SECRETS: Pop Up Exhibit

About the Event:

The Wangensteen Historical Library is full of secrets: secrets about nature, secrets about the body, whole books of secrets! Come to our pop-up in 2-330 Phillips-Wangensteen Building to discover all of the secrets the collection holds! Tell all your friends or don't...

Special Guest: 

CPS welcomes Michael A. Ryan a University of Minnesota alumnus and Associate Professor of History and the Director of the Institute for Medieval Studies at the University of New Mexico. His research and teaching foci include the intersection of magic, science, and religion in the premodern world, apocalyptic expectations and apprehensions in premodern society, medieval relations between Christians, Muslims, and Jews, urban history, and the history of gender and sexuality. He is currently working on a new monograph that investigates charlatanry and magical-themed fraud in the later Middle Ages.

Associated Event:

Michael A. Ryan will also be giving a CPS lecture, "Sharing Secret Information: The Conservation and Application of Late Medieval Occult Knowledge," at 12:15 pm on Friday, September 11th in Heller Hall 1210.