Call for Papers

This call for papers includes all sponsored and special sessions approved by the Program Committee for the 60th International Congress on Medieval Studies (held in a hybrid format May 810, 2025).

Proposals for papers and roundtable contributions were due Sunday, Sept. 15.

Sessions are listed here alphabetically by session title. The session's modality (in person, virtual, or hybrid) is given in parentheses after the session title. Organizer email addresses are provided if the session's organizer(s) agreed that they could be displayed.

Session Modality Key

Sessions for the 60th International Congress on Medieval Studies will be delivered in one of three possible modalities. The modality of a specific session is indicated after the session title.

In Person: attendees participate in sessions live on location at Western Michigan University's campus in Kalamazoo, MI. The speakers and audience of the session are all present in a physical room.

Virtual: attendees participate in virtual sessions live over Zoom. The speakers and audience of the session all join a Zoom session facilitated through the Confex meeting site.

Hybrid: attendees participate in sessions live, both in person on Western Michigan University's campus and virtually. Some speakers and audience members will be in a physical room on Western Michigan University's campus, but others may join virtually from around the world through Zoom. Speakers joining virtually will be projected onto a large screen at the front of the room in Kalamazoo.

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1381 After January 6th (A Roundtable) (in person)

Organizer: Katharine W. Jager (jagerk@uhd.edu) 
 

Abbey of Saint-Victor, Paris (1): Life at the Abbey of Saint-Victor (hybrid)

Organizer: Grover A. Zinn (grover.zinn@oberlin.edu) 
Organizer: Andrew Benjamin Salzmann (asalzmann@benedictine.edu) 
 

Abbey of Saint-Victor, Paris (2): Theology, Contemplative Life, and Community in the Abbey of Saint-Victor (hybrid)

Organizer: Grover A. Zinn (grover.zinn@oberlin.edu) 
Organizer: Andrew Benjamin Salzmann (asalzmann@benedictine.edu) 
 

Abbey of Saint-Victor, Paris (3): The Victorines and Others—Influences, Collaborators, Reception (in person)

Organizer: Grover A. Zinn (grover.zinn@oberlin.edu) 
Organizer: Andrew Benjamin Salzmann (asalzmann@benedictine.edu) 
 

Adaptations (1): Reuse and Retelling (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Rossell Hope Robbins Library, Univ. of Rochester
Organizer: Amanda Bohne (abohne@uic.edu) 
Organizer: Anna Siebach-Larsen (annasiebachlarsen@rochester.edu) 
Organizer: Catherine Albers-Morris
 

Adaptations (2): Adaptations in the Classroom (A Roundtable) (hybrid)

Sponsoring Organization: Rossell Hope Robbins Library, Univ. of Rochester
Sponsoring Organization: TEAMS (Teaching Association for Medieval Studies)
Organizer: Amanda Bohne (abohne@uic.edu) 
Organizer: Anna Siebach-Larsen (annasiebachlarsen@rochester.edu) 
Organizer: Catherine Albers-Morris
 

Adapting and Performing The Book of Silence: A Roundtable with the Artists (in person)

Organizer: Lofton L. Durham (lofton.durham@wmich.edu) 
 

Affectus in Twelfth-Century Cistercian Thought (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Cistercian and Monastic Studies
Organizer: Maria Gonzalo-Garcia (sr.maria@olamonastery.org) 
Organizer: Tyler Sergent (sergentf@berea.edu) 
 

Alfredian Texts and Contexts (hybrid)

Organizer: Nicole Guenther Discenza (ndiscenza@usf.edu) 
 

Animality in Medieval and Early Modern Literature (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Medieval and Renaissance Colloquium, Univ. of North Carolina–Chapel Hill
Organizer: Grace K. DiModugno
Organizer: Kara Rush
 

Animals and Anchorites (A Roundtable) (hybrid)

Sponsoring Organization: International Anchoritic Society
Organizer: Will Rogers
Organizer: Michelle M. Sauer
 

