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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 Krista Telford (ktelford@unc.edu). It was founded in 2018 by Taylor Cowdery, H. M. Cushman, and Jessica Wolfe.

Spring 2025 Schedule

  • 2/13    Mark Cruse (Arizona State University)
    • “Sixteenth-Century French Cosmography and Marco Polo’s Description of the World”
  • 3/6      Andrew Keener (UNC Charlotte)
    • “Theaters of Translation: Multilingualism and Language Learning on the English Renaissance Stage”
  • 3/27    Nicholas Watson (Harvard University)
    • “Are Revelations a Distinct Genre? Vision as Witness in Angela of Foligno, Julian of Norwich, and Margery Kempe”
  • 4/3      Jon Correa Reyes (Clemson University)
    • “The Coloniality of Being in Turke and Sir Gawain
  • 4/10    Shoshana Adler (Vanderbilt University)
    • “How to Do Things with Examples: Late Medieval Sermon Exempla and Moral Consensus”
  • 4/24    Andreley Bjelland (UNC Chapel Hill)
    • “Children’s Wondrous Knowledge in Early Modern Possession Narratives”

 

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