Speakers: Elly Truitt & Leah DeVun
Date: December 8, 2026
Time: 6:30–7:30 PM
Location: 205 Hudson Flex Space, HCAG
Description: A conversation between Elly Truitt (Professor, University of Pennsylvania), author of several influential books on medieval science and technology, and Leah DeVun (Distinguished Professor of History and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Rutgers University), author of several award-winning books on gender, science, and religion in premodern Europe. Truitt will discuss her book Medieval Robots, on the history of automata and mechanical invention in medieval Europe.