Lecture series

Animals: Medieval Studies Lecture Series 2019-2020

The Medieval Studies Center of Loyola University Chicago presents this year’s lecture series: Animals.

Image credit: Rochester Bestiary (c. 1230); Royal MS 12 F XIII, f. 4r

All talks will be on Mondays at 4:00 pm

In addition to our “Animals” series, we are proud to present:

Dr. Janusz Smolucha
Jesuit University Krakow

“Change and Continuity in Polish Culture in the Middle Ages and Modern Era and its Impact on Neighboring Countries"

Monday, September 23, 4 pm

Institute for Environmental Sustainability, Room 123-124

LECTURES: FALL 2019
OCT 14 4 PM IES 123-124	Dr. Karl Steel Brooklyn College *"Thinking like a Cow: Bestial Reason and Posthumanism in Marguerite Porete's Mirror of Simple Souls"* Author of How to Make a Human: Animals and Violence in the Middle Ages (Ohio State University Press, 2011)
LECTURES: SPRING 2019
FEB 3 4 PM CROWN AUDITORIUM	Dr. Julie K. Chamberlin Loyola University Chicago “Animals Before the Law: Medieval Fables and the Fiction of Legal Personhood” Author of “Philosophie and Folie: Translating Suffering in Marie de France’s Fables.” Fall 2016 in Le Cygne: International Journal of the Marie de France Society
MAR 23 4 PM CROWN AUDITORIUM	Dr. Jamie Kreiner University of Georgia "From the Mud to the Cosmos: Pigs in the Early Medieval West" Author of The Social Life of Hagiography in the Merovingian Kingdom (Cambridge University Press, 2018)
APR 6 4 PM CROWN AUDITORIUM	Dr. Anna Taylor University of Massachusetts, Amherst "Dogs, Lions, and Saints: Wildness and Domesticity in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages." Author of Epic Lives and Monasticism in the Middle Ages, 800-1050 (Cambridge University Press, 2013)

MEDIEVAL ENVIRONMENTS
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‌The Medieval Studies Center, with the co-sponsorship of the Institute for Environmental Sustainability, presents the 2018-19 lecture series: Medieval Environments. To understand the present, we must understand the past. Over the course of the year, seven internationally-known speakers from various disciplines will present their research on aspects of medieval environmental issues and how they illuminate the present. Unless noted, all talks will be on Mondays at 4:00 pm in IES 123-124. (Photo credit: BL Royal 16 E VI f. 4v, illustration of the Roman d’Alexandre)

Spring 2019 Series
02/04/19	Whale Watching in the Medieval North Atlantic: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Marine Mammal Use and Populations in Premodern Europe Vicki Szabo, Western Carolina University Author of Monstrous Fishes and the Mead-Dark Sea: Whaling in the Medieval North Atlantic (Brill, 2008); director (2018) of NSF funded project, "Assessing the Distribution and Variability of Marine Mammals through Archaeology, Ancient DNA, and History in the North Atlantic."
02/25/19 4:00 pm IC 4th Floor	Climate Variability in Medieval Times: seven decades of progress Malcolm Hughes, Regents' Professor of Dendrochronology, University of Arizona Author and co-author of over a hundred articles, including "Spatial and temporal characteristics of climate in medieval times revisited." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (2011) and "Global Signatures and Dynamical Origins of the 'Little Ice Age' and 'Medieval Climate Anomaly'"; Science. 326 (2009)
03/25/19	God's Stewards: Conservation in Later Medieval England Rosemary O'Neill, Kenyon College, Ohio Working on a book linking medieval estates management, accounting practices, and the ethics of land stewardship
04/08/19	Landscape and Environment in Anatolia: Considering the Context of Çadir Höyük Marica Cassis, University of Calgary Director of Byzantine Project, Çadir Höyük archaeologial site in Turkey. Co-author of "The Climate and Environment of Byzantine Anatolia: Integrating Science, History, and Archaeology," Journal of Interdisciplinary History (2014)
FALL 2018 SERIES
10/01/18	A New Story of the Black Death Monica Green, Arizona State University Editor of Pandemic Disease in the Medieval World: Rethinking the Black Death (Amsterdam: Arc Medieval Press, 2015) and author of other books and articles on the history of disease and medicine
FRIDAY 11/2/18 IES 111	Roofing Rome: The Origins of Forest Conversation in Medieval Italy Paolo Squatriti, University of Michigan Author of Landscape and Change in Early Medieval Italy: Chestnuts, Economy, and Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2013); editor of Natures Past. The Environment and Human History (University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 2007).
11/12/18	Rivers and Riverscapes in the Early Middle Ages Ellen Arnold, Ohio Wesleyan University Author of Negotiating the Landscape: Environment and Monastic Identity in the Medieval Ardennes, (U Pennsylvania Press, 2012)

ADDITIONAL LECTURES

09/24/18 4:00 pm IES 123-124	Into the Deepest Dark: Hell in Medieval Tradition Scott Bruce, Fordham University author of The Medieval Book of Hell
10/15/18 4:00 pm IC 4th Floor	Edward L. Surtz, SJ Lecture: Living with Little Corpses Robin Fleming, Boston College author of Britain After Rome: The Fall and Rise c. 400 to 1070 (Penguin, 2010)

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