Conference Program
Friday, April 28
| 9 am – 5 pm |
REGISTRATION
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Rose Alumni House
232 York Street (between Chapel and Elm Streets) |
| 5:45 – 7:00 pm |
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Wall and High Streets |
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| 2:00 – 3:30 pm |
PRE-CONFERENCE EVENT
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Highlights from the Medieval Collection
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Wall and High Streets
Meet at reception desk, main entrance lobby (plaza level) |
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A private showing of newly-acquired medieval
manuscripts in Latin, Greek, Middle English and Armenian
by Robert Babcock, Curator of Early Manuscripts. |
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| 4:00 – 4:15 pm |
CONFERENCE
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Welcoming Remarks
Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Room 102
63 High Street |
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Jon Butler
Dean, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Anders Winroth
Chair, Medieval Studies Program |
| 4:15 – 5:30 pm |
Birth of the Yale Medieval Studies
Program: The Robert Lopez Years |
MODERATOR
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Paul Freedman
Yale University |
PANELISTS
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Jeremy duQ. Adams
Southern Methodist University
Judith R. Baskin '76 PhD
University of Oregon
Benjamin Z. Kedar '69 PhD
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Edward M. Peters '63 BA, '67 PhD
University of Pennsylvania |
| 5:45 – 7:00 pm |
Reception
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Wall and High Streets |
| 7:15 pm |
Dinner
Presidents Room, Woolsey Hall
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Saturday, April 29
| 9 – 10:15 am |
The discreet charm of a Yale medievalist:
What I wish I had (not) learned in graduate school
Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Room 102
63 High Street |
MODERATOR
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Walter Cahn
Yale University |
PANELISTS
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Katherine Dittmar '96 PhD (History)
University of
Georgia
Warren Ginsberg '75 PhD
University of Oregon
Ruth Mazo Karras '79 BA, '85 PhD (History)
University of Minnesota
James O'Donnell '75 PhD
Georgetown University |
| 10:15 – 10:45 am |
Coffee break |
| 10:45 am – noon |
Round table: Graduate medieval
studies today and tomorrow |
MODERATOR
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Jon Butler
Yale University |
PANELISTS
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Patrick Geary '74 PhD
University of California, Los Angeles
Roy Michael Liuzza '88 PhD
University of Tennessee
E. Ann Matter '76 PhD (Religious Studies)
University of Pennsylvania
Brian Noell '06 PhD
Graduate student, Yale University
Davida Wegner
First-year graduate student, Yale University |
| 12:15 – 1:45 pm |
Lunch at Mory's
306 York Street (between Elm and Grove Streets) |
| 2:00 – 3:30 pm |
Novel ways of putting to use a
medieval studies degree
Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Room 102
63 High Street |
MODERATOR
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Marie Borroff '56 PhD (English)
Yale University |
PANELISTS
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Victoria Bjorklund '77 PhD
Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett LLP (art-law practice)
New York, New York
Valerie Hotchkiss '90 PhD
Head, Rare Book & Special Collections Library
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jane L. Jervis '78 PhD (History of Science and Medicine)
Former President
The Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington
Valerie Komor '81 MA
Director of Corporate Archives, The Associated Press
New York, New York
Susan Mehrtens '73 PhD
Jungian Center for the Spiritual Sciences
Waterbury, Vermont |
| 6:30 pm |
Cocktails and Dinner
Berkeley College Dining Hall
205 Elm Street
A "Yale Sustainable Food Project" dinner
with locally-grown produce and other menu selections
from ecologically-responsible sources. |
Sunday, April 30
| 9:00 – 10:15 am |
The reputation of "medieval" outside
the academy
Room 211, Hall of Graduate Studies
320 York Street |
MODERATOR
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Frank Prochaska
Yale University |
PANELISTS
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Elizabeth Archibald '84 PhD
University of Bristol, United Kingdom
Elizabeth Archibald '03 BA
Current graduate student in history, Yale University
Daniel Donoghue '86 PhD
Harvard University
Mathew Kuefler '91 MA (Medieval Studies), '95 PhD (History)
San Diego State University
Marcia Kupfer '82 PhD (History of Art)
Johns Hopkins University
Sara Lipton '91 PhD
State University of New York, Stony Brook |
| 10:30 am – Noon |
Farewell Brunch
Hall of Graduate Studies Dining Hall
320 York Street |
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