Friends of the Saints: The Hagiography Seminar
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. Members of the group are invited to present on their latest research-in-progress, to reprise presentations given at academic conferences and seminars, to discuss new and notable publications in the field, and to visit related exhibits at NYC museums. The principal (but not exclusive) focus of the FOS group is Christian hagiography in the western Catholic, eastern Orthodox and Oriental traditions of the early Christian, medieval, through early modern periods. We also welcome presentations from persons interested in comparative hagiography and religious studies in other world religions, such as Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism.
Recent group activity
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New announcement by Jay Paul Gates in
Friends of the Saints: The Hagiography Seminar 8 years ago
October 9, 7:30 pm (note change to the usual time)
CUNY Graduate Center (365 Fifth Ave.), room 4406Marcia Colish
Professor emerita, Department of History, Oberlin College“The Boys on the Beach: Children’s Games and Baptismal Grace in the Middle Ages.”
While medieval Christians firmly agreed that baptism was a sacrament of necessity,…[Read more]
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New announcement by Jay Paul Gates in
Friends of the Saints: The Hagiography Seminar 8 years, 1 month ago
Addendum: December 11, 7:00 pm
“Emotions and the Guts: French Marian Miracle Stories”
Evelyn Birge Vitz
Department of Comparative Literature
New York University -
New announcement by Jay Paul Gates in
Friends of the Saints: The Hagiography Seminar 8 years, 1 month ago
Friends of the Saints Schedule 2015–2016
September 11, 7:00 pm
“Cynewulf’s Epilogues: Self-portraits of the Poet as Thresholds”
Haruko Momma
Department of English
New York UniversityOctober 9 (with Medieval Club of New York), 7:30 pm
“The Boys on the Beach: Children’s Games and Baptismal Grace in the Middle Ages”
Marcia Colish
Depart…[Read more] -
New announcement by Jay Paul Gates in
Friends of the Saints: The Hagiography Seminar 8 years, 7 months ago
13 March, 7:00 pm, CUNY Graduate Center (365 5th Ave.), Pearl Kibre Medieval Study
‘Saint Fernando III, The Bastard King of León: Illegitimacy in Medieval Iberia’
Sara MacDougall
Department of History
John Jay College -
New announcement by Jay Paul Gates in
Friends of the Saints: The Hagiography Seminar 8 years, 7 months ago
13 February, 7:00 pm, CUNY Graduate Center (365 5th Ave.), 5th Floor History Department Lounge ‘Renovatio, Continuity, Innovation: Legitimation and Collective Memory in Byzantine Italy (7th – 9th centuries)’
Nicole Lopez-Jantzen
Department of History
Queensborough Community College -
New announcement by Jay Paul Gates in
Friends of the Saints: The Hagiography Seminar 8 years, 8 months ago
Spring Speakers Schedule
13 February: ‘Renovatio, Continuity, Innovation: Legitimation and Collective Memory in Byzantine Italy (7th – 9th centuries)’
Nicole Lopez-Jantzen
Department of History
Queensborough Community College13 March: ‘Saint Fernando III, The Bastard King of León: Illegitimacy in Medieval Iberia’
Sara MacDougall
Departmen…[Read more] -
New announcement by Jay Paul Gates in
Friends of the Saints: The Hagiography Seminar 8 years, 9 months ago
12 December, CUNY Graduate Center (Room 5114), 7:00 pm
‘Religious Reform as Emotional Reform at the Eleventh-Century Monastery of Fécamp’
Lauren Mancia
Department of History, Brooklyn College, -
New announcement by Jay Paul Gates in
Friends of the Saints: The Hagiography Seminar 9 years ago
10 October, CUNY Graduate Center (Room 5105), 7:00 pm
‘The invention of a saint’s Legend: Christian and pagan literary sources of the Vita et Passio S. Eugeniae’
Gordon Whatley
Department of English
Queens College and the Graduate Center -
New announcement by Jay Paul Gates in
Friends of the Saints: The Hagiography Seminar 9 years ago
FoS is sponsoring a session at the Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo: ‘Material Engagements with the Friends of God in Post-Roman Europe.’
Chad Turner, CUNY Graduate Center, ‘The Role of the Laity and the Ordering of Society in Aelred of Rievaulx’s De sanctis ecclesiae Hagulstadensis’
Christine Libby, Indiana University Bloomington, ‘…[Read more]
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New announcement by Jay Paul Gates in
Friends of the Saints: The Hagiography Seminar 9 years, 1 month ago
10th Annual Pearl Kibre Medieval Study Graduate Student Conference
CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY
November 7, 2014Persecution, Punishment and Purgatory in the Long Middle Ages
The Pearl Kibre Medieval Study, the CUNY Graduate Center’s student-run organization for medieval studies, announces its tenth annual Graduate Student Conference at t…[Read more]
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New announcement by Jay Paul Gates in
Friends of the Saints: The Hagiography Seminar 9 years, 1 month ago
29 August, Rubin Museum of Art, 150 W. 17th St, New York, NY 10011, 6:00 pm gather for drinks
Bodies in Balance: The Art of Tibetan Medicine
Serinity Young
Department of Classical, Middle Eastern, and Asian Languages and Cultures
Queens College -
New announcement by Jay Paul Gates in
Friends of the Saints: The Hagiography Seminar 9 years, 2 months ago
Fall Schedule
29 August, Rubin Museum of Art, 150 W. 17th St, New York, NY 10011, 6:30 pm gather for drinks
Bodies in Balance: The Art of Tibetan Medicine
Serinity Young
Department of Classical, Middle Eastern, and Asian Languages and Cultures
Queens College10 October, CUNY Graduate Center (Room TBA), 7:00 pm
‘The invention of a saint’s L…[Read more] -
New announcement by Jay Paul Gates in
Friends of the Saints: The Hagiography Seminar 9 years, 2 months ago
Call for papers for the May 14-17, 2015, Medieval Congress at Western Michigan University
Sponsored by The Friends of the Saints.
Panel theme: ‘Material Engagements with the Friends of God in Post-Roman Europe.’Association with and promotion of holy figures and their relics has long been recognized as a way those in the Middle Ages laid claim…[Read more]
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