MEMS Lectures bring in scholars from otherwise disparate fields and regions to broaden and refresh our work and thinking. Teasing apart old sources to reveal such things as the thorny problems of gender, race, colonial appetites, and the interplay of devotional practices and state ideology across the premodern world challenges our reading of texts, artifacts, and the experiences that lay behind them.
2024-2025
September 25 Ittai Weinryb (Bard Graduate Center), The Body of the Merchant: Art and Experience in the Commercial Revolution | 4pm in 1014 Tisch Hall
February 19 Linda Rui Feng (University of Toronto), The Language of Olfactory Experience in Prose Narratives from 9th and 10th- Century China | 4pm in 1014 Tisch Hall
March 24 Allison Bigelow (University of Virginia), Sacred and Profane: Andean Guacas and Colonial Extractions, 1569-1636 | 4pm in 1014 Tisch Hall
