Washington and Lee University
September 13: MRST Luncheon: Professor Vance Smith, Princeton University, speaking on "Dying Medieval."
January 31: Public Lecture: Professor Matthew Bailey, University of Texas at Austin, speaking on "Spanish Epic Poetry."
February 1: MRST Luncheon: Professor Nicholas Baker, Northwestern University, speaking on "Playing David for the Prince: Culture, Politics, and the Florentine Renaissance."
February 5: Public Lecture: Professor George Bent, Art Department, delivering the Class of '62 Lecture on "Public Pictures for Common People in Late Medieval Florence."
February 28: Public Lecture: Professor Andrew Galloway, Cornell University, speaking on "The Vision of the Past in Medieval English Literature."
April 29: MRST Luncheon: Deborah Newell, speaking on her senior honors thesis on "Mechtild of Magdeburg and the Paradox of Divine Love in Das Fliessende Licht der Gottheit."
May 15: MRST Luncheon: Laura Nugent, speaking on her senior honors thesis on "Moses and Elijah in the Transfiguration: Christian Interpretations of the Old Testament."
June 5: MRST Graduation Reception in honor of Deborah Newell and Laura Nugent, both recipients of Fulbright Fellowships to Germany and Romania respectively.