Welcome & Opening Remarks: David Wallace, Judith Rodin Professor of English & Comparative Literature, University of Pennsylvania; President, Medieval Academy of America; and Ralph M. Rosen, Vartan Gregorian Professor of the Humanities, Professor of Classical Studies, & Interim Associate Dean for Graduate Studies
Introduction by Julia Verkholantsev, Associate Professor of Russian and Eastern European Studies, and Founding Director, Program in Global Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Plenary Address byNora Berend, Professor of European History, University of Cambridge: Interconnection and Separation: Medieval Perspectives on a Modern Problem