Anything and Everything Margery Kempe (A Roundtable) (virtual)

Sponsoring Organization: International Anchoritic Society
Organizer: Aimee A. Galloway
Organizer: Michelle M. Sauer
 

Apocalyptic Arthuriana (A Roundtable) (virtual)

Sponsoring Organization: Alliance for the Promotion of Research on the Matter of Britain
Sponsoring Organization: International Arthurian Society, North American Branch (IAS/NAB)
Organizer: Michael A. Torregrossa
Organizer: Joseph M. Sullivan
 

Approaches to Editing and Translation (A Roundtable) (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Dallas Medieval Texts and Translations
Organizer: Kelly Gibson (kgibson@udallas.edu) 
Organizer: Philipp W. Rosemann
 

Archaeology in the Medieval Past (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Journal of Early Medieval Northwestern Europe (JEMNE)
Organizer: Deanna Forsman
Organizer: Heather Flowers
 

Arthurian Families (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: International Arthurian Society, North American Branch (IAS/NAB)
Organizer: Joseph M. Sullivan
Organizer: Julie Human (julie.human@uky.edu) 
 

Arthurian Kingship: Queens, Kings, Lords, Military Commanders, and More (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: International Arthurian Society, North American Branch (IAS/NAB)
Sponsoring Organization: International Courtly Literature Society (ICLS), North American Branch
Organizer: Jonathan Seelye Martin (jsmart5@listu.edu) 
Organizer: Joseph M. Sullivan
Organizer: Shawn Phillip Cooper

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Bad Bodies: Materiality and Performativity in the Medieval Mediterranean (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Italian Studies@Kalamazoo
Organizer: Catherine Shepard Bloomer (cbloomer@brandeis.edu) 
Organizer: Anna Dini
 

Bede as Source (hybrid)

Sponsoring Organization: Old English Newsletter
Organizer: Sharon M. Rowley (srowley@cnu.edu) 
Organizer: Stephen J. Harris
 

Behind the Scenes of Medieval Roofs: An Overview of the Roofing Systems of Medieval Italian Churches (virtual)

Sponsoring Organization: Archaeological Research Unit (ARU), Univ. of Cyprus
Organizer: Angelo Passuello (passuello.angelo@ucy.ac.cy) 
Organizer: Michalis Olympios
 

Between Hope and Despair: Forms of Consolation in the Greater/Global Fifteenth Century (hybrid)

Sponsoring Organization: International Alain Chartier Society
Sponsoring Organization: Jean Gerson Society
Organizer: Linda Burke (lindaebb@aol.com) 
Organizer: Joan E. McRae
Organizer: Wendy Love Anderson
 

Beyond Convivencia: Jews, Muslims, and Christians in the Museum (in person)

Organizer: Abby Kornfeld
Organizer: Julie A. Harris (marfiles@comcast.net) 
 

Beyond the Very Special Episode: Teaching with Collections (A Workshop) (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Bibliographical Society of America
Sponsoring Organization: Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale Univ.
Organizer: Gina Marie Hurley
Organizer: Katherine Storm Hindley
Organizer: Agnieszka Rec
 

Birders without Borders: How Representations of Birds Interrupt Gender/Species/Genre/Period Categories (in person)

Organizer: Lexi Toufas
Organizer: Sara Petrosillo (sp220@evansville.edu) 
 

Bishops and Secular Clergy of Medieval Italy (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Episcopus: Society for the Study of Bishops and Secular Clergy in the Middle Ages
Organizer: William H. Campbell (whc7@pitt.edu) 
Organizer: Neslihan Senocak
 

Bishops, Clerics, and Digital Medievalists (A Roundtable) (hybrid)

Sponsoring Organization: Episcopus: Society for the Study of Bishops and Secular Clergy in the Middle Ages
Sponsoring Organization: Digital Medievalist
Organizer: Kalani Craig
Organizer: William H. Campbell (whc7@pitt.edu) 
Organizer: N. Kıvılcım Yavuz (N.K.Yavuz@leeds.ac.uk) 
 

