Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Announcements
Congratulations to Professor Marilynn Desmond
It is with great pleasure that we share the news of Marilynn Desmond's appointment to the rank of Distinguished Professor, an honor conferred by the SUNY Board of Trustees. For comments by SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher and Board of Trustees Chairman Carl Hayden, an outline of the accomplishments expected of all nominees, and a description of Distinguished Professor Desmond's own remarkable accomplishments, please click here.
Spring 2010 Course Offerings
Click here to view the Spring 2010 Undergraduate Courses
Click here to view the Fall 2010 Graduate Courses
The Annual CEMERS Workshop Lecture Series and Calender of Events – Fall 2009
The CEMER lecture series – free and open to the public – is run this fall in conjunction with MDVL 501O, an interdisciplinary graduate seminar titled "Medieval Colonialisms" (taught by Marilynn Desmond, Professor of English). Click here to view the complete calender (.pdf, 595kb)
Upcoming Bernardo Lecture, Fall 2009
The next speaker in the endowed Bernardo Lecture series will be Albert R. Ascoli, Gladys Terrill Distinguished Professor of Italian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Ascoli will speak at 5:30 pm on Thursday, November 12, 2009 in the Anderson Center Reception Room. Professor Ascoli¹s lecture, "'Favola fui': Petrarch Writes His Readers," reflects his abiding interest in the intertwining of authorship and reader. Building on his recently published study of Dante and the Making of a Modern Author (Cambridge, 2008), Professor Ascoli considers Petrarch's address to and imagined relationship with his readers, and the extent to which they intersect with the oft-asserted "modernity" of his authorial stances. For more information on the Bernardo Lecture series, click here.
Thanks to Conference Participants!
Thank you to all who participated in In Vino Veritas! By all accounts, the conference was a success. Be on the lookout for announcements about the publication of selected papers as well as for the Call for Papers for the next CEMERS conference (topics under consideration), scheduled to take place in Fall 2010.
Excellence Award in Classified Service
Congratulations to Barbara Knighton, who runs the CEMERS front office! Barbara has been awarded the 2008-2009 SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Classified Service, a much deserved acknowledgement of twenty-five years of dedicated service on the Binghamton University campus.
