Nadja Durbach (History, University of Utah) is the author of Spectacle of Deformity: Freak Shows and Modern British Culture (2009); and Bodily Matters: The Anti-Vaccination Movement in England, 1853-1907 (2004).
The conference gathers American and international medieval scholars to present papers on the global Middle Ages, with attention to the regions of East Asia, Africa, and the Americas. It includes a panel on pedagogy, oriented towards teaching a Middle Ages that is not only Eurocentric but which expansively includes networks across several continents and civilizations. Further papers explore specific instances of such connectivity and interaction, with opportunities for discussion between presenters and participants throughout the ...
Magic Lantern screening of Baby Driver at 7 pm and 10 pm.