Call for Papers
2021 International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 10 - 15, 2021)
Download the Quick Guide for Paper Proposals here!
Download the Quick Guide for Roundtables here!
All those working in the field of medieval studies, including graduate students and independent scholars and artists, may submit proposals to the International Congress on Medieval Studies. We invite contributions to Sponsored and Special Sessions, which are sessions on predetermined topics organized by colleagues around the world. We also welcome proposals for General Sessions, which are ad hoc sessions organized by the Program Committee in Kalamazoo. The topics of General Sessions are determined by the paper proposals submitted and accepted.
Please review our policies before submitting your proposal below. In particular, note that undergraduate students may submit proposals only to the "Papers by Undergraduates" sessions (listed under Sponsored and Special Sessions of Papers).
Instructions:
You are invited to make one paper proposal to one session of papers. This may be to one of the Sponsored or Special Sessions of Papers, which are organized by colleagues around the world, OR to the General Sessions of Papers, which are organized by the Program Committee in Kalamazoo. You may propose an unlimited number of roundtable contributions. However, you will not be scheduled as an active participant (as a paper presenter, roundtable discussant, presider, respondent, workshop leader, or performer) in more than three sessions..
Session Selection
Sessions are grouped by format (sessions of papers and roundtables). You can browse the sessions by format below. You can also view the session offerings in the call for papers on the Congress website.
Demonstrations, Performances, and Workshops are not included here, because organizers are responsible for naming their own participants and contributions are not solicited.
Title and Presentation Information
Enter the title of the proposed paper. (Contributions to roundtables do not have titles.) Confirm your willingness to make your presentation in the time established by the session’s organizer(s) and indicate your social media preferences and whether you are willing to have your contribution recorded.
People
Enter the name(s), affiliation(s), and contact information for the author(s).
Abstract
Supply an abstract (300 words) describing your proposed paper or roundtable contribution. If your proposal is for a hybrid session, indicate whether you intend to present in person or virtually.
Short Description
Supply a short description (50 words) of your proposed paper or roundtable contribution. If your proposal is accepted, this will be posted on the meeting site.
Technical Support
For help in submitting a proposal online, Contact technical support.
Session Selection:
Click a session format and then select the name of a session of papers or roundtable in order to begin your paper proposal. Only select "General Sessions" if you do not wish to make a proposal to a sponsored or special session (proposals to the general sessions will be reviewed directly by the ICMS program committee).
Sessions of Papers
"Behold a Pale Horse": Eschatology of the Medieval East and West
Contact Person: Britt Hunter
Contact Person: Sarah Mathiesen
"For the ankres was expert in swech thyngys": Enclosure in Medieval Literature
Contact Person: Stacie Vos ; svos@sandiego.edu
"I said of laughter, 'It is folly'": Humor and Laughter in Medieval Literature, Art, and Thought I
Contact Person: Kleio Pethainou
"In aventure þer mervayles meven": The Mystical Tradition in the Pearl-Poet and Analogues
Contact Person: Ashley Bartelt
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Pearl-Poet Society
"What's Past Is Prologue": The Transition of Literary Works from Manuscript to Print
Contact Person: Martha Driver ; mdriver@pace.edu
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Early Book Society
Aristotle à Rebours: Unconventional Aristotelianism in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century Italy
Contact Person: Joseph Romano
Contact Person: Kristen Hook
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Italians and Italianists at Kalamazoo
Beowulf
King Lear: Texts, Pre-Texts, and Aftertexts
Contact Person: Dianne Berg
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Shakespeare at Kalamazoo
Piers Plowman's Influences: Genres, Authors, and Beyond
Contact Person: Noelle Phillips
Principal Sponsoring Organization: International Piers Plowman Society
Piers Plowman's Manuscripts
Contact Person: Noelle Phillips
Principal Sponsoring Organization: International Piers Plowman Society
The Canterbury Tales
Valar Morghulis
Contact Person: Kavita Finn
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Pseudo Society
Acceptance and Resistance: Emotional Tension in the Pearl-Poet
Contact Person: Ashley Bartelt
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Pearl-Poet Society
Aelred and After: In Honor of Marsha Dutton
Contact Person: Philip O'Mara
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Center for Cistercian and Monastic Studies, Western Michigan Univ.
Ain't Misbehaving: Medieval English Women Who Do Good Work by Nefarious Means
Contact Person: Ashley Bartelt
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Medieval Association of the Midwest (MAM)
Co-Sponsoring Organization(s): Pearl-Poet Society
Alfredian Texts and Contexts
Contact Person: Nicole Discenza ; ndiscenza@usf.edu
Anglo-Norman Texts and Manuscripts
Contact Person: Maureen Boulton ; mboulton@nd.edu
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Anglo-Norman Text Society
Anglo-Saxon Kingship in the Eleventh Century: Wulfstan and His Contemporaries
Contact Person: Andrew Rabin
Contact Person: Isabelle Beaudoin
Annual Journal of Medieval Military History Lecture
Contact Person: Valerie Eads ; veads@sva.edu
Principal Sponsoring Organization: De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History
Apocalyptic Trajectories in Early Byzantium
Contact Person: András Kraft
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture
Appropriation and Reimagination: New Models of Female Sanctity and Devotion in Medieval Europe
Contact Person: Anna Rudolph
Archaeology of the Medieval Iberian Peninsula: The Archaeological Problem of Córdoba
Contact Person: Fernando Valdés Fernández
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Univ. Autónoma de Madrid
Archaizing Form: Rolls and Beyond
Contact Person: Mireille Pardon
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Digital Editing and the Medieval Manuscript: Rolls and Fragments (DEMMR/F)
Architecture: Byzantium, Italy, and Spain
Art Historical Approaches to Medieval Environments
Contact Person: Dustin Aaron
Principal Sponsoring Organization: International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA) Student Committee
Arthurian Inheritances
Contact Person: K. Whetter ; kevin.whetter@acadiau.ca
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Arthurian Literature
Asexuality in Medieval English
Astrology in Practice: Perspectives from the History of Visual and Material Culture
Contact Person: Jordan Famularo
Contact Person: Anna Majeski
Beyond Guenevere and Morgan: Other Arthurian Queens
Contact Person: Dorsey Armstrong ; sarmstr@purdue.edu
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Arthuriana
Bi- and Tri-Lingual Manuscripts and Early Printed Books
Contact Person: Martha Driver ; mdriver@pace.edu
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Early Book Society
Biblical Storytelling in Verse: Poetic Traditions around Mary from East to West
Contact Person: Erin Walsh
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
Bodies that Transform: Visual, Material, and Conceptual Transitions
Contact Person: Alicia Cannizzo ; alicia.r.cannizzo@gmail.com
Contact Person: Maeve Doyle
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Material Collective
Body, Mind, and Matter in Medieval Scandinavia: Supernatural Entities, Cognitive Alterities, and More-than-Human Ecologies
Contact Person: Miriam Mayburd ; myryamm@gmail.com
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Háskóli Íslands
Co-Sponsoring Organization(s): Icelandic Research Fund, Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University
Bridging the Divide: Jews, Christians, and Muslims in Medieval Iberian Studies
Contact Person: Sarah Ifft Decker
Principal Sponsoring Organization: American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain (AARHMS)
Byzantine Studies I
Byzantine Studies II
C. S. Lewis and the Middle Ages
Contact Person: Joe Ricke ; jsricke@outlook.com
CANCELED Robert T. Farrell Lecture
Principal Sponsoring Organization: American Society of Irish Medieval Studies (ASIMS)
Centers, Peripheries, and Networks of Reform in the Fifteenth Century
Contact Person: Michael Van Dussen
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Lollard Society
Co-Sponsoring Organization(s): Jean Gerson Society
Chant and Liturgy
Contact Person: Lucia Marchi
Contact Person: Gillian Gower
Contact Person: Luisa Nardini
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Musicology at Kalamazoo
Chaucer and Trauma I: Social and Historical
Contact Person: Susanna Fein
Contact Person: David Raybin ; draybin@eiu.edu
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Chaucer Review
Chaucer and Trauma II: Female and Personal
Contact Person: Susanna Fein
Contact Person: David Raybin ; draybin@eiu.edu
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Chaucer Review
Chaucer and Trauma III: Psychological and Textual
Contact Person: Susanna Fein
Contact Person: David Raybin ; draybin@eiu.edu
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Chaucer Review
Chaucer and Trauma IV: Bodies and Capacity
Contact Person: Susanna Fein
Contact Person: David Raybin ; draybin@eiu.edu
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Chaucer Review
Chaucerian Artifacts and Material Culture
Contact Person: Anita Obermeier
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Institute for Medieval Studies, Univ. of New Mexico
Christian Liturgy
Christian-Muslim Exchange in the Medieval Mediterranean in Art and Science
Contact Person: Julian Yolles
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
Classical Philosophy in the Lands of Islam and Its Influence I
Contact Person: Nicholas Oschman
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Aquinas and 'the Arabs' International Working Group
Clerical and Courtly, Sacred and Profane: The Worlds of Love in the Age of Jean Gerson and Alain Chartier
Contact Person: Matthew Vanderpoel
Contact Person: Linda Burke ; lindaebb@aol.com
Principal Sponsoring Organization: International Alain Chartier Society
Co-Sponsoring Organization(s): Jean Gerson Society
ColLABoration: The Laboratory Model in the Digital Humanities
Contact Person: Helen Davies
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Lazarus Project
Constructing Communities through Stories I: Retelling and Reception
Contact Person: Kirstin Barnard
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Centre for Medieval Studies, Univ. of York
Constructing Communities through Stories II: Constructing Located Communities
Contact Person: Emmie Rose Price-Goodfellow
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Centre for Medieval Studies, Univ. of York
Contacts, Encounters, Exchanges: Languages and Identities in the Medieval Mediterranean
Contact Person: John Bollweg ; trecento@comcast.net
Principal Sponsoring Organization: North American Catalan Society
Co-Sponsoring Organization(s): Ibero-Medieval Association of North America (IMANA)
Copying, Editing, and Correction: How Accurate Is It?
