This is a multidisciplinary conference that invites scholars to explore how medieval imagination, art, philosophy, and theology engaged with the interaction between the visible and the invisible, examining how imagination and creativity moved across their shifting boundaries and gave form to what eludes perception.

Sponsored by: the Religion Department Rice University 6100 Main Street, Houston, Texas 77005-1827

Conatus: Between Visible & Invisible Worlds: Medieval Forms of Mediation

May 1st–May 3rd, 2026

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