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Alan Lutkus International Film Series Presents “Throne of Blood” (Akira Kurosawa, 1957)

 

The Alan Lutkus International Film Series Presents:

Throne of Blood (Japan, dir. Akira Kurosawa, Japan, 1957)

Thursday, March 1. 7 p.m. in Newton 204.

Returning to their lord’s castle, samurai warriors Washizu (Toshiba Mifune) and Miki (Minoru Chiaki) are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part of the spirit’s prophecy comes true, Washizu’s scheming wife, Asaji (Isuzu Yamada), presses him to speed up the rest of the spirit’s prophecy by murdering his lord and usurping his place. Director Akira Kurosawa’s resetting of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth in feudal Japan is one of his most acclaimed films. Presented by Dr. Jun Okada, Associate
Professor, English and Film Studies.

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Medieval Banquet 2018

                                            Geneseo Medieval Banquet:
                                              “The Lady and the Unicorn”
                                 22 March 2018 at 6.30PM, Big Tree Inn
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Join us for an evening of medieval feasting, music, poetry, and prizes!

Tickets are $7 for students and $25 for the general public. Purchase them online at go.geneseo.edu\onlineordering (click on “Big Tree Events”) using your CAS account or credit cards; for cash sales, please visit the English Department Office (Welles 226) between 8AM and 4PM, Monday-Friday. Ticket sales begin on Wednesday, 21 February and continue until Wednesday, 14 March.

 Banquet made possible with generous assistance from the Departments of English, History, Languages and Literatures, and the Office of the Provost.

Alan Lutkus International Film Series presents “The Lion in Winter”

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This Thursday, the Alan Lutkus International Film Series Presents:

Thursday, February 8. 7 p.m. in Newton 204. The Lion in Winter (U.K., dir. Anthony Harvey, 1968)

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It’s Christmas 1183, and King Henry II (Peter O’Toole) is planning to announce his successor to the throne. The jockeying for the crown, though, is complex. Henry has three sons and wants his boy Prince John (Nigel Terry) to take over. Henry’s wife, Queen Eleanor (Katharine Hepburn), has other ideas. She believes their son Prince Richard (Anthony Hopkins) should be king. As the family and various schemers gather for the holiday, each tries to make the indecisive king choose their option. Presented by Dr. Graham Drake, Professor of English and Interim Director of Medieval Studies.

Department of English, State University of New York, Geneseo

Keene State College Medieval and Renaissance Forum–Call for Papers

I’m forwarding this call for papers from Professor Walker. This conference is open to undergraduate students, so if you’re interested in applying, I encourage students to do so!

Cheers

Dr Drake

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Subject: [Milton-L] 39th Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum April 13-14, 2018

With apologies for cross-posting:

39th Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum:

Image and Visual Experience in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Keene State College
Keene, NH, USA
Friday and Saturday April 13-14, 2018

Call for Papers and Sessions

We are delighted to announce that the 39th Medieval and Renaissance Forum: Image and Visual Experience in the Middle Ages and Renaissance will take place on April 13 and 14, 2018 at Keene State College in Keene, New Hampshire.

We welcome abstracts (one page or less) or panel proposals that discuss images and visual experience in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

Papers and sessions, however, need not be confined to this theme but may cover other aspects of medieval and Renaissance life, literature, languages, art, philosophy, theology, history, and music.

This year’s keynote speaker is Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Kuno Francke Professor of German Art and Culture at Harvard University who will speak on “The Diagram Paradigm in the Middle Ages—and Beyond.”

Professor Hamburger’s teaching and research focus on the art of the High and later Middle Ages. Among his areas of special interest are medieval manuscript illumination, text-image issues, the history of attitudes towards imagery and visual experience, German vernacular religious writing of the Middle Ages, especially in the context of mysticism, and, most recently, diagrams, the topic of his forthcoming book: From Cross to Crucifix: Typology, Diagrams and Devotion in Berthold of Nuremberg’s Commentary on Hrabanus Maurus’ In honorem sanctae crucis. Dr. Hamburger is also the author of several other books, including St. John the Divine: The Deified Evangelist in Medieval Art and Theology (Berkeley-Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2002), The Visual and the Visionary: Art and Female Spirituality in Late Medieval Germany (New York: Zone Books, 1998), Nuns as Artists: The Visual Culture of a Medieval Convent (Berkeley-Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1996), and The Rothschild Canticles: Art and Mysticism in Flanders and the Rhineland circa 1300 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990).

All papers presented at this year’s Forum are eligible for inclusion in Selected Proceedings of the 39thMedieval and Renaissance Forum, to be published by Cambridge Scholars Press. Contributors interested in publishing their work in this volume should submit their revised essays by May 15, 2018.

Students, faculty, and independent scholars are welcome. Please indicate your status (undergraduate, graduate, or faculty), affiliation (if relevant), and full contact information, including email address on your proposal.

We welcome undergraduate sessions, but require faculty sponsorship.

Please submit abstracts, audio/visual needs, and full contact information to Dr. Robert G. Sullivan, Assistant Forum Director at sullivan@german.umass.edu.

Abstract deadline: January 15, 2018

Presenters and early registration: March 15, 2018

We look forward to greeting returning and first-time participants to Keene in April!

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