Blindness as Form: Rethinking Disability with Matthew Paris
Schedule
Wed Mar 25 2026 at 05:00 pm to 07:30 pm
UTC+00:00Location
Wilkins Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, UCL | London, EN
About this Event
Recent creative encounters between visually impaired people and various art-forms show us new ways to read blindness in medieval manuscripts.
About this Inaugural lecture
Blindness is error and ignorance, eyesight is knowledge and insight. But as soon as people ponder this age-old axiom, they begin to question the nature of knowledge and the role of the senses in apprehending reality. They may go on to think creatively and innovatively about the ways in which visually impaired people encounter different art forms, and about the possibilities these open up for our wider understanding of art. This lecture puts recent work on such encounters into dialogue with two medieval verbal and visual saints’ lives by the 13th-century writer and illustrator Matthew Paris.
About the speaker
Jane Gilbert is Professor of Medieval Literature and Critical Theory in SELCS-CMII. She has published widely on medieval French and English literature, especially in dialogue with modern critical theory. Her current research project explores innovative ways to think about form in the multilingual, multimedia contexts of medieval literature.
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Agenda
🕑: 05:00 PM - 05:30 PM
Registration
🕑: 05:30 PM - 06:00 PM
Lecture
🕑: 06:30 PM - 07:30 PM
Reception
Where is it happening?
Wilkins Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, UCL, Second floor, South Junction, London, United KingdomEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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