Presented annually, the IMS Spring Lecture Series is interdisciplinary, regularly incorporating lectures on music, art history, science, history, and literature. The aim is to supplement and enhance curricular offerings. Because of its thematic organization, we look upon the lecture series as a mini-course, designed for public consumption. This series is free and open to the public.

Spring Lecture Series 2009:
"Vision and Visionaries in the Middle Ages"

Monday, April 27–Thursday, April 30
Woodward Hall, Room 101

Monday, April 27

“Openings” - 7:15 p.m.

Jeffrey Hamburger (Kuno Franck Professor of the History of Art, Harvard University)

Tuesday, April 28

“‘As It Were’: Mysticism and Visuality” - 5:15 p.m.

Jeffrey Hamburger

“Illuminating the Science of the Stars in the Thirteenth-Century Bibles Moralisées” - 7:15 p.m.

Katherine Tachau (Professor of History, University of Iowa)

Wednesday, April 29

“Light and Color, Optics and Alchemy in Thirteenth-Century Paris” - 5:15 p.m.

Katherine Tachau

“Dante’s Vision of the Afterlife” - 7:15 p.m.

Christopher Kleinhenz (Carol Mason Kirk Professor of Italian Emeritus, University of Wisconsin)

Thursday, April 30

Concert by the UNM Early Music Ensemble - 5:15 p.m.

“Julian of Norwich and Her Book: A Lecture-Performance” - 7:15 p.m.

Barbara Newman (Professor of English, Religion, and Classics, and John Evans Chair of Latin Language and Literature, Northwestern University)

Past Series