Real Pirates at the Science Museum of Minnesota
February 23, 2012
Science Museum of Minnesota | Discovery Hall
Spend the evening starting with a private reception and lecture by Kathryn Reyerson and then tour the exhibit.
Kathryn Reyerson is a Professor of History and Convener of the IAS Mediterranean Collaborative at the University of Minnesota. A product of Harvard (B.A.) and Yale (Ph.D.), she is a specialist of medieval France and the Mediterranean world in the thirteenth-fifteenth centuries. She has written widely on medieveal social, economic, and legal history with several monographs including Jacques Coeur: Entrepreneur and Kings Bursar (New York: Longman, 2005).
Professor Reyerson will be lecturing on "Merchants and Pirates: Medieval Mediterranean Identities." This talk will address shifting identities and multiple identities, borrowing of identities and mistaken identities in the Mediterranean, ca. 1200-ca. 1500, with a focus on the ease with which merchants became pirates and privateers.
Schedule5:30 p.m. | Event registration and private reception 6:15 p.m. | Lecture and Q&A with Professor Kathryn Reyerson 7:30 p.m. | Museum tour | Tickets$49 | Adult admission $44 | UMAA member admission $30 | Student admission (5 + up) |
Contact Becca Brzezinski at rlb@umn.edu or 612-624-4770 for more information.
Register here!
Please register by February 15
