April 12-14, 2012
Levis Faculty Center
About this event:
This conference features fourteen prominent scholars who are transforming our understanding of the medieval world as a global entity – and the myriad ways in which our own world has been shaped by its complex relationship to the Middle Ages. It explores:
- Modes of communication, media of exchange, and the myriad interconnections among medieval cultures.
- The medieval world as central to the study of global human endeavor: by discussing the deep roots of global processes and by engaging the complicated ways that ideas about the past inform the present and shape visions of the future.
- Current perceptions of “medieval” peoples and phenomena, and how “the Middle Ages” has been constructed around the world and within a global context.
This conference is free and open to the public.
For more information, and a full program, please visit:
http://www.medieval.illinois.edu/events/conferences.html