📜➡️📱 How to Focus: Medieval Lessons for an Age of Distraction with Jamie Kreiner
Schedule
Thu, 16 Apr, 2026 at 05:00 pm
UTC-07:00Location
Smith Memorial Student Union (SMSU 327) | Portland, OR
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📜➡️📱 How to Focus: Medieval Lessons for an Age of Distraction with Jamie Kreiner, Professor and Robert and Dorothy Wellman Chair in Medieval History at UCLA.✨ In-person event
Free and Open to the Public with RSVP
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Seating is general admission and available on a first-come, first-served basis.
We are not alone in our distraction. Even early Christian monks — women and men who had given up nearly everything in order to concentrate on God — still found themselves struggling to concentrate. But rather than surrender in desperation, they devoted considerable creative energy to find ways to fight back. This lecture surveys the interlocking strategies that monks developed to deal with distraction, to come to grips with a complex world in which their minds couldn't stop moving.
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