GW MEMSI Spring Events

by J J Cohen

Here's the complete listing of GW Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute vernal festivities, along with a spiffy poster created by Lowell Duckert (click to enlarge).

Events are free and welcome all who would like to attend ... so if you are reading this and live near DC -- or want an excuse to come to Washington and meet the new president -- we'd be pleased to have you join us.

Not that Obama will be joining us, but all you have to do is walk down Penn Ave and you'll probably bump into him. Plus the Tiny Shriner might share the key to the secret bunker where Dick Cheney used to lurk: it's now a fez and scotch storage unit, I've been told, so Tiny has been going there a lot.


Schedule of GW MEMSI Events for 2009

David Wallace (1/30)
"Writing after Catastrophe: Conceptualizing Literary History and the Boundaries of Europe, 1348-1400"
GWU Marvin Center Ampitheatre (800 21st St. NW)
4PM

April Shelford (2/20)
“Reading and Enlightenment in 18th-century Jamaica”
GWU Rome Hall 771 (801 22nd St. NW)
11:30-1:30 PM; lunch seminar with precirculated paper

Andrea Frisch (3/6)
"The Poetics of Forgetting in Sixteenth-century France"
GWU Rome Hall 771 (801 22nd St. NW)
11:30-1:30 PM; lunch seminar with precirculated paper

Lytton Smith (4/3)
“The Unending Medieval and the Edges of Poetry”
GWU Marvin Center Ampitheatre (800 21st St. NW)
4PM

Sponsor of the Thirty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America (4/9-4/11)
Renaissance Washington, DC Hotel (999 9th St. NW)

Stephanie Trigg (4/24)
“Mythic Capital: Medievalism, Heritage Culture and the Order of the Garter, 1348-2008”
GWU Marvin Center Ampitheatre (800 21st St NW)
4PM

Sponsor of the Roundtable “How to Get the Medieval Studies You Want: Institutional Perspectives” at Kalamazoo (5/7-5/11)