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Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium

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The University of California, Berkeley is now a member of the Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium (ASSC), a new forum for scholars of Early Medieval England.

 

For more information and upcoming events, please visit http://www.columbia.edu/cu/assc/

 

The Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium aims to foster intellectual exchange among faculty and graduate students whose interests embrace the language, literature, and culture of early medieval England. Currently based in Columbia, New York University, the University of Rhode Island, and Rutgers, the Colloquium seeks to expand the resources available to Anglo-Saxonists from these universities and other institutions in the area, and also to create a welcoming intellectual community for anyone who is interested in Anglo-Saxon studies. 

 

Upcoming

Wednesday, 08 Sep 2010
06:30 PM - 08:30 PM
Welcome Back! Pub Night

Wednesday, 15 Sep 2010
05:00 PM - 07:00 PM
Medieval Studies Colloquium

Friday, 08 Oct 2010
10:00 AM - 03:00 PM
ASSC Seminar: "Mapping the Human Spirit in the Early Middle Ages"

Wednesday, 13 Oct 2010
05:00 PM - 07:00 PM
Medieval Studies Colloquium

Wednesday, 17 Nov 2010
05:00 PM - 07:00 PM
Medieval Studies Colloquium

GMB News

CFP: Reading the Middle Ages

GMB invites submissions of abstracts for twenty-minute papers to be presented at the UC Berkeley, national graduate student conference, "Reading the Middle Ages" (25-27 March 2011). Abstracts due 12 November 2010.

Please also save the date for Rita Copeland's Keynote Address on Saturday, 26 March 2011. 

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Welcome Back
We hope you have all had wonderful summers. We have a lot of exciting things planned for this year, but first we shall start it off right - over some celebratory drinks at Raleigh's on Telegraph (previously Manny's Tap Room; previously Raleigh's) Wednesday, September 8th at 6:30. So, come join us to reconnect with old friends and make new ones.
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A dose of medieval . . .

‘Talis,’ inquiens, ‘mihi uidetur, rex, uita hominum praesens in terris, ad conparationem eius, quod nobis incertum est, temporis, quale cum te residente ad caenam cum ducibus ac ministris tuis tempore brumali, accenso quidem foco in medio, et calido effecto caenaculo, furentibus autem foris per omnia turbinibus hiemalium pluuiarum uel niuium, adueniens unus passeium domum citissime peruolauerit; qui cum per unum ostium ingrediens, mox per aliud exierit. Ipso quidem tempore, quo intus est, hiemis tempestate non tangitur, sed tamen paruissimo spatio serenitatis ad momentum excurso, mox de hieme in hiemem regrediens, tuis oculis elabitur. Ita haec uita hominum ad modicum apparet; quid autem sequatur, quidue praecesserit, prorsus ignoramus. Unde si haec noua doctrina certius aliquid attulit, merito esse sequenda uidetur.’

                                                            One of King Edwin's advisers describes a sparrow flying through the hall

                                                            Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum, II.13 

 

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