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Colloquium on Premodern Literature and Culture

The UNC Colloquium on Premodern Literature and Culture is an interdisciplinary speaker series dedicated to the study of premodern writing in all of its forms. The Colloquium meets Thursdays at 5:15 PM, roughly five to seven times per semester; it is convened by H. M. Cushman (hcush@email.unc.edu) and Emily Youree (eyouree@live.unc.edu). It was founded in 2018 by Taylor Cowdery, H. M. Cushman, and Jessica Wolfe.

Fall 2023 Schedule

  • 9/28    Michael Gadaleto (UNC-CH) Postponed, new date TBD

    • “The Role of the Intellectual in a Precarious World: The Young Milton and the English Universities”
  • 10/5    Mariah Min (Brown University)
    •   “No One Subs Like Gawain, Makes Race Up Like Gawain”
  • 11/2    Jamie Taylor (Bryn Mawr)
    • “Indigenous Sovereignties in the Wife of Bath’s Tale”
  • 11/9    Matt Aiello (Harvard University)
    • “Trauma, Aurality, and the Wounded Orrmulum Manuscript (c. 1170)”
  • 11/30    Lanier Walker (UNC-CH)
    • “Reading Character on the Early Modern Stage”

 

The Med-Ren Colloquium acknowledges the generous support of the School of Arts and Sciences and MEMS @ UNC.