The event is titled "Gender in the Archive: Views from Medieval France and Japan," and it is a conversation between Sara McDougall (CUNY, History, Humanities and Justice, Gender Studies), David Spafford (Penn, EALC) and with Kathy Brown as discussant (Penn, History, GSWS). It takes place on September 25, in College Hall 209, 12-1pm, with lunch provided. The event is focused on discussing the challenges of the archive for reconstructing histories of gender in the premodern world through comparative global contexts.