Blessed Among Women: Reflections on the Virgin Mary (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Magistra: A Journal of Women's Spirituality in History
Organizer: Judith Sutera (jsutera@mountosb.org) 
 

Boccaccio's Decameron and the Persistence of the Sacred (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Italian Studies@Kalamazoo
Organizer: Alison Cornish
 

Body and Mind in Medieval Iberia (hybrid)

Sponsoring Organization: Ibero-Medieval Association of North America (IMANA)
Organizer: Wiktoria Bryzys
Organizer: Denise K. Filios
 

Body, Mind, and Matter in Medieval Scandinavia (1): New Critical Approaches to Medieval Norse Personhood (virtual)

Organizer: Mariusz Mayburd

Body, Mind, and Matter in Medieval Scandinavia (2): The Marginal and the Marginalized (virtual)

Organizer: Mariusz Mayburd
 

Borderless Borderlands: Visual Culture on the Edges of Empires (in person)

Organizer: Emmaleigh Anita Huston (eah22@fsu.edu) 
 

Breaking the Mirror: New Approaches to the Study of Medieval Images (hybrid)

Sponsoring Organization: Index of Medieval Art, Princeton Univ.
Organizer: Pamela A. Patton (ppatton@princeton.edu) 
 

Byzantine Engagement with Islam: Actors, Sources, and Their Impact on the Western View of Islam (in person)

Organizer: Manolis Ulbricht

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C. S. Lewis and the Middle Ages (1) : The Problem of Grief (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: C. S. Lewis and the Middle Ages
Organizer: Joe Ricke (jsricke@outlook.com) 
 

C. S. Lewis and the Middle Ages (2): Chivalry (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: C. S. Lewis and the Middle Ages
Organizer: Joe Ricke (jsricke@outlook.com) 
 

Can This World Be Reformed? Seeking Connection, Constructing Communities, and Imagining a Polity in the Greater/Global Fifteenth Century (hybrid)

Sponsoring Organization: Jean Gerson Society
Sponsoring Organization: International Alain Chartier Society
Organizer: Linda Burke (lindaebb@aol.com) 
Organizer: Joan E. McRae
Organizer: Wendy Love Anderson
 

Care and Caring in the Robin Hood Legend and the Outlaw Tradition (virtual)

Sponsoring Organization: International Association for Robin Hood Studies (IARHS)
Organizer: Anna Czarnowus (annaczarnowus@op.pl) 
 

Chant and Liturgy (1): In Celebration of Joseph Dyer (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Musicology at Kalamazoo
Organizer: Melanie Batoff
 

Chant and Liturgy (2): Studies of Western Chant and its Books in Memory of Michel Huglo (A Roundtable) (hybrid)

Sponsoring Organization: Musicology at Kalamazoo
Organizer: Alison Altstatt
Organizer: Barbara Haggh-Huglo
 

Chant from Manuscript: Singing the Office of the Holy Name of Mary from a Spanish Cantoral (A Workshop) (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Digital Analysis of Chant Transmission
Sponsoring Organization: Musicology at Kalamazoo
Organizer: Debra S. Lacoste
Organizer: Alison Altstatt
Organizer: Lucia M. Denk
 

Charisma in Its Many Forms: A Roundtable in Memory of John C. Coldewey (hybrid)

Organizer: Heather Hill (hillhl2@udmercy.edu) 
 

Chaucerian Afterlives (in person)

Organizer: Debra E Best (dbest@csudh.edu) 
 

Chaucer's Barely-There-But-Essential Characters (1): Servants (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Chaucer Review
Organizer: David Raybin (draybin@eiu.edu) 
Organizer: Susanna Fein
 

Chaucer's Barely-There-But-Essential Characters (2): Creators (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Chaucer Review
Organizer: David Raybin (draybin@eiu.edu) 
Organizer: Susanna Fein
 

