Fall 2014
Friday 29 August, 2014 at 12 noon (UMC 245)
CMEMS Faculty Work-in-Progress Talk:
Peter H. Wood (Department of History)
鈥淏efore Huck鈥檚 Raft: Life on the Medieval Mississippi in the Lost Age of Dugout Canoes鈥
Thursday 18 September, 2014 at 5pm (Hellems 137)
CMEMS Invited Speaker Series:
Karl Shoemaker (Department of History, University of Wisconsin, Madison)
鈥淲hen the Devil Retained a Lawyer: Law, Theology and Salvation in the Middle Ages鈥
Thursday 25 September, 2014 at 5pm (UMC 325)
CMEMS Front Range Speakers Series:
Brian M. Duvick (Department of History, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs)
鈥淐ultivating Classical Greek Identity in the Late Roman West: Proclus鈥 Republic鈥
Thursday 23 October, 2014 at 5pm (Center for British and Irish Studies)
The Second Annual James Field Willard Lecture in Medieval History:
Caroline Walker Bynum (Department of History, IAS Princeton and Columbia University)
鈥淭he 鈥業ndifference鈥 of Things: Do Objects Change Our Understanding of Chronology?鈥
Friday and Saturday 24-25 October, 2014
Medieval Materiality: A Conference on the Life and Afterlife of Things
This CMEMS-sponsored event will feature three plenary speakers and over thirty interdisciplinary papers on the topic of medieval materiality.
Thursday 13 November, 2014 at 5pm (room TBA)
CMEMS Invited Speaker Series:
Michelle Karnes (Department of English, Stanford University)
鈥淢arvels in the Medieval Imagination鈥
Friday 21 November, 2014 at 12 noon (UMC 245)
CMEMS Faculty Work-in-Progress Talk:
Ann M. Carlos (Department of Economics)
鈥淟iving on the Brink of Starvation: Native American Strategies鈥