Welcome
Based at the Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies of UBC, we are a research cluster in pre-1800—Medieval, Renaissance, and Early Modern—Romance languages and literatures; now in our third year; and meeting approximately every three weeks.
→ Further details on the Cluster and its activities, how to stay up-to-date with its goings-on, and how contact us
→ About the current active participants
→ More on the Early Romance area within the Department
NEXT ERS MEETINGS and related events:
• Monday 13 February
1:00-2:00 p.m., Buchanan Tower 799 (FHIS Lounge)
Courtney Booker (History, UBC)
“History, Identity, and the First French Text: Nithard’s Historiae and the Politics of Value”
(Early Romance Studies Research Cluster)
• Thursday 16 February
6:00-7:30 p.m., Buchanan Tower 799 (FHIS Lounge)
Monika Edinger (FHIS, UBC)
“Ovid’s Narcissus and Echo in 17th-century peninsular theatre: the voice from the distance in Calderón de la Barca’s Eco y Narciso”
(Early Romance Studies Research Cluster)
• Thursday 1 March
6:00-7:30 p.m., Buchanan Tower 799 (FHIS Lounge)
Ben Huberman (FHIS, UBC)
“Poster-Paris/Paris-affiche: Louis Sébastien Mercier and the Ecology of Paper”
(Early Romance Studies Research Cluster)
• Friday 16 – Sunday 18 March
Green College, UBC
40th Annual UBC Medieval Workshop
(Early Romance Studies Research Cluster, with the UBC Committee for Medieval Studies)
SEE ALSO:
→ EVENTS THIS TERM: includes associated and allied events further afield: FHIS, UBC, and elsewhere in Vancouver
→ PREVIOUS EVENTS (last term): to provide yet more idea of our activities and of Early Romance (and related) culture in Vancouver.
→ ALL NEWS
→ CALLS FOR PAPERS
IMAGE ABOVE:
ms. BNF fr. 854 f. 121 (13th c., Italian): Jaufré Rudel dies in the arms of the Countess of Tripoli.
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris.
Image source: Wikimedia Commons
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SEE ALSO AND FURTHER:
• “Wealth is shared,” in Chad McCail’s food shelter clothing fuel series
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• The Open Knowledge Foundation
• Open access (Wikipedia, with many useful links and a good starter bibliography): also the Budapest Open Access Initiative and the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities (Max Planck Society)
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