Chaucer's Barely-There-But-Essential Characters (3): Familiars (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Chaucer Review
Organizer: David Raybin (draybin@eiu.edu) 
Organizer: Susanna Fein
 

Chaucer's Barely-There-But-Essential Characters (4): Controllers (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Chaucer Review
Organizer: David Raybin (draybin@eiu.edu) 
Organizer: Susanna Fein
 

Christine's Crusades: Christine and Crusading (virtual)

Sponsoring Organization: International Christine de Pizan Society, North American Branch
Organizer: Charles-Louis Morand-Métivier (cmorandm@uvm.edu) 
 

Cistercian Mysticism (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Cistercian and Monastic Studies
Organizer: Aage Rydstrøm-Poulsen (aarp@uni.gl) 
Organizer: Tyler Sergent (sergentf@berea.edu) 
 

Cistercian Sermons (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Cistercian and Monastic Studies
Organizer: Marsha L. Dutton (dutton@ohio.edu) 
Organizer: Tyler Sergent (sergentf@berea.edu) 
 

Cistercian Use of Contemporary Sources (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Cistercian and Monastic Studies
Organizer: Elias Dietz
Organizer: Tyler Sergent (sergentf@berea.edu) 
 

Cities in the Medieval Imaginary (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: The Consortium Medievalists
Organizer: Alina Shubina
Organizer: Emily R. Gerace
Organizer: Grant Miner
 

Classical Philosophy in the Lands of Islam and Its Influence (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Aquinas and 'the Arabs' International Working Group
Organizer: Nicholas A. Oschman
 

Coins and Seals in Byzantium (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
Sponsoring Organization: Princeton Univ. Numismatic Collection
Organizer: Jonathan Shea
Organizer: Alan M. Stahl
 

Collections of Saints' Lives (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Hagiography Society
Organizer: Laura Ackerman Smoller
 

Connecting Medieval Studies to Core Standards in Elementary and Secondary Classroom Instruction (A Roundtable) (in person)

Organizer: Sarah J. Brish
 

Constructing the Soul: New Research on Late Medieval Spirituality (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: American Cusanus Society
Organizer: Erin Risch Zoutendam (erin.zoutendam@shu.edu) 
 

Courtly Literature: The Next Generation (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: International Courtly Literature Society (ICLS), North American Branch
Organizer: Susanne Hafner
Organizer: Julie Human (julie.human@uky.edu) 
 

Creating Feminist Spaces in Medieval Studies (A Roundtable) (hybrid)

Sponsoring Organization: Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship (SMFS)
Organizer: Lucy C. Barnhouse (lbarnhouse@astate.edu) 
 

Creative-Critical Work in Medieval Studies (A Roundtable) (hybrid)

Organizer: Brooke H. Findley (bhf2@psu.edu) 
 

Criminal Protests in the Premodern World (A Roundtable) (in person)

Organizer: Joshua L. Pontillo
Organizer: Benjamin N. Yusen
Organizer: Benjamin H. Hoover (bhhoover@iu.edu) 
 

Crowdsourcing Medieval Studies (A Roundtable) (hybrid)

Sponsoring Organization: Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures
Organizer: Julie Singer
 

Crusade and Violence in the Fourteenth Century (hybrid)

Sponsoring Organization: 14th Century Society
Organizer: Patricia Marie McCall
Organizer: Sarah Ifft Decker
 

Curiosa and Exotica (virtual)

Sponsoring Organization: Platinum Latin
Sponsoring Organization: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library
Sponsoring Organization: World Philology Union
Organizer: Danuta Shanzer
Organizer: Nicole Eddy
 

Current Issues and Future Directions in Queer and Trans Studies (hybrid)

Sponsoring Organization: Society for Queer Medieval Studies (SQMS)
Organizer: Felipe E. Rojas (felipe.rojas@westliberty.edu) 
Organizer: Kersti Francis

