Events

“Tra divino e umano, tra Dante e Boccaccio”

Georgetown Global Medieval Studies Program and Italian Department
Prof. Sabrina Ferrara (Université de Tours; CESR)

Wednesday, May 1st 2024, 4:30-6:00pm

ARRUPE HALL, MULTI-PURPOSE ROOM

The Other “Medicean Stars”:
Medici Women and Their Agency

Prof. Elena Brizio

Georgetown Villa Le Balze, Fiesole
ICC 662 / 24 April 2024 /12:30

Global Medieval Studies and History Department

The Moriscos’ “carta del muerto”

Join us for a captivating lecture by Professor Miguel Ángel Vázquez from Florida Atlantic University on “Aljamiado texts for the afterlife: The Moriscos’ carta del muerto.” Hosted by Georgetown’s Arabic & Islamic Studies and Global Medieval Studies Program, the event will take place at McGhee Library (ICC) on April 19th from 12:30 to 1:30. Explore the intriguing world of Aljamiado literature and delve into the unique mortuary rituals of the Moriscos in pre-modern Spain. Don’t miss this insightful discussion!

Dick Davis:
Nezami’s Khosrow and Shirin

Dr. Dick Davis (Ohio State University)

Iranologist, Poet, University Professor, and Translator

The Georgetown Global Medieval Studies Program,
Shahrzad and Farhad Jalinous Lecture Series of the Persian Studies Program, and the Georgetown Humanities Initiative present
Monday, February 26, 2024

VIDEO RECORDING AVAILABLE HERE.

Previous Events

“Tra divino e umano, tra Dante e Boccaccio”, May 1st 2024

Dr. Dick Davis, A Reading From Nezami’s Khosrow and Shirin, February 26, 2024.

Carrying the Lantern Through Difficult Times: Contemporary Artists Illuminating Dante’s Path, Tuesday, November 14, 5pm, 2023.

“RADICAL DANTE, ABOLITIONIST DANTE,” October 31st at 4:00 PM EST, 2023.

‘The Evolutions and Legacies of Premodern Fisheries’ ， October 18, 2023, from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM.

The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri. McNeir Auditorium, Tuesday, October 10th, 2023, 4:30pm-6:30pm

Connecting Dunhuang: Sites, Art, and Ideas along the Silk Road(s), with Dr. Michelle Wang and Dr. Brandon Dotson. April 22–23rd, 2022.

The Games We Play: Poetry Composition at Early Medieval Chinese Court Banquets, with Dr. Kay Duffy. April 21st, 2022.

Dante and Performance, with Dr. Francesco Ciabattoni. April 8th, 2022.

Worldmaking for the Afterlife: The Case of the Fangmatan Diagrams, with Dr. Michelle H. Wang. Nov. 18, 2021.

The Medieval Mediterranean: Dante and Islam, with Dr. Karla Mallette. Oct. 22, 2021.

Healing with Poisons: The Circulation of Medical Knowledge in Medieval China, with Dr. Yan Liu. Oct. 7, 2021.

The Deiphira Project: A Georgetown University Digital Symposium with Laura Morreale and Francesco Ciabattoni. Sept. 22, 2021.

The Cloisters and the Jews in Medieval Spain: A Conversation on Art, Literature, and History, with Jonathan Ray. Sept. 19, 2021.

At the Crossroads of Life and Death: Childbirth and the Medieval Church, with Barbara Newman. April 22, 2021.

Global Medieval Studies Virtual Fall Reception. Sept. 11, 2020.

Decolonization Now!, a lunchtime seminar featuring: “Towards an Indigenous Medieval Studies” with Tarren Andrews, University of Colorado, Boulder and “”Celtic” Crosses, Whiteness, and the Process of Allyship” with Maggie Williams, William Paterson University. Feb. 27, 2020.

“Text and Image in Medieval Ethiopian Illuminated Manuscripts” with Meseret Oldjira, Princeton University. Jan. 30, 2020.

“Repatriating The Cid: The Currency of Cultural Patrimony” with Robert Bayliss. Nov. 7, 2019.

The Mirror of My Heart: A Thousand Years of Persian Poetry by Women, with Dick Davis. Oct. 24, 2019.

Looking for Juan Ruiz: Remediating the Libro de buen amor in Festivals, Illustrations and Film, with Michael Solomon. Oct. 17, 2019.

Global Medieval Studies Fall Reception. Sept. 25, 2019.

Botticelli’s Secret: The Lost Drawings and the Discovery of the Renaissance. Feb. 7, 2019.

Novel Chaucer: Historical Fictions and Alternative Facts, with Bruce Holsinger. Jan. 24, 2019.

Divination, Astrology, and Prophecy: Miraculous Epistemologies in Islamic Alexander Legends, with Prof. Anna Akasoy. Nov. 13, 2018.

The Imposter Sea: The Making of the Medieval Mediterranean, with Hussein Fancy. Nov. 9, 2018.

The Art of Qur’anic Recitation, with Khadeejah Akyurt. Oct. 30, 2018.

“Thinking ‘With the Whole Body’: On the Buddhist Transvaluation of Emotion in Medieval South Asia. April 23, 2018.

Medieval Colloquium: ‘The Intermediality of Stone Sculpture and Rock-Cut Architecture in Medieval China,’ with Michelle Wang. Feb. 27, 2018.

Medieval Colloquium: Scholastics, Stars, and Magi: Albert the Great on Matthew 2, with David Collins. Dec. 11, 2017.

Theology, Inferiority, Racism, with Lindsay Kaplan. Nov. 28, 2017.

Byzantium, the Arabs, and the Rise of Islam, with Dumbarton Oaks. Oct. 13, 2017.

Medieval Colloquium: 1491 in 2015: Neomedievalism and Historical Memory in ‘The Ministry of Time.’ Oct. 6, 2017.