Events
Upcoming Events
RECURRING
FALL 2026
- 9/17 Fall Welcome Reception , Rackham Assembly Hall, 3:00-5:00pm
- 9/24 Bolivia Reimagined:Celebrating the Work of Javier Sanjinés, Weiser Hall 1010, 4:00-6:00pm
- 9/29 Regina de Miguel Visit
- 10/8 Va'Pensiero: Storie ambulanti (Walking Stories), Morth Quad 2435, 5:00-6:30pm
- 10/29 The Early Novel in French: POetics of a Genre in the Making, Michigan Union-Kuenzel Room, 4:00-5:30pm
- 11/12-13 Iberian Cinema, Media, and Theory: A Two-Day Symposium Honoring Marsha Kinder, location TBD
WINTER 2027
- Workshop and Lecture featuring Ana Forcinito, dates tBD
Event Request Process
Step 1: Get Departmental Approval
Step 2: Submit the Event Request Form once approval is obtained.
Step 3: The event team will connect with you to coordinate your event.
For more information about the event planning process, you can visit the Planning Resources page.
Elements and Edges: Inhabitable and Uninhabitable Worlds in Medieval Encyclopaedias
Dr. Luke Sunderland Durham University
Encyclopaedias portray the earth as perfectly round, nestled within concentric circles of the elements. Yet they also present a jagged earth, with borders between inhabitable and uninhabitable worlds creating geographical divisions that combine in the encyclopaedic environment with natural-historical taxonomies and anthropocentric narratives. This talk will argue that encyclopaedias interrelate concepts of elemental, human and animal bodies with landscapes shaped by histories of geological change, empire and epistemological rupture.
| Building: | Modern Languages Building |
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| Event Type: | Lecture / Discussion |
| Tags: | department of romance languages, Free, history, Humanities, Lecture |
| Source: | Happening @ Michigan from Romance Languages & Literatures RLL, Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) |
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