Contact Person: Martha Driver ; mdriver@pace.edu
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Early Book Society
Courting Disaster: Precarious Limits at the Courts of Medieval Iberia
Contact Person: Matthew Desing ; desin001@umn.edu
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Center for Inter-American and Border Studies, Univ. of Texas-El Paso
Co-Sponsoring Organization(s): Ibero-Medieval Association of North America (IMANA)
Curating Medieval Plague and Pestilence
Contact Person: Michelle Ziegler
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Contagions: Society for Historic Infectious Disease Studies
Cusanus, His Contemporaries and Heirs
Contact Person: Thomas Izbicki
Principal Sponsoring Organization: American Cusanus Society
Dante I: Bodies, Senses, Spaces
Contact Person: Akash Kumar
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Dante Society of America
Dante II: Poetry, Philosophy, and Fabricated Meaning
Contact Person: Akash Kumar
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Dante Society of America
Dante III: Historical Contexts, Hybrid Forms
Contact Person: Akash Kumar
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Dante Society of America
Death and Dying in the Later Middle Ages
Contact Person: Christian Steer
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Harlaxton Medieval Symposium
Death and Undeath
Deconstructing the Archpriest: Subversion, Parody, Irony, Humor, and Satire
Contact Person: Paul Larson
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Texas Medieval Association (TEMA)
Desire and Disease: The Medicalization of Sex in the Middle Ages
Contact Person: William York
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Medica: The Society for the Study of Healing in the Middle Ages
Disability and Sanctity in the Middle Ages
Contact Person: Leah Parker
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Society for the Study of Disability in the Middle Ages
Co-Sponsoring Organization(s): Hagiography Society
Diversity in/and the Global Middle Ages I
Contact Person: Sharon Kinoshita
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Medieval Academy of America
Dress and Textiles I: Rank and Signifiers
Contact Person: Robin Netherton ; distaff.org@gmail.com
Principal Sponsoring Organization: DISTAFF (Discussion, Interpretation, and Study of Textile Arts, Fabrics, and Fashion)
Dress and Textiles II: Curious Examples
Contact Person: Robin Netherton ; distaff.org@gmail.com
Principal Sponsoring Organization: DISTAFF (Discussion, Interpretation, and Study of Textile Arts, Fabrics, and Fashion)
Early Christianity
Early Medieval Europe I
Contact Person: Deborah Deliyannis
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Early Medieval Europe
Eckhart and Cusanus: Preaching on Christology and the Good Shepherd
Contact Person: Donald Duclow
Principal Sponsoring Organization: American Cusanus Society
Co-Sponsoring Organization(s): International Medieval Sermon Studies Society
Editing Early Latin-Old English Glossaries
Contact Person: Michael Herren
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Dictionary of Old English (DOE)
Co-Sponsoring Organization(s): Epinal-Erfurt Glossary Editing Project
Editing Medieval Liturgy: Rites, Commentaries, Music
Contact Person: Innocent Smith
Emblem Studies
Contact Person: Sabine Moedersheim ; smoedersheim@wisc.edu
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Society for Emblem Studies
Embodied Ecocriticisms
Contact Person: Heide Estes
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Medieval Ecocriticisms
Emotional Iberia: Varieties of Affective Experience in Medieval Iberian Cultures
Contact Person: Robin Bower
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies
Emotions in Medieval Literature
Contact Person: Xiaoyi Zhang ; xiaoyi.zhang@utsa.edu
Contact Person: Jake Coen
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Medieval Institute, Univ. of Notre Dame
Environmental Violence
Contact Person: Elizabeth Leet
Environments of Change: Late Medieval Landscapes, Communities, and Health
Contact Person: Phil Slavin ; philip.slavin@stir.ac.uk
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Medieval DRAGEN Lab, Univ. of Waterloo
Epistemic Limits: Rethinking Syntheses in Medieval Thought
Contact Person: Matthew Vanderpoel
Contact Person: Samuel Baudinette
Eroticism and Love Interests
Finding the Familiar: Pop Culture, Burgers, and Travel
Food and Furnishings: The Domestic in Marie de France
Contact Person: Susan Hopkirk
Principal Sponsoring Organization: International Marie de France Society
Form and Reform: Late Medieval Encyclopedic Experimentations
Contact Person: Michael Van Dussen
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Lollard Society
Fourteenth-Century Religious Cultures
Contact Person: Hollis Shaul
Principal Sponsoring Organization: 14th Century Society
Franciscans in the Global Middle Ages
Contact Person: Lezlie Knox ; lezlie.knox@marquette.edu
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Franciscan Institute, St. Bonaventure Univ.
French Gower, Gower's French
Contact Person: Brian Gastle ; bgastle@wcu.edu
Principal Sponsoring Organization: John Gower Society
From History to My-Story: Affirming the Self in Medieval Chronicles
Contact Person: Roberto Pesce
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Univ. of Oklahoma
From the Battlefield to the Plough: The Human-Horse Relationship in the Middle Ages
Contact Person: Chelsea Shields-Más ; shieldsmasc@oldwestbury.edu
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Equine History Collective
From the Sanctuary to the Museum: Displaying the Sacred
Contact Person: Lena Liepe
Gender, Race, and Violence in the Middle English Roland Romances
Contact Person: David Raybin ; draybin@eiu.edu
Principal Sponsoring Organization: TEAMS (Teaching Association for Medieval Studies)
Germanic Literatures
Getting to Their Mind through Their Plate: Food as Social Identity in the Medieval World
Contact Person: Erin Crowley-Champoux ; erin.a.crowleychampoux@maine.edu
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Center for Medieval Studies, Univ. of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Globalizing Joan of Arc: Positioning the Maid in a Transnational Landscape
Contact Person: Scott Manning ; scottmanning13@gmail.com
Principal Sponsoring Organization: International Joan of Arc Society/Société Internationale de l'étude de Jeanne d'Arc
Glossing the Unexpectedly Medieval: Contexts and Concepts in Modern Medievalism
Contact Person: Cindy Vitto
Gower's Spaces
Contact Person: Brian Gastle ; bgastle@wcu.edu
Principal Sponsoring Organization: John Gower Society
Healing and the Healer in Popular Culture
Contact Person: William York
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Medica: The Society for the Study of Healing in the Middle Ages
Henry's Revenge? Becket at 851 I: The Politics of Martyrdom
Contact Person: Cary Nederman ; cary-j-nederman@tamu.edu
Henry's Revenge? Becket at 851 II: Pilgrims, Pilgrimages, and Artifacts
Contact Person: Cary Nederman ; cary-j-nederman@tamu.edu
Hiberno-Latin Studies
Contact Person: Brian Cook ; bsc0028@auburn.edu
Homosocial Communities and Seclusion
Contact Person: Michelle Sauer
Principal Sponsoring Organization: International Anchoritic Society
Humility among Medieval Benedictines: What Was It and Was It Good for Them?
