Medieval Utopias: A Symposium at the 番茄社区
Febuaray 1st, 2025
HHB 110
10:00 - 2:00
Speakers
Dr. Kathryn Kerby-Fulton - UVic Affiliate, University of Notre Dame, Professor Emerita
Major field(s) of interest:
- Middle English literature and medieval Latin
- Intellectual history (Religious, political censorship, apocalyptic thought, visionary writing, women's mysticism)
- Material culture (manuscript studies, text-image relations, reading practices before print)
- Dance history and dance criticism
Dr. Tsung-Cheng Lin - UVic, Pacific and Asian Studies
Major field(s) of interest:
- Poetry of Late Imperial China
- Poetic Transition from 18th to early 20th centuries
- Narrative Tradition in Classical Chinese Poetry
- Tradition of Knight-errantry in Chinese Poetry
- Medieval Chinese Poetry
Hala Qasqas - UVic, Art History and Visual Studies
Major field(s) of interest:
- Islamic Art History
- Socio-urban history in Damascus
- Cultural history of coffee and coffee houses in 17th and 18th centuries
Leila K. Norako - University of Washington, English department
Major field(s) of interest:
- Late Medieval literature and culture (Middle English romance, crusades, otherness and alterity)
- Digital humanities
- Poetry and Poetics
- Race and Enthnicity
- Textual studies
Schedule
10:00 - 11:30 Welcome followed by panel discussion
11:30 - 12:45 Lunch and music performances
12:45 - 1:00 Student presentations
1:00 - 2:00 Visiting speaker
Student work from 2022-23
We have some wonderful posters and a final report from some of our students who took Dr. Adrienne Williams Boyarin's class last term.
There will be a presentation on these during the conference, but please feel free to look at the posters and read the paper below.
Poster: "Marginalia in a Fiftheenth-Century Confessional" by Kiarra Burd
Poster: "Mistakes: The (Manuscript) world is Full of them!" by Lilian Goy
Poster and written report:"Early Modern English Wax Seals in the Brown Collection" by Eleanor Shippin