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DTSTAMP:20260925T103710
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261006T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261006T180000
SUMMARY:Presentation:The Premodern Colloquium Presents: Bona Sforza of Aragon. Between the Habbsurgs and the Jagiellonians.
DESCRIPTION:The Premodern Colloquium presents visiting scholar Matylda Urjasz-Raczko for our first event of the 2026-2027 academic year. On Tuesday\, October 6th\, Matylda will give a presentation which examines the figure of Bona Sforza of Aragon (1494-1557)\, Queen of Poland\, Grand Duchess of Lithuania\, Princess of Bari\, Rssano in the Kingdom of Naples\, and heir to the Duchy of Mila and the Kingdom of Jerusalen. It is thought not as a gender biography. Her figure and life serve as a case study to illustrate the processes taking place in the Mediterranean world and in northern and eastern Europe in the time just before the Habsburg domination in the mid-16th century. The focus is therefore on the time and places where Bona came to rule. It serves as a lens that focuses various problems related to the formation of a new balance of power and a shape of the future Europe.\n\nIf you plan to attend\, please RSVP using the form below so as to receive a copy of the presentation's supporting materials.\n\nhttps://forms.gle/GbdkbREnYNGKwFKV9
UID:152873-21914664@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152873
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Poland,Medieval Studies
LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014
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DTSTAMP:20260925T104521
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261013T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261013T133000
SUMMARY:Meeting:FoRMS: The Ritual of Representation: Visualizing the Icon Painter in a Medieval Vita Icon from Cyprus
DESCRIPTION:Please join The Forum for Research in Medieval Studies (FoRMS) on Tuesday\, October 13th for a presentation by Nicolette Levy\, a Forsyth Visiting Graduate Student Fellow in the department of History of Art and a PhD candidate in the Science and Technology of Archaeology and Cultural Heritage at the Cyprus Institute in Nicosia. Nicolette will workshop a conference presentation on icon painters of medieval vita icon from Cyprus.\n\nLunch will be provided!
UID:152506-21913843@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152506
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Medieval Studies,Art History
LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014
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DTSTAMP:20260901T161331
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T173000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:The Early Novel in French: Poetics of a Genre in the Making.
DESCRIPTION:In her upcoming talk\, Virginia Krause proposes to fill in a missing chapter in our History of the Novel\, which has long overlooked sixteenth-century France in its rush to identify the birth of the modern novel (for modernists) or the demise of medieval romance (for medievalists).  In the experimental fictions of mid-sixteenth-century France\, ancient rhetorical culture and new print technologies converged\, Krause argues\, shedding new light on a rapidly evolving genre—its lifelike personas or “person-fictions”\; its immersive powers over readers\; and\, amidst all its experimental properties and “new” technologies\, the enduring place occupied by ancient rhetorical culture and medieval adventure\, core principles for this genre-in-the-making.\n\n*Biography:*\n\nProfessor of French and Francophone Studies at Brown University\, Virginia Krause is the author of Witchcraft\, Demonology\, and Confession in Early Modern France (Cambridge\, 2015) and Idle Pursuits (Delaware\, 2003).  Her talk will be drawn from her new book\, The Early Novel in French: Poetics of a Genre in the Making (Northwestern\, forthcoming).
UID:151334-21911383@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151334
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:#Honors Program,French,History,Literature,Medieval,Medieval Studies,Romance Language
LOCATION:Michigan Union - Kuenzel (1st Floor)
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DTSTAMP:20260925T104502
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261103T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261103T133000
SUMMARY:Meeting:FoRMS: Mapping Tools for Medieval Studies
DESCRIPTION:Please join The Forum for Research in Medieval Studies (FoRMS) on Tuesday\, November 3rd for a introductory workshop by Qi Zheng (History of Art)\, which will introduce common tools for making and using maps for medieval research\, such as Geographic Information System (GIS) and R.\n\nLunch will be provided!
