CARA News – George Washington Univ. Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute

This year the GW Medieval and Early Modern Studies program held three major events:

1. REFUGE: a symposium
   A wide-ranging conversation on global migration, refugees, crisis, pedagogy, performance, and home — medieval to contemporary — featuring a performance by poet Patience Agbabi.
   http://www.gwmemsi.com/2016/10/refuge-symposium-october-28.html

3. Futures of the Past
   a symposium celebrating important new and forthcoming books in medieval and early modern studies
   http://www.gwmemsi.com/2016/12/futures-of-past-2017-february-17.html
4. Perspectives on European Migration: England’s Medieval Immigrants On the “England’s Immigrants 1330 – 1550: Resident Aliens in the Late Middle Ages” database and what it reveals about the heterogeneous populations of late medieval England:
   http://www.gwmemsi.com/2016/11/

Jeffrey J Cohen
Professor of English
Director, GW Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute
(www.gwmemsi.com)
George Washington University Washington DC