Past Celebration Days
From Parchments to Pixels
Technology, AI, and the Premodern World
From Parchments to Pixels: Exploring and Playing the Premodern World in the Ludic Age
March 12, 2025
3pm: Booth Library CSI
Roundtable with Dr. Bihter Esener, EIU Faculty, and Students
5pm: Doudna Lecture Hall
Keynote Lecture: Dr. Bihter Esener, Art History, Northwestern University
Sponsors: EIU CLAS, English, WGSS, School of Technology History, Anthropology, and Philosophy
Doudna Fine Arts Center
Succession
EIU Premodern Global Studies Celebration Day
March 6, 2024
Succession: Transfer of Power
Keynote Speaker: Professor William Parkinson, Anthropology, UIC and Curator and Associate Director of Anthropology at The Field Museum
3pm: Booth Center for Student Innovation
Roundtable Discussion with EIU Faculty, Students, and Professor Parkinson
5pm: Doudna Lecture Hall
First Kings of Europe
Sponsored by EIU CLAS, English, Political Science, History, Anthropology, and Philosophy
Doudna Fine Arts Center
Monsters, Witches, & Magic
EIU Premodern Global Studies Celebration Day
March 6, 2024
Succession: Transfer of Power
Keynote Speaker: Professor William Parkinson, Anthropology, UIC and Curator and Associate Director of Anthropology at The Field Museum
3pm: Booth Center for Student Innovation
Roundtable Discussion with EIU Faculty, Students, and Professor Parkinson
5pm: Doudna Lecture Hall
First Kings of Europe
Sponsored by EIU CLAS, English, Political Science, History, Anthropology, and Philosophy
Doudna Fine Arts Center
Cleopatra’s World
Cleopatra: The Myth and the Reality
Premodern Global Studies Celebration Day
Presented by: Duane Roller, Professor Emeritus of Classics at The Ohio State University
February 23, 2022 at 4pm, Doudna Lecture Hall
2-3:30pm, Cleopatra’s World, Student Innovation Center, Booth Library
Co-sponsored by: the English Department, the History Department, and the Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Minor.
Doudna Fine Arts Center
Going to Court
Going to (the Royal) Court: A Visitor’s Guide
Tuesday, 3 March 2020
5pm-6pm
Doudna Lecture Hall
Professor Robert Bucholz of Loyola University of Chicago
Has published and spoken widely on the English court from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries queenship, and has been an invited lecturer in royal palaces and on the BBC, and a commentator on royal ritual on radio and television. “Going to (the Royal) Court” presents the ins and outs of the premodern court and its relation to the modern age. This talk is part of a Premodern Global Studies Day co-sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and the English and History Departments.
Doudna Fine Arts Center
What is Premodern?
Premodern Global Studies Minor
What is Premodern?
Dr. Timothy Crowley, Northern Illinois University
5pm, March 4, 2019
Launch Day
1pm, Doudna Lecture Hall: Faculty & Student Panel
2:30pm, Booth Library, Case Presentation: Premodern Shakespeare
5pm, Doudna Lecture Hall, Keynote: “What is Premodern?”
Dr. Timothy Crowley, Northern Illinois University
Doudna Fine Arts Center