MEMS Lecture Series

October 25 Nazanin Heydayat Munroe (City University of New York), Sufi Lovers, Safavid Silks, and Early Modern Identity | 4pm in 1014 Tisch Hall

January 17 Rowan Dorin (Stanford University), Mass Expulsion in Medieval Europe | 4pm in 1014 Tisch Hall

March 27  Yanna Yannakakis (Emory University), Since Time Immemorial: Managing Difference through Custom from Medieval Iberia to Colonial Mexico | 4pm in 1014 Tisch Hall2022-2023

November 8  Carl Petry (Northwestern University), A Custody Dispute between a Habashi Slave and her Jewish Owner; Issues of Gender and Ethnic/Racial Identity in Medieval Egypt | 4pm in 1014 Tisch Hall

February 10  Gitanjali Shahani (San Francisco State University),  Blood, Fat, and Fear in Seventeenth-Century Travelogues | Virtual

March 10  Jacqueline I. Stone (Princeton University), In the Aftermath of the Divine Winds: Religious Responses to the Mongol Threat and the Medieval Reimagining of Japan | 4pm in 3222 Angel Hall

Novermber 12  Justin Stearn (NYU - Abu Dhabi), Revealed Sciences: Religion, Science, and the Occult in Early Modern Morocco | 1pm (Virtual)

March 22  Adriana Vasquez (UCLA), Arcadia Brasiliensis: Landscape and Colonial Dislocation in the Poetry of Cláudio Manuel da Costa | 1pm (Virtual)

September 19   Erik Inglis (Oberlin College), 'It Began with a Picture', or, Inventing Stories to Make Sense of Images in the European Middle Ages |  4:30pm in 180 Tappan Hall

October 20  Jean Campbell (Emory University) Pisanello, Adrian Stokes, and the Image of the Threshold  | 3pm in 180 Tappan Hall

November 21  Massimo Montanari (University of Bologna) Eating Italy: A History of Italian Food and Italian Identity | 4pm in 1014 Tisch Hall

April 6  Lyndal Roper (University of Oxford) Portraits of Luther, from Lucas Cranach to Today | 3pm in 1014 TIsch Hall

October 24  Robert Tittler (Concordia University, Montreal), Social Aspiration and the Malleability of English Portraiture, 1540-1640 | 5pm in 180 Tappan Hall

October 16  Andrew Casper (Miami University) Blood, Artifice, and the Resurrected Body in the Shroud of Turin | 4pm in 180 Tappan Hall

April 8  Andrew Morall (Bard College) The Cosmos of the Urban Craftsman in Early Modern Northern Europe | 4pm in 1014 Tisch Hall