The Program in Medieval Studies is excited to partner with the Program in Jewish Culture & Society and the Unit for Criticism & Interpretive Theory to welcome Professor Geraldine Heng (University of Texas at Austin) to the University of Illinois on January 26. Professor Heng will deliver the Krouse Family Visiting Scholar in Judaism and Western Culture Fund lecture, entitled "Race Before...
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Affiliates and friends of the Program in Medieval Studies gathered in early December to celebrate the end of the fall semester. Guests enjoyed holiday snacks and beverages while catching up with friends and colleagues. The highlight of the event was a celebration of seasonal poetry, with both students and faculty sharing some of their favorite poems and songs about the winter season--and even a...
"The Saint and the Emir: Christian-Muslim Encounters in Early Medieval Italy" Within the incredibly diverse political, cultural, and linguistic landscape of early medieval southern Italy, Muslims lived and worked alongside Christians (both Latin and Greek) and Jews. While most of the medieval texts that record the interactions between these various religious communities...
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- This summer I conducted archaeological excavations at the Carson site near Clarksdale, Mississippi. This is a mound center used and occupied by Mississippian peoples beginning around the year A.D. 1000 until the time of European contact. My research explores the connections between this site in...
- Join us on Wednesday, September 21, for the first meeting of this year's Medieval Studies Colloquium. This talk asks the question of how, as scholars mainly of written works, we can restore to the story of Englishness the lively material interactions between words, bodies, plants, stones, metals,...
- On April 8th, 2022, members and guests of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Program in Medieval Studies gathered in the Architecture Building to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the program. The event was attended by current and past students, faculty members, and other friends of the...
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The latest issue of The Medieval Globe, founded and edited by Medieval Studies faculty member Carol Symes (History), reveals a new timeline for the origin of the Black Death. Read more here, and access The Medieval Globe at https://www.arc-humanities.org/journals/the-medieval-globe/.