Medieval and Renaissance Graduate Student Association Symposium

This year's theme of the MRGSA Symposium is "Discipline and Interdisciplinarity." The keynote speaker is Josh Callhoun, Associate Professor of English and Faculty Affiliate with the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Callhoun specializes in Shakespeare, 16th- & 17th-century poetry, the history of media, and the environmental humanities.

This year's panels and discussion include: "Queering Language, Queering Gene," "The Historiography of Medieval Manuscript Studies," "Bridging the Academic/ Public Gap," and "Rethinking Periodization: Teaching and Reading Practices."