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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.

Spring 2024 Schedule

  • 3/7     Sean Field (University of Vermont)

    • “Writing Radegund: Baudonivia, Venantius Fortunatus, and Gregory of Tours”
  • 4/11    Emily Youree (UNC-CH)
    • “King and Outlaw in the Piers Plowman Tradition”
  • 4/18   Alan Stewart (Columbia University)

    • Title TBA
  • 4/25    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.