SENSORY EXPERIENCES ACROSS MEDIEVAL COMMUNITIES

HOSTED BY THE CONSORTIUM MEDIEVALISTS

SATURDAY, MAY 6, 2023

HYYBRID IN-PERSON AND ZOOM EVENT - RSVP

FORDHAM UNIVERSITY | LINCOLN CENTER CAMPUS | LEON LOWENSTEIN CENTER | 113 W 60TH ST, 12TH FLOOR | NEW YORK, NY 10023

12:00 - 12:15 p.m. | Introduction - Welcome from the Consortium Medievalists

12:15 - 1:30 p.m. | Diagnosis, Community, and Embodied Knowledge

Yea Jung Park, *Gestures, Symptoms, Excess

Robin Reich, *Color, Transmission, Material Sources

Sponsored by NYU

Moderator: Sarah Ganzel

1:45 - 3:00 p.m. | Hildegard's Verdant Medicine: Creating an Intersensory Concert Experience

Sponsored by NYU and Princeton

Presented by Alkemie

Moderator: Alice Grissom

3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. | Coffee

3:30 - 4:45 p.m. | Graduate Student Lightning Round

Speakers: Sophie Durbin, Maria Shevelkina, Agnes Viragh, Anushka Hosain, Kris Racaniello

Moderators: Alice Grissom and Ariela Algaze

5:00 - 6:30 p.m. | Keynote Lecture

Avinoam Shalem, "Histories Objectified: The Material Turn and Artifacts in the Post-Semiotic Era"

Sponsored by NYU

Moderators: Alina Shubina and Grant Miner

6:45 - 9:00 p.m. | Reception

all & sundry, 312 W 58th St, New York, NY 10019

Sponsored by Fordham and Columbia

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