The Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium announces two upcoming Fall 2017 events: Patricia Dailey  (Columbia University) Paul Strohm  (NYU, emeritus Columbia University) "Who has an I?: Testimony in Medieval England" Friday, November 3rd 5:00 pm at Barnard College 405 Barnard Hall The speakers will give short presentations, followed by general discussion.   Paul Strohm will offer brief observations on typical features of medieval legal testimony, and will then move to some more specific suggestions (drawn from the documents of the Gunpowder Plot) about the emergence within legal discourse of what he calls the "Testimonial I."  Patricia Dailey will explore some of the complexities of the testimonial I  in the Old English “Swerian” — oath taking, looking at the relation between the individual and the community, the role of formulaic language, and the role of the body in the absence of the I. Sponsored by the Columbia University Medieval Colloquium *** Jay Gates (John Jay College of Criminal Justice) workshop on "Genesis" Friday, November 17th 4:30 pm at Columbia University 754 Schermerhorn Extension Co-sponsored by the Department of English, John Jay College of Criminal Justice Please contact assc@columbia.edu for workshop materials. **** To join our e-mail list, please send a message to:  ASSC@columbia.edu For updates and future talks, please check our website:  http://english.columbia.edu/assc ASSC Sponsored by: The Department of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University; The Office of the Dean for the Humanities, FAS, New York University; The Department of English, John Jay College of Criminal Justice; The Department of English, Rutgers University; University of Rhode Island; The Department of English, UC Berkeley.