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CMEMS Workshop

The CMEMS Workshop exists to engage the interdisciplinary cohort of medieval and early modern scholars at Stanford in an ongoing discussion and collaboration.

The CMEMS lunchtime workshop was created by a group of scholars here at Stanford who wanted to gather to learn about and discuss a wide range of topics relevant to medieval and early modern studies. Visiting scholars join Stanford graduate students and faculty in sharing their work. 

Join us in Pigott Hall (building 260), Room 252 on Wednesdays at 12:00pm for stimulating discussions and wonderful papers. The workshops will always run from 12:00 to 1:15pm, but we recommend getting to the room a few minutes early to get settled! 

Our Spring 2025 Schedule has been finalized: 

April 9: Ethan Shagan (UC Berkeley) The Genus and Species of Religion: Taxonomy and the Invention of Religion in Early Modern Europe

April 16: Yunxiao Xiao (Stanford University) New Laws on Old Bamboo: Legislative Revisioning and Writing Material Recycling in Early Chinese Legal Books

April 23: Shu-han Luo (UC Berkeley) Borrowed Alignments: Reading Old English Poetry with Song Dynasty Commentary

April 30: Greta Austin (University of Puget Sound) Finding Gender in Difficult Texts: The Case of Medieval Canon Law Collections

May 7: Josefine Klingspor (Stanford Humanities Center) Spinoza on Self-Causation

May 14: Carolyn Dean (UC Santa Cruz) Inka Visual Culture and the Text Image Fallacy 

May 21: Paul Ramírez (Northwestern University) Kingdoms of Salt: Cultivation, Propitiation, and the Relaciones Geográficas of New Spain

June 4: Kate van Orden (Harvard University) Celebrazioni Straordinarie, the French Nation, and Corporate Identity in Rome 

To have your name added to our email list please write to our coordination team at cmemsinfo [at] stanford.edu (cmemsinfo[at]stanford[dot]edu).

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