Events
Upcoming Events
RECURRING
FALL 2025
- RLL Faculty Retreat: Friday, December 5th, 1:00-4:00 PM in the Rackham East Conference Room
WINTER 2026
- 13 Latine Research Week: Feb 16- Feb 19
- LACS Indigenous Lecture Series featuring Professor Kelly McDonough (UT Austin): March 12th and 13th
FALL 2026
- Lecture to honor Javier Sanjinés featuring Bruce Mannhein: Mid-September
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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