Crossroads Lecture Series

The MEMS Crossroads Lecture Series, funded by a generous grant from the Andrew Mellon Foundation, brings nationally and internationally prominent scholars to Carolina to share their work on issues of cultural exchange in the medieval and/or early modern period. The purpose is to foster new and innovative perspectives on medieval and early modern studies within a broad geographic and cultural scope, focusing in particular on relations between Byzantium, the Muslim World, and the Christian West. The lectures are free and open to the public.

Past Crossroads Lectures:

Sarah Kay (New York University)
“Celestial Readings / Bestial Readers in Medieval Vernacular Bestiaries”
January 23, 2012

John O’Malley (Georgetown University)
“Art, Trent, and Michelangelo’s Last Judgment”
November 11, 2011

Judith Herrin (King’s College London)
“The Maternal Bond: Mothers and Daughters in Byzantium”
March 29, 2011

Stuart B. Schwartz (Yale University)
“Intolerance and Empire: Religious Unity and the Threat of Freedom of Conscience in the Early Modern Iberian Empires”
October 11, 2010

John Sutton (Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia)
“Early Modern Memory Practices: Explorations in Cognitive History”
March 30, 2010

David Nirenberg (University of Chicago)
“Poetry, Art, and the Danger of Judaism: from Saint Paul to the Present”
September 8, 2009

Daniel Richter (University of Pennsylvania)
“Exotic Goods and Cultural Power”
March 25, 2009

Efraim Lev (University of Haifa)
“Medieval Pharmacology: Evidence from the Cairo Genizah”
Co-sponsored by Department of History and Center for Jewish Studies
September 26, 2008

Jerilynn Dodds (City University of New York)
“Hunting in the Borderlands”
September 18, 2008

David Abufalia (University of Cambridge)
“The First Atlantic Slaves, 1250–1520: Conquest, Slavery and the Opening of the Atlantic”
March 18, 2008

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