Contact Person: Hugh Feiss
Principal Sponsoring Organization: American Benedictine Academy
Identity and Status in Byzantine Material Culture
Contact Person: Lain Wilson
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
Illuminated Manuscripts in the Insular World
Contact Person: Catherine Karkov
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Richard Rawlinson Center
Impound, Outlaw
Contact Person: Edward Bowen
Contact Person: Marissa Crannell-Ash
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Rossell Hope Robbins Library, Univ. of Rochester
In Honor of Charlotte Newman Goldy: Making and Teaching Medieval Memories
Contact Person: Darlene Brooks Hedstrom
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Medieval People
In Memory of Susan Groag Bell: Christine's Legacy in Material Objects
Contact Person: Julia Nephew
Contact Person: Benjamin Semple
Principal Sponsoring Organization: International Christine de Pizan Society, North American Branch
Individuals' Emotions and Emotional Communities in the Mediterranean
Contact Person: Nuria Silleras-Fernandez ; silleras@colorado.edu
Principal Sponsoring Organization: CU Mediterranean Studies Group
Co-Sponsoring Organization(s): Mediterranean Seminar
Inside the Walls: Analyzing Medieval Towns
Contact Person: Mercedes Vaquero
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Program in Medieval Studies, Brown Univ.
Intangible Cultural Heritage and the Global Middle Ages
Contact Person: Rebecca Straple-Sovers ; rebeccastraple@gmail.com
Inventing the Text: Fictitious Narratives of Composition and Transmission
Contact Person: Daniel Donoghue
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library
Italy in the Late Middle Ages
Jerusalem I: The Holy City in Textual, Visual, and Material Cultures
Contact Person: Mareike Reisch
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Stanford Univ.
Jerusalem II: The Holy City as Interreligious Experience
Contact Person: Ana Núñez
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Stanford Univ.
Jewish-Christian Relations in the Middle Ages
Contact Person: Steven McMichael ; sjmcmichael@stthomas.edu
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Academy of Jewish-Christian Studies
Just and Unjust Political Power in Christine's Time
Contact Person: Julia Nephew
Contact Person: Benjamin Semple
Principal Sponsoring Organization: International Christine de Pizan Society, North American Branch
Late Medieval Ways of Life in Central and Western Europe: Communication, Equalities, and Contrasts
Contact Person: Gerhard Jaritz ; jaritzg@ceu.edu
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Dept. of Medieval Studies, Central European Univ.
Law and Legal Culture in Early Medieval Britain I
Contact Person: Andrew Rabin
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Medieval-Renaissance Faculty Workshop, Univ. of Louisville
Law as Culture: Canon Law and Medieval Society
Contact Person: Alexander Volokh
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Selden Society
Lengthy Texts and Hefty Tomes: Dealing with Volume in Vernacular French Manuscripts
Contact Person: Anne Salamon
Linguistic Approaches to Medieval Languages
Contact Person: Andrew Troup ; atroup@csub.edu
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Society for Medieval Languages and Linguistics
Location, Location, Location: In-Situ Iconography within the Medieval Built Environment I: Topography and Threshold
Contact Person: Catherine Fernandez
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Index of Medieval Art, Princeton Univ.
Location, Location, Location: In-Situ Iconography within the Medieval Built Environment II: The Interior Space
Contact Person: Catherine Fernandez
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Index of Medieval Art, Princeton Univ.
Lordship in Latin Christian Societies to 1520
Contact Person: D'Arcy Boulton
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Seigneurie: The International Society for the Study of the Nobility, Lordship, and Knighthood
Love on the Battlefield
Contact Person: Susanne Hafner ; hafner@fordham.edu
Principal Sponsoring Organization: International Courtly Literature Society (ICLS), North American Branch
Love, Fear, Anger, Sorrow: Emotions and Diseases of the Soul in Islamicate Literature I
Contact Person: Cameron Cross
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Great Lakes Adiban Society
Lydgate's Little Library
Contact Person: Alaina Bupp
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Lydgate Society
Machaut: The Next Generation
Contact Person: Jared Hartt
Principal Sponsoring Organization: International Machaut Society
Magic, Miracles, and Medicine: Borders of Healing in the Iberian Middle Ages
Contact Person: Matthew Desing ; desin001@umn.edu
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Center for Inter-American and Border Studies, Univ. of Texas-El Paso
Magical Matchmaking: Love Magic in the Middle Ages
Contact Person: Dalicia Raymond ; raymondd@smcsc.edu
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Institute for Medieval Studies, Univ. of New Mexico
Malory for Moderns
Contact Person: Felicia Nimue Ackerman
Manors and Markets: New Directions in Medieval Economic History
Contact Person: Jordan Claridge
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Medieval Association for Rural Studies (MARS)
Manuscript Studies
Manuscript Studies without Manuscripts
Contact Person: Raymond Clemens
Contact Person: Gina Hurley
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale Univ.
Mary on the Move: Marian Iconography in Late Medieval France
Contact Person: Andrea Znorovszky
Materiality of Languages: Epigraphy, Manuscripts, and Writing Systems in Byzantium and the Early Islamic Near East (324-1204) I
Contact Person: Paweł Nowakowski
Contact Person: Yuliya Minets
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Univ. Warszawski
Co-Sponsoring Organization(s): Narodowe Centrum Nauki (NCN); Jacksonville State Univ.
Medicine and Gender in the Arthurian World
Contact Person: Melissa Elmes
Principal Sponsoring Organization: International Arthurian Society, North American Branch (IAS/NAB)
Medicine and Magic
Medieval Ars Memoriae in Italy: Theory, Techniques, Practices
Contact Person: Elisabeth Trischler
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Italians and Italianists at Kalamazoo
Medieval Arthuriana
Medieval Badges and Miniature Objects
Contact Person: Ann Marie Rasmussen ; amrasmus@uwaterloo.ca
Medieval Becomings-Animal: Animals, Language, and Translation
Contact Person: David Coley ; david_coley@sfu.ca
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Oecologies: Inhabiting Premodern Worlds
Medieval Cities at War: The Urban Site as a Nexus of Battle and Siege
Contact Person: Valerie Eads ; veads@sva.edu
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Texas Medieval Association (TEMA)
Co-Sponsoring Organization(s): De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History
Medieval Commentaries on Ovid
Contact Person: William Little ; little.447@osu.edu
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Societas Ovidiana
Medieval Drama
Medieval Eco-Migrations
Contact Person: David Coley ; david_coley@sfu.ca
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Oecologies: Inhabiting Premodern Worlds
Medieval Exhibitions in the Era of Global Art History I
Contact Person: Gerhard Lutz ; glutz@clevelandart.org
Contact Person: Lloyd de Beer
Principal Sponsoring Organization: International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA)
Medieval Ibero-Romance Languages: Language Use, Contact, Variation, or Change
Contact Person: Pablo Pastrana-Pérez
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies (HSMS)
Medieval Interdisciplinarity: Knowledge-Transfer in Medieval Southern Italy: Medicine and Sciences
Contact Person: Andrew Irving ; a.j.m.irving@rug.nl
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Society for Beneventan Studies
Co-Sponsoring Organization(s): Medica: The Society for the Study of Healing in the Middle Ages
Medieval Literature across Borders
Contact Person: George Ferzoco
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Centre for Medieval Studies, Univ. of Bristol
Medieval Magic in Theory: Prologues to Learned Texts of Magic
Contact Person: Vajra Regan ; vajra.regan@mail.utoronto.ca
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Research Group on Manuscript Evidence
Co-Sponsoring Organization(s): Societas Magica
Medieval Manuscripts in the Midwest: New Research from "Hidden" Collections
Contact Person: Eric Johnson
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, The Ohio State Univ.
Medieval Military History I: Battlefields
Contact Person: Valerie Eads ; veads@sva.edu
Principal Sponsoring Organization: De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History
Medieval Military History II: Military Movements
Contact Person: Valerie Eads ; veads@sva.edu
Principal Sponsoring Organization: De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History
Medieval Military History III: Clerics and War
Contact Person: Valerie Eads ; veads@sva.edu
Principal Sponsoring Organization: De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History
Medieval Proverbs: Afterlives
Contact Person: Sarah Anderson
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Early Proverb Society (EPS)
Co-Sponsoring Organization(s): Dept. of English, Princeton Univ.
