Events Archive
The Institute for Medieval Studies has been an active and engaging part of campus life for decades, attracting world-class scholars from around the globe to present to the UNM community on a wide variety of topics. Here you will find records of several events hosted in the past. For additional information and/or more details about past events, feel free to contact us.
2023-2024 Academic Year
4th Helen Damico Memorial Lecture Series (38th SLS) - The Middle Ages on Screen
April 15 - 18, 2024
Speakers: Justine Andrews, Bryan Keene, Kavita Mudan Finn, and Jason Herbert, with a Special Performance from the UNM Early Music Ensemble
The Frank D. Gorham Jr. and Marie K. Gorham Lecture
"The Legacies of Cleopatra VII in the Middle Ages"
Scott Bruce, Professor of History at Fordham University, February 29, 2024Old Irish Lecture Series
October 17, November 14, November 28, and December 5, 2023
Speakers: Joey McMullan, Ranke de Vries, Riona Doolan, and Sarah Townsend
Work in Progress Lecture
"Magic and Wonder, Entertainment and Spectacle: Or, What To Do With a Book Chapter that Doesn't Quite Fit? "
Michael Ryan, Associate Professor of History at UNM, November 17, 2023Work in Progress Lecture
"Exegesis Paths for Medieval Sources"
Enrica Salvatori, Assistant Professor of Medieval History at the University of Pisa, September 20, 20232022-2023 Academic Year
3rd Helen Damico Memorial Lecture Series (37th SLS) - Medieval Women
April 24 - 27, 2023
Speakers: Christine Sciacca, Marie Kelleher, Meriem Pagès, and Jennifer Borland
Special Lecture
"Medieval and Modern Treaties: Ideological Boundaries of 'Nationhood'"
Tarren Andrews, Assistant Professor of Ethnicity, Race, and Migration at Yale University, January 25, 2023Work in Progress Seminar [Virtual]
"Godly Knights and Ladies: Strength and Worth in Castilian Arthurian Texts"
Nahir Otaño Gracia, Assistant Professor of English at UNM, February 25, 20222021-2022 Academic Year
2nd Helen Damico Memorial Lecture Series (36th SLS) - Re-Envisioning the Midde Ages
April 25 - 28, 2022
Speakers: Roland Betancourt, Frederick S. Paxton, Matthew X. Vernon, and Suzanne Conklin Akbari
Work in Progress Seminar [Virtual]
"How to Forge a Magic Sword"
Michael Ryan, Associate Professor of History at UNM, October 29, 20212020-2021 Academic Year
1st Helen Damico Memorial Lecture Series (35th SLS) - Medieval Performance [Virtual]
April 22 - 30, 2021
Virtual Speakers: Carol Symes, Karen Silen, Laura Weigert, and Kyle A. Thomas
2019-2020 Academic Year
35th Spring Lecture Series [Canceled]
The 2020 Spring Lecture Series was Canceled and Postponed due to the Covid-19 Pandemic
2018-2019 Academic Year
34th Spring Lecture Series - Presenting the Medieval World
March 25 - 28, 2019
Speakers: Barbara Drake Boehm, Holger A. Klein, Marina Rustow, Raymond Clemens, Anne-Marie Eze, and Timothy C. Graham
Special Lecture
"Exploring Medieval Migration through Ancient DNA"
Patrick Geary, October 18, 2018
2017-18 Academic Year
33rd Spring Lecture Series - Sacred Objects and Places
April 23 - 26, 2018
Speakers: Bernard Meehan, Adam S. Cohen, Jennifer Pruitt, Jannina P. Traxler, and Annemarie Weyl Carr
Special Lecture
"Roman Refugees: Settling Extra-Territorial Peoples inside a World Empire"
Noel Lenski, October 19, 20172016-17 Academic Year
32nd Spring Lecture Series - Medieval Animals
April 24 - 27, 2017
Speakers: Paul Cobb, Jan Ziolkowski, Janetta Rebold Benton, Richard McGregor, and Elizabeth Morrison
Concert
"Healing Sounds of Ancient Turkey: Turkish Music and Poetry"
Latif Bolat, November 5, 2016Work in Progress Seminar
"Apocalyptic Prognostication and Practice in the Jewish Middle Ages"
Natalie Latteri, Ph.D. Candidate and Bilinski Fellow, Department of History University of New Mexico, October 12, 20162015-16 Academic Year
31st Spring Lecture Series - Food and Festivity in the Middle Ages
April 18 - 21, 2016
Speakers: Paul Freedman, Richard Unger, Hugh Magennis, Charles Perry, and Christina Normore
Work in Progress Seminar
"Old Books as New Science: Chaucer's and Gower's Classical (Mis-)Education"
Amanda Gerber, Assistant Professor of English at Eastern New Mexico University, December 2, 20152014-15 Academic Year
30th Spring Lecture Series - Earth and Heaven in the Middle Ages
April 13 - 16, 2015
Speakers: Christopher Kleinhenz, Benjamin W. Anderson, Martin Foys, Kristine Larsen, and Laura A. Smoller
2013-14 Academic Year
29th Spring Lecture Series - Medieval Mystics and Masters
April 28 - May 1, 2014
Speakers: Bernard McGinn, Lenn E. Goodman, Anne C. Klein, Jawid Mojaddedi, with a Special Concert of Oud Music by Rahim AlHaj
Work in Progress Seminar
"Secret Sciences or Inner Tradition? The Occult Sciences and Esoteric Philosophy in the Middle Ages"
George J. Sieg, December 6, 20132012-13 Academic Year
28th Spring Lecture Series - Medieval Myths and Monsters
April 15 - 18, 2013
Speakers: Leslie Webster, Tomás Ó Cathasaigh, Rory McTurk, Asa Simon Mittman, and Janetta Rebold Benton
2011-12 Academic Year
27th Spring Lecture Series - Medieval Masterpieces
April 16 - 19, 2012
Speakers: Christopher de Hamel, Philip Edward Phillips, Martin Foys, Michael Drout, and Linda Seidel
2010-11 Academic Year
26th Spring Lecture Series - Medieval Encounters
April 11 - 14, 2011
2009-10 Academic Year
25th Spring Lecture Series - Love in the Middle Ages
April 12 - 15, 2010
2008-09 Academic Year
24th Spring Lecture Series - Visions and Visionaries in the Middle Ages
April 27 - 30, 2009
2007-08 Academic Year
23rd Spring Lecture Series - Medieval New Mexico
March 31 - April 3, 2008
Archimedes Revealed
A Weekend Colloquium on Ancient Science, Medieval Manuscripts, and Modern Technology
Featuring Presentations by Leading Members of the Internationally Acclaimed Archimedes Palimpsest Project
February 15 and 16, 2008
