Marco Events Calendar

Classes Begin

4:00 pm: Grad Student Open House (Greve 615)

4:00 pm: Marco Advisory Board Mtg. (Mary Greer Room, Hodges Library)

Labor Day

3:30-5:00 pm: Late Antiquity Seminar: Dr. Gregor Kalas (UT Humanities Ctr., Melrose Hall E102)

DUE TODAY: Visiting Faculty Fellowship Applications

3:30-5:00 pm: Late Antiquity Seminar: Dr. Tina Shepardson (UT Humanities Ctr., Melrose Hall E102)

4:00 pm: Distinguished Senior Scholar Dr. Theresa Coletti: “Medieval Tragedy: Genre, History, Performance” (Lindsay Young Auditorium, Hodges Library)

Noon-1:30 pm: Lunch Seminar with Dr. Theresa Coletti (I-House Community Room; by RSVP)

12:20-1:20 pm: Transmissions Seminar: Dr. Cameron Cross: “Salvation Through Sin: How a Queen Rewrote the Rules of Romance”

3:30 pm:
Humanities Center Distinguished Lecture: Dr. Kimberly Bowes

9:00 am – 5:00 pm: Regional Late Antiquity Consortium (ReLACS)

5:30 PM: 15th Annual Riggsby Lecture: Dr. Hussein Fancy: “The Impostor Sea: The Making of the Medieval Mediterranean” (Lindsay Young Auditorium, Hodges Library)

3:30-5:00 pm: Late Antiquity Seminar: Clint Burnett, Boston College (UT Humanities Ctr., Melrose Hall E102)

Thanksgiving Break

Thanksgiving Break

3:30-5:00 pm: Late Antiquity Seminar: Current Scholarship Workshop: Heidi Wendt, At the Temple Gates (UT Humanities Ctr., Melrose Hall E102)

Classes End

11:30 am – 2:00 pm: End-of-the-Semester Potluck

Classes Begin

3:30-5:00 pm: Late Antiquity Seminar: Current Scholarship Workshop: Steven Ellis, “The Roman Retail Revolution” (UT Humanities Ctr., Melrose Hall E102)

MLK Day

12:20-1:20 PM: Transmissions Seminar: Dr. Alison Vacca: “A Medieval Armenian Queen at War”

4:00-5:00 PM: Marco Grad Colloquium: CV to Resume Workshop (Greve 615)

14th Annual Manuscript Workshop

14th Annual Manuscript Workshop

3:30-5:00 pm: Late Antiquity Seminar: Visiting Scholar Presentation: Steven Ellis, University of Cincinatti (UT Humanities Ctr., Melrose Hall E102)

3:30 PM: Montserrat Cabré: “Dissection, domestic caring, & women’s religious practice in 13th century Iberia” (101 Strong Hall)

DUE TODAY: Summer Latin Program Instructor Applications

4:00-5:00 PM: Marco Grad Colloquium: Cat Shteynberg on museum careers (Greve 615)

DUE TODAY: Marco Grad Student Fellowship Applications

3:30-5:00 pm: Late Antiquity Seminar: Visiting Scholar Presentation: Laura Nasrallah, Harvard

2:30-4:00  pm: Late Antiquity Seminar: Visiting Scholar Presentation: Gregory Aldrete, UW-Green Bay (UT Humanities Ctr., Melrose Hall E102)

11:00 AM – 3:00 PM: Medieval Day (Bearden High School)

4:00-5:00 PM: Marco Grad Colloquium: Hannah Schmidt, Office of Research (Greve 615)

3:30-5:00 pm: Late Antiquity Seminar: Jacob Latham, “Sacred Spaces and Sacred Places” (UT Humanities Ctr., Melrose Hall E102)

Spring Break

Spring Break

Spring Break

Spring Break

Spring Break

16th Annual Marco Symposium: “Death and Dying in Medieval Islam, Judaism, and Christianity”

16th Annual Marco Symposium: “Death and Dying in Medieval Islam, Judaism, and Christianity”

5:30-7:30 pm: Marco Graduate Fellows Evening (Location TBA)

3:30-5:00 pm: Late Antiquity Seminar: Mira Balberg (UT Humanities Ctr., Melrose Hall E102)

4:00 pm: Lindsay Young Distinguished Senior Scholar Lecture: Eric Palazzo (Univ. of Poitiers) (Lindsay Young Audit., Hodges Lib.)

Spring Recess

12:20-1:20 pm: Transmissions Seminar: Laura Roesch:
“Martyrs, Poets, & the Sacralization of Late Antique Landscapes”

Classes End

3:30-5:00 pm: Late Antiquity Seminar: TBD (UT Humanities Ctr., Melrose Hall E102)