Medieval Responses to the Sounds of Animals
Contact Person: Mary Dzon
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Univ. of Tennessee-Knoxville
Medieval Sermon Studies II: Preaching and the Crusades
Contact Person: Reid Weber
Principal Sponsoring Organization: International Medieval Sermon Studies Society
Medieval Sermon Studies III: Preaching Gender
Contact Person: Holly Johnson
Principal Sponsoring Organization: International Medieval Sermon Studies Society
Medieval Sermon Studies IV: Index, Impact, and Interpretation
Contact Person: Holly Johnson
Principal Sponsoring Organization: International Medieval Sermon Studies Society
Medieval Speech Acts
Contact Person: Eric Bryan ; bryane@mst.edu
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Medieval Speech Act Society
Medieval Studies and the Caribbean II
Contact Person: Marla Pagán-Mattos
Contact Person: Marian Polhill ; marian.polhill1@upr.edu
Medieval Theology
Medieval World-Building: Tolkien, His Precursors and Legacies
Contact Person: Kristine Swank
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic, Univ. of Glasgow
Medieval-Ibero Explicandi per Masculum: Counsel for Women Composed by Men
Contact Person: John Bollweg ; trecento@comcast.net
Principal Sponsoring Organization: North American Catalan Society
Co-Sponsoring Organization(s): Ibero-Medieval Association of North America (IMANA)
Medieval/Digital Reading Environments and Practices
Contact Person: Deborah McGrady
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures
Medievalism and Anti-Semitism
Contact Person: Richard Utz
Middle Grounds: The Politics and Aesthetics of Medieval Mediocrity
Contact Person: Aylin Malcolm
Contact Person: Rawad Wehbe
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Medievalists@Penn
Migrating Manuscripts and Peripatetic Texts
Contact Person: Martha Driver ; mdriver@pace.edu
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Early Book Society
Modern Myth and the Medieval
Modernity and Lateness in Medieval Architecture
Contact Person: Alice Sullivan
Contact Person: Kyle Sweeney
Monks and Saints: The Veneration of Relics in Early Medieval Monasteries I: Pre-Carolingian and Carolingian
Contact Person: Albrecht Diem
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Network for the Study of Late Antique and Early Medieval Monasticism
Co-Sponsoring Organization(s): Syracuse Univ.
Monks and Saints: The Veneration of Relics in Early Medieval Monasteries II: Carolingian and Post-Carolingian
Contact Person: Albrecht Diem
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Network for the Study of Late Antique and Early Medieval Monasticism
Co-Sponsoring Organization(s): Syracuse Univ.
Monumental Crucifixes: Histories, Materials, and Meanings
Contact Person: Marietta Cambareri
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Cleveland Museum of Art
Co-Sponsoring Organization(s): Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Murders, Mishaps, and Martyrs in Medieval Ireland
Contact Person: Maire Johnson
Principal Sponsoring Organization: American Society of Irish Medieval Studies (ASIMS)
Co-Sponsoring Organization(s): MARTRAE: An International Network Dedicated to Research on Martyrologies, Martyrs, and the Cult of Saints
Music Theory and Practice
Contact Person: Gillian Gower
Contact Person: Lucia Marchi
Contact Person: Luisa Nardini
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Musicology at Kalamazoo
Musical Craft, Composition, and Improvisation
Contact Person: Gillian Gower
Contact Person: Lucia Marchi
Contact Person: Luisa Nardini
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Musicology at Kalamazoo
Musical Intertextuality and Intratextuality
Contact Person: Gillian Gower
Contact Person: Lucia Marchi
Contact Person: Luisa Nardini
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Musicology at Kalamazoo
Musical Margins and Migrations
Contact Person: Gillian Gower
Contact Person: Lucia Marchi
Contact Person: Luisa Nardini
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Musicology at Kalamazoo
Musical Medievalism
Contact Person: Gillian Gower
Contact Person: Lucia Marchi
Contact Person: Luisa Nardini
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Musicology at Kalamazoo
Neither Here Nor There: The In-Betweenness of Venice in Late Medieval Pilgrims' Accounts
Contact Person: Toni Veneri
Neoplatonism and Mystical Theology in the Late Middle Ages
Contact Person: Michael Moore
Principal Sponsoring Organization: American Cusanus Society
Co-Sponsoring Organization(s): Jean Gerson Society
New Approaches to Anglo-Saxon Glosses and Glossaries
Contact Person: Dylan Wilkerson
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Dictionary of Old English (DOE)
Co-Sponsoring Organization(s): Epinal-Erfurt Glossary Editing Project
New Directions in Plague Studies
Contact Person: Phil Slavin ; philip.slavin@stir.ac.uk
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Medieval Association for Rural Studies (MARS)
New Research in Medieval German Studies I: Gender, Codex, Authorship
Contact Person: Evelyn Meyer ; evelyn.meyer@slu.edu
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Contact Person: Joseph Sullivan ; jsullivan@ou.edu
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Society for Medieval Germanic Studies (SMGS)
New Research in Medieval German Studies II: Syncretism and Innovative Practices
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Contact Person: Joseph Sullivan ; jsullivan@ou.edu
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Society for Medieval Germanic Studies (SMGS)
New Research in Medieval German Studies III: Medieval German Literature and Its Global Context
Contact Person: Evelyn Meyer ; evelyn.meyer@slu.edu
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Contact Person: Joseph Sullivan ; jsullivan@ou.edu
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Society for Medieval Germanic Studies (SMGS)
New Research in Medieval Parish Church Art and Architecture I: Pilgrimage and Movement in the Medieval Parish Church
Contact Person: Sarah Blick ; blicks@kenyon.edu
New Research in Medieval Parish Church Art and Architecture II: Paintings and Worship in Medieval English Parish Churches
Contact Person: Sarah Blick ; blicks@kenyon.edu
New Research in Medieval Parish Church Art and Architecture III: Placement, Identity, and Trade in Medieval Parish Churches
Contact Person: Sarah Blick ; blicks@kenyon.edu
New Voices in Early Drama Studies
Contact Person: Emma Solberg
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society (MRDS)
New Voices in Medieval Feminist Scholarship
Contact Person: Kersti Francis
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship (SMFS)
New Voices on Early Medieval England I
Contact Person: Chelsea Shields-Más ; shieldsmasc@oldwestbury.edu
Principal Sponsoring Organization: International Society for the Study of Early Medieval England
New Work by Young Celtic Studies Scholars
Contact Person: Frederick Suppe ; fsuppe@gmail.com
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Celtic Studies Association of North America
Nineteenth-/Twentieth-/Twenty-First-Century Medievalisms
Contact Person: Daniel Najork
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Special
Noble Women in Latin Christian Societies to ca. 1520
Contact Person: D'Arcy Boulton
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Seigneurie: The International Society for the Study of the Nobility, Lordship, and Knighthood
Northumbrian Connections, ca. 720
Contact Person: Sharon Rowley ; srowley@cnu.edu
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Christopher Newport Univ.
