Sophia Quick (Ph.D. candidate) studied the implications of typological classification for the display of medieval objects collected in the nineteenth century by Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt Rivers whose anthropological “specimens” now form the core of Oxford University’s Pitt Rivers Museum. Stephanie Wittich (M.A. candidate) explored the multifaceted “medieval modernity” of artist communities formed in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Europe, drawing attention to similarities and tensions in the medievalizing ideals of the Beuron Art School, Moly Sabata, and the Bauhaus. Sara Volf (M.A. candidate) turned to influential North American interpreters of the Middle Ages, addressing the medieval-inspired polemics and architecture of Ralph Adams Cram in the early decades of the twentieth century. Other seminar participants analyzed a wide array of medieval modernisms that continue to inflect twenty-first-century society and cultural production. Michael Farnan (Ph.D. candidate) examined past and present discourse surrounding concepts of “wilderness” and “the primitive” in Canadian identity politics, arguing that a new generation of artists continues to traffic uncritically in traditional and colonial representations of Canada’s fabled landscape. Stephen Mueller (Ph.D. candidate) explored the cultural relationships linking medieval artists and performers of religious theatre and pilgrimage to the lives and works of contemporary performance and installation artists Franko B and Christian Boltanski. Morgan Skinner (M.A. candidate) investigated contemporary medieval-themed video games that offer an immersive role-playing experience, suggesting some of the ways in which such “participatory” medieval fantasy contributes to the vital, ongoing construction of the Middle Ages.