FoRMS: The Medieval Lunch Series

Begun in Winter of 2010 by professors Cathy Sanok (English) and Hussein Fancy (History) as the Monday Medieval Brownbag, this series is now being run as a Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop under the rubric "Forum on Research in Medieval Studies" (FoRMS), the Medieval Lunch Series. Contact student coordinator Alice Sullivan for more information. Join us on Facebook.

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Winter 2013 Schedule

2/6   Nathan Kelber   English, PhD Candidate, University of Maryland
"The Play of Objects: Medieval Drama, Ludi, and Games"

2/20   Aaron P. Proffitt   Asian Languages and Cultures; PhD Candidate
“Riding the Vajra-yana to the Pure Land: Dohan's (1179-1252) "Himitsu nenbutsu" in medieval Japanese Buddhism”

2/27    Douglas Trevor   Associate Professor, English and Creative Writing
"Marguerite Porete and Perfect Charity"

3/13    Donka D. Markus   Classical Studies; Lecturer II
“Modernitas in Walter of Chatillon's Vita S. Brandani”

3/27   Jonathan Brack   History; PhD Candidate
“Messiahs, Mongol Converts and Inter-religious Violence in Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries Anatolia and Iran”

4/3    Paula R. Curtis   History; PhD Student
“Rights, Rites, and Writing: Reconceptualizing "Power" for Artisans, Aristocrats, and Warlords in Late Medieval Japan”