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Annual Riggsby Lecture<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

The Riggsby Lecture is the Marco Institute\u2019s premier annual lecture, held each year in the Fall semester thanks to the generous support of Stuart and Kate Riggsby. The lecture brings a prestigious scholar of the medieval Mediterranean to the University of Tennessee to give a public talk on a topic of their choosing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Previous Riggsby Lectures<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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  • 2025:\u00a0Bissera\u00a0V.\u00a0Pentcheva\u00a0(Stanford), \u201cIcons of Sound: Chant and Recitation in Hagia Sofia\u201d\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • 2024:\u00a0Anthony\u00a0Kaldellis\u00a0(Chicago),\u00a0\u201cConstantinople 1453: Romans, Latins, and Turks at the End of the Middle Ages\u201d\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • 2023:\u00a0Suzanne Conklin Akbari\u00a0(Institute for Advanced Studies),\u00a0\u201cByzantine Purple, Purple Wampum: Mediterranean Studies on Turtle Island\u201d\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • 2022:\u00a0Monica H. Green\u00a0(Independent Scholar),\u00a0\u201cA Mediterranean Divide: Christian versus Islamic Experiences of the Black Death\u201d\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • 2021:\u00a0Marina\u00a0Rustow\u00a0(Princeton),\u00a0\u201cThe India Trade, the Global Middle Ages, and the Cairo Geniza\u201d\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • 2020:\u00a0Samantha Kelly\u00a0(Rutgers),\u00a0\u201cThe Other Christians of the Late Medieval Mediterranean: Ethiopian Settlement and Exchange with Latin Europe, c. 1200 \u2013 c. 1550\u201d\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • 2019:\u00a0Maureen Miller\u00a0(UC Berkeley),\u00a0\u201cMedieval Italy\u2019s Bishops: A Mediterranean Episcopate in its European Context, c. 1050-1300\u201d\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • 2018:\u00a0Hussein Fancy\u00a0(Michigan),\u00a0\u201cThe Impostor Sea: The Making of the Medieval Mediterranean\u201d\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • 2017:\u00a0Nuria\u00a0Silleras-Fernandez\u00a0(University of Colorado Boulder),\u00a0\u201cThe Crown of Aragon and the Mediterranean: Politics, Gender, and Culture\u201d\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • 2016:\u00a0Karla Mallette\u00a0(Michigan),\u00a0\u201cCosmopolitan Languages, Lingua Franca, and Linguistic Frontiers in the Medieval Mediterranean\u201d\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • 2015:\u00a0Paul M. Cobb\u00a0(Pennsylvania),\u00a0\u201cCharlemagne\u2019s Muslim Elephant: Kingship, Nature, and Monotheism in the Early Middle Ages\u201d\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • 2014:\u00a0Jonathan P. Phillips\u00a0(Royal Holloway, University of London),\u00a0\u201cSaladin: Life and Legend\u201d\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • 2013:\u00a0Catherine Brown\u00a0(Michigan),\u00a0\u201cTraveling Hands: Mobile Manuscript in the Early Medieval Mediterranean\u201d\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • 2012:\u00a0Amy\u00a0Remensnyder\u00a0(Brown),\u00a0\u201cLa\u00a0Conquistadora: A Tale of Two Seas, the Virgin Mary, Muslims, Christians, Jews, and Indians\u201d\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • 2011:\u00a0Paul H. Freedman\u00a0(Yale University),\u00a0\u201cA Phantom Spanish Archive: The Past Slips Through Our Fingers\u201d\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • 2010:\u00a0Cynthia Robinson\u00a0(Cornell),\u00a0\u201cWho\u2019s that\u00a0Girl?:\u00a0Cross-cultural Narrative, Mysticism and the Lady on the Alhambra Ceilings\u201d\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • 2009:\u00a0Sharon Kinoshita\u00a0(UC\u00a0Santa Cruz),\u00a0\u201cHow\u00a0To\u00a0Do Things in the Medieval Mediterranean\u201d\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • 2008:\u00a0Michelle Hamilton\u00a0(UC\u00a0Irvine),\u00a0\u201cThe Fall of \u2018Spain\u2019: The Problem of Muslims in Medieval Iberia\u201d\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • 2007:\u00a0Joel Cohen\u00a0(Boston Camerata),\u00a0\u201cMusic of the Three Religions in Medieval Spain\u201d\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • 2006:\u00a0Timothy Barnes\u00a0(Toronto),\u00a0\u201cWhat is the Theodosian Code?\u201d\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • 2005:\u00a0David Nirenberg\u00a0(Johns Hopkins),\u00a0\u201cKing Alfonso VIII and the Jewess of Toledo: A Love Story\u201d\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • 2004:\u00a0Olivia Remie Constable\u00a0(Notre Dame),\u00a0\u201cA Game for Everybody: Chess and Society at the Court of Alfonso X of Castile\u201d\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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