The Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is holding a conference on material culture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance October 1-3, 2015 on the UNL City Campus to celebrate twenty years of our major.
The first plenary speaker is Dr. Anne Rudloff Stanton, Associate Professor of Art History at University of Missouri. She will be presenting the Mary Martin McLaughlin Memorial Lecture "It's Good to be the Queen: the Material Culture of Isabella of France," which is an illustrated lecture about the illuminated prayer books and other movable goods of Isabella of France, wife of King Edward II of England (r.1307-1327). This talk will be at the International Quilt Study Center and Museum at 3:30pm on Thursday, Oct 1.
The second plenary speaker is Dr. Amanda Wunder, Assistant Professor of History at Lehman College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. She will be presenting "Extreme Fashions in Early Modern Spain," a talk that explores radical transformations in Spanish fashion and the controversies they engendered during the country's rise and fall as an imperial power. Dr. Wunder will speak at 1:00pm in the Unity Room of the Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center, and following Dr. Wunder will be a presentation of period clothing by Dr. Barabara Trout and some of her students from Textiles, Merchandising, and Fashion Design.
There are many other conference panel presentations (Friday 9:00am - 4:15pm; Saturday 9:30am - 1:00pm) on medieval and Renaissance material culture: literature, various types of books and the elements in them, music, jewelry, women's bequests and gift-giving, women's clothing, medieval and early modern churches, the human body, Elizabethan voyages, paintings, scientific instruments, film depictions, prisons, and other spaces and places in England. On Friday, there will be a round table in the Unity Room from 4:30-5:45pm with nine UNL undergraduate and graduate students (three are currently enrolled at UNL; six are alumni) who have won national awards and will speak about their achievements and paths taken, and how studying the medieval and Reanissance eras influenced and aided both their awards and careers.
To further celebrate the anniversary of the major, there are four exhibit cases on the second floor of UNL Love Library: two are in the Love North / Love South connecting corridor, and two are in Love North.
See the Conference website for more details.
Women's & Gender Studies is a co-sponsor of this event.
The first plenary speaker is Dr. Anne Rudloff Stanton, Associate Professor of Art History at University of Missouri. She will be presenting the Mary Martin McLaughlin Memorial Lecture "It's Good to be the Queen: the Material Culture of Isabella of France," which is an illustrated lecture about the illuminated prayer books and other movable goods of Isabella of France, wife of King Edward II of England (r.1307-1327). This talk will be at the International Quilt Study Center and Museum at 3:30pm on Thursday, Oct 1.
The second plenary speaker is Dr. Amanda Wunder, Assistant Professor of History at Lehman College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. She will be presenting "Extreme Fashions in Early Modern Spain," a talk that explores radical transformations in Spanish fashion and the controversies they engendered during the country's rise and fall as an imperial power. Dr. Wunder will speak at 1:00pm in the Unity Room of the Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center, and following Dr. Wunder will be a presentation of period clothing by Dr. Barabara Trout and some of her students from Textiles, Merchandising, and Fashion Design.
There are many other conference panel presentations (Friday 9:00am - 4:15pm; Saturday 9:30am - 1:00pm) on medieval and Renaissance material culture: literature, various types of books and the elements in them, music, jewelry, women's bequests and gift-giving, women's clothing, medieval and early modern churches, the human body, Elizabethan voyages, paintings, scientific instruments, film depictions, prisons, and other spaces and places in England. On Friday, there will be a round table in the Unity Room from 4:30-5:45pm with nine UNL undergraduate and graduate students (three are currently enrolled at UNL; six are alumni) who have won national awards and will speak about their achievements and paths taken, and how studying the medieval and Reanissance eras influenced and aided both their awards and careers.
To further celebrate the anniversary of the major, there are four exhibit cases on the second floor of UNL Love Library: two are in the Love North / Love South connecting corridor, and two are in Love North.
See the Conference website for more details.
Women's & Gender Studies is a co-sponsor of this event.
