MSC06 3620
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131
Physical Location:
Mesa Vista Hall 2045
Phone: (505) 277-2252
medinst@unm.edu
Since 1987, the University of New Mexico and the Institute for Medieval Studies have been proud to host the IMS Spring Lecture Series, an annual celebration of world-class scholarship and research on the UNM campus. Attracting such luminaries as Christopher de Hamel, Michelle P. Brown, Annemarie Weyl Carr, and Paul Freedman, these lectures are an amazing opportunity for students and members of the public to interact with leaders in the many fields of medieval research and to see presentations of their current work first-hand.
"The Middle Ages on Screen" the 4th Annual Helen Damico Memorial Lecture Series and the 38th Spring Lecture Series hosted by UNM’s Institute for Medieval Studies, will offer a compelling four-day event that will span the fields of Art History, Literature, History, and Contemporary Media, Art, and Culture. It will be taking place April 15-18, 2024 in Woodward Hall 101 each evening beginning at 5:30 pm. For the most convenient parking, we suggest the Cornell Structure or the metered parking in Lot A.
4:00 pm
UNM Early Music Ensemble Performance in Keller Hall
5:30 pm
Lecture by Dr. Justine Andrews
“Medieval Art on Screen”
Description:
5:30 pm
Lecture by Dr. Bryan Keene
“Screen Time: LGBTQIA2+ Contemporary Artist’s Visions of the Middle Ages”
Description:
The medieval world is ever-present in the history of cinema. In short films by queer and trans North American artists and performers, this same Middle Ages emerges in gender fluid and sexually expansive ways with approaches similar to those of academics and activists of the last fifty+ years. This talk focuses on three case studies — Meredith Monk’s “Book of Days” (1989), Kent Monkman’s “Robin’s Hood” (2007), and Carlos Motta’s “Corpo Fechado” (2018) — set against a backdrop of social media censorship of medievalism posts by LGBTQIA2+ folx that transgress “community standards.” Dr. Keene invites attendees to adopt practices of resistance and resilience as we continually work to reveal just how queer the Middle Ages were, are, and always will be.
5:30 pm
Lecture by Dr. Kavita Mudan Finn
“This Tragic Glass: Shakespearean Medievalisms in House of the Dragon”
Description:
The source text for HBO’s House of the Dragon (2022-ongoing), George R.R. Martin’s Fire & Blood (2018), deliberately mimics the narrative voice of a premodern European chronicle, including the interpolation of multiple imaginary primary sources. Thus, its transformation into a TV series hews far more closely to the kind of adaptation favored by English Renaissance playwrights such as William Shakespeare. Dr. Mudan Finn’s presentation will examine several key moments during the series through the adaptational choices at work.
Please Note:
Dr. Kavita Mudan Finn will be giving her presentation and joining us for question and answer via zoom, which will be projected in Woodward Hall 101
5:30 pm
Lecture by Dr. Jason Herbert
“Getting Medieval on Your Screen: What the Movies Have to Say about the Middle Ages”
Description:
Dr. Herbert, the creator of Historians At The Movies, delivers a new Gospel of historical interventions--thinking about film and pop culture as legitimate means of exploring the past and, in turn, questioning our own present and future. By looking at the portrayal of the Middle Ages in film, we see how history and memory blend to inform our thinking about the human condition. The days of turning the brain off when the substitute teacher rolls the strapped down cart into the room are over! It is time to embrace the medium--along with social media--as power tools to understand and teach the past.
“Medieval Women,” the 3rd Annual Helen Damico Memorial Lecture Series and the 37th Spring Lecture Series hosted by UNM’s Institute for Medieval Studies, will offer a compelling four-day event that will span the fields of Art History, Literature, Law, History, and Medicine. It will be taking place April 24-27, 2023 in Woodward Hall 101 each evening beginning at 6pm. For the most convenient parking, we suggest the Cornell Structure or the meter parking in Lot A.
“Re-Envisioning the Middle Ages,” the 2nd Annual Helen Damico Memorial Lecture Series and the 36th Spring Lecture Series hosted by UNM’s Institute for Medieval Studies, will offer a compelling four-day event that will span the fields of Art History, Literature and Theatre, History and Archeology. It will be taking place April 25-28, 2022 in George Pearl Hall each evening beginning at 6pm. For the most convenient parking, we suggest the Cornell Structure or the meter parking in Lot A.
The "Medieval Performance" lecture series will be on Zoom April 22, 23 and 29, 30. They will be held at 5:30pm (Mountain Time). Please click here for more information.
In compliance with Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham’s Public Health Emergency Order, the Institute for Medieval Studies has cancelled its 2020 Spring Lecture Series, “Medieval Performance,” which had been scheduled for April 20-23. We very much regret not being able to offer the public a lecture series this year. Our speakers have all indicated that they would be willing to come to New Mexico next year. “Medieval Performance” will therefore be the theme of our 2021 lecture series. We greatly look forward to welcoming our speakers, and all of you who support the Spring Lecture Series by your attendance, in 2021.
All the presentations from the 2019 Spring Lecture Series, "Presenting the Medieval World, " may now be viewed at this link: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4fhYL61tzi5xxG3q_AEbQl7RrHVxd2z8
Please also visit the Archives page for information and materials from past Lecture Series.