Graduate Medievalists at Berkeley

Each semester a group of graduate students will submit their work up for discussion and comments by their peers. Each meeting will be devoted to the productive criticism and development of the essay, article, conference paper, or dissertation chapter at hand. The dialogue tends to be highly stimulating and helpful for all of the participants. 

Spring 2010:

• February 5th - Benjamin A. Saltzman – “Suspicion, Secrecy, and the Hermeneutics of Elene”
• February 26th - Katie Malczyk - "'Daz aber dû verswîgen solt:' Self Muting of the Female Lyric Voice in Reinmar" 
• March 5th - Matthew Sergi – "A People's History of the English Language"
• March 12th - R. D. Perry - "Ostentatious Orthodoxy: E Museo 35 & Spectacular Religiosity in Fifteenth-Century England"
• April 2nd - Molly Jacobs - "Looking Back: Helga's Gazing in Gunnlaug's Saga"
• April 9th - Andrea Lankin – TBA
• April 16th - Alani Rosa Hicks-Bartlett - "The “Shameful Kiss,” or Disguise, Dissimulation, and Delation: Female Victory in the “Berenger au long cul” and “Castia Gilos'"

Fall 2009:

• October 2nd - Andrea Lankin - Title: "Absent Histories and the Elided Expulsion in Laud Misc. 108"
• October 9th - Katie Malczyk - Title: "An Education in Misogyny: Six Dialogues on the Dangers of Women in the Manuale Scholarium"
• October 23rd - Molly Jacobs - Topic:  TBA (Skaldic poetry)
• November 6th - Benjamin Saltzman - Topic: Late Anglo-Saxon rules of confraternity and formula letters for announcing the death of a monk
• November 20th - Matthew Sergi - Topic: Gaming/dice/sport and the religious politics of chance in the Chester cycle

The high cross at Monasterboice, Ireland (Photo Credit: Benjamin Saltzman, 2007)