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Margaret Switten

Professor of French, Mount Holyoke College
Professor Switten is an internationally recognized scholar specializing in music and literature of the Middle Ages, and especially the 12th-century troubadours. In addition to numerous articles, her publications include: The Cansos of Raimon de Miraval: A Study of Poems and Melodies; Music and Poetry in the Middle Ages: A Guide to Research on French and Occitan Song, 1100-1400; and, with Samuel N. Rosenberg and Gérard Le Vot, Songs of the Troubadours and Trouvères: An Anthology of Poems and Melodies with accompanying Compact Disc.

Robert Eisenstein
Programming Director of the Folger Consort and Director, Five College Early Music Program
Professor Eisenstein is a founding member and programming director of the Folger Consort, ensemble-in-residence at the Folger Shakespeare Library. The Consort provides performances of medieval, renaissance, and baroque chamber music. As Director of the Five College Early Music Program, he directs the Early Music Collegium.

SCHEDULE

08:00-09:00 a.m.     Morning Coffee
09:00-09:10 a.m.     Welcoming Address
09:10-10:15 a.m.     Lecture: "Medieval France, Spain, and England: Interfaced Cultures
                                   in the Middle Ages From the Troubadours to Chaucer"

                                Margaret Switten
10:15-10:30 a.m.    Break
10:30-11:30 a.m.    Lecture: "Representing the Middle Ages Through
                                    Manuscript Illumination"

                                Margaret Switten
11:30-12:45 p.m.    Lunch
12:45-1:45 p.m.      Lecture: "Representing Medieval Culture Through Songs"
                                Robert Eisenstein
1:45-3:30 p.m.        Practicum: Bringing Song into the Classroom with the CD-ROM
                                    Teaching Medieval Lyric with Modern Technology
                               
Margaret Switten and Robert Eisenstein
                               

Institute for Medieval Studies
University of New Mexico
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