Colloquia Schedule and Archive

Spring 2025

February 10, 2025, 5-6:30 p.m., 2405 Boylan, Costas Library

LAMEM Spring 2025 Colloquia Student Presentations

Presentations on:

• Medic, Mother, Mystic: Hildegard von Bingen’s Role in Medicine and Self-Sufficient Monastic Life Through Physica, Vivienne Soares, Hunter B.A. Art History student
• Mother-Infant Bonds in Late Medieval Europe, Elena Kalvar, Brooklyn College M.A. History student

March 4, 2025, 12:30-2 p.m., 2405 Boylan, Costas Library

Amulets and Tombstones: Folklore of Life and Death in the Jewish Communities of the Early Modern Caribbean

Laureencia Morice, CUNY Graduate Center, Ph.D. student, History Department

March 25, 2025, 12:30-2 p.m., 2405 Boylan, Costas Library

Dwelling in Gardens: The Late Antique Transformation of Vegetal Space

Matthew Westmayer, Brooklyn College Classics Department

April 3, 2025, 12:30-2 p.m., 2405 Boylan, Costas Library

Romancing Power: Extolling Eros through Logos in Byzantine Fiction

Christina Christoforatu Konstantinis, Baruch College, English Department

April 9, 2025, 5-6:30 p.m., 2405 Boylan, Costas Library

LAMEM Spring 2025 Colloquia Presentations

Presentations on:

• Pawning Relics and Negotiating Masses in Late Medieval Marseille, Nathan Melson, Hunter College, History Department
• Debating the Gods: Reading Cicero in the Renaissance, Steven McCafferty, Hunter B.A. History student

April 29, 2025, 12:30-1:30 p.m., East Quad

Performing the Premodern on the Brooklyn College Quad!

Come to the quad to get lost in the premodern world!

• Smell the ancient world with Prof. Stern!
• Make curse tablets with Prof. Sowers!
• Visit a trading post!
• Debate a philosopher!
• Watch a medieval play!
• Take a mini-walking tour about the Indigeneous history of Midwood!

June 2, 2025, 1-2 p.m., East Quad

Performing the Premodern on the Brooklyn College Quad!

Watch Fordham University, University of Calgary, and Brooklyn College students perform 16 short, fourteenth-century medieval plays from the York Mystery Cycle.

Fall 2024

September 17, 2024, 5 -6:30 p.m., Boylan Hall, Room 2405

And the Other Stars: On Seriality

A presentation by Professor of English Nicola Masciandaro.

October 21, 2024, 5-6 p.m., Boylan Hall, Room 2405

The Destructive Blindness of the Seeing Eye: On Hysterical Iconoclasm in the Intimacy of a Book

A presentation by Gilead Ben David (CUNY Graduate Center).

November 14, 2024, 12:30-2 p.m., Boylan Hall, Room 2405

Every Grain of Sand: Tracing Historical Influences on Maimonides’ Theory of Divine Providence

A presentation by Jacob Eisenberg, Department of Judaic Studies.

December 2, 2024, 5-6:30 p.m., Boylan Hall, Room 2405

What Is a “Byzantine” Textile? Rethinking “Byzantium” Through Textiles

A presentation by Professor of Art Jennifer Ball.

Spring 2024

February 2, 2024, noon -2 p.m., The Met Cloisters

Experiencing Medieval Monasticism

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).

March 14, 2024, 12:30-1:30 p.m., Online

Snejanka Mihaylova, “On Repentance.”

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.

May 6, 2024, 5-6 p.m., Boylan Hall, Room 2405

Franco Masciandaro, “My Journey as a Student with Dante.”

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.

May 9, 2024, 12:30-1:30 p.m., Online

Tuomas Palonen, “Reimagining Medieval Music in a Retrofuturistic Digital Environment.”

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 on bandcamp.

