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Medieval Studies -- The Medieval Globe Conference
Date Apr 12, 2012 - Apr 14, 2012
Time All Day
Location Levis Faculty Center, 919 W. Illinois St., Urbana
Cost The conference is free and open to the public.
Sponsor The Program in Medieval Studies
Contact Charles D. Wright
E-Mail cdwright@illinois.edu
Registration Registration
Event type Conference
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Originating Calendar School of Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics Calendar
Invited speakers include: Jonathan Conant (Brown Univ.): "The Carolingians and the Ends of Empire"; Kathleen Davis (Univ. of Rhode Island) "Imagining the Past Globally: Questions and Possibilities for the Now and the Future"; Margot Fassler (Notre Dame); Geraldine Heng (Univ. of Texas at Austin) "Early Globalities: Projects, Questions, Methods"; Linda Komaroff (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) "Genghis Khan Faces West: Transmission and Dissemination of a New Visual Language"; Sharon Kinoshita (Univ. of California Santa Cruz) "Worlding Marco Polo"; Elizabeth Lambourn (De Montfort Univ.); Carla Nappi (Univ. of British Columbia) "Translating the Medieval World"; Michael Puett (Harvard Univ.) "Understanding Early Medieval China in a Eurasian Context"; Christian Raffensperger (Wittenberg Univ.) "Who's Afraid of Macrohistory? The Joys and Pains of Crossing Traditional Boundaries in History Research and Writing"; Nicolas Wey-Gomez (California Institute of Technology) "Martin Behaim's Globe: Cosmography, Economics, and the Quest for Globalization in the Latter Middle Ages (1492)". To view the conference website: http://www.medieval.illinois.edu/events/conferences.html
