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  • Is an Embryo A Person? A Medieval View: The abortion rights debate will go into the future, but it started long ago. In today’s Academic Minute, Ƶ’s Olivia Holmes looks deep into the history. Holmes is a professor of medieval studies and English and director of the Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies at Binghamton.
  • Prof. Patterson’s class, French Before France, did a project transcribing, translating, and analyzing aspects of a 15th century manuscript of Les Sept fruits de tribulacion on loan this semester as part of the Manuscripts in the Curriculum from Enluminures at the lower galleries of the Ƶ Art Museum. (Pictured: Lexie Keough, Elliot Morse, Emily Ronan and Jeanette Patterson.)
  • Mapping Manuscript Migrations: Tracking the Travels of 220,000 Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts -
  • Shakespeare Lightning Round: David Sterling Brown -
  • CEMERS fellow David Sterling Brown just released the Folger Shakespeare Library Shakespeare Unlimited podcast: “Black Lives Matter in Titus Andronicus” -
  • It’s Time to End the Publishing Gatekeeping -
  • Medievalists of Color Statement Regarding the Violent Murder of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony Mcdade -