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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;color:#050505;background:white">Just two weeks until the Medieval Fair Free Lecture Series resumes! Here’s the lineup for this academic year.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#050505">Medieval Fair Free Lecture Series<br>
**new location** Norman Public Library CENTRAL, 103 W Acres St, Norman, OK 73069, Oklahoma Redbud Room, third floor. 6:15 pm – 7:30 pm, masks requested<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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MEDIEVAL FAIR /CMRS FREE LECTURE SERIES, 2021-22<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">2021<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Sept. 3</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">: Jennifer Saltzstein, School of Music, OU, "Medieval Music for Praying, Courting, and Dancing"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Oct. 1</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">: Joseph Mansky, English Dept., OU, “Shakespeare’s Libels”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Nov. 5</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">: Luis Cortest, MLLL, OU, "Who Was Spain's Alfonso X (1252-84) and Why Did People Remember Him for Hundreds of Years After His Death?"
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Dec. 3</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">: Justin Sider, English Dept., OU, “Victorian Medievalism and the Pleasure of the Past”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Feb. 4</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">: Jacob Lackner, OU & OSU OKC, “Benjamin ibn Tudela” (a 12<sup>th</sup> century Jewish traveler and writer)
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<b>March 4</b>: Erinn Gavaghan, School of Visual Arts, OU “Medievalist Obsessions in 19th-Century French Art”<br>
<b>April 8</b>: Chelsea Silva, Department of English, OSU “Household Magic and Marvels in Medieval England”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#050505">The Medieval Fair Free Lecture Series is cosponsored by the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies University of Oklahoma.<br>
Come learn more about the middle ages just for the fun of learning! No papers, no test, just interesting information about life long ago.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#050505">Face coverings are strongly recommended in indoor public settings by the CDC. Pioneer Libraries are following CDC recommendations (</span><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">https://www.cdc.gov/.../vaccines/fully-vaccinated.html...</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#050505"> )
related to facial coverings. The university encourages masking indoors. The university strongly encourages masking for all individuals in high-density settings, such as classrooms and at special events.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Lucida Calligraphy";color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Ann Marie Eckart, </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Lucida Calligraphy"">Medieval
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</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Lucida Calligraphy";color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">405-325-8610 (o), 405-209-1576 (c), </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Lucida Calligraphy""><br>
ameckart@ou.edu</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Lucida Calligraphy";color:black">, </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Lucida Calligraphy";border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">www.medievalfair.org</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%"><br>
Igniting the spark of curiosity through educational entertainment. 224 days until the 2022 Medieval Fair of Norman on April 1, 2 & 3!</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Lucida Calligraphy";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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