Arizona State University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
 Department of English

The 2nd Annual Beowulf Symposium

Two Events

the monster that I am: A Beowulf Lecture and Movie

Friday March 21, 2008
4:00 pm - 7:30 pm
CDN 60, ASU Tempe

Free and Open to All

At 4:00 Dr. Asa Mittman (Art History, ASU) will give a 45-minute lecture entitled “The Monster that I Am: Otherness and Identity from Beowulf (c. 1000) to Beowulf (2007).”

Dr. Mittman has written Monsters and Maps in Medieval England (Routledge, 2006) and he will publish Inconceivable Beasts: The Wonders of the East in the Beowulf Manuscript (co-authored with Susan Kim) with ACMRS in 2008.

At 5:00 Dr. Mittman’s lecture will be followed by a showing of a Beowulf (Zemeckis 2007).

beowulf

Sponsored by ACMRS (Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies), the ASU Department of English, and the English Club

Flyer in pdf

An Epic Event: A Communal Reading of Beowulf in old and Modern English

Saturday March 22, 2008
4:00 pm
Bob’s Mead Hall*

Image of the reconstructed Sutton Hoo lyreYou are invited to join us for a communal reading of Beowulf from start to finish at the home of Robert Bjork. Just show up with a copy of Beowulf.

Dinner will be provided.
RSVP TO HEATHER.MARING@ASU.EDU

*=The Home of Robert Bjork.
Contact Jennifer.Michaud@asu.edu for directions.

Contact Heather.Maring@asu.edu for more information.

Sponsored by ACMRS (Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies), the ASU Department of English, and the English Club

Flyer in pdf

Co-sponsored by ACMRS
(Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies)
and the Department of English, ASU-Tempe
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