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SUMMARY:Marco Institute Annual Riggsby Lecture: Marisa Galvez (Stanford)\,
  "Unthinking Medieval Poetry: Troubadours & Machaut"
LOCATION:Student Union Executive Dining Room\, 1502 Cumberland Ave. Knoxvi
 lle\, TN 37996
DESCRIPTION:The 23rd Annual Riggsby Lecture on Medieval Mediterranean Hist
 ory & Culture will feature Marisa Galvez (Stanford)\, who will speak on "
 Unthinking Medieval Poetry: Troubadours & Machaut."\n\nThis lecture exami
 nes how contemporary poet-translators and artists “unthink” medieval poet
 ry through a creative translation of the conventions and forms of medieva
 l lyric in a mode that is instinctual and sensual\, yet formal and critic
 al. By translating the verse of the troubadours and Guillaume Machaut int
 o new media and poetic assemblages\, the Brazilian concrete poet Augusto 
 de Campos (b. 1931) and Occitanist musician-poet and Gérard Zuchetto (b. 
 1951) and sculptor Jean-Luc Séverac (1936-2022) return to the craft of th
 is poetry as word and sound. Their translations allow us to encounter the
  ritualized performance of absence and circularity in time and space anew
  and in multiple modes: for instance\, verse as prosody and music\, and m
 ediated by a manuscript.\n\nMarisa Galvez is Professor of French and Ital
 ian at Stanford University. She specializes in the literature of the Midd
 le Ages in France and Western Europe\, especially the poetry and narrativ
 e literature written in Occitan and Old French. Her areas of interest inc
 lude the troubadours\, vernacular poetics\, the intersection of performan
 ce and literary cultures\, and the critical history of medieval studies a
 s a discipline. Her new book\, Before the Global South: Unthinking Mediev
 al Poetry (University of Chicago Press) explores how an eclectic \n\nhttp
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