UBC Early Romance Studies Research Cluster

If you’re at UBC or in the Vancouver area and you’ve enjoyed and been enriched by the work of the Early Romance Studies Research Cluster and its approaches over the last eight years, you may be interested in the following research clusters / groups / gatherings with which ERS members and previous participants intersect:

• FHIS Research Seminar
• FHIS Literary Theory Reading Group: On Violence
• Œcologies: Inhabiting Premodern Worlds
• The Rogue Humanities Centre

• Rogue Humanities Early Modern Research Cluster

Images:
“Belle, Bonne, Sage.” Baude Cordier (1380-c. 1440)
Ms Chantilly, Musée Condé 564; c. 1350-1400.
Image source: Wikimedia Commons

“Vision of the angelic hierarchy.” From the Scivias, Hildegard of Bingen (before 1151; 12th c. ms)
Modern copy from the (now lost) Rupertsberg ms, made at the Hildegard Abbey, Eibingen (1927-33)
Image source: Wikimedia Commons

Wednesday 22 November 2017
3:00-4:30 p.m.
FHIS department lounge, Buchanan Tower 799

Part of the FHIS Research Seminar 

Book launch: the collected volume from the 2012 UBC Medieval Workshop, edited by Prof. Frelick, who was one of that conference’s organisers.

From the publisher’s website:

Juliet O’Brien (UBC Vancouver)
“Experimental Medievalist Teaching”
Tuesday 24 January at 1:00 p.m.
Buchanan Tower room 826
(Online: part 1 & part 2)

David González Agudo (UBC Vancouver)
“Prices in Toledo, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries”
Tuesday 7 February at 1:00 p.m.
Buchanan Tower room 826

Richard Hodgson (UBC Vancouver)
“Charles Sorel, Samuel de Sorbière and Pierre Bayle: libertinism (libertinage) in 17th-c. France”
Tuesday 28 February at 1:00 p.m.
Buchanan Tower room 826

Derek Carr (UBC Vancouver)
“Cuckolded Saints, Ichthyic Fetishism, Arboreal Lactation, Spartan Devils, Medieval Chiclets and the Great God Priali: The Art of Translating Badly”
Wednesday 8 March at 3:00 p.m.
Buchanan Tower 799
jointly with the Hispanic Research Seminar

Claudio Turza (Royal Academy of Spain)
“The Origins of the Spanish Language”
Wednesday 29 March at 3:00 p.m.
Buchanan Tower 799
jointly with the Hispanic Research Seminar
(NB this talk will be in Spanish)

Claudio Turza (Royal Academy of Spain) and Francisco Peña (UBC Okanagan)
“A joint research project on La General Estoria by Alfonso X”
Thursday 30 March at 3:00 p.m.
Buchanan Penthouse
(in English)

Everyone is welcome. Please join us!

Info:
raul.alvarez-moreno@ubc.ca
juliet.obrien@ubc.ca
chantal.phan@ubc.ca

Poster (PDF)

The UBC Early Romance Studies Research Cluster presents a talk by

Jennifer Nagtegaal (M.A. Candidate in Hispanic Studies)

“To engulf an empire: Cannibalism and translatio imperii in La Numancia”
Date: Thursday, December 1, 2016
Time: 3pm
Place: Dept. of FHIS Lounge (Buchanan Tower 799 – 1873 East Mall)

The pervasiveness of blood and bodily suffering in Cervantes’ La Numancia (ca. 1581) has captivated literary critics for decades. However, they have scarcely made mention of the cannibalistic ritual that occurs in the third act; the savage practice, according to French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss (1961: 385) “that we find the most horrible and disgusting.” The literary representation of cannibalism, long marginalized in scholarship, has only recently seen the limelight of scholarship. We analyse this act with the purpose of shedding new light on the classic and automatic identification Numantia-Spain, thus also entering the existing debate about the interpretive ambiguity of the play.

The talk will be in English. All are welcome to attend. Please see the poster below (downloadable PDF) for more details and please do share with anyone who may be interested in attending.

Info:
raul.alvarez-moreno@ubc.ca
chantal.phan@ubc.ca

Dr. Evina Steinova (The Hague)
“Early Medieval Thinking Machines”
UBC Early Romance Studies Research Cluster
November 17 at 3:00 pm
room 799 (FHIS Lounge)
Buchanan Tower, 1873 East Mall.

After this week’s exciting lecture on Christine de Pizan by Dr. Tania Van Hemelryck (Louvain), for our next talk we turn to earlier medieval documents as we welcome Dr. Evina Steinova as presenter. « Read the rest of this entry »

Prof. Tania Van Hemelryk
Université catholique de Louvain
Tuesday 25 October 2016
2:30 p.m.
Buchanan Tower 826

On Christine de Pizan and authorship.

(In French.)

With the support of the Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies; the Dorothy Dallas Fund; the Faculty of Graduate Studies; and the Early Romance Studies Research Cluster

For more information, please contact Dr. Nancy Frelick: nancy.frelick@ubc.ca

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This year’s UBC Medieval Workshop brings to UBC the 15th Biennial Romance in Medieval Britain Conference.

The 15th Biennial Romance in Medieval Britain brings more than 60 scholars from 7 different countries to present their research in the field of Medieval Romance in Britain. Romance, a wide-spread popular narrative genre within medieval Europe, saw a profound flowering within the literatures of medieval Britain between the twelfth and early sixteenth centuries. Poets produced romances for a wide range of audiences – courtly, gentry, mercantile, and popular – and upon a dizzying range of subject matter. In medieval Britain romances were produced and consumed in Middle English, Anglo-Norman and Continental French, Latin, Norse, Scots, Welsh, Cornish, and Irish, positioning romance as a genre that is reflective of the cultural and linguistic diversity of the medieval British archipelago.

Held in association with the 44th Annual UBC Medieval Workshop, the conference takes place in the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre on UBC’s Point Grey Campus, between Tuesday 16th and Saturday 20th August.

The conference description, information, and the program can be found here:

http://medievalromance2016.blogspot.ca/

If you are interested in attending the conference or have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Robert Rouse at robert.rouse@ubc.ca

Robert Rouse
Department of English
UBC