IMC 2008: Sessions

Session 1310: Medieval Disputation, II: University Perspectives

Sponsor:	Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies / John E. Sawyer Seminar, University of California, Los Angeles
Organiser:	Jennifer A. T. Smith, Department of English, University of California, Los Angeles
Moderator/Chair:	Jennifer A. T. Smith, Department of English, University of California, Los Angeles
Paper 1310-a	From Dialogue to Disputation in the 12th-Century Renaissance: The Scholastic Context Re-Examined (Language: English) Alex Novikoff, Department of History, Rhodes College, Tennessee Index terms: Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Rhetoric
Paper 1310-b	Disputing Love: New Angles on the Epistolae duorum amantium (Language: English) Constant J. Mews, Centre for Studies in Religion & Theology, Monash University, Victoria Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Literacy and Orality
Paper 1310-c	What is the Point of Obligationes? (Language: English) Sara L. Uckelman, Tilburg Center for Logic & Philosophy of Science, Tillburg University Index terms: Philosophy, Rhetoric
Abstract	The University of California, Los Angeles, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, in honor of the 2007-2008 John E. Sawyer Seminar sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, is sponsoring two sessions dedicated to the study of medieval disputation. These sessions will expand upon the conversations first initiated at UCLA on such areas as the role of disputation in the formulation of faith, philosophy, love, poetry, sedition, and reason.