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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