Fall 2023

September 6, 2023, 5 -7 p.m., Boylan Hall, Room 2405

Will, Subjectivity, and Contemplative Practice in the Cloud author and Walter Hilton

Joseph Romano, Ph.D. candidate, Columbia University

October 17, 2023, 12:30 -1:30 p.m., Online

SOULS STINK

Boris Ondreička, artistic director of viennacontemporary and curator at COI, Prague

November 8, 2023, 5 -7 p.m., Boylan Hall, Room 2405

Domestic Disobedience, Political Disorder: Women and Animals in the Livre du chevalier de la Tour Landry (France, 14th c.)

Clémentine Girault, Ph.D. candidate, Université Paris Cité—EHESS

November 27, 2023, 5 -7 p.m. Boylan Hall, Room 2405

Blackness as Chaos and Old Night: The Provenance of Paradise Lost and Black Revolt

Dorell Thomas, Brooklyn College

Spring 2023

The Late Antique-Medieval-Early Modern Faculty Working Group at Brooklyn College presents the fall 2023 colloquia.

February 16, 2023, 5-7 p.m., Boylan Hall, Room 2405

With Alle the Faith of Haly Kyrke: Vernacular Teaching and the Crisis of Authority in Late Fourteenth-Century England

Laurence Bond ’17, History, John Hopkins University

February 28, 2023, 12:30-2:30 p.m., Boylan Hall, Room 2405

The Uluburun Shipwreck: The Key to Understanding Large-Scale Tin Trade in Late Bronze Age Eurasia

Wayne Powell, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Brooklyn College

March 9, 2023, 5 -7 p.m., Boylan Hall, Room 2405

Looking for the Classical in the Renaissance: Roman Antiquities Outside Italy

William Stenhouse, History, Yeshiva University

March 27, 2023, 5 -7 p.m., Online

Sidney’s Penetrations: Poetry and Vulnerability

Matthew Harrison, English, West Texas A&M

April 19, 2023 5 -7 p.m., Boylan Hall, Room 2405

Thalassophilia: A Hermeneutics of Depth by Ship/wreck in Dante’s Divine Comedy

Alexa Climaldi ’22, English, Brooklyn College

April 26, 2023, 9:30 -10:45 a.m., Boylan Hall, Room 3153

On Medieval Jewish Women’s Work

Sarah Ifft Decker, History, Rhodes College

May 2-December 31, 2023, Library, Exhibit Area

Magisterial Feminae: How Women Who Studied the Ancient World Innovated Brooklyn College, the Latin/Greek Institute, and Beyond

May 17, 2023, Student Center

Faculty Day 2023: Medieval/Modern: Confronting the Audience in Monasticism and Performance Art

Lauren Mancia, Brooklyn College

May 17, 2023, Student Center

Faculty Day 2023: Why Study the Premodern World?

Lunchtime roundtable with David Brodsky, Lauren Mancia, Nicola Masciandaro, Tanya Pollard, David Schur, and Karl Steel.

June 5-6, 2023, Library, Room 411, Samuel and Bernice Gottlieb Room

Fragments of Experience: Approaching “Lived Religion” From Late Antiquity to the Central Middle Ages

From Richard de Fournival, “Bestiare d’Amours,” BnF fr. 12148, 14th century manuscript (connected to Prof. Steel’s talk)

Fall 2022

The Late Antique-Medieval-Early Modern Faculty Working Group at Brooklyn College presents the fall 2022 colloquia.

Wednesday, September 7, 5 p.m., in-person, 2405 Boylan Hall

Free Choice and Reason: On Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy

Karl Steel, Brooklyn College (English)

Thursday, October 13, 12:30 p.m., in-person, 2405 Boylan Hall

Despotics: Elite Slavery, Domination, and Classical Literature as Archive of Slavery

Joe Howley, Columbia (Classics)

Wednesday, October 26, 5 p.m., in-person, 411 Library

Poetry, Piety, and the Islamic Self in the Medieval Persian World

Ali Noori, Ph.D. candidate, University of Pennsylvania (Religion)
*Brooklyn College Religion adjunct*/City College alumnus

Thursday, November 10, 5 p.m., Zoom

On the Nature of Grace and the Grace of Nature:  Mystical and Philosophical Theology in the German Dominican School

Sam Baudinette, Ph.D. candidate, University of Chicago (Philosophy)

Wednesday, December 7, 5 p.m., Zoom

So Tender and Round: Race and Sensation in Medieval Religious Allegory

Shona Adler, Ph.D. candidate, University of Pennsylvania (English)
Brooklyn College alumna

Spring 2022

The Late Antique-Medieval-Early Modern Faculty Working Group at Brooklyn College presents the spring 2022 colloquia.

