The Friends of the Saints (FOS) is an informal workshop/discussion group of scholars dedicated to the study of hagiography, religious history, and comparative religion, founded over 20 years ago by the late Professor Jo Ann McNamara (formerly CUNY Hunter College). The group usually meets on the second Friday of the month during the CUNY academic year, and is open to all faculty, independent scholars, graduate students, and other interested persons in the metropolitan NYC area.

 

Schedule:

November 13 (with Medieval Club of New York), 7:30 pm
CUNY Graduate Center (365 Fifth Avenue), room 9205/9206

Caroline Walker Bynum
Professor Emerita of Medieval European History
Columbia University
Professor Emerita
School of Historical Studies
Institute for Advanced Study
Princeton University

“Holy Beds and Holy Families: Encounters with Devotional Objects in the Metropolitan Museum”

December 11, 7:00 pm
CUNY Graduate Center (365 Fifth Avenue), room TBA

Evelyn (Timmie) Birge Vitz
Department of French
New York University

“Emotions and the Guts: French Marian Miracle Stories”

February 12, 7:00 pm
CUNY Graduate Center (365 Fifth Avenue), room TBA

Kathleen Smith
Department of English
American University

“TBA”

March 11, 7:00 pm
CUNY Graduate Center (365 Fifth Avenue), room TBA

David A. Heayn
Department of History
Graduate Center, City University of New York

“The Historiography and Character of Byzantine Monasticism in Anatolia, ca. 500–700”

April 8, 7:00 pm
CUNY Graduate Center (365 Fifth Avenue), room TBA

Mo Pareles
Department of English
New York University

“TBA”