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The Old Talks Series: “Chat-Up Lines: The Expression of Feminine Ingenuity in some Occitan Hagiography” (Faith, Enimia, Margaret)
The Old Talks Series: “La Consolation de l’amitié poétique au féminin dans le ‘Roman de Flamenca’ “
The Old Talks Series: “Le non-dit in ‘Flamenca’: language, courtliness, and languages of courtliness”
The Old Talks Series: “The ‘Trobairitz’ and ‘Flamenca’ “
The Old Talks Series: “The 13th-century Occitan ‘Flamenca’: a mere curiosity or a larger literary conundrum?”
The Old Talks series: “Losing Oneself, Being Found, and Finding One’s Own Way: Lancelot’s Adventurous Travel Without Maps”
The Old Talks Series: “Courtly Love and Chrétien de Troyes’s ‘Lancelot’ (or, Why Gaston Paris Was Not Actually Wrong)”
The Old Talks Series: “François Rigolot: Renaissance Medievalist”
first of the old talks: on Guillelmus de Aragonia, “De nobilitate animi”
On research days, featuring BONUS INNOVATION: how to improve beeping reversing trucks
mayflies and junebugs
hug a medievalist fortnight, exam revision, and annual review
On misfortune and the joys of trees
coming up next
mid-week good reads
on courtly love
“Being Human: Intellectual Life, Balance, Being In Time And Space” (FHIS graduate workshop on mental health and academic productivity)
7 October 2022 – UBC Department of French, Hispanic, and Italian Studies Graduate Student Workshop: Mental Health and Academic Productivity. Magali Blanc, Juliet O’Brien, and Arturo Victoriano
On animal reading and being humanimal
Medievalising beginners’ French assignments & assessment: 2018 renovations & innovations (1)
Work in progress: remembering there’s a “HAG” in hagiography, inspired by Saint Enimia on her feast-day today
The Joy of Consent: Feeling Together (in some medieval Occitan poetry); FHIS research seminar (2 = talk + slides)
Radical professionalism (2): it is not about appearances
AcciDEntal SCROTUS: allegory is all around when medievalising moDErn French teaching
Academic working conditions, peace, harmony, and goodwill to all
#Innovation – #MakePhilologyGreatAgain
“Flamenca” at #Kzoo2016 (2): notes from roundtable + tidied fuller version of talk
“Flamenca” at #Kzoo2016: (UPDATED 2018: manuscript online &) rough list of editions & translations
“Flamenca” at #Kzoo2016 (1): before the climactic event, an introduction to international medievalist congress
Next up: work in progress, #femfog
Work in progress: “Flamenca”, fakery, artifice, and Troubadour poetry
Magpies (1): on Eugene Onegin, birds of an intelligent variety, how one might distinguish these birds from other birds and from one another and why one might wish to do so, and language teaching
Medievalising “The Fall” and Power-Pointing
End of academic year review (sort of) and a COMPETITION!
A quick note on why reading satire is good, and medievalist, and medievalistically-good
On Vancouver’s silent vigil yesterday for Charlie Hebdo (and updated the day after)
UPDATE / REMISE À JOUR : “La Consolation de l’amitié poétique au féminin dans le ‘Roman de Flamenca’ “
on Hallowe’en costumes, and other sartorial matters
Give thanks for unseasonal birds: parrots!
collected updates from the Early Romance Studies research cluster
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(related: “about the blogueuse”) Welcome! This is an online collection of essays and other writing. I hope that you find something curious and enjoyable here. Meta-meta-medieval started out medieval, went more medievalist, then moved increasingly into medievalisings. Twenty years after taking an extraordinarily illuminating graduate seminar on Montaigne, after teaching the Essais several times in […]
Juliet O’Brien 