Please join the Medieval Studies Workshop for our first graduate student presentation of winter quarter. … Uri Shachar (History) “Urban  Retreats  and  Violent  Landscapes  in  First  and  Second  Crusade  Hebrew  Martyrologies” Respondent: Beth Woodward … 12:00-1:30pm on Friday February 4 in CWAC 152 (Please note special location) … The pre-circulated paper is available here: Urban Retreats and Violent […]

Please join the Medieval Studies Workshop, the France Chicago Center, and the Chicago Center for Jewish Studies for our first visiting faculty presentation of winter quarter. … Brigitte Bedos-Rezak (Professor of History, New York University) “Were Jews Made In the Image of God? The Implications of a Discourse in Medieval Europe (XIth-XIIIth centuries)” Respondent: Emmanuelle […]

Please join the Medieval Studies Workshop and the Western Mediterranean Cultures Workshop for our first visiting faculty presentation of the year. Ryan Szpiech (Assistant Professor of Spanish, University of Michigan) “Hermeneutical Muslims? Islam as Witness in Christian Anti-Judaism” Respondent: Uri Shachar 12:00-1:30pm on Friday December 3 in Wieboldt 207 The pre-circulated paper is available here: […]

Please join us for our next graduate presentation of the year. Chris Fletcher (History, University of Chicago) “Theology in Action: Letters and Letter Collections in the High Middle Ages, 1050-1200.” Respondent: Rainbow Porthé 12:00-1:30pm on Friday November 19 in Wieboldt 207 The pre-circulated paper is available here: Theology in Action proposal Coffee and tea will […]