Friday, February 18, Noon, Zoom

LAMEM community kick-off!

Come share what you’re working on  and float ideas in informal community. The LAMEM community, students, and faculty welcome.

Friday, March 11, Noon, Costas Library, 2405 Boylan Hall

Word Beyond Speech: The Transformation of Logos in the Christos Paschon

Julia Paré, Ph.D. student, Department of Classics, Princeton
and Brooklyn College alumna!

Monday, April 11, 5 p.m., Costas Library, 2405 Boylan Hall

Retelling the History of Medieval Philosophy

Andrew Arlig, Department of Philosophy
Christina Van Dyke, Visiting Professor of Philosophy, Barnard College

Friday, May 6, Noon, Costas Library, 2405 Boylan Hall

Selective Kinship at Saint-Louis de Poissy: The Sculptural Group of Ling Louis IX & His Family

Sarah Celentano, Ph.D. in Art History, Brooklyn College Foundation

Fall 2021

The Late Antique-Medieval-Early Modern Faculty Working Group at Brooklyn College presents the fall 2021 colloquia.

Friday, September 17, 12:30 p.m.

What is LAMEM? What is “ancient”? What is “medieval”? What is “premodern”? A Roundtable

Professor Lauren Mancia (History)
Professor Andrew Meyer (History)
Professor Jenn Ball (Art)
Professor Andrew Arlig (Philosophy)
Professor Brian Sowers (Classics)
Professor Karl Steel (English)

Thursday, October 7, 5 p.m.

Black Dionysius

Professor Philip Thibodeau (Classics)

Thursday, October 28, 9:30-10:45 a.m.

Before 1492: Comparative Premodern Colonialisms (part of the Hess Scholar in Residence series)

Professor Lisa Lowe (Yale, American Studies)
Professor Lynda Day (Africana Studies)
Professor Jason Frydman (English)
Professor Liv Yarrow (Classics)
Professor Hyunhee Park (History, John Jay)

Thursday, November 18, 4:15 p.m.

South Atlantic Rivalries: Dutch and Portuguese Involvement in the African Slave Trade in the Seventeenth Century

Professor Chris Ebert (History)
Professor Thiago Krause (History, Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

Tuesday, November 30, 9:30 a.m.

The Story of Silence: An LGBTQ Chivalric Tale

Alex Myers (historical fiction writer and transgender advocate)

Thursday, December 2, 5 p.m.

Imperfect God, Perfect Torah: Putting Rabbinic Theology Back in Dialogue with Plato

Professor David Brodsky (Judaic Studies)

Spring 2021

The Late Antique-Medieval-Early Modern Faculty Working Group at Brooklyn College presents the spring 2021 colloquia.

Tuesday, February 9, 5:30 p.m.

Medieval Scholarship, Cultural Identity and Jewish Disaffiliation: Erich Auerbach Reading Dante in National Socialist Germany

Professor Marty Elsky (English)

Wednesday, February 24, 5:30 p.m.

On Waiting in The Decameron and Medieval Literature

Prof. David Brodsky (Judaic Studies) and Friends
Prof. Nicola Masciandaro (English)

Thursday, March 25, 5 p.m.

On Gender in the Middle Ages

Sara McDougall (John Jay/GC/History)
Janine Peterson (Marist/History)
Andrew Romig (NYU/History)

Wednesday, April 14, 5 p.m.

On Ecology, Animals, and Eschatology

Professor Andrew Arlig (Philosophy)
Professor Karl Steel (English)

Wednesday, May 5, 5 p.m.

You Can’t Hurry Love: Medieval Christian Devotion

Professor Christina Van Dyke (Philosophy/Calvin College)
Professor Lauren Mancia (History)

Fall 2020

The Late Antique-Medieval-Early Modern Faculty Working Group at Brooklyn College presents the fall 2020 colloquia.

