Mark your calendars! DVMA meeting, September 16 at University of Pennsylvania

Friends! The first meeting of the DVMA will be held on September 16, 1pm-5pm, at the University of Pennsylvania, in Van Pelt Library, Class of '78 Pavilion, 6th floor. The theme is "Temporality and the Law," and the schedule of speakers is as follows:

Individual papers:

Ada Kuskowski (Assistant Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania), Title TBA 

James Ker (Associate Professor of Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania), "Differentiating Ancient Histories of Clock-Time at Rome"

Joseph Lowry (Associate Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania), "Time and Law in the Qur'an"

Roundtable with:

Brooke Hunter (Assistant Professor of English, Villanova University), "Translatio studii and Forging Intellectual History"

Mary Channen Caldwell (Assistant Professor of Music, University of Pennsylvania), "Versifying Time"

Nicholas Paul (Associate Professor of History, Fordham University), "Memory and Temporality in La terre d'Outremer"

**Reception to follow**