This month we sit down with Dr. Ryan Szpiech, associate professor of Spanish and director of the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies at the University of Michigan. We talk about the hidden power of language, his surprising path into the medieval world through neuroscience, and questing alone in rural Spain.

Dr. Szpiech's personal website: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/ryanszpiech/

Dr. Szpiech's lecture at the Medieval Institute:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWHN9-qcOCg&t=3987s&ab_channel=MedievalInstitute