Five College Events

Spring 2009

Other events in the Five Colleges of interest to faculty and students interested in Medieval Studies:

Thursday, March 12, 2009 at 4:30 pm
Space, Time, and Ravishment in Late-Medieval England
Suzanne Edwards
Assistant Professor, Department of English, Lehigh University
Location: Bartlett 316 at UMass

Professor Edwards received her degree from the University of Chicago in 2006 before heading to Lehigh University that same year. Her  dissertation, “Beyond Raptus: Pedagogies and Fantasies of Sexual Violence in Late-Medieval England,” examines the complicated notion of raptus, a legal term associated with rape but which also included consensual elopement and non-sexual abduction. By looking at the various contexts for raptus - the legal regulations of marriage, hagiographical texts, instructional treatises - Edwards challenges us to rethink the impact of this term and its threat of sexual violence.

Wednesday, April 29, 2009 (Time: TBA)
Title to be announced soon
Ralph Hexter
President, Hampshire College
Location: East Lecture Hall (ELH) in Franklin Patterson Hall (FPH), Hampshire College

After earning degrees at Harvard, Oxford (Corpus Christi College), and Yale, President Hexter taught in Yale’s classics department before he moved to the University of Colorado at Boulder. He then taught at UC Berkeley before coming to Hampshire in 2005. President Hexter continues to teach, lecture, and publish on the reception of classical literature and culture from the Middle Ages to modern times. He is the author of many articles, and his books include Equivocal Oaths and Ordeals in Medieval Literature (1975), Ovid and Medieval Schooling: Studies in Medieval School Commentaries on Ovid’s Ars amatoria, Epistulae ex Ponto, and Epistulae heroidum (1986) and A Guide to the Odyssey: A Commentary on the English Translation of Robert Fitzgerald (1993), a companion to Homer’s epic poem. With Daniel Selden, he has edited Innovations of Antiquity (1992).