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