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The symposium will feature a morning session on "Disability in the Middle Ages" and an afternoon session on "Disease and Body in the Renaissance."
Speakers will include: Christopher Baswell, Barnard College and Columbia University, Walton O. Schalick III, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Edward Wheatley, Loyola University Chicago, Jonathan Gil Harris, Georgetown University, Michael Schoenfeldt, University of Michigan, and Scott Stevens, D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian Studies, The Newberry Library.
9:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. Saturday, February 20th, 2010
Ruggles Hall, The Newberry Library
60 W. Walton Street
Chicago, IL 60610
Advanced registration is required. Email renaissance@newberry.org or call 312.255.3514 to register.
Everyone who registers in advance for the conference will receive a voucher for one free admission to "Music Hath Charms: Disease and Disability in Music," a concert performed by The Newberry Consort at 7 p.m., after the symposium's afternoon session, at the Newberry Library.
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