Tuesday, September 22, 12:30–2 p.m.

Thinking Within the Lines: Some Medieval Islamic Views on Permissible and Heretical Interpretations of Scripture

Andrew Arlig, Department of Philosophy, Brooklyn College

Thursday, October 8, 3:40–4:55 p.m.

Shimmering Contraries: Medieval Grammar and the Rise of Race and Racism

Cord Whitaker, Department of English, Wellesley College

Thursday, October 29, 5 p.m.

Research Perspectives in Late Latin Poetry

Brian Sowers, Department of Classics, Brooklyn College

Monday, November 9, 5 p.m.

Bodies Besieged: Early Modern Plague Literature and the Destruction of Jerusalem

Vanita Neelakanta, Department of English, Rider University

Monday, November 23, 5:30 p.m.

Monks Learning to be Priests: Bodies, Texts, and Educational Boundaries in the 12th Century

Jay Diehl, Department of History, Long Island University

Spring 2020

The Late Antique-Medieval-Early Modern Faculty Working Group at Brooklyn College presents the spring 2020 colloquia.

Thursday February 27, 5 p.m.

Heresy & Inquisition in the Writings of Julian of Norwich

Laurence Bond, ’17, Ph.D. student, Johns Hopkins University

Costas Library (2405 Boylan Hall)

Tuesday, March 3, 5 p.m.

The Queen of Sheba’s Hairy Legs in Early Medieval Jewish Texts

Jillian Stinchcomb, Ph.D. candidate, University of Pennsylvania

Costas Library (2405 Boylan Hall)

Monday, March 16, 5 p.m.

Unholy Ghosts: Catholic Specters in English Protestant Retellings of Jerusalem’s Destruction

Vanita Neelakanta, Department of English, Rider University

Costas Library (2405 Boylan Hall)

Monday, April 6, 5 p.m.

Monks Learning to Be Priests: Bodies, Texts, and Educational Boundaries in the 12th Century

Jay Diehl, Department of History, Long Island University

Costas Library (2405 Boylan Hall)

Thursday, April 30, 5 p.m.

God Has Made Us His Caliphs: Our Obligations to Created Things According to Some Medieval Islamic Thinkers

Andrew Arlig, Department of Philosophy, Brooklyn College

Costas Library (2405 Boylan Hall)

Fall 2019

The Late Antique-Medieval-Early Modern Faculty Working Group at Brooklyn College presents the fall 2019 colloquia.

Monday, September 16, 5:30 p.m.

The Faces of Cao Gui: Fact and Meaning in the Historiography of the Warring States and Former Han

Andrew Meyer, Department of History, Brooklyn College

Costas Library (2405 Boylan Hall)

Tuesday, October 29, 5 p.m.

Christianizing Euripides or Euripidizing Christianity: The Christus Patiens

Katherine Hsu and Brian Sowers, Department of Classics, Brooklyn College

Costas Library (2405 Boylan Hall)

Monday, November 4, 5 p.m.

Utter Joy: The Politics of Religious Affect from Reformation to Revolutionary England

Stephen Spencer, Department of English, CUNY Graduate Center

Costas Library (2405 Boylan Hall)

Tuesday, December 3, 12:30 p.m.

World War I, the New World Order, and the Invention of Renaissance Literature

Martin Elsky, Department of English, Brooklyn College

Costas Library (2405 Boylan Hall)

Spring 2019

The Late Antique-Medieval-Early Modern Faculty Working Group at Brooklyn College presents their spring 2019 colloquia.

Thursday, February 21, 12:30 p.m.

A Typical Patron of Extraordinary Means: Isabella Feltria della Rovere and the Society of Jesus

Maria Conelli, Department of Art and Dean of the School of Visual, Media and Performing Arts at Brooklyn College

Costas Library (2405 Boylan Hall)

Thursday, April 4, 5 p.m.

Zipporah’s Pout: Temporality and the Emotional Life of (Jewish) Image

Marc Epstein, Vassar College

Costas Library (2405 Boylan Hall)

Thursday, April 11, 5:30 p.m.

