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The sixth session of the Working Group was an overwhelming success, due in no small part to the outstanding contributions from our two speakers, John Van Engen and Nick Kamas. Both, from their respective disciplinary vantage points of History and … Continue reading →

For those who were unable to attend the January session of the Working Group, you missed a fascinating set of papers on Violent Speech by Professor Irina Dumitrescu (Southern Methodist University, English) and Melissa Vise (Northwestern University, History). After hearing … Continue reading →

We are delighted to announce that the Working Group will kick off the new semester with a session on Violent Speech that will be held this Thursday, January 16, in the Medieval Institute reading room. The session will feature papers … Continue reading →

At last night’s session on Material Culture, we enjoyed two fantastic papers by Anne F. Harris (DePauw University, Art History) and Emily Kirkegaard (Notre Dame, MI). We were shaken out of our myopic anthropocentrism by both speakers’ critical engagement with … Continue reading →

Many thanks to Amy Mulligan and Cara Aspesi for sharing their fascinating research on medieval Landscape Studies. For those who missed the session, but would still like to learn more, Amy Mulligan’s paper was filmed; the video will be posted … Continue reading →

A big thanks to Daniel Hobbins, David Gura, and Christopher Scheirer for a dynamic roundtable discussion of their ongoing projects and some of the future directions of medieval manuscript research! Our next session (Thursday, Nov. 14)  will be devoted to … Continue reading →

Please join us tonight at 5:30 pm in the Medieval Institute Reading Room for a roundtable discussion on Manuscript Studies. This session’s speakers are Daniel Hobbins (History Dept.), David Gura (Special Collections), and Christopher Scheirer (MI).

Thanks to Claire Taylor Jones and Anna de Bakker for their fantastic presentations at our first session of the year–a marvelous success! Be sure to stay tuned for our next session on October 17 at 5:30 pm, which will be … Continue reading →

We’re looking forward to another great year for the Medieval Studies Interdisciplinary Working Group!  To see the line-up for this year, click on the individual sessions in the bar above. Our first session will be on Thursday, September 5, at … Continue reading →