UID:152509-21913846@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152509
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Medieval Studies,Art History
LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260812T143717
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261204T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261204T173000
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Past Matters: Environments and Methods in Medieval Europe and the Mediterranean
DESCRIPTION:The field of medieval environmental history has grown immensely from its inception 30 years ago. While scholars of the classical past and modern period registered environmental changes made by their powerful states a little earlier\, the topic caught on more slowly in the medieval field\, where small and ineffective states posed different methodological challenges. It took different ways of studying nature to see how environments changed in Europe and the Mediterranean during the millennium between 500 and 1500 CE. Scholars of the medieval environment of necessity adopted an acrobatic approach to the past\, bringing together the usual tools of the historian -- close textual analysis – with archaeology\, archaeobotany\, and scientific studies of pollen distribution\, weather patterns\, and the contents of middens. Today\, the field of medieval environmental history represents one of the most methodologically diverse and inventive among any branch of history.\n\n\nThis one-day conference\, with an opening session on the previous afternoon\, will appraise the major developments and turning points of the last 30 years in medieval environmental history with papers from some of the leading scholars in the field. Since one of the pioneers in medieval environmental history\, Paolo Squatriti\, has been on the faculty of the U of M for 25 years\, the conference will take cues from his seminal works and methodological turns. Panels will offer papers within the following themes: 1. History in the mundane 2. Historical agency and unexpected actors 3. The Mediterranean as a place of hybridity 4. Materiality and the past 5. Science in the service of history.\n\nFeaturing:\nJon Arnold (University of Tulsa)\nHenrik Dey (Hunter College)\nHussein Fancy (Yale University)\nBenjamin Graham (University of Memphis)\nRichard Hoffman (York University)\nAlyssa Kotva (The Ohio State University)\nJamie Kreiner (University of California\, Los Angeles)\nStephanie Leitzel (Cornell University)
UID:150198-21908384@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150198
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Literature,Environment,European,Graduate,Graduate Students,History,Humanities,Social Sciences,Anthropology
LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014
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DTSTAMP:20260812T143717
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261205T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261205T173000
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Past Matters: Environments and Methods in Medieval Europe and the Mediterranean
DESCRIPTION:The field of medieval environmental history has grown immensely from its inception 30 years ago. While scholars of the classical past and modern period registered environmental changes made by their powerful states a little earlier\, the topic caught on more slowly in the medieval field\, where small and ineffective states posed different methodological challenges. It took different ways of studying nature to see how environments changed in Europe and the Mediterranean during the millennium between 500 and 1500 CE. Scholars of the medieval environment of necessity adopted an acrobatic approach to the past\, bringing together the usual tools of the historian -- close textual analysis – with archaeology\, archaeobotany\, and scientific studies of pollen distribution\, weather patterns\, and the contents of middens. Today\, the field of medieval environmental history represents one of the most methodologically diverse and inventive among any branch of history.\n\n\nThis one-day conference\, with an opening session on the previous afternoon\, will appraise the major developments and turning points of the last 30 years in medieval environmental history with papers from some of the leading scholars in the field. Since one of the pioneers in medieval environmental history\, Paolo Squatriti\, has been on the faculty of the U of M for 25 years\, the conference will take cues from his seminal works and methodological turns. Panels will offer papers within the following themes: 1. History in the mundane 2. Historical agency and unexpected actors 3. The Mediterranean as a place of hybridity 4. Materiality and the past 5. Science in the service of history.\n\nFeaturing:\nJon Arnold (University of Tulsa)\nHenrik Dey (Hunter College)\nHussein Fancy (Yale University)\nBenjamin Graham (University of Memphis)\nRichard Hoffman (York University)\nAlyssa Kotva (The Ohio State University)\nJamie Kreiner (University of California\, Los Angeles)\nStephanie Leitzel (Cornell University)
UID:150198-21908385@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150198
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Literature,Environment,European,Graduate,Graduate Students,History,Humanities,Social Sciences,Anthropology
LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014
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DTSTAMP:20260925T104901
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261208T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261208T133000
SUMMARY:Meeting:FoRMS: Allison Grenda
DESCRIPTION:Please join The Forum for Research in Medieval Studies (FoRMS) on Tuesday\, December 8th\, for a presentation from Allison Grenda\, a PhD candidate in the department of History of Art. Allison will workshop a presentation for an upcoming conference.\n\nLunch will be provided!
UID:152511-21913848@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152511
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art History,Medieval Studies
LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014
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