University of Illinois
Spring 2011 Events
FEBRUARY
3 (Thursday)
Campus Memorial Service for Frederick Schwink
7:30pm – 9:00 pm, Lucy Ellis Lounge, Foreign Languages Bldg.
7 (Monday)
Lecture: Maud Pérez-Simon (Universite Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle):
“Between Historical Romance and Romanced Storytelling: On Different
Ways of Reading the Same Text in the Middle Ages: Looking at the Roman
d’Alexandre en prose”
5:00pm, 302 Architecture Bldg.
9 (Wednesday)
Roundtable: Maud Pérez-Simon (Universite Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle),
Karen Fresco (French Dept.), and Anne D. Hedeman (Art History Dept.):
The Shrewsbury Book (London, British Library, MS Royal 15 E. vi)
2:00pm – 4:00pm, Lucy Ellis Lounge, Foreign Languages Bldg.
MARCH
3 (Thursday)
Lecture: Dennis Trout (University of Missouri):
“From Ancient to Medieval Rome on the Via Nomentana: Poetry, Impensa,
and the Cult of Agnes”
5:30pm, 2090B Foreign Languages Bldg.
4 (Friday)
Seminar: Dennis Trout (University of Missouri):
“Carmina epigraphica imperialia Romae: A(nother)Constantinian
Revolution?”
1:30pm – 3:00pm, 4080A Foreign Languages Bldg.
15 (Tuesday)
Lecture: Amy Richlin (UCLA)
“Unexpurgated Classics: Profane Texts in a Christian Curriculum”
4:00pm, 210 General Lounge (Illini Union)
Sponsored by the Classics Dept.
29 (Tuesday)
Live Performance: Kashū-juku Noh Theater’s
Aoi no Ue (Lady Aoi)
7:30pm, Tryon Festival Theatre at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts
Sponsored by IJapan, Japan House, and Center for East Asian Studies
30 (Wednesday)
Lecture: Albert Ascoli (University of California, Berkeley):
“Performing Salvation in Dante’s Divine Comedy”
3:30pm, Rare Book and Manuscript Library (2nd floor UI Library)
Sponsored by the Dept. of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese
APRIL
1-2 (Friday – Saturday)
Cross-Disciplinary Investigations in Imaging and Image Analyses:
An NSF-Sponsored Workshop in Information Integration and Informatics
NCSA Building
10:20-10:40am Chatham Ewing (University of Illinois)
“Digitization and Study of Palimpsests in Rare Book Collections”
11:15-11:35am
California)
M. Simon Levin (The Surrey Art Gallery’s Tech Lab,
“Glocal (global + local) Collaborative and Multifaceted Digital Art Project”
11:35-11:55 am
Michael Meredith (University of Sheffield, UK)
“Web-based Dissemination and Analysis of Large Image Collections”
11:55-12:15pm
Facilitator
Anne D. Hedeman, University of Illinois
Discussion