussion with Professor Ian Borden before the show
Agravio: Courage, Betrayal and a Woman Scorned, directed by Ian Borden
“Exiles, Migrations, and Movements”
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
October 12-14, 2012
http://www.unl.edu/modlang/content/machl.shtml
Co-sponsored by the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program
“Protestant Reformers and Islam”
October 29, 7:00pm, Dudley Bailey Library
Emidio Campi, Emeritus Professor, Institute for Swiss Reformation History, University of Zurich
Co-sponsored by the Department of English, the Department of Classics and Religious Studies, and the Research Council
Refreshments will be served
New Faculty Present Research
November 8, 5:00-6:30pm Dudley Bailey Library
Opportunity for those in the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program to meet our new faculty, Malte Rehbein, Department of History, and Nora Peterson, Department of French, who will present their research agendas and goals.
Refreshments will be served
Celebration of 600th anniversary of the birth of Joan of Arc
November 28, 5:00pm, Dudley Bailey Library
Joan of Arc festival to celebrate the 600th anniversary of her birth, with a scholarly presentation, poetry, music, and scenes from plays about Joan of Arc
Refreshments will be served
Fall 2011-Spring 2012 Events
September 26th, 7:30pm, City Campus Union
Celebrating the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible:Creation and Legacy A Panel Discussion with Profs Steve Burnett & Sidnie White Crawford from the Dept. of Classics & Religious Studies, and Profs Steve Buhler & Laura White from the Dept. of English Co-sponsored by the departments of Classics and Religious Studies & English. A reception will follow
October 10th, Great Plains Art Museum, 5:30-7:00pm
Mary Martin McLaughlin Memorial Lecture “Playing at the Center of the Cosmos: The Meaning of Hildegard’s Ordo Virtutum” Dr. Margot Fassler Co-Director of the Master of Sacred Music Program University of Notre Dame Co-sponsored by Hildegard Center for the Arts, the Department of Classics & Religious Studies and the School of Music. A reception will follow
October 21, Lincoln Community Playhouse, time TBA
Live Theatre! William Shakespeare’s Othello Performed by Flatwater Shakespeare Directed by Bob Hall Group trip on the 21st See www.flatwatershakespeare.org for full performance schedule
November 10th, Bailey Library (228 Andrews Hall), 5:00-6:30pm
"“But here I am in Kent and Christendom”: Country, Court, and Making a Nation" Kelly Stage, UNL Department of English and "Proof and Consequences: Women as Ministers of Revenge in The Merry Wives of Windsor" Marguerite Tassi, UNK Department of English
December 8th, St. Mark’s on the Campus, 7:00-9:00pm
Holiday Festivities & Open Discussion: Whither Medieval and Renaissance Studies? Questions and Directions for the Field.
January 19th, 5:30-7:00, Bailey Library (228 Andrews Hall)
Jason Gildow, Southeast Community College "The Occult Reformation: John Dee's English Conversion of Italian Inquisition Era Ciphers" & Stephen Burnett, Classics and Religious Studies, UNL "The Roman Index and Christian Hebrew Scholarship during the Sixteenth Century"
February 7th, 10:30 am Love Library Room 111 (ESC Room)
Medieval and Renaissance Studies: Primary & Secondary Sources Kathy Johnson, Professor & Humanities Librarian Learn about the major print and electronic resources covering the period from 400 CE through 1700 CE, available through the University Libraries. Register at: http://unl.libcal.com/event.php?id=15880
February 10th, 4:30-6:00, City Campus Union
Gary Macy, Chair of Religious Studies at Santa Clara University “Ordained Women in the Middle Ages: When Women Were Clergy” Co-sponsored by the Departments of History and Classics and Religious Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies Program, University of Nebraska Research Council
March 1st 5:00-6:30 , Bailey Library (228 Andrews Hall)
Anna Riehl Bertolet, Auburn University “‘But Yet a Union in Partition’: Elizabeth Tudor and Mary Stuart” Co-sponsored by the Department of English and Women’s and Gender Studies Program
March 2nd , 2:00-4:00, Bailey Library (228 Andrews Hall)
Workshop on fellowships in the humanities Anna Riehl Bertolet & Carole Levin Co-sponsored by the UNL Office of Research and Economic Development
March 16th , 5:00, Kimball Recital Hall
"Love and Madness: Shakespeare in Opera” An opera scenes performance directed by Kaley Smith.
April 20-23rd, Symposium on “Transcendence in Mysticism and Music”
4/23, 3:30pm, City Campus Union Auditorium Roundtable discussion on Transcendence in Mysticism and Music
4/23, 7:30pm , City Campus Union Keynote Bernard McGinn, "The Silent Nothingness of God" For the full symposium schedule see: http://www.unl.edu/classics/
April 27th, 3:30-5:00, Bailey Library, (228 Andrews Hall)
Awards & Accomplishments
Medieval and Renaissance Studies Calendar