The Medieval/Early Modern Divide Along the Franco-Spanish Border: On Religious Conversion and the Paper Economy

Francesca Trivellato, Institute for Advanced Study

Costas Library (2405 Boylan Hall)

Tuesday, May 7, 5 p.m.

Mothers of Bastards in Medieval France: Problems With Paternity

Sara McDougall, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Costas Library (2405 Boylan Hall)

Fall 2018

The Late Antique-Medieval-Early Modern Faculty Working Group at Brooklyn College presents their fall 2018 colloquia.

Tuesday, October 16

Enlightenment Now?

A psychologist and an historian discuss Steven Pinker on human nature and emotion.

5–6:30 p.m.
Costas Library (2405 Boylan Hall)

• Hanah Chapman, Department of Psychology
• Lauren Mancia, Department of History

Thursday, November 1

Translating Tragic Emotion in Early Modern England: Greek to English, Female to Male

12:30–2 p.m.
Costas Library (2405 Boylan Hall)

• Tanya Pollard, Department of English

Tuesday, November 13

The Weeping Wound: Asceticism and Transformation in the Age of Tears

5–6:30 p.m.
Costas Library (2405 Boylan Hall)

• Christopher Richards, Ph.D. Candidate, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU

Tuesday, December 11

The Materiality of Emotion in Inscribed Jewish Prayers

5–6:30 p.m.
Costas Library (2405 Boylan Hall)

• Karen Stern, Department of History

Spring 2018

The Late Antique-Medieval-Early Modern Faculty Working Group at Brooklyn College presents their spring 2018 colloquia.

All are welcome.

Tuesday, February 27

Encyclopedism in Late Antiquity

• Lecturer Brian Sowers, Department of Classics

5 p.m.
Costas Library (2405 Boylan Hall)

Thursday, March 15

Roundtable on Law in Late Antique and Medieval Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Traditions

• Associate Professor David Brodsky (Judaic Studies)
• Assistant Professor Bilal Ibrahim (History)
• Assistant Professor Lauren Mancia (History)

12:30 p.m.
Costas Library (2405 Boylan Hall)

Thursday, April 12

Intellectual and Religious Life in 14th-century Norwich

• Laurence Bond ’17

5:30 p.m.
Costas Library (2405 Boylan Hall)

Thursday, May 3

Everything You Wanted to Know About Mystical Union (But Were Too Confused to Ask)

• Professor Christina Van Dyke, Department of Philosophy, Calvin College

5:30 p.m.
Costas Library (2405 Boylan Hall)

Fall 2017

The Late Antique-Medieval-Early Modern Faculty Working Group at Brooklyn College presents their fall 2017 colloquia.

All are welcome.

Tuesday, September 12

Abraham van Dyck and His Black Accusers, From the Night Broadway Burned

• Associate Professor Benjamin Carp, Department of History

5:30 p.m.
Costas Library (2405 Boylan Hall)

Monday, October 23

The Convent in the City: The Case Study of St. Catherine of Avignon

• Professor Christine Axen, Department of History, Plymouth State University

5:30 p.m.
Costas Library (2405 Boylan Hall)

Wednesday, November 8

Biblical Exegesis and Med-Ren Literature: Typological Criticism, Cultural Appropriation, and the Second World War

• Professor Marty Elsky, Department of English

5 p.m.
Costas Library (2405 Boylan Hall)

Wednesday, November 15

Medieval Pets

• Associate Professor Karl Steel, Department of English

5:30 p.m.
Costas Library (2405 Boylan Hall)

Spring 2017

The Late Antique-Medieval-Early Modern Faculty Working Group at Brooklyn College presents their spring 2017 colloquia.

All are welcome.

