A somewhat morbid, but interesting conference topic, as we approach The
End of The Second Millenium....I merely note that my church Bible Study
group has recently finished its second reading of Revelation in the last
decade, so the eschatalogical imagination is alive and well in the late
twentieth century as well. To be more on topic, REED-Lers in the greater
New York area should be advised that the obligatory conference
entertainment is a performance of the "Wakefield" Last Judgement.

A.

Records of Early English Drama/ Victoria College/ 150 Charles Street W
Toronto Ontario Canada
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http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~reed/reed-l.html => REED-L's home page
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~reed/stage.html => our theatre resource page

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Subject: (fwd) DEATH, JUDGEMENT, AND THE ESCHATOLOGICAL IMAGINATION

ANNOUNCING: The Seventh Annual Medieval Guild Conference

"DEATH JUDGEMENT, AND THE ESCHATOLOGICAL IMAGINATION"

OCTOBER 26, 1996 AT PHILOSOPHY HALL, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

8-9 REGISTRATION

9-10 Roundtable Panel: Eschatology and Methodology
        Prof. Robert Lerner, Prof. Donald Maddox, Prof. Sandra P. Prior,
        Adnan Husain, Claudia R. Papka
        Moderator: Prof. Caroline Walker Bynum

10:15-11:15 Concurrent Sessions

Session 1: Women Imagining the End
Moderator: Margaret Pappano
Death and the Abbess: Responses to Death on a Twelfth-Century Mortuary
Roll- Teresa Elaine Leslie,Emory University
Imagining Enclosure at Syon Abbey: Death and Space in the
Fifteenth-Century English Cloister- C. Annette Grise,University of Western
Ontario
The Year of Double Eights: The Apocalyptic and Millenarian Content of the
Dreams of Lucretia de Leon in the Spain of 1588-Maria Jordan, Columbia
University

Session 2: Death and the Body
Moderator: James Dominic Cain
Death and Inversion, Death and Conversion: The Violent End of Archbishop
Engelbert-Jackie Jung, Columbia University
Deep, Dark, and Smelly: The Gender of Hell in Two Thirteenth-Century
Collections of Marian Tales-Anne McCormick, UC Berkeley
>From Decay to Splendor: Body and Pain in Bonvesin de la Riva's 'Book of
the Three Scriptures'-Manuele Gragnoloti, Columbia University

11:30-12:30- Concurrent Sessions

Session 3: The Living and the Dead
Moderator: Karen Bezella, Columbia University
Reliving the End: Reading the Office of the Dead in Late Medieval Books of
Hours-Leslie Abend Callahan, Vassar College
'Orans" at the Tomb-Ann Marie Yasin, University of Chicago
Community in Bernard of Clairvaux's Sermons for the Feast of All Saints,
Anna Harrison, Columbia University

Session 4: Apocalypse in History
Moderator: Adnan Husain, UC Berkeley
Prophecies and Eschatology in Morisco Writings, Reem F. Iverson, Princeton
University
The Mission of the Twelve: Apostolic Poverty, Authority, and the
Eschatological New World-Patricia Franz, CUNY Graduate Center
Creating a Climate for Reform: Nicolas de Clamanges on the End-Christopher
Bellitto, Fordham University

12:30-2:00 Lunch

2-3:30 Plenary Session  "The Blindness of Tobit: Joachim of Fiore and the
Jews" - Prof. Robert Lerner, Northwestern University

3:45-4:45 Concurrent Sessions

Session 5: Ends of Language
Moderator: Lisa Cooper, Columbia University
Fragmina Verborum: The Wakefield Last Judgment Play-Nicolas Pullin, Loyala
University
Speaking of Ghosts...:Justice and Eschatological Memory-Sean K. Kelly,
Binghamton University
Thomas Hoccleve's 'Series' and the Politics of Translating the ars
moriendi-Trena Evans, University of Western Ontario

Session 6: Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory
Moderator: Claudia R. Papka, Columbia University
'Pearl' in its Architectural Setting-Ann R. Meyer, University of Chicago
Purgatory and Eschatological Representations in 14th-15th Century Italy,
Anca Bratu-Minott, University of Pennsylvania
Cannibalisn and the Eschatology of the 'Hortus Deliciarum': Herrad of
Hohenbourg's Vision of Hell, Fional Griffiths, Cambridge University

5:00 THE WAKEFIELD LAST JUDGMENT PLAY
         Directed by Julie Crosby, Columbia University


Wine and Cheese Reception to Follow


Pre-registration- $10.00
At the Door- $15.00

Make out Check to Columbia University English Department

Send to: Columbia University Medieval Guild
         602 Philosophy Hall, MC 4927
         1150 Amsterdam Avenue
         New York, NY  10027