Winter Break
Faculty House 64 Morningside Drive, New YorkThe University Seminars office is closed from 6 pm on Friday, December 20 until 10 am Monday, January 6, 2024 for the holiday break.
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Columbia UniversityMorningside Campus is closed. Faculty House is closed for seminars and events.
Spring Term Begins
Columbia UniversitySpring Break
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Belonging with Songs: Towards an Historical Anthropology of Medieval French Chansons Emma Dillon
East Gallery, Maison Française, Buell HallCo-sponsored by The University Seminar on Medieval Studies, Columbia Maison Française, Department of Music, and the Medieval and Renaissance Studies program A Talk by Emma Dillon Why do we sing? How does singing shape how we see ourselves and how we relate to one another? Emma Dillon takes up these universal questions in the context of a medieval song community. Her talk explores Medieval French songs (trouvère songs) as a social practice, linked to specific people and families from Northern France and to other forms of social activity. She offers a case study of twelfth-century trouvères (using new recordings of their songs), […]
Spring Term Ends
Columbia UniversityCommencement
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“Ab uno disce omnes”: A Conference in Honor of Christopher Baswell
Butler Library 535 West 114th Street, New York, New YorkThis conference celebrates the long and distinguished career of Christopher Baswell (Ann Whitney Olin Chair of English, Barnard College; Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University), a leading scholar of medieval literature. Baswell’s work combines analytical precision, theoretical sophistication, and astonishing erudition to probe a wide range of topics, from medieval reception of the classics, to multilingualism, to disability studies, to women’s poetry across time. He is the author of Virgil in Medieval England: Figuring the Aeneid from the Twelfth Century to Chaucer (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), a dazzling demonstration of the ways manuscript study can inform literary analysis, […]
Memorial Day
Columbia UniversityMorningside Campus is closed. Faculty House is closed for seminars and events.