Tuesday, February 21

Judaism in the Late Antique-Medieval-Early Modern World Mini-Series III: Judaism, Confucianism, and Modernity in Ming China: The Kaifeng Synagogue Inscription of 1489

• Professor Andrew Meyer, Department of History

5:30 p.m.
Costas Library (2405 Boylan Hall)

Thursday, March 23

Judaism in the Late Antique-Medieval-Early Modern World Mini-Series IV: Tropical Jews: Early Modern Jewry in the Atlantic World

• Professor John Dixon, Department of History, College of Staten Island
• Associate Professor Christopher Ebert, Department of History—Respondent

5:30 p.m.
Costas Library (2405 Boylan Hall)

Tuesday, April 4

The Making of a Black Panther: Plato’s Influence on Huey P. Newton

• Assistant Professor Brian Sowers, Department of Classics

5:30 p.m.
Costas Library (2405 Boylan Hall)

Tuesday, April 27

Judaism in the Late Antique-Medieval-Early Modern World Mini-Series V: “In Three Places the Halakhah Overrides the Bible”: What Must Give When Bible, Received Tradition, and System of Interpretation Conflict

• Associate Professor David Brodsky, Department of Judaic Studies

12:30 p.m.
Costas Library (2405 Boylan Hall)

Wednesday, May 3

Petrarch’s Manuscripts in the Digital Era

• Alessandro Zammataro, CUNY Graduate Center

5:30 p.m.
Costas Library (2405 Boylan Hall)

Fall 2016

The Late Antique-Medieval-Early Modern Faculty Working Group at Brooklyn College presents their fall 2016 colloquia.

All are welcome.

Tuesday, September 20

Mystical Chaucer

• Professor Nicola Masciandaro, Department of English

5:30 p.m.
Costas Library (2405 Boylan Hall)

Tuesday, October 25

Judaism in the Late Antique-Medieval-Early Modern World Mini-Series I: Making the Middle Ages Real Through Fiction

• Adam Gidwitz, New York Times Bestselling Children’s Book Author

5:30 p.m.
Woody Tanger Auditorium (Library)

Wednesday, October 26

Feral and Isolated Children—From Herodotus to Hesse: Heroes, Thinkers, and Friends of Wolves

• Associate Professor Karl Steel, Department of English

5:30 p.m.
Costas Library (2405 Boylan Hall)

Tuesday, November 15

Making It Personal: Writing, Drawing, and Claiming Space in Ancient Synagoges and Cemeteries

• Associate Professor Karen Stern, Department of History

12:30 p.m.
Costas Library (2405 Boylan Hall)

Spring 2016

The Late Antique-Medieval-Early Modern Faculty Working Group at Brooklyn College presents their spring 2016 colloquia.

All are welcome.

Tuesday, February 16

Fix’d Almost Among Strangers: Charleston’s Quaker Merchants and the Pursuits of Cosmopolitanism

• Associate Professor Ben Carp, Department of History

5:30 p.m.
Costas Library (2405 Boylan Hall)

Tuesday, March 15

The London Six: Stationers and Censorship During the Interregnum

• Aida Gureghian, New York University

12:30 p.m.
Woody Tanger Auditorium, Library

Tuesday, April 12

Mystic Sciences of the Exact

• Assistant Professor Bilal Ibrahim, Department of History

5:30 p.m.
Costas Library (2405 Boylan Hall)

Wednesday, May 11

Locke on the Diachronic Identity of Persons and Substances

• Professor Jessica Gordon-Roth, Department of Philosophy, Lehman College (CUNY) and CUNY Graduate Center
• Associate Professor Andrew Arlig, Department of Philosophy—Respondent

6 p.m.
Costas Library (2405 Boylan Hall)

Fall 2015

The Late Antique-Medieval-Early Modern Faculty Working Group at Brooklyn College presents their fall 2015 colloquia.

All are welcome.

Wednesday, September 30

Medieval Oysters!

• Associate Professor Karl Steel, English—Medieval Oysters: Bare Life, Posthuman Ethics, and the Problem of Agency
• Associate Professor Andrew Arlig, Philosophy—Commentary

5:30 p.m.
Costas Library (2405 Boylan Hall)

Thursday, October 2

Theorizing “Race” in Early Modern Spain

• Associate Professor William Childers, Modern Languages and Literatures—The Past as Mirror to the Present and the Bugbear of Anachronism: Theorizing ‘Race’ in Early Modern Spain

5:30 p.m.
Costas Library (2405 Boylan Hall)

Thursday, November 19

Dante in the Interwar Period

• Professor Marty Elsky, English—Who Owned Dante?: Literary Appropriation and the Consolation of Philology in the Aftermath of War

12:30 p.m.
Costas Library (2405 Boylan Hall)

Wednesday, December 2

Zoroastrians!

