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2007 Spring Semester Events
- Tuesday, January 9, 2007
Annual advisory board meeting
9:30am to noon at Calhoun's on the River
- Friday, January 26, 2007
4:00-5:30, Temple Court 205
Seminar in Late Antiquity, for faculty and graduate students only.
Topic is R. Malcolm Errington's "Roman Imperial Policy from Julian to Theodosius" (Univeristy of North Carolina Press, 2006).
For more information, email Dr. Christine Shepardson.
- Friday & Saturday, February 9 and 10, 2007
"Everything but the Text" manuscript editing workshop, organized by Thomas Burman, Maura Lafferty and Roy Liuzza.
Schedule and Information
- Friday, February 16, 2007
4:00-5:30, Temple Court 205
Seminar in Late Antiquity, for faculty and graduate students only.
Presentation by Dr. Michael Kulikowski (UT History Department), topic TBA.
For more information, email Dr. Christine Shepardson.
- Friday, February 23, 2007
1:30-2:30, Temple Court 205
Marco Colloquium with Dr. Bill MacLehose.
Topic will be "The Word Made Infant Flesh: Imagining the Christ Child in the High Middle Ages."
- Friday, March 2, 2007
4:00-5:30, Temple Court 205
Seminar in Late Antiquity, for faculty and graduate students only.
Presentation by Dr. Patout Burns (Vanderbilt University) and Dr. Robin Jensen (Vanderbilt University) on ritual in early Christian North Africa.
For more information, email Dr. Christine Shepardson, and for preparatory materials on the presentation, click here.
- Sunday, March 4, 2007
Exhibit of medieval armor from the Higgins Armory at McClung Museum opens.
Will run until May 13.
- Thursday, March 8, 2007
6:00-7:00 pm, Room 109, Art & Architecture Bldg
Guest lecture by Dr. Vivian Mann.
Topic will be "Jewish Art/Christian Art/Islamic Art: Symbiosis and Otherness."
- Friday, March 23, 2007
12:30-1:30, Temple Court 205
Marco Colloquium with Dr. Aleydis van de Moortel (UT Classics Department)
Topic will be "Shipbuilding, Water Transport, and the Rise of the City in the Medieval Rhine Delta."
- Thursday, March 29, 2007
5:00, Temple Court 205
Marco Movie Night featuring Elizabeth (1998, with Cate Blanchett).
We will order pizza for dinner and Gina Cash will provide popcorn.
Please be sure to arrive by 5pm, as the front door to the building is locked each day at five.
- Friday, March 30, 2007
12:30-1:30, Temple Court 205
Marco Colloquium with Dr. Gregor Kalas (UT School of Architecture).
Topic will be "Architectural and Ritual Contexts for Icons in Early Medieval Rome."
- Wednesday, April 4, 2007
CANCELLED
4 :00-5:00, Temple Court 205
Research Seminar on Modern Germany and Central Europe
Presentation by Dr. Bernhard Martin (Tufts University) entitled, "Dungeons and Dragons: The Medieval Roots of National Identity."
Organizers are Dr. David Tompkins and Dr. Daniel Magilow.
CANCELLED
4:00-5:30, Temple Court 205
Seminar in Late Antiquity, for faculty and graduate students only.
Discussion of Marcus Aurelius readings: Meditations and Pierre Hadot's Inner Citadel.
For more information, email Dr. Christine Shepardson.
- Thursday, April 12, 2007
5:00, Temple Court 205
Second Marco Movie Night of the year
We will be watching The Name of the Rose with Sean Connery.
Please be prepared to chip in for pizza, although popcorn is provided.
Also, please RSVP to Erin Read or 974-1859.
- Friday, April 13, 2007
3:00-4:00, Temple Court 205
Marco Colloquium with Dr. Katherine Kong (UT Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literature).
Topic will be "The Status of Secrecy in La Chastelaine de Vergi."
3:30-5:00, McClung Museum Auditorium
In connection with the Age of Armor exhibit in McClung Museum (running all spring semester), the Higgons Armory Museum is sending a speaker to present the Knight's Tale program, an interactive lecture on the pieces in the exhibit and their cultural significance.
This presentation will be for UT students.
- Saturday, April 14, 2007
2:00-3:30, McClung Museum Auditorium
In connection with the Age of Armor exhibit in McClung Museum (running all spring semester), the Higgons Armory Museum is sending a speaker to present the Knight's Tale program, an interactive lecture on the pieces in the exhibit and their cultural significance.
This presentation will be for the Knoxville community, and will be open to the public.
- Wednesday, April 18, 2007
4:00-5:00, Temple Court 205
Research Seminar on Modern Germany and Central Europe.
Presentation by Dr. Charles Ingrao (Purdue University) entitled, "Germany's Early Modern Sonderweg."
Organizers are Dr. David Tompkins and Dr. Daniel Magilow.
- Friday, April 20, 2007
12:30-1:30, Temple Court 205
Marco Colloquium with Dr. Samantha Murphy (UT English Department).
Topic will be "Anxiety, James VI&I, and the Male Witch in Newes from Scotland."
4:00-5:30, Temple Court 205
Seminar in Late Antiquity, for faculty and graduate students only.
Presentation by Dr. Maura Lafferty (UT Classics Department).
Topic will be "Agnellus of Ravenna and the 'Epigraphic Habit' in Early Medieval Ravenna."
For more information, email Dr. Christine Shepardson.
- Monday, April 23, 2007
12:30-1:30, Black Cultural Center
Eminent historian and guest lecturer Dr. Ehud Toledano will lecture on his forthcoming book As if Silent and Absent: Bonds of Enslavement in the Islamic Middle East, "which," Dr. Toledano writes, "deals with a new approach to understanding enslavement in the Ottoman Empire and other Islamic societies."
This lecture is cosponsored by the Departments of History and Religious Studies, the Marco Institute, and the Abraham and Rebecca Solomon and Ida Schwartz Distinguished Lecture Fund for Judaic Studies.
Dr. Toledano's CV may be found here.
- Thursday, April 26, 2007
5:00-6:00, Black Cultural Center multipurpose room
Guest lecture by Dr. Carol Symes.
Topic will be "Toward a New History of Medieval Theatre: Plays and Public Life in Thirteenth-Century Arras."
There will be a short reception afterward; all are invited to attend!
- Friday, April 27, 2007
12:30-1:30, Black Cultural Center multipurpose room
Marco Colloquium with Dr. Carol Symes, guest lecturer.
Topic will be "Historical Re-Enactments: Performing the Evidence of the Pre-Modern Past (A Workshop)."
- Wednesday, May 2, 2007
4:00-5:30, Temple Court 205:
Seminar in Late Antiquity, for faculty and graduate students only.
Discussion of Elizabeth Clark, History, Theory, Text.
For more information, email Dr. Christine Shepardson.
- Monday, May 7, 2007
4:00-5:30, Temple Court 205
Seminar in Late Antiquity, for faculty and graduate students only.
Discussion of Fergus Millar's A Greek Roman Empire: Power and Belief under Theodosius II (408-450) (University of California Press, 2006).
- Tuesday & Wednesday, May 15-16, 2007
International Symposium: “Friends, Enemies, Neighbors: Romans and Alamanni in Late Antique Germany, " cosponsored by Marco and organized by Dr. Michael Kulikowski.
For more information, please email Erin Read and visit our website.