Object and Affect in Anglo-Saxon Texts
Contact Person: Maggie Heeschen
Contact Person: Andrea Waldrep
Contact Person: Karen Soto
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Center for Medieval Studies, Univ. of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Old English Studies in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: In Memory of Helen Damico I
Contact Person: Timothy Graham
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Institute for Medieval Studies, Univ. of New Mexico
Co-Sponsoring Organization(s): Richard Rawlinson Center
Old Norse-Icelandic Studies
Contact Person: Jeffrey Turco
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Fiske Icelandic Collection, Cornell Univ. Library
Orality and Authority in Early Medieval England
Contact Person: Rebecca Mouser
Orientalizing the Occident? The East as a Method
Contact Person: Carolyn Scott ; cscott@mail.ncku.edu.tw
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Taiwan Association of Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies (TACMRS)
Orientations: Gender and Sexuality in Space-Time
Contact Person: Cary Howie
Contact Person: Zachary Engledow
Principal Sponsoring Organization: BABEL Working Group
Co-Sponsoring Organization(s): Society for the Study of Homosexuality in the Middle Ages (SSHMA)
Orientations: Queer, Trans, Ace, and Beyond I
Contact Person: Zachary Engledow
Contact Person: Cary Howie
Principal Sponsoring Organization: BABEL Working Group
Co-Sponsoring Organization(s): Society for the Study of Homosexuality in the Middle Ages (SSHMA)
Outer Limits of Identity: The Monstrous in the Iberian World
Contact Person: Matthew Desing ; desin001@umn.edu
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Center for Inter-American and Border Studies, Univ. of Texas-El Paso
Outlaw Epistemologies
Contact Person: Melissa Elmes
Principal Sponsoring Organization: International Association for Robin Hood Studies (IARHS)
Ovid and His Heirs at Court
Contact Person: Susanne Hafner ; hafner@fordham.edu
Principal Sponsoring Organization: International Courtly Literature Society (ICLS), North American Branch
Co-Sponsoring Organization(s): Societas Ovidiana
Ovid's Transformations in the Middle Ages
Contact Person: William Little ; little.447@osu.edu
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Societas Ovidiana
Papers by Undergraduates I
Contact Person: Richard Nicholas ; rnicholas@stfrancis.edu
Perceptions of Environmental Change in the Medieval World
Contact Person: Abigail Agresta
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Environmental History Network for the Middle Ages (ENFORMA)
Performativity and Constructing Masculinity in the Literature of the German Middle Ages
Contact Person: Evelyn Meyer ; evelyn.meyer@slu.edu
Contact Person: Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand ; hellenbranda@appstate.edu
Contact Person: Joseph Sullivan ; jsullivan@ou.edu
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Society for Medieval Germanic Studies (SMGS)
Co-Sponsoring Organization(s): Oswald-von-Wolkenstein-Gesellschaft
Performing Joan: Interpreting the Maid on Screen, on Stage, and in the Streets
Contact Person: Tara Smithson ; tsmithson@saintmarys.edu
Principal Sponsoring Organization: International Joan of Arc Society/Société Internationale de l'étude de Jeanne d'Arc
Peripheral Texts in Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts
Contact Person: Kees Dekker
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Richard Rawlinson Center
Persuasive Voices: Gender, Disputes, and Communities in Medieval France (Session in Honor of Sharon Farmer)
Contact Person: Richard Barton
Philosophical Themes and Issues in Malory's World
Contact Person: Felicia Nimue Ackerman
Plague Ecologies
Contact Person: Nukhet Varlik
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Contagions: Society for Historic Infectious Disease Studies
Playing with Game Theory I: Reading Games in Medieval Culture
Contact Person: Sarah Sprouse ; ssprouse@wtamu.edu
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Game Cultures Society
Playing with Game Theory II: Parks and Recreation: Experiencing Medieval Games
Contact Person: Sarah Sprouse ; ssprouse@wtamu.edu
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Game Cultures Society
Poets and Astronomers
Contact Person: Michelle Karnes
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Studies in the Age of Chaucer
Post-Medieval Arthuriana
Queering Women of Medieval Scandinavia and Iceland
Contact Person: Graham Drake
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Society for the Study of Homosexuality in the Middle Ages (SSHMA)
Questioning Mysticism
Contact Person: Erik Alder
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Ibero-Medieval Association of North America (IMANA)
Quo vadis? Medieval Italian Sculpture Studies in the New Millennium: In Honor of Dorothy F. Glass I
Contact Person: Francesco Gangemi
Contact Person: Alison Perchuk
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Italian Art Society
Race and Its Historiography in Medieval Iberian Studies
Contact Person: Michelle Hamilton ; hamilton@umn.edu
Contact Person: Linde Brocato
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Ibero-Medieval Association of North America (IMANA)
Co-Sponsoring Organization(s): La corónica: A Journal of Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Race and Raza in the Iberian Middle Ages I: Within and Before
Contact Person: Pamela Patton
Principal Sponsoring Organization: American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain (AARHMS)
Co-Sponsoring Organization(s): Texas Medieval Association (TEMA)
Race and Raza in the Iberian Middle Ages II: Without and Beyond
Contact Person: Pamela Patton
Principal Sponsoring Organization: American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain (AARHMS)
Co-Sponsoring Organization(s): Texas Medieval Association (TEMA)
Re-Centering North Africa in the Middle Ages
Contact Person: Mark Tizzoni
Reading Women in Old English Texts
Reassessing the Matter of the Greenwood
Contact Person: Alexander Kaufman ; alkaufman@bsu.edu
Principal Sponsoring Organization: International Association for Robin Hood Studies (IARHS)
Reception of the Church Fathers in Medieval Exegesis
Contact Person: Franklin Harkins
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Society for the Study of the Bible in the Middle Ages (SSBMA)
Rediscovering Hoccleve
Contact Person: Arwen Taylor
Principal Sponsoring Organization: International Hoccleve Society
Reformation I: Voice, Persona, and Witnessing
Contact Person: Maureen Thum ; mthum@umich.edu
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Society for Reformation Research
Reformation II: History, Biography, and Resistance in the Reformation
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Principal Sponsoring Organization: Society for Reformation Research
Reformation III: Politics, Science, and Polemics in the Reformation
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Principal Sponsoring Organization: Society for Reformation Research
Reimagining "the Middle Ages"
Contact Person: Miranda Wilcox
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Medieval Association of the Pacific
Reimagining the Bible in the Middle Ages
Contact Person: Jeanette Patterson
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Mediaevalia: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Medieval Studies Worldwide
Religious Priorities in Medieval London
Contact Person: Caroline Barron
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Medieval and Tudor London Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, London
Remembering Robert Mark and Andrew Tallon II: Interdisciplinarity in Studying Gothic
Contact Person: Robert Bork
Principal Sponsoring Organization: AVISTA: The Association Villard de Honnecourt for the Interdisciplinary Study of Medieval Technology, Science, and Art
Remembering Robert Mark and Andrew Tallon III: Gothic Structure
Contact Person: Robert Bork
Principal Sponsoring Organization: AVISTA: The Association Villard de Honnecourt for the Interdisciplinary Study of Medieval Technology, Science, and Art
Remembering Robert Mark and Andrew Tallon IV: Notre-Dame in Paris
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Principal Sponsoring Organization: AVISTA: The Association Villard de Honnecourt for the Interdisciplinary Study of Medieval Technology, Science, and Art
Representations of Scholarly Labor
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Principal Sponsoring Organization: Medieval Studies Program, Yale Univ.
Reproductive Cultures: New Approaches to the Facsimile
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Rethinking "Lesser" Arthuriana
Contact Person: Danielle Taylor
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Carleton-Univ. of Ottawa Medieval and Renaissance Studies Society
Revealing the Unknown I: Scryers and Scrying in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period
Contact Person: Sanne de Laat
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Societas Magica
Co-Sponsoring Organization(s): Research Group on Manuscript Evidence
Revealing the Unknown II: Sortilège, Bibliomancy, and Divination
Contact Person: Phillip Bernhardt-House ; phillip.bernhardthouse@gmail.com
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Societas Magica
Co-Sponsoring Organization(s): Research Group on Manuscript Evidence
Romance and the Animal Turn I: Romance and Ecofeminism
Contact Person: Tim Wingard
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Medieval Romance Society
Romance and the Animal Turn II: Romance and Queer Ecology
Contact Person: Tim Wingard
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Medieval Romance Society
Romance and the Animal Turn III: Romance and Posthumanism
Contact Person: Tim Wingard
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Medieval Romance Society
Rulership at Kalamazoo I: Rethinking the Role of the Consort (Male and Female)
Contact Person: Valerie Schutte
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Royal Studies Network
Rulership at Kalamazoo II: Representing and Remembering Medieval Monarchies
Contact Person: Valerie Schutte
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Royal Studies Network
Saint Gertrude the Great: Mystic, Writer, Theologian
Contact Person: Judith Sutera ; jsutera@mountosb.org
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Magistra: A Journal of Women's Spirituality in History
Co-Sponsoring Organization(s): Committee for the Nomination of St. Gertrude as a Doctor of the Church
Saintly Wounds
Contact Person: Stephanie Grace-Petinos ; stephanie.grace.petinos@gmail.com
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Hagiography Society
Saints and Animals
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Principal Sponsoring Organization: Hagiography Society
Saints Online: Using Digital Methods to Investigate the Cults of Saints
Contact Person: Sara Ellis Nilsson
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Mapping Lived Religion/Kartläggning av religion i vardagen, Linnéuniv.
Co-Sponsoring Organization(s): Centrum för digital humaniora, Göteborgs Univ.
Scholasticism and the Sacraments: Sacramental Anthropology
Contact Person: Reginald Lynch
Science and the Study of Medieval Manuscripts
Contact Person: Raymond Clemens
Contact Person: Gina Hurley
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale Univ.
Seal the Real I
Contact Person: Mildred Budny
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Research Group on Manuscript Evidence
Shakespeare and Science Fiction/Fantasy
Contact Person: Dianne Berg
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Shakespeare at Kalamazoo
Sidney at Kalamazoo: The Sidneys and Their Circles I
Contact Person: Kathryn DeZur
Principal Sponsoring Organization: International Sidney Society
Smaragdus of Saint-Mihiel and the Carolingian Reform Project
Contact Person: Matthieu van der Meer
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Dept. of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, Syracuse Univ.
