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You are invited to attend the 2017 Stan and Joan Pierson Lecture, an annual event hosted by Department of History at the University of Oregon. This year, we’re honored and delighted to welcome Dyan Elliott, the Peter B. Ritzma Professor of the Humanities and Professor of History at Northwestern University. Elliott is the author of many books and articles on women, sexuality, and mysticism in medieval Europe, most recently The Bride of Christ Goes to Hell: Metaphor and Embodiment in the Lives of Pious Women, 200-1500 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012).
Elliott will give a presentation titled “Back to the Future: Scandal, Pederasty, and the Medieval Church.” This year’s Pierson Lecture will take place on Thursday, May 18, in the Gerlinger Lounge at 3:30-5:00 pm. The lecture is free and open to the public. There will be a reception in Gerlinger Lounge immediately following the lecture.