Sixth Annual UCSB Medieval Studies Graduate Student Conference

Saturday, 19 May 2007 Centennial House, UCSB

Civic Culture: Cities and Towns in the Middle Ages

Plenary Speaker: Edward Muir, Northwestern University

Please register here or contact Edward D. English at 893-3167 or english@history.ucsb.edu

9:15 Coffee

9:45 Opening Remarks

10:00 Session 1

Jennifer Hammerschmidt (UCSB)

“Sculptural and Architectural Motifs in Late Medieval European Art: Jan Gossaert and Tilman Riemenschneider's Elusive Frames”

Tatiana Sizonenko (UCSD)

“Giorgione, Aristotle, and Venetian Humanism”

11:00 Comment: Mark Meadow (UCSB, Department of History of Art and Architecture)

11:15 Session 2

Tamar M. Boyadjian (UCLA)

“Lament for the City: Characteristic Qualities of the Genre of the Medieval Armenian City-lament”

Jessica Marin Elliott (UCSB)

“The Integration of Jews into the Working World of Late Thirteenth-Century Paris ”

12:15 Comment: Hilary Bernstein (UCSB, Department of History)

12:30 Lunch

2:00 Plenary Address – Edward Muir (Northwestern University)

“Meaning without Words: The Visual in Civic Rituals in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy ”

3:00 Session 3

Kimberly Dachel (UCSB)

“Surviving Through the Cycles: Dramatic Methods in Medieval Chester ”

Robert J. Hudson (UCLA)

“Rabelais's Soundless Utopia: Order, Chaos and the Church Bell in Renaissance France”

4:00 Comment: Jody Enders (UCSB, Department of French and Italian and Theatre and Dance)

4:15 Closing Remarks

This event is sponsored by the Departments of French and Italian, History, History of Art and Architecture, Medieval Studies, Music, Religious Studies, Renaissance Studies, Spanish and Portuguese, and Theatre and Dance.