WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23: OU medieval art historian to lecture
Susan Caldwell, of OU’s Art History Dept., will deliver a lecture on “How Castilian Chroniclers and Epic Poets Obfuscated the Dynastic Meaning of San Isidoro’s Pantheon of the Kings.”
For more information, contact Nancy LaGreca, at lagreca@ou.
Time: 4:30 p.m.
Place: Fred Jones Museum of Art, room 203
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2: First Friday
Medievalists, Early Modernists, and friends are invited to enjoy the first Friday of every month together at an informal gathering at the popular bar/restaurant Blu, to talk about all things Med/Ren and to enjoy each other’s company. Our next get-together will be Oct. 2, 2009. Come join us!
Time: 5 p.m.
Place: Blu, 201 S. Crawford Ave. (SE corner of Crawford and Comanche)
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OCTOBER 1-3: The Thirty-First Mid-America Conference on History
The conference, hosted by the University of Oklahoma’s History Department, includes five panels with papers of med/Ren interest. For more information, see http://www.ou.edu/midamerica2009.
Thursday, October 1: Session Two, 10:15-12:00
Social Issues in Medieval Europe
Chair/Commentator: Roberta Magnusson, University of Oklahoma, rmagnusson@ou.edu
“Saint Colette and the Demonic”; Erin Glunt, Yale University
“Problems with Ecclesiastical Drinking in Medieval England”; Kristen Burton; Oklahoma State University
“Female Inheritance in England and Scotland, 1100-1500”; Carla Beckmann; Oklahoma State University
Thursday, October 1: Session Three, 1:30-3:15
Religion in the Ancient World
Chair/Commentator: Garold Mills; University Of Oklahoma, millsg@ou.edu
“What Was God in Ancient Iraq?”; Dan Snell, University of Oklahoma
“Women and Religion in Ancient Iraq”; Tonia Sharlach, Oklahoma State University
“Monasteries and Beer”; Kristen Burton, Oklahoma State University
Society in Early Modern England
Chair/Commentator: Martha Skeeters, University of Oklahoma, mskeeters@ou.edu
“Meanings of Marriage in Early Modern England”; Jennifer McNabb, Western Illinois University
“Vagrancy in Early Modern England”; Abby Lagemann, Western Illinois University
“Realism and Skepticism in Early Modern English Witchcraft Tracts”; Elizabeth Carlson, Western Illinois University
Friday, October 2: Session Eight, 4:00-5:45
Anti-Popery in the Reformation and Post-Reformation
Chair/Commentator: Jane Wickersham, University Of Oklahoma, jwickersham@ou.edu
“Casuistry and Conformity in Elizabethan England”; Rebecca Davis, University of Oklahoma
“”Awakening, Apocalypse, and Anti-Popery in the Earthquakes of 1755″; William Smith, University of Oklahoma
“The Pied Piper of Hamelin”; Ken Kurihara, Fordham University
Saturday, October 3: Session Nine, 8:15-10:00
Putting the “Spin” on England
Chair/Commentator: Jennifer McNabb, Western Illinois Univ., JL-Mcnabb@wiu.edu
“”King George III and Two Political Cartoons”; Eric England, University of Oklahoma
“Elizabethan News Pamphlets and Conquest of Ireland”; David O’Hara, University of Central Arkansas
Place: Embassy Suites Hotel, 2501 Conference Drive, Norman, Oklahoma
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19: Lecture on Late Antique literature
Prof. Kyle Harper of OU’s Classics Dept. will lecture on “Jesus, Paul, and Pagan Imposters: Narrative Imitation in Ancient Fiction.”
For more information, contact Nancy LaGreca, at lagreca@ou.
Time: 4:30 p.m.
Place: Kaufman Hall, room 138
