Symposium on medieval collections at the Walters Art Museum, 21 May
Medieval History

Symposium on medieval collections at the Walters Art Museum, 21 May


You are cordially invited to attend the symposium ?A New Look at Old
Things: Revisiting the Medieval Collections at the Walters,? to be
held at the Walters Art Museum on Friday, May 21, 2010, from 10 to
5:30. This daylong event will feature a group of young scholars
familiar with the Walters? collections who will offer new
perspectives on little-published manuscripts and objects.
Participants include Beatrice Radden Keefe (Princeton Index of
Christian Art), Richard Leson (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee),
Lisa Mahoney (Northwestern University), Jessica Richardson (CASVA),
Christine Sciacca (The J. Paul Getty Museum), Audrey Scanlan-Teller
(South Mountain Masterworks), and Benjamin Tilghman (The Walters Art
Museum). A full program will be sent out shortly.

We would appreciate if you could circulate this announcement to any
persons or organizations that might be interested in attending.




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