O'Brien holds BAs from the Universities of Cambridge and Manchester, and a PhD from Princeton University. She teaches French literature and language. Her research is on medieval French and Occitan poetry, connections between medieval and post-medieval textualities and hypertextuality, the purpose of reading and its practice in interactive communities, and the integration of teaching and research in learning. Her background has also shaped a broader concern with hybridity, migrancy, cosmopolitanism, and tolerance.
She is part of the UBC Early Romance Studies Research Cluster, and is currently working on a book about early Medieval French and Occitan romance entitled Courting Excess.
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Quest and Conquest
About the Workshop
✳ Organizing Committee
✳ Sponsors
✳ Previous workshops, and background information:
20091971-2008 (under construction)
Plenary Speaker
Michael Barry
Princeton University;
Keynote Address: "The Moor of Venice: Averroes and the Representations of Islamic Philosophy in Medieval and Renaissance European Art"
Princeton University;
Consultant to the Aga Khan Trust for Culture on Islamic Art and Museum Issues
Keynote Address: "The Moor of Venice: Averroes and the Representations of Islamic Philosophy in Medieval and Renaissance European Art"
→ 1.00 p.m. on Friday 15 October, Green College
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PRACTICALITIES
LINKS
The University of British Columbia
SPONSORS
UBC:
UBC FACULTY OF ARTS DEPARTMENTS:
✳ English
✳ History
SFU:
VANCOUVER:
LINKS: IMAGE GALLERIES
✥ "Knots in Traditional Art," Wikimedia Commons
✥ Qantara: Patrimoine méditerranéen: Traversées d'Orient et d'Occident
✥ "World's Top Ten Greatest Ceilings," SkyscraperCity Architecture Forums