• Associate Professor David Brodsky, Judaic Studies—Resistance and Appropriation: The Zoroastrian Context of the Book of Tobit

5:30 p.m.
Costas Library (2405 Boylan Hall)

Spring 2015

The Late Antique-Medieval-Early Modern Faculty Working Group at Brooklyn College presents their spring 2015 colloquia.

Tuesday, February 3

Monastics on Monasticism, East and West

• Associate Professor Jennifer Ball, Art—Monastics on Monasticism and the Angelikos Bios
• Assistant Professor Lauren Mancia, History—John of Fécamp, Monastic Discipline, and Abbatial Empathy

12:30–2 p.m.
Costas Library (2405 Boylan Hall)

Wednesday, March 18

Early Modern Mysticism

• Professor Sharon Flatto, Judaic Studies—Enlightened Jewish Mystics at the End of the Early Modern Era?: Visionaries on the Danube, Spree, and Moldau

5:15 p.m.
Costas Library (2405 Boylan Hall)

Wednesday, April 22

Early Modern Geography

• Associate Professor Christopher Ebert, History—Geographic Representations of Portuguese and Brazilian Cities in the Early Modern Period
• Associate Professor William Childers, Modern Languages and Literatures—Commentary

5:30 p.m.
Costas Library (2405 Boylan Hall)

Tuesday, May 5

Late Antique Historiography

• Associate Professor David Brodsky, Judaic Studies—The Midrashic Mode of Historiography: Situating Talmudic Narratives in their Methodological Contexts

5:30 p.m.
Costas Library (2405 Boylan Hall)

Wednesday, May 20

Getting Medieval at Brooklyn College

Come help LAMEM-affiliated faculty discuss why a historical consciousness of the culture, ideas, and events
of the period before modernity is urgent for our understanding of the now at this lunchtime roundtable discussion during the Annual Faculty Day Conference.

12:45–2:15 p.m.

Fall 2014

The Late Antique-Medieval-Early Modern Faculty Working Group at Brooklyn College presents their fall 2014 colloquia.

Thursday, September 18

Transitioning Antiquities

• Assistant Professor Brian Sowers, Classics—Magical Mass or Mass Magic: Narratives of Power in the Late Antique Cult of Saints Justina and Cyprian
• Professor Andrew Meyer, History—Feng Xuan Buys Humaneness and Rightness, Gongyi Xiu Expels His Wife: Economic Exemplars in the Warring States and Han

12:30–2 p.m.
Costas Library (2405 Boylan Hall)

Thursday, September 30

Classifying the Middle Ages

• Associate Professor Karl Steel, English—Bad Heritage: Vikings in the Americas
• Associate Professor Andrew Arlig, Philosophy—You Have So Much Potential!‬‬: On the Many Ways to Possess Potential Parts‬‬‬

5:15 p.m.
Costas Library (2405 Boylan Hall)

Tuesday, November 18

Early Modern Visionaries

• Professor Sharon Flatto, Judaic Studies—Enlightened Jewish Mystics at the End of the Early Modern Era?: Visionaries on the Danube, Spree, and Moldau
• Associate Professor Justin Steinberg, Philosophy—Spinoza and the Taming of Fortune

12:30–2 p.m.
Costas Library (2405 Boylan Hall)

Spring 2014

The Late Antique-Medieval-Early Modern Faculty Working Group at Brooklyn College presents their spring 2014 colloquia.

All are welcome.

Thursday, May 1, Inaugural Colloquia

• Assistant Professor Lauren Mancia, History—”Reading John of Fécamp in the Eleventh-Century Monastery”
• Assistant Professor Bilal Ibrahim, History—”Categories of Knowledge From Ancient to Medieval Islamic Thought: The Rational, the Scientific, and the Mystical.”
• Associate Professor Andrew Arlig, Chair, Philosophy—Commentary

5 p.m.
Costas Library (2405 Boylan Hall)