Crowdfunding launch supports Ways of Knowing podcast at Cornell
A crowdfunding campaign launched Nov. 1 to support a Cornell-based season of "Ways of Knowing,” a new podcast created by The World According to Sound.
A crowdfunding campaign launched Nov. 1 to support a Cornell-based season of "Ways of Knowing,” a new podcast created by The World According to Sound.
The Nov. 2 conference will focus on an interdisciplinary approach.
Sophia D'Ignazio, Cornell Medieval Studies Ph.D. 2022, publishes her article "Schoolgirl Grammar: Reading and Writing Beyond the Classroom" in Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 123.4.
Sarah LaVoy-Brunette and Jordan Chauncy, Ph.D. candidates in Medieval Studies, have published a co-authored article, "Settler Fantasies and Queer Disruptions: A Nonbinary Reading of Gerald’s Wolves," in Medieval Ecocriticisms 4 (2024).
“We felt this is an important resource that should be available to our humanists at all levels, whether they have the resources to pay for membership or not,” said Peter John Loewen, the Harold Tanner Dean of Arts and Sciences.
The Medieval Studies program at Cornell is pleased to announce the 35th annual Medieval Studies Student Colloquium (MSSC), which will take place in person at Cornell University in the A.D. White House on Saturday, February 22nd 2025.
Please join us at the Medieval Studies Graduate Student Roundtable this semester!
Peter John Loewen says he's excited to support faculty in their research, meet students and showcase the value of a liberal arts education.
May 28 and 29: Physical Sciences 401
May 30: Goldwin Smith Hall 236
Coming from the University of Toronto, where he is the director of the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, Loewen begins his five-year appointment as the Harold Tanner Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Aug. 1.
Among the faculty members being recognized this year for exceptional teaching and mentorship are Liliana Colanzi, Durba Ghosh, and Nick Admussen.
Thursday, March 14
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Hero of Alexandria's writings on things like pneumatics, pure geometry and catapults have influenced many others through the ages and his principles touch early modern inventions including the player piano and the fire engine.
Saturday, March 2 on Zoom
Simone Pinet will give the Romance Studies annual faculty lecture entitled "Silence, Voice, Noise: Sound Scenes from the 'Poem of the Cid'"
Select Thursdays, 4:30-6:00pm in Olin Library 703
Sophia D'Ignazio, Cornell Medieval Studies Ph.D. 2022, publishes her article "Women’s Public Language in the 'Old English Apollonius of Tyre'" in Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality 59, No. 1 (2023).
Wednesday, Feb 21 at 4:30pm
Olin Library 107
Thomas' edition and translation of Fr. Franck Quoëx's "Liturgical Theology in Thomas Aquinas: Sacrifice and Salvation History" has been published as part of the Thomistic Ressourcement Series (The Catholic University of America Press, 2023).
A specialist in the study of Latin manuscripts and the history of universities, John was a part of the Cornell community for more than 50 years, teaching medieval intellectual history, historiography and paleography – the study of historical writing systems and manuscripts.
Michael Alan Anderson (Eastman School of Music) will be presenting on, "Sounding the Saints in Books of Hours," at 5:15 PM on Monday, October 30 (AD White House and Zoom)
The conference will be held virtually over Zoom on Saturday, March 2nd, 2024.
David Albertson (USC) will be presenting on, "What Does Geometry Have to Do with Mysticism? Space and Interiority in Medieval Christian Thought," at 5 PM on Sept. 29 (401 Physical Sciences Building)
Recent Medieval Studies PhD graduate, Paul Vinhage, was named a 23/24 Mellon Fellow at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies at the University of Toronto in Canada.
Please join us at the Medieval Studies Graduate Student Roundtable this semester!
Cornell’s Medieval Studies Program invites you to our Fall 2023 Opening Reception
Medieval Studies PhD candidate, Alice Wolff, was awarded this fellowship for the 2023-2024 academic year!
Thomas' edition and translation of Honorius Augustodunensis's 'Gemma animae' (with his collaborator Gerhard Eger) has been published by the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library (Harvard University Press)
Medieval Studies PhD candidate, Tyler Wolford, was awarded this fellowship to work on his project, "Mountain Resilience: Settlement on Mount Latros and Mykale in Middle Byzantine Western Asia Minor" next year in Istanbul.
Medieval Studies PhD candidate, Alice Wolff, was awarded this prize for her excellent Freshman Writing Seminar teaching
Medieval Studies PhD candidate, Sarah LaVoy, was nominated for and awarded this fellowship for the 2023-2024 academic year!
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4:30pm on Friday, May 26 in the Hans Bethe House dining room.
April 22
10:00-1:30: Lecture in Kaufmann Auditorium in Goldwin Smith Hall
1:30-4:00: Workshop in Goldwin Smith Hall G24
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Thursday, March 16, 4:15-6pm, Olin Library B-32
The 2023 Medieval Studies Student Colloquium (MSSC), "Lacunae," will be held virtually on Zoom on Saturday, March 11, starting at 9:00 AM Eastern Time.
Manning and Jed Sparks combined the capabilities of their respective labs, the Cornell Tree-Ring Laboratory and the Cornell Stable Isotope Laboratory (COIL), to scrutinize samples from the Midas Mound Tumulus at Gordion, a human-made 53-meter-tall structure located west of Ankara, Turkey.
Join us in congratulating Ross Brann, Milton R. Konvitz Professor of Judeo-Islamic Studies, on this honor.
This spring we have an exciting line-up of lectures, workshops, MSGA roundtables, a book launch for Prof. Benjamin Anderson's forthcoming co-edited volume, and the 33rd annual Medieval Studies Student Colloquium, "Lacunae."
Dante King, Secretary of the Medieval Studies Graduate Association, describes the 2022 Festival of Medieval Readings.
The Medieval Studies Program at Cornell is pleased to announce the 33rd annual Medieval Studies Student Colloquium (MSSC), which takes the idea of “Lacunae” as its theme.
On November 8, as part of the “Producing the Middle Ages” event series, the Medieval Studies Graduate Association (MSGA) and the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly hosted a screening of David Lowery and A24’s The Green Knight (2021) followed by an accompanying panel discussion.
Sophia's essay, 'The Carolingian Gender Reform: Making Monastic Women Female in the Eighth and Ninth Centuries', won the 2021-2022 prize from the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship.
The minor is distinctive in including courses from many disciplines, from across Cornell’s schools and colleges.
The program matches undergraduate students with summer opportunities to work side by side with faculty from across the College.
Tuesday, November 8, 2022
4:45-8 PM EDT
Frontiers in Archaeological Sciences 3: Rethinking the Paradigm conference keynote lecture is on Saturday, October 8, 2022 at 7pm and is open to the public.
Join us this fall for our Medieval Studies hosted and co-sponsored events