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Date/Time
Date(s) - 22 Feb 2017
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Location
Downey House 113

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Professor Kathleen Davis (University of Rhode Island):
“From Periodization to the Autoimmune Secular State”.
Wednesday, Feb 22, 4.30pm, Downey House 113, Wesleyan University, Middletown CT

Can we imagine history without the idea of the Middle Ages? Difficult as that may be, this talk suggests, we cannot adequately understand the divisive politics of religion today without questioning the fundamental premises that generated and sustain the Middle Ages as a historical period.

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