IPRH hosts Peggy McCracken “Animate Ivory: Global Trade and Pygmalion's Statue” on 10/18/18 at 7:30 p.m. in the Third Floor Lecture Hall, Levis Faculty Center (919 West Illinois Street, Urbana).  Peggy McCracken is the Mary Fair Croushore Collegiate Professor of Humanities and Professor of French, Women's Studies, and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on medieval France, and her most recent book is In the Skin of a Beast: Sovereignty and Animality in Medieval France (2017).  Co-sponsored by the Program in Medieval Studies and part of the “Global Prehumanisms” Conference, October 18–20, 2018.

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