Medieval Studies Program | 2023 Lecture Series:
January 24th and 30th, and February 17th
HSSB 6020 | HSSB 6056 | HSSB 6056

January 24, 2023 | Prof. Jody Enders, French and Italian, UC Santa Barbara
“Translating Medieval Farce” Humanities Decanted Series
January 30, 2023 | Prof. Mark Meadow, History of Art and Architecture, UC Santa Barbara
“Showing Off: The Performativity of Techne in Philip Hainhofer’s Pommersche Schreibtisch”
February 17, 2023 | Prof. Nicolas Tackett, History, UC Berkeley
“The Long-Term Consequences of Divergent Pathways of Chinese Reunification: The Sui Founding vs. the Song Founding”

Introducing New Initiatives

Reem Taha & Jessica Zisa, IHC RFG
“Un-disciplining Premodern Histories of Race and Gender”
Heather Blurton & Debra Blumenthal, Engaging Humanities seminar
“Moors, Mongols and the Monstrous: Race and Racism in the Middle Ages”

Jody Enders, Department of French and Italian
October 4, 2022

Join us for a fun “cold read” of one or two of her farces from her forthcoming Immaculate Deception (vol. 3) or Trial by Farce (vol. 4)

Daniel Reeve, Department of English, “The Green Knight and the Green New Deal: David Lowery’s Climate Catastrophe”
October 11, 2022

Medieval Studies X RFG
October 18, 2022

Join us for a reading and discussion of Sharon Kinoshita’s “Worlding Medieval French Literature,” in eds. Christie McDonald and Susan Rubin Suleiman, French Global: A New Approach to Literary History (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010).