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