[SCA-BMDL] Vance Smith lecture--this Friday--and other events (fwd)

[Jennifer Strobel]

This sounds like a fascinating talk, especially for you scientific types
in our Barony.  I hope that you will be able to attend.

Odriana

"Do not dismiss the dish saying that it is just, simply food. The blessed thing is an entire civilization in itself!"
- Abdulhak Sinasi


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Subject: Vance Smith lecture--this Friday--and other events


The  University  of  Pittsburgh
Medieval  and  Renaissance  Studies  Program
Presents

Professor D. Vance Smith
Princeton University


4:30 pm
Friday, 17 February

Cathedral of Learning 501


“Pearl’s Mournful Physics.”

This talk will relate the modern discourse of finitude (Heidegger, Blanchot)
to the logical and linguistic work of physics in medieval Oxford, showing
how it helps to shape vernacular texts on dying, particularly the
late-fourteenth-century poem Pearl.

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Professor D. Vance Smith teaches at Princeton University where he is
currently Director of the Program in Medieval Studies. His books include
Arts of Possession: The Middle English Household Imaginary (Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press, 2003) and The Book of the Incipit: Beginnings
in the Fourteenth Century (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press,
2001). His research interests include intellectual history, scholasticism
(especially medieval physics and logic), continental philosophy, William
Langland, and Chaucer. He is currently completing a book entitled Dying
Medieval: The Termination of Middle English Literature.
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There will be a reception immediately following Professor Smith’s lecture.

This event has been generously co-sponsored by the Department of English,
the University Honors College, and the Pittsburgh Consortium for Medieval
and Renaissance Studies.

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Other events of interest:


Profesor Daniel Heller-Roazen
Princeton University

"The Inner Touch: Archaeology of Sensation"

Friday, 24 February at 4 pm

Duquesne University, College Hall 105.


"The inner touch" is a classical name for what the medieval tradition called
"the common sense": the perceptual power by which animals, according to
Aristotle and his students, sense when they are sensing (and when the are
not) My paper is a philosophical investigation into this “sensation of
sensing,” with reference to Aristotle as well as the commentators of later
antiquity, the Arabic, Hebrew, Latin Middle Ages and the thinkers of the
modern and contemporary periods.

Professor Daniel Heller-Roazen teaches poetics, medieval studies, and the
history of philosophy in the Department of Comparative Literature at
Princeton University. He is the author of Echolalias: On the Forgetting of
Language (Zone Books, 2005) and Fortune's Faces: the Roman de la Rose and
the Poetics of Contingency (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003), as well
as the translator of four books by Giorgio Agamben. His research interests
include Greek and Roman letters, the transmission of classical learning to
the Arabic world and to the Latin West, the vernacular literatures of the
European Middle Ages, medieval Arabic, Hebrew and Latin philosophy, and
twentieth-century philosophy. He is currently completing a book (forthcoming
with Zone) of the same title as his talk, as well as the Norton Critical
Edition of The Arabian Nights."

Forbes Avenue Parking Garage validation is available; guest parking entrance
directly off Forbes; exit top level of garage to campus.

http://www.duq.edu/frontpages/main/campusMap.html

(funding thanks on this end):
* Office of the Dean, McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts,
Duquesne University
* Duquesne University Department of Philosophy
* PCMRS

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Thursday, 30 March, at 3:30 in CL 501

Mathilde Van Dijk (Religious Studies, Groningen)

“Leadership styles in the Devotio Moderna”


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Kellie Robertson
Director, Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program
University of Pittsburgh
Cathedral of Learning 526
Pittsburgh, PA 15260-0001
(vox) 412. 624. 6532
(fax) 412. 624. 6639
krobert at pitt.edu