Friday, October 26th
Inaugural Lecture and Workshop in the Borghesi-Mellon Workshop:
“Thinking Race: Migration, Representation, Appropriation in the Middle Ages and Beyond”
Professor Madeline H. Caviness (Emerita, Department of English, Tufts University)
Workshop: “Representations in the Middle Ages of Ethnic, Cultural and Physiological Difference, and their Social Significance then and now”
Prof. Madeline H. Caviness (Emerita, Department of English, Tufts University), scholar of medieval stained glass, race and gender studies, will conduct a workshop on “Representations in the Middle Ages of Ethnic, Cultural and Physiological Difference, and their Social Significance then and now” for faculty and students in the Hagen Room, Room 150, Department of Art History, Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, from 11:00 to 12:00. To RSVP for the workshop and receive a copy of the readings please email medieval@letsci.wisc.edu. She will give a public lecture, “From Magdeburg to Chalottesville via Munich,” in the Department of Art History, Conrad Elvehjem Building, L150 at 4:00. The lecture and workshop are co-sponsored by the Medieval Studies Program and the Department of Art History with funding from the Borghesi-Mellon Workshops administered by the Center for the Humanities.