So You Want to Be a Librarian: The Paths, Possibilities, and the Pitfalls of Careers in LIS
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Contact Person: Julia Schneider ; jschneid@nd.edu
Principal Sponsoring Organization: International Society of Medievalist Librarians
Spain as Egypt's Alternative: Impacts and Influences of Translated Magical Texts
Contact Person: Veronica Menaldi
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Societas Magica
Co-Sponsoring Organization(s): Ibero-Medieval Association of North America (IMANA)
Spenser at Kalamazoo I
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Contact Person: Jennifer Vaught
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Principal Sponsoring Organization: Spenser at Kalamazoo
Spenser at Kalamazoo III: The Kathleen Williams Lecture
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Principal Sponsoring Organization: Spenser at Kalamazoo
Status, Rank, or Office? Social Boundaries in England, 900-1200 I
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Contact Person: Mary Blanchard
Studies in Kingship
Studies on Isaac of Stella
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Principal Sponsoring Organization: Center for Cistercian and Monastic Studies, Western Michigan Univ.
Co-Sponsoring Organization(s): Sources Chrétiennes
Subjects of Violence: Women, Resistance, and Consent in Medieval Literature
Contact Person: Sarah Baechle
Contact Person: Elizaveta Strakhov
Contact Person: Carissa Harris
Textual Histories of the House of Aviz
Contact Person: Ross Karlan
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Ibero-Medieval Association of North America (IMANA)
The Breath of All That Lives: New Research in Medieval Jewish Art I
Contact Person: Elina Gertsman
The Canon Walks into a Bar: Humor in Medieval Iberian Literature
Contact Person: Paul Larson
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Ibero-Medieval Association of North America (IMANA)
The Cistercians in Scandinavia
Contact Person: Tyler Sergent
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Center for Cistercian and Monastic Studies, Western Michigan Univ.
The CLASP Project: Reading Practice in Old English Verse
Contact Person: Rachel Burns
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Consolidated Library of Anglo-Saxon Poetry
The Cultures of Armenia and Georgia
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Principal Sponsoring Organization: Rare Book Dept., The Free Library of Philadelphia
The Early Medieval Economy: New Directions
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Principal Sponsoring Organization: Framing the Late Antique and Early Medieval Economy (FLAME)
The English outside of England
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Principal Sponsoring Organization: Society of the White Hart
The Final Frontier: Embodied Space in the Works of the Pearl-Poet
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Principal Sponsoring Organization: Pearl-Poet Society
The Global North: Medieval Scandinavia on the Borders of Europe
Contact Person: Laura Tillery
Contact Person: Ingrid Nødseth
Principal Sponsoring Organization: International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA)
The Holy Land
The Legacy of Otto Ege
Contact Person: Liz Hebbard
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale Univ.
The Literary and Philosophical Influence of Boethius in the Middle Ages
Contact Person: Philip Phillips ; philip.phillips@mtsu.edu
Principal Sponsoring Organization: International Boethius Society
The Materiality of Knowledge in the Middle Ages
Contact Person: Anna Majeski
Contact Person: Austin Powell
The Medieval Tradition of Natural Law I
Contact Person: Harvey Brown ; hbrown2@uwo.ca
The Preaching of Bishops and Secular Clergy
Contact Person: William Campbell ; whc7@pitt.edu
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Episcopus: Society for the Study of Bishops and Secular Clergy in the Middle Ages
Co-Sponsoring Organization(s): International Medieval Sermon Studies Society
The Question of Belief
Contact Person: Lauren Mancia
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Medieval Studies Certificate Program, Graduate Center, CUNY
The Sacred and the Secular in the Monastic Chapter Room
Contact Person: Charles Hilken
The Social Dynamics of Religious Dissent I: Gender, Family, and Community
Contact Person: Robert Shaw
Contact Person: David Zbíral
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Centrum pro digitální výzkum náboženství, Masarykova Univ.
The Social Dynamics of Religious Dissent II: The Social Impact of Inquisitions
Contact Person: Robert Shaw
Contact Person: David Zbíral
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Centrum pro digitální výzkum náboženství, Masarykova Univ.
The Song of Songs: The Heart of Cistercian Spirituality
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Principal Sponsoring Organization: Center for Cistercian and Monastic Studies, Western Michigan Univ.
Co-Sponsoring Organization(s): Cistercian Publications, Liturgical Press
The Syndergaard Ballad Session: Motives, Motifs, and Monsters
Contact Person: Lynn Wollstadt
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Kommission für Volksdichtung
The Theology of Medieval Women Mystics
Contact Person: Judith Sutera ; jsutera@mountosb.org
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Magistra: A Journal of Women's Spirituality in History
Co-Sponsoring Organization(s): Committee for the Nomination of St. Gertrude as a Doctor of the Church
The Trojan War in the Middle Ages
Theories on Monasticism in the Twelfth Century
Contact Person: Aage Rydstrøm-Poulsen ; aarp@uni.gl
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Center for Cistercian and Monastic Studies, Western Michigan Univ.
The Pearl-Poet: Modern Connections, Adaptations, and Evolutions
Contact Person: Ashley Bartelt
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Pearl-Poet Society
Thomas Aquinas I
Contact Person: John Boyle ; jfboyle@stthomas.edu
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Thomas Aquinas Society
Thomistic Philosophy I
Contact Person: Steven Jensen
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Center for Thomistic Studies, Univ. of St. Thomas, Houston
Tolkien and Se Wyrm
Contact Person: Christopher Vaccaro ; cvaccaro@uvm.edu
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Tolkien at Kalamazoo
Tolkien and Manuscript Studies
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Tolkien's Chaucer
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Principal Sponsoring Organization: Tolkien at Kalamazoo
Tolkien's Medicinal Medieval World: Illness and Healing in Middle-earth
Contact Person: Annie Brust
Topics in Medieval Law
Towards a Global Understanding: Medieval Prayer in Manuscript Contexts
Contact Person: Andrew Rivard Hill
Translation and Translation Theory
Treating Animals: Veterinary Science in the Middle Ages
Contact Person: Bethany Christiansen
Contact Person: Aylin Malcolm
Trust, Authenticity, and Imitation in Long-Distance Trade Coinages
Contact Person: David Yoon ; dyoon@numismatics.org
Principal Sponsoring Organization: American Numismatic Society
Universally Shared Themes, Topics, and Motifs in Eastern and Western Medieval Literature I
Contact Person: Albrecht Classen
Universities in Central Europe
Contact Person: Peter Dobek
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Dept. of History, Univ. Jagielloński
Urban and Rural Revolts in the Fourteenth Century
Contact Person: Andrew Larsen
Principal Sponsoring Organization: 14th Century Society
Vestiges of Movement in the Iberian Peninsula
Contact Person: Yasmine Beale-Rivaya
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Texas Medieval Association (TEMA)
Violating Sacred Space
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Contact Person: Kristen Herdman
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Medieval Studies Program, Yale Univ.
Visual and Verbal Portraits in Manuscripts and Printed Books
Contact Person: Martha Driver ; mdriver@pace.edu
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Early Book Society
Voice and/as Character
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Principal Sponsoring Organization: Chaucer MetaPage
Voice in Medieval Occitania
Contact Person: Mary Franklin-Brown
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Société Guilhem IX
Co-Sponsoring Organization(s): Exemplaria: Medieval / Early Modern / Theory
Water and Power: Studies in Water Management in Honor of the Work of Sharon Farmer
Contact Person: Abigail Dowling
What Makes an English Book English?
