Northwestern Events Calendar

Apr
11
2015

Medieval Imaginings: A Celebration of Historical Fiction

When: Saturday, April 11, 2015
9:00 AM - 11:30 PM CT

Where: University Hall, 201, 1897 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 map it

Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students

Contact: Kathy Daniels   (847) 491-7294

Group: English Department

Category: Lectures & Meetings

Description:

Morning Session:

Hagstrum Room (University Hall 201)

9:00 “Imagining Pilgrimage: History, the Historian, and Historical Fiction”
Lucy Pick (University of Chicago), author of Pilgrimage

10:15 “Reading Historical Fiction / Writing Historical Characters”
David Perry (historian, Dominican University)
Annalese Duprey-Henry (doctoral candidate in English)
Jason Ralph (doctoral candidate in History)
Rachel Jamison Webster (writer, Northwestern University)

Afternoon Session:

Leopold Room (Harris 108)

1:30 “Medieval History, Not Such a Mystery”
Sharan Newman, author of the Catherine LeVendeur mysteries

2:45 “Imagining Chaucer”
A conversation with Bruce Holsinger (University of Virginia), author of A Burnable Book and The Invention of Fire, and Paul Strohm (Columbia University), author of Chaucer’s Tale: 1386 and the Road to Canterbury, moderated by Barbara Newman (Northwestern University)

4:30 “Imagining Medieval Worlds”
Cecelia Holland, author of Jerusalem, Great Maria, and many other titles

5:30 Book sale and signing. Books will be available for purchase with credit card or check made out to “Northwestern University”

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