MEMRN are delighted to announce our May speaker! We will be welcoming Reagan Paris from the University of Wyoming, who will present 'Respected or Rumoured? Female Commerce in the Vernacular Imagination'. Come along and join us for an intriguing talk by our lovely speaker, followed by a short Q&A.
Good morning MEMRN community & friends and happy Spring Showcase day! ☀️
It is a lovely day for listening to exciting talks about all things medieval and early modern all day long and this morning we have the wonderful Sakshi Sharma kicking us off!
That was Madeline Nielsen & Julio César Cárdenas Arenas on "An Argument for Devotional Touch in a 14th Century Metz Book of Hours" & "Byzantines/Romans, Persians, Jews, and Christians in Ibn Taymīyah: Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processors in the Analysis of Otherness"!
Don't forget about our monthly online research seminar tonight! The wonderful Reagan Paris will give a talk titled 'Respected or Rumoured? Female Commerce in the Vernacular Imagination' at 6pm BST, so come along and join us if you can! We look forward to seeing you there!
We're back with two very exciting talks by Marlee Merson & Chandini Jaswal titled "'Well-Loved and Beloved: Evidence of Emotion in the Office of the Dead in Late Medieval Books of Hours" and "'Juy-i Shir' (River of Milk): Unveiling the Influence of Wet Nurses in Mughal India"! Thank you so much!
Thank you so much, Upasana Hazarika, for your exciting presentation on "Tai Ahom Court Chronicles: Early Modern State Bureaucracy and the Intellectual World of the Scribal Elite"! We're now going into our lunch break and will be back at 1:30pm BST!