Contact Person: Martha Driver ; mdriver@pace.edu
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Early Book Society
Whatever Happened to Baby Cain? Ambiguous Childhood in Medieval Literature I: Childhood Unbound
Contact Person: Alexandra Claridge
Whatever Happened to Baby Cain? Ambiguous Childhood in Medieval Literature II: Childhood Tamed
Contact Person: Alexandra Claridge
Witness, Reflection, Conversion
Contact Person: Katherine Walter
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association
Witnessing the Canonization Process
Contact Person: Barbara Zimbalist
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Hagiography Society
Women in Viking-Age Ireland: Archaeological Approaches
Contact Person: Mary Valante
Women's Networks in the Early Medieval North Atlantic
Contact Person: Rebecca Straple-Sovers ; rebeccastraple@gmail.com
Contact Person: Erin Sweany
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Feminist Renaissance in Early Medieval English Studies (FREMES)
Writing History I
Writing History II
Roundtables
La corónica International Book Award I: Session in Honor of S. J. Pearce for The Andalusí Literary Intellectual Tradition: The Role of Arabic in Judah ibn Tibbon's Ethical Will (Indiana University Press, 2017) (A Roundtable)
Contact Person: Michelle Hamilton ; hamilton@umn.edu
Principal Sponsoring Organization: La corónica: A Journal of Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
La corónica International Book Award II: Session in Honor of Heather Bamford for Cultures of the Fragment: Uses of the Iberian Manuscript, 1100-1600 (University of Toronto Press, 2018) (A Roundtable)
Contact Person: Michelle Hamilton ; hamilton@umn.edu
Principal Sponsoring Organization: La corónica: A Journal of Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
The 13th Warrior: A Roundtable Discussion
Contact Person: Nicole Eddy
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
Academic Labor Justice in Medieval Studies (A Roundtable)
Contact Person: Afrodesia McCannon
Contact Person: Julie Orlemanski ; julieorlemanski@uchicago.edu
Principal Sponsoring Organization: BABEL Working Group
Co-Sponsoring Organization(s): Medievalists of Color
Acknowledging Loss and Building Anew: The Meanings of Medieval Mourning (A Roundtable)
Contact Person: Mary Dzon
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Univ. of Tennessee-Knoxville
Adam J. Davis, The Medieval Economy of Salvation: Charity, Commerce, and the Rise of the Hospital (Cornell University Press) (A Roundtable Discussion)
Contact Person: Alex Novikoff
Albert the Great, On Job: A Roundtable Discussion of a New Translation
Contact Person: Franklin Harkins
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Society for the Study of the Bible in the Middle Ages (SSBMA)
Arthurian Wastelands (A Roundtable)
Contact Person: K. Whetter ; kevin.whetter@acadiau.ca
Principal Sponsoring Organization: International Arthurian Society, North American Branch (IAS/NAB)
Building Medieval Communities on Campus: The Student Organization (A Roundtable)
Contact Person: Reid Weber
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Lone Medievalist
Christopher Tolkien, Medievalist (1924-2020) (A Roundtable)
Contact Person: Kristine Swank
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic, Univ. of Glasgow
Crises and Continuity: Teaching the End of the Middle Ages (A Roundtable)
Contact Person: Sarah Ifft Decker
Principal Sponsoring Organization: 14th Century Society
David Bevington: In Memoriam Amici Nostri (A Roundtable)
Contact Person: Carolyn Coulson ; ccoulson2@su.edu
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society (MRDS)
Describing Devotion (A Roundtable)
Contact Person: Beth Williamson ; beth.williamson@bristol.ac.uk
Digital Tools for Research and Analysis (A Roundtable)
Contact Person: Jared Hartt
Principal Sponsoring Organization: International Machaut Society
Disability as Language: Rethinking Communication in the Middle Ages (A Roundtable)
Contact Person: Tory Pearman ; pearmatv@miamioh.edu
Contact Person: Gregory Carrier
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Society for the Study of Disability in the Middle Ages
Diversifying the Medieval Studies Syllabus (A Roundtable)
Contact Person: Renée Trilling
Principal Sponsoring Organization: CARA (Committee on Centers and Regional Associations, Medieval Academy of America)
Embodied Ecocriticisms (A Roundtable)
Contact Person: Heide Estes
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Medieval Ecocriticisms
Embodied Scholarship: Personal Narrative and Critical Methodology (A Roundtable)
Contact Person: Sarah Baechle
Contact Person: Carissa Harris
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Dept. of English, Temple Univ.
Environment and Apocalypse: Medieval and Modern Ecologies (A Roundtable)
Contact Person: David Coley ; david_coley@sfu.ca
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Oecologies: Inhabiting Premodern Worlds
Feminist Critical Methodologies for the Early Middle Ages (A Roundtable)
Contact Person: Rebecca Straple-Sovers ; rebeccastraple@gmail.com
Contact Person: Erin Sweany
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Feminist Renaissance in Early Medieval English Studies (FREMES)
Form and Structure in the Cotton Nero A.x Manuscript (A Roundtable)
Contact Person: Ashley Bartelt
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Pearl-Poet Society
Gender and the Law: In Honor of Sally Livingston (A Roundtable)
Contact Person: Linda Mitchell
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship (SMFS)
Henry's Revenge? Becket at 851 III: A Roundtable on the Legacy of Becket
Contact Person: Cary Nederman ; cary-j-nederman@tamu.edu
Iberomedieval Studies: Taking Stock, Moving Forward (A Roundtable)
Contact Person: Linde Brocato
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Ibero-Medieval Association of North America (IMANA)
Impropriety and Notoriety in Courtly Society (A Roundtable)
Contact Person: Shawn Cooper
Principal Sponsoring Organization: International Courtly Literature Society (ICLS), North American Branch
In Memory of Catherine Innes-Parker (A Roundtable)
Contact Person: Margaret Healy-Varley
Principal Sponsoring Organization: International Anchoritic Society
Co-Sponsoring Organization(s): Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship (SMFS)
Lost in Translation: Women and Beowulf (A Roundtable)
Contact Person: Emily McLemore
Many Hands: Resources for Digital Paleography (A Roundtable)
Contact Person: Benjamin Albritton
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Stanford Univ.
Co-Sponsoring Organization(s): Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML)
Medieval Proverbs: Exchanges, Clashes, and Transactions (A Roundtable)
Contact Person: Sarah Anderson
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Early Proverb Society (EPS)
Co-Sponsoring Organization(s): Dept. of English, Princeton Univ.
Medieval Sermon Studies I: Medieval Sermons in the Modern Classroom (A Roundtable)
Contact Person: Holly Johnson
Principal Sponsoring Organization: International Medieval Sermon Studies Society
Medieval Studies and the Caribbean I (A Roundtable)
Contact Person: Marian Polhill ; marian.polhill1@upr.edu
Contact Person: Marla Pagán-Mattos
Medieval Teachers and Students: A Roundtable in Honor of Arthur Groos
Contact Person: Alexander Sager
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Graduate Program in Medieval Studies, Cornell Univ.
Co-Sponsoring Organization(s): Society for Medieval Germanic Studies (SMGS)
Medieval Virtualities (A Roundtable)
Contact Person: Danielle Allor
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Program in Medieval Studies, Rutgers Univ.
Medievalist as Auctor: Creative Readings (A Roundtable)
Contact Person: Erin Wagner
Medievalist Collaborations of Tenured and Adjunct Faculty (A Roundtable)
Contact Person: Timothy Jordan
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Medieval Association of the Midwest (MAM)
MedievAltAc: Thriving as a Non-Traditional/Contingent/Independent Scholar (A Roundtable)
Contact Person: Kisha Tracy ; ktracy3@fitchburgstate.edu
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Lone Medievalist
Mind the Gap: Bridging Departments and Disciplines in the Digital Humanities (A Roundtable)
Contact Person: Helen Davies
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Lazarus Project
Music and Inclusive Pedagogy (A Roundtable)
Contact Person: Gillian Gower
Contact Person: Lucia Marchi
Contact Person: Luisa Nardini
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Musicology at Kalamazoo
Nasty Boys: Troublemakers and Rabble-Rousers in Medieval Literature (A Roundtable)
Contact Person: Maggie Myers ; myersm2@xavier.edu
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Literary, Interdisciplinary, Theory, and Culture Organization (LITCO), Purdue Univ.
New Books Roundtable in Germanic Studies
Contact Person: Evelyn Meyer ; evelyn.meyer@slu.edu
Contact Person: Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand ; hellenbranda@appstate.edu
Contact Person: Joseph Sullivan ; jsullivan@ou.edu
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Society for Medieval Germanic Studies (SMGS)
New Perspectives on Gender and Difference in Honor of Sharon Farmer (A Roundtable)
Contact Person: Tanya Miller
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Medieval Foremothers Society
Co-Sponsoring Organization(s): Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship (SMFS)
New Ways to Teach Medieval Medicine (A Roundtable)
Contact Person: William York
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Medica: The Society for the Study of Healing in the Middle Ages
Obscenity and Gender in Medieval Pedagogies (A Roundtable)
Contact Person: Melissa Elmes
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship (SMFS)
Old Occitan Language and Literature in Modern Media (A Roundtable)
Contact Person: Mary Franklin-Brown
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Société Guilhem IX
Podcasting about the Middle Ages (A Roundtable)
Contact Person: Peter Konieczny
Principal Sponsoring Organization: medievalists.net
Remembering Robert Mark and Andrew Tallon I: Personal Perspectives (A Roundtable)
Contact Person: Robert Bork
Principal Sponsoring Organization: AVISTA: The Association Villard de Honnecourt for the Interdisciplinary Study of Medieval Technology, Science, and Art
Saving the Day for Medievalists: Accessing Medieval-Themed Comics in the Twenty-First Century I: Comics and the Classroom (A Roundtable)
Contact Person: Michael Torregrossa
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Medieval Comics Project
Co-Sponsoring Organization(s): Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture
Saving the Day for Medievalists: Accessing Medieval-Themed Comics in the Twenty-First Century II: Comics Scholarship (A Roundtable)
Contact Person: Michael Torregrossa
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Medieval Comics Project
Co-Sponsoring Organization(s): Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture
Sensorial Experience of Anchoritic Life (A Roundtable)
Contact Person: Michelle Sauer
Principal Sponsoring Organization: International Anchoritic Society
Source Study and Undergraduate Research (A Roundtable)
Contact Person: Benjamin Weber
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Sources of Old English and Anglo-Latin Literary Culture Project (SOEALLC)
Teaching Medieval Topics beyond the Seminar Table (A Roundtable)
Contact Person: Kaylin O'Dell
Teaching the Medieval Mediterranean (A Roundtable)
Contact Person: Gale Sigal ; sigal@wfu.edu
Principal Sponsoring Organization: TEAMS (Teaching Association for Medieval Studies)
Teaching the Middle Ages with Inclusivity and Diversity (A Roundtable)
Contact Person: Jonathan Correa-Reyes
Contact Person: Jacob Doss
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Medieval Academy Graduate Student Committee
Teaching the Saints (A Roundtable)
Contact Person: Lydia Walker
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Hagiography Society
The Breath of All That Lives: New Research in Medieval Jewish Art IV (A Roundtable)
Contact Person: Elina Gertsman
The Ludic Outlaw: Medievalism, Games, Sport, and Play (A Roundtable)
Contact Person: Gayle Fallon
Principal Sponsoring Organization: International Association for Robin Hood Studies (IARHS)
The Many Faces of Lunete in the Arthurian Tradition (A Roundtable)
Contact Person: Evelyn Meyer ; evelyn.meyer@slu.edu
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, St. Louis Univ.
