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<div align="center"><font size=4><b>DEATH:</b> <br>
</font>MORTALITY AND IMMORTALITY IN EARLY CULTURES<br><br>
Friday Nov 21 2008<br>
Murray Krieger Hall 126<br>
Pre-circulated papers available Nov. 10 at
<a href="http://www.humanities.uci.edu/earlycultures/" eudora="autourl">
http://www.humanities.uci.edu/earlycultures/</a> <br><br>
9-12<br>
Seeta Chaganti, UC Davis, "<i>Memento Mori </i>in Motion: John
Lydgate's <i>Daunce of Death"<br>
</i>Heather Blurton, UC Santa Barbara, "Rethinking Ritual
Murder"<br>
Jack Miles, UC Irvine, "The Conceptual Codependence of Martyrdom and
Immortality as Emergent Topoi in Late, Pre-Christian
Israel."<br><br>
1:30-4:30<br>
Claire Waters, UC Davis, "Mortal Fictions and Translating Clergy in
Thirteenth-Century Didactic Poetry" <br>
Anna Harrison, Loyola Marymount U, "The Joy of the Dead and the
Helfta Nuns"<br>
Suzanne Yeager, Fordham U, "Jerusalem Reborn: Texting
Apocryphal Narrative and Medieval Salvation" <br><br>
Free and open to the public.<br><br>
Reception to follow at 28 Virgil Court, University Hills.<br><br>
Part of an interdisciplinary series of workshops exploring early
negotiations of religious faith. Sponsored by UCHRI, UCSD
Humanities Dean, the UCI Program in Religious Studies, and the UCI Group
for the Study of Early Cultures.<br>
For more information, please contact Elizabeth Allen (eallen@uci.edu),
UCI Department of English.</div>
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