CMW5: Institutions Beyond The State Panel Video

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This panel featured the following people:

William Hepburn is currently a Teaching Fellow at the University of Aberdeen, having worked there since 2016 on research (on several projects) and teaching. His work focuses on late medieval history, including both a variety of approaches to studying royal households and, more recently, urban history especially focusing on the use of local records. He was also the lead designer for Strange Sickness, a game focused on the response of medieval local governments to plague. The game was based on records from Aberdeen, which has the most complete late medieval record system of any local government body in Scotland.

Oana-Alexandra Chirilă is an anthropologist and curator, currently working at the Maramureș County Museum of History and Archaeology in Baia Mare, Romania. Oana is a Fulbright and Erasmus scholar, and her academic interests revolve mainly around Islam and urban culture. She is the author of Sisyphus Happy. Islam, Drugs, and Hip Hop in American Culture, first published in Romanian in 2021. Oana is also an avid amateur video game player, a passion that sometimes makes its way into her work, as is the case with "Show this fool knight what it is to have no fear! Freedom and Oppression in Assassin's Creed", a chapter she published in Playing the Crusades: Engaging the Crusades, vol. V.

The panel was chaired by Tess Watterson.