Books and Transgressions: 50th New England Medieval Consortium Conference and Quinquagenary Celebration
Friday, November 15, 2024 - Saturday, November 16, 2024听|听Boston College & Tufts University� | Please to Attend
The Friday, November 15 event is going to take place in听Special Collections, Tisch Library, Tufts University听35 Professors Row听Medford, MA 02155.
The 2024 conference听will mark the quinquagenary (fiftieth anniversary) of the NEMC founding. As the conference returns to Boston College for the first time since 1981, we hope to make it an especially festive occasion.
This year's theme is "Books and Transgressions."听Keynote lectures will be delivered by听听(Assistant Professor of French, New York University), 淩ules of Transgression in Medieval Poetry: Lessons from a Forgotten Bestseller�; and听听(Professor of Islamic Thought, University of Chicago), 淎uthors and their Audiences in Medieval Arabic Book Culture."
The local organizing committee is听Tina Montenegro听(51动漫),听听(Tufts University), and听Eric Weiskott听(51动漫).
This conference will provide an opportunity for medievalists working across a range of disciplines and geographic areas to join in conversation about premodern cultures of the book, boundary-crossing, and the law and other normative cultural expressions. Given this year conference location at a Jesuit, Catholic university, and our keynote speakers, we particularly (but not exclusively) invite submissions focused on regions other than England, including the Middle East; language traditions other than English; and religious cultures.
We interpret 渢ransgressions� broadly, including the notions of access, trespass, and desire. Accordingly, we welcome papers from medievalists in any discipline, concerned with any region or polity of Europe, Asia, or Africa.
The conference takes place on Saturday. On the preceding Friday afternoon, there will be an exhibition or workshop hosted by the Tufts University Special Collections.
Institutional Sponsors:听听
- Committee on Centers and Regional Associations (CARA)
- Medieval Academy of America听Institute for the Liberal Arts听
- Boston College听Special Collections, Tufts University听
Schedule and RegistrationFriday,听November 15, 2024 |听Special Collections, Tisch Library, Tufts University | Registration Required | |
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| 3:00�4:45 PM | exhibit and workshop on manuscript fragments feat. Lisa Fagin Davis |
| 5:00�6:00 PM | NEMC steering committee meeting听 |
Saturday, November 16, 2024 | Stokes Hall South Rm. S195 (Auditorium), Boston College | Registration Required | |
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| 8:00-9:00 AM | Coffee / Registration听 |
| 9:00-10:00 AM | Plenary Lecture听
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| 10:00-11:30 AM | Session 1: Transgressive Poetics
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| 11:30-11:45 AM | Coffee Break |
| 11:45 AM-1:15 PM | Session 2: Manuscript Studies Unbound
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| 1:15-2:15 PM | Lunch听 |
| 2:15-3:15 PM | Session 3: Sciences at the Crossroads听
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| 3:15-4:15 PM | Session 4: Translation as Transgression听
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| 4:15-4:30 PM | Coffee Break |
| 4:30-5:30 PM | Plenary Lecture听(Live-stream option available)
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| 5:45-7:30 PM | Reception | John J. Burns Library |
Speakers
- Ariane Bottex-Ferragne (New York University), 淩ules of Transgression in Medieval Poetry: Lessons from a Forgotten Bestseller�
- Robert Stanton (Boston College)
- Juliette Goutierre (Columbia University), 淓rasure and Transformation of the Transgressive in the Fourteenth-Century Ovide moralis茅�
- Mariah Min (Brown University), 淒esperate Measures Call for Desperate Times: Richard Coer de Lyon and the State of Exception�
- Selina Wang (Columbia University), 淭ransgressive Nonsense and Beyond: An Analysis of Meaningless Poems in 惭补苍檡艒蝉丑奴 (Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves, c. Eighth揘inth Century)�
- Nancy Netzer (Boston College / McMullen Museum)
- Anahit Gasparyan (Tufts University), 淢anuscript and Monument: The Roots of the Etchmiadzin Gospel in Bgheno-Noravank槤
- Alexander Riehle (Harvard University), 淢iniature Manuscripts: Byzantine Books of Diminutive Dimensions�
- Anne Shafer (Rhode Island School of Design), 淩eimagining Boundaries: The Blue Qur檃n and its Ancient Order�
- Eileen Sweeney (Boston College)
- Riccardo Brighenti (University of Milan), 湗And it is called 淧lato laws� since it is against Nature laws�: Classical Reception and Preternatural Transgressions in the Medieval Kit膩b al-Naw膩mis / Liber Aneguemis�
- Iman Darwish (Harvard University), 淗ow Not To Write a Medieval Arabic Medical Book�
- Eric W. Driscoll (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), 淎ntiquarianism as Transgression in Late Byzantium: The Case of Georgios Gemistos Plethon�
- Chase Hockema (Boston College)
- Gennifer Dorgan (University of Massachusetts at Amherst), 淭ranslation, Version, Recension: Modern Terms, Medieval Textuality�
- Joseph R. Johnson (Georgetown University), 淩evelation/Variation: Encountering the 楳other of Abominations� in French Vernacular Bibles�
- Ahmed El Shamsy (University of Chicago), 淎uthors and their Audiences in Medieval Arabic Book Culture�
Campus Map and Parking
Campus Map and Parking:
Parking is available at the nearby Beacon Street and Commonwealth Avenue Garages.
Boston College is also accessible via public transportation (MBTA B Line - Boston College).
Boston College strongly encourages conference participants to receive the COVID-19 vaccination before attending events on campus.
