2024 Spring and Autumn Symposia plus Anniversary Symposium
February 4, 2024 in Uncategorized
2024 Spring and Autumn Symposia
on “Bridges”
Plus a special Anniversary Symposium
on “Manuscript (He)art”
“Study on a Medieval Bridge” at Amares, Braga District, Portugal. Image by Pedro Nuno Caetano (2019) via Wikimedia Commons via Creative Commons 2.0 Generic.
[Posted on 4 February 2023, with updates]
The Research Group prepares a pair of Spring and Autumn Symposia in our Anniversary Year of 2024, continuing the paired pattern which, reviving our tradition of individual Symposia in some years, we launched in 2022 and developed further for 2023.
Add-Ons On Occasion
Last year, we added a half-day Pre-Symposium to the Spring Symposium, with a full-day Symposium in both Spring and Autumn. The result was a 1½-day event on 24–25 March (Pre-Symposium + Spring Symposium) and a 1-day event on 21 October (Autumn Symposium). The March Event and the October Event each have an illustrated Symposium Booklet, available for download. (See below.)
2024 RGME Events
For activities planned overall for this Anniversary Year for the RGME, with the year’s theme of “Bridges”, see:
They include episodes for “The Research Group Speaks”, conference sessions at two international congresses for medieval studies (at Kalamazoo and Leeds), anniversary celebrations, and three Symposia.
Of these, the first is an exceptional Anniversary Symposium in thanks to our First WebMaster upon his retirement.
- 2024 Anniversary Symposium in Thanks to Jesse Hurlbut, RGME WebMaster Emeritus
The next form a linked pair as Part 1 and Part 2
2024 Anniversary Symposium (Online)
Save-the-Date Poster for 2024 Anniversary Symposium in Thanks to Jesse Hurlbut. Poster set in RGME Bembino.
This year, we add a one-day Anniversary Symposium to start the series of three Symposia for the year. It is designed to express thanks to the First WebMaster of the RGME upon his retirement, Jesse D. Hurlbut.
Co-organized by Katharine C. Chandler and Jessica L. Savage (co-organizers, with Jennifer Larson, of the 2023 Pre-Symposium), this event gathers former students, colleagues, and friends to consider subjects of interest to Jesse and to which he has contributed, including medieval manuscript studies, digital access to them, and the promotion of online communities for their study and enjoyment.
This event will take place online on Saturday 24 February by Zoom. You may register to attend this Symposium through our Eventbrite portal.
See our selection:
For this event:
Registration is free; we welcome Voluntary Donations to help to support our nonprofit mission for our organization powered mainly by volunteers and dependent mostly upon donations. See also
2024 Spring and Autumn Symposia
on “Bridges”
This exceptional series has two parts. It represents a year-long project which focuses attention
“Between Past and Future:
RGME Spring & Autumn Symposia in 2024
for Teaching in the Liberal Arts with Original Sources,
at Vassar College and Beyond”
At center stage, the perspectives on the theme of the Spring Symposium at Vassar College present a coherent, multi-disciplinary, and multi-generational scholarly program in a sequence of teaching events with expertise and materials in multiple centers. They stand poised, as proclaimed by its title, “Between Past and Future: Building Bridges between Special Collections and Teaching for the Liberal Arts”.
The Autumn Symposium carries it forward with a selection of virtual visits placed “At the Helm: Spotlight on Special Collections as Teaching Events”. The informal style accords with our proven approach for online events as roundtables, interviews, conversations, master classes, and workshops. Thus, we might channel the purposeful momentum for the Spring Symposium in its central event in a simpler follow-up with participants including representation from Vassar, whether present or alums.
Part 1 (of 2).
2024 Spring Symposium at Vassar College
“Between Past and Future:
Building Bridges between Special Collections
and Teaching for the Liberal Arts”
(3-Day, Hybrid, In Person and Online)
Friday to Sunday 19–21 April 2024
Poster 1: Save-the-Date for 2024 Spring Symposium at Vassar.
For this Symposium, organized by both the RGME and Special Collections (The Catherine Pelton Durrell ’25 Archives and Special Collections Library) at Vassar College, we celebrate the rôles which Special Collections can fulfill as part of teaching in institutions dedicated to the Liberal Arts — among other valuable fields of study.
The Symposium showcases initiatives and developments in various centers, both at Vassar College and elsewhere. Notable at Vassar for 2024 are:
- A new Catalogue of the Medieval and Early Modern books or fragments in both Special Collections and the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, and
- A companion exhibition at the Art Center to showcase examples of their riches in “Books in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance”
Also, the RGME celebrates its Anniversary Year with the Theme of “Bridges”.
The Spring Symposium will, in part, celebrate the acquisition of the Nicholas B. Scheetz Collection of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts. The Symposium presents reports, observations, and discoveries in multiple fields, including descriptions of work-in-progress, collaborative projects, wish-lists or challenges, and new opportunities.
Information:
You may register here:
For this event, there is a registration fee.
Registration is free for students, and it is waived for invited Speakers at the Symposium.
To attend In Person
To attend Online
Poster 1: Save-the-Date for 2024 Spring Symposium at Vassar.
Part 2 (of 2).
2024 Autumn Symposium (One-Day, Online)
“At the Helm:
Spotlight on Special Collections
as Teaching Events”
Saturday 22 October 2024 by Zoom
The perspectives on the theme of the Spring Symposium at Vassar present a coherent, multi-disciplinary, and multi-generational scholarly program in a sequence of teaching events with expertise and materials in multiple centers. They stand poised, as proclaimed by its title, “Between Past and Future: Building Bridges between Special Collections and Teaching for the Liberal Arts”.
The Autumn Symposium carries it forward with a selection of virtual visits placed “At the Helm: Spotlight on Special Collections as Teaching Events”. They allow presenters the opportunity, with minimal preparation, to showcase collections (public and private) in virtual visits guided by curators, in the company of teachers and students on-site and online. The informal style accords with our proven approach for online events as roundtables, interviews, conversations, master classes, and workshops. Thus, we might channel the purposeful momentum for the Spring Symposium by a simpler follow-up.
Information
To register, see our selection:
Our Series of Symposia
- RGME Symposia: The Various Series (1995–), in person or online.
2024 RGME Events
“Study on a Medieval Bridge” at Amares, Braga District, Portugal. Image by Pedro Nuno Caetano (2019) via Wikimedia Commons via Creative Commons 2.0 Generic.
For activities planned for our Anniversary Year, with the theme of “Bridges”, see:
They include episodes for “The Research Group Speaks”, conference sessions at two international congresses for medieval studies (at Kalamazoo and Leeds), anniversary celebrations, and two symposia.
- 2024 Anniversary Symposium in Thanks to Jesse Hurlbut, RGME WebMaster Emeritus
- 2024 Spring Symposium at Vassar College
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