Spring 2015 Colloquia
A 14th-century image of Geometry teaching her students, from British Library ms. Burney 275 f. 293r.
The Late Antique-Medieval-Early Modern Faculty Working Group at Brooklyn College presents their spring 2015 colloquia.
All are welcome.
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.
