[Namron] Free Medieval Fair Lecture Friday Oct 5th

[Eckart, Ann M.]

John McWilliams of Oklahoma Baptist University to Deliver the Second Lecture in the 2012-13 Medieval Fair Free Lecture Series  Friday October 5th 6:30 pm at Norman Public Library



            Plucked, bowed, or hammered, strings have dominated music for millennia. This presentation examines our ancient obsession with vibrating strings and how early cultures adapted stringed instruments for their musical preferences.  John McWilliams, Associate Professor of Natural Science at Oklahoma Baptist University will be presenting a program on the art, science, and history of early music.  He and his wife Sherry perform as Rose Rock Consort at Medieval Fair and other venues.  He also makes his own historically accurate instruments.



The talk will take place in the A/B Room of Norman Public Library (225 N. Webster), Friday, Oct. 5, 2012, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Future talks in the monthly series will include explorations, often inviting audience participation, health care, dances, Viking ships, and drama. For more information, visit www.medievalfair.org/lecture_series.html.



There are no papers and no tests, just interesting information about life long ago!



Also coming up soon, courtesy of the HSCI 3823 (Honors), "Science in Medieval Culture" -Presidential Dream Course at OU:


October 9, 2012, Tuesday, 4:30 pm, Community Room, Zarrow Hall
Thomas F. Glick, Boston University
"The Scientific Translation Movement in Twelfth-Century Spain and the Invention of Hebrew Science<http://cas.ou.edu/glick>"
Thomas F. Glick received his PhD from Harvard in 1968, and taught at the University of Texas prior to his appointment at Boston University. His research focuses on medieval Spain, medieval science and technology, as well as modern science and food history. He is the author of Islamic and Christian Spain in the Early Middle Ages (2nd ed., 2005); From Muslim Fortress to Christian Castle: Social and Cultural Change in Medieval Spain (1995); Irrigation and Hydraulic Technology: Medieval Spain and its Legacy (1996); Einstein in Spain (1988); and co-author of Negotiating Darwin: The Vatican Confronts Evolution, 1877-1902 (2006).




Ann Marie Eckart
Medieval Fair Coordinator
Phone 405-325-8610     Fax 405-325-0860
ameckart at ou.edu<mailto:ameckart at ou.edu>
www.medievalfair.org<http://www.medievalfair.org/>

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