Medieval Studies Program at UW-Madison

Hear ye, hear ye! Medieval Game Day is back!

Do you need a break from studying, writing, grading, or any combination of the above? Then join us in Helen C. White Hall 6191 on May 3rd from 2-6pm for an afternoon of medieval-themed gaming and conversation! This semester's game day will feature a presentation and discussion with Dr. Robin Rider of UW's Archives and Special Collections about her experience collecting and analyzing board games, that "Most Agreeable and Rational Recreation", within the archives. Q&A will follow, along with a plethora of medieval-themed and recreated games!

Please join us this Friday for the final talk of the semester!

Congratulations to the two recipients of this year's Lemoine Midelfort Fellowships! The fellowship is intended to assist a dissertator at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with travel or other expenses that will allow significant advancement towards completion of the dissertation on a medieval topic. See information about this year's recipients and their projects below. Congrats, Tirumular and Abby!

Abby Armstrong Check (Art History), “Provins: Visualizing Urban Identity of a Late Medieval French City,”

Tirumular (Drew) Narayanan (Art History), “‘Sultans of Babylon’: Racialization and ‘Crypto-visuality’ of Muslim Rulers in Fourteenth-and Fifteenth-Century European Manuscripts.”

Please join us this Friday for a workshop and public lecture by Professor Kristina Olson!

Happy Spring Break! We are pleased to announce that the Graduate Association of Medieval Studies will host their Spring Colloquium on April 5th, 2024, with a keynote from Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis, Executive Director of the Medieval Academy of America.

Please see the schedule here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IYzHWWhYV2LA-krdk3o_tAgUllN005fsEbMLaCGVmGo/edit?usp=sharing

Attention Medieval Studies Community: Please join us next week on 3/18, 4 PM for a workshop with Professor Mary Kate Hurley (English, Ohio State University).

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/12/science/astrolabe-hebrew-arabic.html

This 1,000-Year-Old Smartphone Just Dialed In An 11th-century astrolabe, a complex instrument for precisely mapping the heavens, recently turned up in an Italian museum.

Please join us as well on Thursday, March 7th for this exciting talk by Professor Nina Rowe!

Please join us on Friday, March 8th for a workshop and talk from Professor Bernardo S. Hinjosa!

Please join us on Tuesday, February 26th at 8 am CST for a Zoom lecture from Professor Horswell: New Crusaders: Mobilizing the Crusades in the Modern Era.

Zoom link: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/94930866452?pwd=VUNjakRvVXlnYW1sOTBuNVNQWURIQT09

Please join us on March 1st at 2:00 pm for Professor Denier's rescheduled talk! The new Zoom link is: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/94910643277

We hope to see you there!

Dear Medieval Studies Community:

We unfortunately must postpone the Zoom lecture originally scheduled to be given tomorrow by Laura Diener due to illness. We will announce the new date and time for her talk as soon as it is available. Thank you for understanding and apologies for the inconvenience!