SÚM was a loosely affiliated artist's collective that was founded following a 1965 self-organized exhibition of works by Jón Gunnar Árnason, Hreinn Friofinnsson, Sigurjón Jóhannsson, and Haukur Sturluson. In this talk, Pollentier discusses the emergence of SÚM, provides a brief overview of the group's major projects, and examines how the collective practices of its members provided a critique of the political and cultural environment of the 1960s and 70s.

This presentation examined a transformative moment for the traditional procession known as the Inchinata between the mid thirteenth and fourteenth century, a period characterized by the advent of the mendicant friars with their new models of personal devotion and do-it-yourself religion, the emergence of confraternities, the growing prominence of trade guilds, the solidifying of municipal government, the rise of the middle classes, and a new emphasis on penitential pilgrimage, especially to the city of Rome.

Late medieval audiences read the Bible in different languages, including the language of pictorial narrative.... This paper focuses on two intimately related manuscripts - a late twelfth-century Spanish narrative picture Bible produced for Sancho el Fuerte of Navarre (Amiens, B.m. ms. 108) and a fourteenth-century, stylistically-updated version of the same visual narrative (New York Public Library, Spencer 22).

Harvard Economist Dani Rodrik described how "Unconditional convergence is alive and well, but that we need to look for it within manufacturing industries rather than the economy as a whole. Industries that start at lower levels of labor productivity grow faster, regardless of the quality of policies or institutions in their home economies." For more, see Professor Rodrik's blog: http://rodrik.typepad.com/dani_rodriks_weblog/2011/09/unconditional-conv....

Professor Picciotto pre-circulated her essay to facilitate discussion on the relationship between Protestantism, experimental science, the public sphere, and intellectual labor itself.

The Seventh Annual Graduate Student Conference on the European Union will welcome graduate students from around the world to present the research on "Crisis, Cooperation, and Change in the EU."