CARA News: University of Notre Dame

The 2016-17 year was productive and eventful for the Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame. In addition to our slate of individual lectures and events (http://medieval.nd.edu/news-events/events/), we held our annual Conway lectures (http://medieval.nd.edu/news-events/events/conway-lectures/). Our speaker, William J. Courtenay (http://medieval.nd.edu/assets/205061/courtenay_bio.pdf), Professor Emeritus of History at University of Wisconsin-Madison, delivered a three-part series entitled “Religious Ritual and Prayers for the Dead in the Medieval University of Paris.” In April the year’s Mellon Fellow, Laura Veneskey (http://college.wfu.edu/art/veneskey/), Assistant Professor of Ancient, Medieval, and Byzantine Art at Wake Forest, presented her book manuscript in progress, Earthly Icons: Between Matter & Figuration in Early Byzantine Art. The Fellow invites three external respondents; joining this year were Charles Barber (Princeton), Holger Klein (Columbia), and Aden Kumler (Chicago). The Institute also hosted a number of distinguished research visitors (http://medieval.nd.edu/information-for-visitors/current-research-visitors/). In the coming year, we look forward to welcoming Susan Rankin (http://www.mus.cam.ac.uk/directory/susan-rankin), Professor of Medieval Music at the University of Cambridge, as our 2017-18 Conway speaker and Taylor Cowdery, Assistant Professor of English at UNC Chapel Hill, as our Mellon Fellow. We will also be welcoming a new Byzantine Postdoctoral Fellow.