The Monstrous Woman and the Norms of Civility (A Roundtable)
Contact Person: Ann Martinez
Principal Sponsoring Organization: BABEL Working Group
Co-Sponsoring Organization(s): Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship (SMFS)
The Multivalent Voice: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Gender, Speech, and Performance in Medieval France (A Roundtable)
Contact Person: Rachel Golden ; rmgolden@utk.edu
Contact Person: Katherine Kong ; kkong1@gmail.com
The Status of Medievalist Film Studies Today (A Roundtable)
Contact Person: Usha Vishnuvajjala
Principal Sponsoring Organization: International Society for the Study of Medievalism
Theory, Medieval Studies, and the New University (A Roundtable)
Contact Person: Jessica Rosenfeld ; jrosenfe@wustl.edu
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Exemplaria: Medieval / Early Modern / Theory
To Better Channel the Dead: Toward a Historical Anthropology of Islamic Magic (A Roundtable)
Contact Person: Matthew Melvin-Koushki
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Societas Magica
Tolkien's Paratexts, Appendices, Annals, and Marginalia (A Roundtable)
Contact Person: Christopher Vaccaro ; cvaccaro@uvm.edu
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Tolkien at Kalamazoo
Translating Marie de France: Challenges and Opportunities (A Roundtable)
Contact Person: Ronald Cook
Principal Sponsoring Organization: International Marie de France Society
Translation Strategies for Capturing Feeling and Style (A Roundtable)
Contact Person: Kelly Gibson ; kgibson@udallas.edu
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Dallas Medieval Texts and Translations
Panel Discussions
"Can These Bones Come to Life?" I: The Society for Creative Anarchronism, a Problematic Medievalism? (A Panel Discussion)
Contact Person: Kenneth Mondschein
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Societas Johannis Higginsis
Approaches to Hybridity in the Epic Genre (A Panel Discussion)
Contact Person: Ana Grinberg ; grinberg@auburn.edu
Contact Person: Rebeca Castellanos
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Société Rencesvals, American-Canadian Branch
Arthurian Literature between Malory and Tennyson (A Panel Discussion)
Contact Person: Christopher Berard
Principal Sponsoring Organization: International Arthurian Society, North American Branch (IAS/NAB)
Co-Sponsoring Organization(s): Arthurian Literature
Brevia on Bishops and the Secular Clergy (A Panel Discussion)
Contact Person: Evan Gatti ; egatti@elon.edu
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Episcopus: Society for the Study of Bishops and Secular Clergy in the Middle Ages
Concepts and Practices of Performance in Medieval European Culture (A Panel Discussion)
Contact Person: Sarah Brazil
Deadscapes: Wastelands, Necropoli, and Other Tolkien-Inspired Places of Death, Decay, and Corruption (A Panel Discussion)
Contact Person: Geoffrey Elliott
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Tales after Tolkien Society
Death in the Holy Life (A Panel Discussion)
Contact Person: Jessica Barr
Encounters during the Period of Crusades: History through Objects (A Panel Discussion)
Contact Person: Cathleen Fleck
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Program in Medieval Studies, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
Fragments and the Digital Analysis of Chant Transmission (A Panel Discussion)
Contact Person: Debra Lacoste
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Cantus: A Database for Latin Ecclesiastical Chant
Iberian Travelers in the Mediterranean (A Panel Discussion)
Contact Person: Michelle Hamilton ; hamilton@umn.edu
Principal Sponsoring Organization: La corónica: A Journal of Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Out of Place / Out of Time (A Panel Discussion)
Contact Person: Thom Murphy
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Medieval and Renaissance Graduate Interdisciplinary Network (MARGIN), New York Univ.
Pandemic Pedagogies: Teaching Plagues across Time, Cultures, and Disciplines (A Panel Discussion)
Contact Person: Thomas Goodmann ; tgoodmann@miami.edu
Principal Sponsoring Organization: TEAMS (Teaching Association for Medieval Studies)
Performing Medieval Drama in the Twenty-First Century (A Panel Discussion)
Contact Person: Kyle Thomas
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society (MRDS)
Race and Transgender in the Global Middle Ages (A Panel Discussion)
Contact Person: Gabrielle Bychowski
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship (SMFS)
Religious Thinking in Secular Literature (A Panel Discussion)
Contact Person: Mae Velloso-Lyons
Representing Medieval Iberia: Fiction and Non-Fiction beyond the Monograph (A Panel Discussion)
Contact Person: Lucy Pick
Principal Sponsoring Organization: American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain (AARHMS)
Responding to Bernard McGinn's The Great Cistercian Mystics: A History (A Panel Discussion)
Contact Person: Brian McGuire
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Center for Cistercian and Monastic Studies, Western Michigan Univ.
Co-Sponsoring Organization(s): Cistercian Publications, Liturgical Press
Rethinking Sodomy: Premodern Perspectives (A Panel Discussion)
Contact Person: Graham Drake
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Society for the Study of Homosexuality in the Middle Ages (SSHMA)
Taking Shape: Sculpting Monsters (A Panel Discussion)
Contact Person: Mary Leech ; mary.leech@uc.edu
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Monsters: The Experimental Association for the Research of Cryptozoology through Scholarly Theory and Practical Application (MEARCSTAPA)
Teaching Medieval Jerusalem: The City of Seventy Names and Even More Approaches (A Panel Discussion)
Contact Person: Deborah Sinnreich-Levi ; profsinnreichlevi@gmail.com
Principal Sponsoring Organization: TEAMS (Teaching Association for Medieval Studies)
The Digital Middle Ages in Ireland and Beyond (A Panel Discussion)
Contact Person: Vicky McAlister ; vmcalister@towson.edu
Principal Sponsoring Organization: American Society of Irish Medieval Studies (ASIMS)
The Ethical Dilemma of Collecting Manuscript Fragments: Loss, Gain, Opportunity, and Cost (A Panel Discussion)
Contact Person: Eric Johnson
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, The Ohio State Univ.
The Future of Digital Manuscript Libraries (A Panel Discussion)
Contact Person: Christoph Flüeler
Principal Sponsoring Organization: e-codices: Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland
The Literature of Expulsion and Defense: France and Iberia in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Eras (A Panel Discussion)
Contact Person: Thelma Fenster
With Julie Orlemanski: Fictionality and Belief in Middle English Writing (A Panel Discussion)
Contact Person: Kathryn Wagner
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Harvard English Dept. Medieval Colloquium
Xenophobia and Border Walls: Monstrous Foreigners and Polities (A Panel Discussion)
Contact Person: Ana Grinberg ; grinberg@auburn.edu
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Monsters: The Experimental Association for the Research of Cryptozoology through Scholarly Theory and Practical Application (MEARCSTAPA)
Co-Sponsoring Organization(s): Société Rencesvals, American-Canadian Branch
Yaaas, Qween: Queer(ing) Monarchies and Aristocracies in Medieval Society or Medievalism (A Panel Discussion)
Contact Person: Graham Drake
Principal Sponsoring Organization: Society for the Study of Homosexuality in the Middle Ages (SSHMA)