Events Calendar
January 31, 2008 / CHAT: 11:40-1PM, 10th Floor of Gladfelter Hall
Teresa Scott Soufas, Spanish and Portuguese, Dean, CLA
"Isabel I and the Queen's Three Bodies"
A specialist in Golden Age Spanish literature, Prof. Soufas has authored three books: Melancholy and the Secular Mind in Spanish Golden Age Literature, Dramas of Distinction: Plays by Spanish Golden Age Women, and Women’s Acts: Plays by Women Dramatists of Spain’s Golden Age. She is Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Professor of Spanish.
English Renaissance Lectures
Feb. 6th (Wednesday), 3:30, Anderson 1123
- Trish Henley, Florida State University, will speak on:
- "'Lay Down the Treasures of Your Body'": The Sexual Fantasies of the State
in Shakespeare's Measure for Measure.
Feb. 8th (Friday), 3:30, Anderson 1123
- Simone Chess, UC Santa Barbara, will speak on:
- "'His son instead of his daughter': Crossdressing in a Gendered Economy"
Feb. 11th (Monday), 3:30, Anderson 1123
- Nichole Miller, UC Irvine, will speak on:
- "Sacred Life and Sacrificial Economy in Shakespeare's Coriolanus"
All talks will be at 3:30 and will take place in Anderson 1123.
March 20th, Thursday, 4 pm, CHAT Lounge (Gladfelter, 10th floor)
Pre-modern graduate students present on their on-going dissertation projects.
April 17th, Thursday, 4 pm, CHAT Lounge (Gladfelter, 10th floor)
Pre-Modern Reading Group: the group will be discussing Mystifying the Monarch, a collection of essays that continues the group's year long discussions on the role of, and the problematics of, sovereignty in the pre- and early modern periods.
For more information on the group's book selection, see http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/226178.ctl
FALL 2008
September 5th, Friday.
Save the date for our mini-conference on King Arthur's Body. More information to follow.
FUNDING AND OTHER DEADLINES
Delaware Valley Medieval Association Travel Grant Application 2007-2008
ELIGIBILITY
The competition is limited to graduate students, independent scholars, or part-time/ temporary faculty who are not eligible for research funds from their institution. Applicants must already be members of the Association (joined or renewed during calendar year 2007). Past recipients of the grant are not eligible.
FUNDS AND CONDITIONS OF USE
We offer a subsidy of up to $300 to present a paper at a conference or to travel for research. Either must have taken place, or will take place, between 1 September 2007 and 1 September 2008 (that is, this academic year and the coming summer).
HOW TO APPLY
Please apply to Elaine Beretz, Secretary of the DVMA
Electronic submissions (preferred) to:
eberetz@brynmawr.edu
Paper Submissions to:
35 East Stewart Ave.
Lansdowne, PA 19050-2020
INCLUDE:
- your CV
- a statement (1-page limit) of the purpose for the travel (including name of conference and paper title, or specific research plans)
- brief (3-page limit) of the larger research project
- a disclosure of any other funding for which you have applied or plan to apply Applications are due by March 15, 2008.
The recipient will be announced at our meeting on 26
April.
The Secretary will be happy to answer any questions
about the grant, or eligibility for the grant:
Elaine Beretz
eberetz@brynmawr.edu
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Delaware Valley Medieval Association
Elaine Beretz, Secretary
Elaine M. Beretz, Ph.D.
Center for Visual Culture
Bryn Mawr College
eberetz@brynmawr.edu
Philadelphia Early Music
At the Kimmel Center:
@Penn Symphony Orchestra
Friday, April 25
8:00pm
Irvine Auditorium
3401 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA
A performance of Orff's Carmina Burana with the University Choral Society.
Piffaro
A Musical Pastiche
Of the Early German Baroque
Music of Praetorius, Schütz, Schein and Scheidt
April 4, 2008 | New York
April 5, 2008 | Princeton
April 6, 2008 | Philadelphia
The London Waites
English Music for Renaissance Wind Bands
May 2-4, 2008
Philadelphia & Wilmington
