Brooklyn College

Will, Subjectivity, and Contemplative Practice in the Cloud author and Walter Hilton
2023-09-06 17:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Boylan Hall, Room 2405
with Joseph Romano, Ph.D. candidate, Columbia University
E-mail Professor Nicola Masciandaro if you have any questions or for the Zoom links. All students and faculty are welcome.

SOULS STINK
2023-10-17 12:30 - 13:30 | Online
with Boris Ondreička, artistic director of viennacontemporary and curator at COI, Prague
E-mail Professor Nicola Masciandaro if you have any questions or for the Zoom links. All students and faculty are welcome.

Domestic Disobedience, Political Disorder: Women and Animals in the Livre du chevalier de la Tour Landry (France, 14th c.)
2023-11-08 17:00 - 19:00 | Boylan Hall, Room 2405
with Clémentine Girault, Ph.D. candidate, Université Paris Cité—EHESS
E-mail Professor Nicola Masciandaro if you have any questions or for the Zoom links. All students and faculty are welcome.

Blackness as Chaos and Old Night: The Provenance of Paradise Lost and Black Revolt
2023-11-27 17:00 - 19:00 | Boylan Hall, Room 2405
with Lecturer/Doctoral Scholar Dorell Thomas, Brooklyn College
E-mail Professor Nicola Masciandaro if you have any questions or for the Zoom links. All students and faculty are welcome.

Experiencing Medieval Monasticism
2024-02-02 12:00 - 14:00 | The Met Cloisters
How can we uncover the lived religious experiences of distant historical subjects, like medieval monks from 1,000 years ago? This conversation-performance-experience will investigate this problem. Together at The Met Cloisters, we will explore potential answers to this question, first through traditional scholarly theoretical and historical engagement with primary sources and art works in the museum. Then we will shift methodologies to experiment with performance and participatory experience (for both presenter and audience alike). Space is limited, so please register in advance —no medieval, monastic, Christian, or religious familiarity required.
Registration is required for this event. Please e-mail Prof. Mancia (LaurenMancia@brooklyn.cuny.edu) by February 1 at 5 p.m. if you intend to attend.

Snejanka Mihaylova, "On Repentance."
2024-03-14 12:30 - 13:30 | Online
Snejanka is a writer and artist. Among her books Theatre of Thought (2011), published with Critique and Humanism; Practical Training in Thinking (2012), edited and designed by Phil Baber and published with The Last Books; Acoustic Thought (2015), commissioned and published by If I Can’t Dance I Don’t Want to Be Part of Your Revolution and The Last Books. Invested in the field of experimental pedagogy, she curated programs for Documenta 14, the Sandberg Institute (Master of Voice) and just concluded a commissioned educational curriculum titled On Tradition Future Ancestors (2020-2023) created together with Rory Pilgrim for IICD and Dutch Art Institute, where she is still involved as a tutor. Her works have been performed in several locations in Europe and the US. Currently, she teaches history of logic at the University of Sofia, her hometown, where she lives with her dog. Together with long term collaborator and friend Phil Baber, she is co-founder of the imprint The Last Books.
E-mail Professor Nicola Masciandaro if you have any questions.
Zoom Link

Franco Masciandaro, "My Journey as a Student with Dante."
2024-05-06 17:00 - 18:00 | Boylan Hall, Room 2405
Franco Masciandaro is Professor Emeritus at the University of Connecticut and a specialist in medieval and renaissance Italian literature. He is the author of La problematica del tempo nella Commedia (Longo Editore, 1976), Dante as Dramatist: The Myth of the Earthly Paradise and Tragic Vision in the Divine Comedy (Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1991), La conoscenza viva: Letture fenomenologiche da Dante a Machiavelli (Longo, 1998), The Stranger as Friend: The Poetics of Friendship in Homer, Dante, and Boccaccio (Firenze University Press, 2013), and co-author of Dante | Hafiz: Readings on the Sigh, the Gaze, and Beauty (Pinsapo Press, 2017). He is also a graduate of Brooklyn College 😉
E-mail Professor Nicola Masciandaro if you have any questions.

Tuomas Palonen, "Reimagining Medieval Music in a Retrofuturistic Digital Environment."
2024-05-09 12:30 - 13:30 | Online
Tuomas Palonen makes medieval music with 1980s synthesizers under the name Thomas Ignatius. The result is a retrofuturistic take on medieval music, which Palonen sees as a great source of inspiration.
You can listen to his music here:

https://palatsi.bandcamp.com/album/thomas-ignatius
https://reader.exacteditions.com/issues/113794/page/18

E-mail Professor Nicola Masciandaro if you have any questions.
Zoom Link

And the Other Stars: On Seriality
2024-09-17 17:00 - 18:30 | Boylan Hall, Room 2405
A presentation by Professor of English Nicola Masciandaro.
For information, e-mail Lauren Mancia.

The Destructive Blindness of the Seeing Eye: On Hysterical Iconoclasm in the Intimacy of a Book
2024-10-21 17:00 - 18:00 | Boylan Hall, Room 2405
A presentation by Gilead Ben David (CUNY Graduate Center).
For information, e-mail Lauren Mancia.

Registration for Spring Begins by Appointment
2024-10-28
Spring 2025 Academic Calendar
Spring 2025 Graduate 8-Week Academic Calendar

Registration for Winter Begins
2024-10-28
Winter 2025 Academic Calendar

Every Grain of Sand: Tracing Historical Influences on Maimonides’ Theory of Divine Providence
2024-11-14 12:30 - 14:00 | Boylan Hall, Room 2405
A presentation by Jacob Eisenberg, Department of Judaic Studies.
For information, e-mail Lauren Mancia.

What Is a "Byzantine" Textile? Rethinking "Byzantium" Through Textiles
2024-12-02 17:00 - 18:30 | Boylan Hall, Room 2405
A presentation by Professor of Art Jennifer Ball.
For information, e-mail Lauren Mancia.

Deadline to Readmit to Brooklyn College for Winter 2025 Session
2024-12-19

Last Day to File Permit Request for Winter Session
2024-12-26

Last day to Drop for 100% Tuition Refund
2025-01-01

College Closed
2025-01-01

Classes Begin
2025-01-02

Students Dropped from Waitlist
2025-01-02

Last Day to Drop for 50% Tuition Refund
2025-01-02

Last Day to Add or Swap a Course
2025-01-02

Financial Aid Certification Enrollment Status Date
2025-01-02

Verification of Enrollment Rosters Available to Faculty
2025-01-03

A grade of “WD” Will be Assigned to Students Who Officially Drop a Class
2025-01-03
WD grades do not appear on student transcripts.
Winter 2025 Academic Calendar

Last Day to Drop for 25% Tuition Refund
2025-01-04

Census Date – Winter Session
2025-01-04

Verification of Enrollment Rosters Due from faculty
2025-01-04

WN Grades Assigned
2025-01-05

Grade of W is Assigned to Students Who Officially Withdraw from a Course
2025-01-05
