The Apocalyptic Year 1000: History and Historiography
An International Conference
Boston University, November 3 - 5, 1996
We are especially pleased to announce that Umberto Eco will be our
keynote speaker on Sunday, November 3.
Sunday, November 3
The Historian and the Chronographer: Facing a Millennial Date
The Science and Psychology of Millennial Dating 9:00 - 10:45
R. Landes (Boston University) "AD 1000"
Y. Yuval (Hebrew University) "5000 AM (AD 1240)"
C. Fleischer (U of Chicago) "1000 AH (AD 1591/2)"
B. Schaefer (Yale University) "The Skies of the Year 1000"
Millennial Generations 11:00 - 12:45
O. Irshai (Hebrew University) "Chronological Eschatology and the Rabbis"
G. Dickson (U of Edinburgh) "Europe, AD 1200-1233"
D. Crouzet (U de P, Sorbonne) "Europe, AD 1500-1533"
Lunch 1:00 - 2:00
Art of the Millennium 2:15 - 4:15
B. Bedos-Rezak (U of Maryland) "Symbols, Signs, Seals"
S. Nichols (Johns Hopkins U) "Misreading the Apocalypse and the Romanesque"
Y. Christe (Ué d Geneve) "Peintures murales de l'Apocalypse"
S. von Daum Tholl (Simmons) "Otto III and the Apocalypse"
Keynote Address: 4:30 - 5:45
Umberto Eco (Universitaà di Bologn)
"Waiting for the Millennium: Apocalypse as Experience, the World as Text"
Monday, November 4
The Millennium in Learned Discourse
Stalking the Signs 9:00 - 10:45
G. Lobrichon (Col. de France) "Apocalyptic Commentaries"
R. Newhauser (Trinity U) "The Vices and the Virtues"
S. Cartwright (W Michigan U) "II Thessalonians"
The Very Moment 11:00 - 12:45
B. Arnold (Reading University) "Otto III, Gerbert, and the Year 1000"
M. Godden (Pembroke, Oxford) "The Antichrist in England"
W. Prideaux-Collins (BC) "Popular Preaching in England"
Lunch 1:00 - 2:00
Culture in the Millennial Age 2:15 - 4:15
C. Leyser (U of Mancester) "Vices and Antichrist"
D. Callahan (U of Delaware) "Antichrist and Anti-Judaism"
R. Meyer-Evitt (SFSU) "Liturgy, the Jews, and the End of Time"
J. Grier (Yale University) "Music, Community, Notation"
Banquet 6:00 PM
Tuesday, November 5
Millennial Movements and Social Mutation
Reform as Failed Apocalypse 9:00 - 10:45
J. Fried (Goethe U, Frankfurt) "Reform and Apocalyptic Expectation"
D. van Meter (BU) "The Peace of God, Church Reform, and Communes"
D. Iogna-Prat (CEM, Auxerre) "Peut-on parler d'Apocalypse clunisienne?"
E. R. Daniel (U of Kentucky) "Apocalyptic and Reform Ideologies"
Cultural Mutations & Punctuated Equilibrium 11:00 - 12:45
S. J. Gould (Harvard U) "Punctuated Equilibrium in a Lacunary Record"
A. Seligman (Boston University) "Apocalyptic Time & Social Change"
R. Landes (Boston University) "The Peace of God as Millennial Movement"
Lunch 1:00 - 2:00
Cultural Mutations (Round Table) 2:15 - 4:15
A. Remensnyder (Brown University)
F. Paxton (Connecticut College)
G. Koziol (University of California, Berkeley)
T. Head (Washington University)
T. Bisson (Harvard University)
R. I. Moore (University of Newcastle-on-Tyne)
Chair: P. Hyams (Cornell University)
For more information or to receive a registration brochure, please call
the Center for Millennial Studies at 617 353 5238 or send us e-mail at
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Abstracts (when available will be posted on our web site.
http://www.mille.org
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