Fall 2014
Friday 29 August, 2014 at 12 noon (UMC 245)
CMEMS Faculty Work-in-Progress Talk:
Peter H. Wood (Department of History)
āBefore Huckās Raft: Life on the Medieval Mississippi in the Lost Age of Dugout Canoesā
Thursday 18 September, 2014 at 5pm (Hellems 137)
CMEMS Invited Speaker Series:
Karl Shoemaker (Department of History, University of Wisconsin, Madison)
āWhen the Devil Retained a Lawyer: Law, Theology and Salvation in the Middle Agesā
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)
āCultivating Classical Greek Identity in the Late Roman West: Proclusā Republicā
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)
āThe āIndifferenceā of Things: Do Objects Change Our Understanding of Chronology?ā
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)
āMarvels in the Medieval Imaginationā
Friday 21 November, 2014 at 12 noon (UMC 245)
CMEMS Faculty Work-in-Progress Talk:
Ann M. Carlos (Department of Economics)
āLiving on the Brink of Starvation: Native American Strategiesā