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Daily Life and Lived Experience: Critical Approaches (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Institute for Medieval Studies, Univ. of Leeds
Organizer: Iona McCleery (i.mccleery@leeds.ac.uk) 
See the Confex call for papers to view descriptions of all sessions
Propose a contribution to Daily Life and Lived Experience: Critical Approaches
 

Dance in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period: A Multidisciplinary Panel Honoring Lynneth Renberg's Women, Dance and Parish Religion in England (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society (MRDS)
Organizer: Susannah Crowder
Organizer: Christopher Swift (cswift@citytech.cuny.edu) 
See the Confex call for papers to view descriptions of all sessions
Propose a contribution to Dance in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period: A Multidisciplinary Panel Honoring Lynneth Renberg's Women, Dance and Parish Religion in England
 

Dante (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Dante Society of America
Organizer: Jelena Todorović (jtodorovic@wisc.edu) 
See the Confex call for papers to view descriptions of all sessions
Propose a contribution to Dante
 

Dante and Ovid (hybrid)

Sponsoring Organization: Societas Ovidiana
Sponsoring Organization: Dante Society of America
Organizer: William Little (little.447@osu.edu) 
Organizer: Jelena Todorović (jtodorovic@wisc.edu) 
Organizer: Rebecca Menmuir (rebecca.menmuir@lincoln.ox.ac.uk) 
See the Confex call for papers to view descriptions of all sessions
Propose a contribution to Dante and Ovid
 

Decolonizing Philosophy from the Arabic-Islamic World (hybrid)

Organizer: Muhamad Kamal Kamel Abdelmageed
See the Confex call for papers to view descriptions of all sessions
Propose a contribution to Decolonizing Philosophy from the Arabic-Islamic World
 

Deconstructing Queer Vikings (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Medieval Association of the Midwest (MAM)
Organizer: Tory Schendel-Vyvoda
Organizer: Eric Shane Bryan (bryane@mst.edu) 
See the Confex call for papers to view descriptions of all sessions
Propose a contribution to Deconstructing Queer Vikings
 

Desert Mothers: Women in the Wilderness (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Hagiography Society
Organizer: Loren Easterday Lee (lel7qsf@virginia.edu) 
See the Confex call for papers to view descriptions of all sessions
Propose a contribution to Desert Mothers: Women in the Wilderness
 

Designing Medieval Games (A Roundtable) (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Game Cultures Society
Sponsoring Organization: Central Michigan Univ. Press
Organizer: Sarah J. Sprouse (ssprouse@wtamu.edu) 
Organizer: Paul Milliman
See the Confex call for papers to view descriptions of all sessions
Propose a contribution to Designing Medieval Games (A Roundtable)
 

Deviant Images: Text/Image Relationships in Medieval Manuscripts (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Research Group on Manuscript Evidence
Organizer: Cortney Anne Berg
Organizer: Mildred Budny (mildredbudny@gmail.com) 
See the Confex call for papers to view descriptions of all sessions
Propose a contribution to Deviant Images: Text/Image Relationships in Medieval Manuscripts
 

Digital Humanities and Medieval Music (virtual)

Sponsoring Organization: Musicology at Kalamazoo
Organizer: Alison Altstatt
See the Confex call for papers to view descriptions of all sessions
Propose a contribution to Digital Humanities and Medieval Music
 

Digital Pedagogies for a Medieval World: Public Digital Humanities in the Classroom (A Workshop) (hybrid)

Sponsoring Organization: American Society of Irish Medieval Studies (ASIMS)
Sponsoring Organization: Digital Humanities and Multimedia Studies Committee, Medieval Academy of America
Organizer: Vicky McAlister (vmcalister@towson.edu) 
Organizer: Deanna Forsman
Organizer: Margaret K. Smith
See the Confex call for papers to view descriptions of all sessions
Contact the session organizer if you would like to participate in this workshop.
 

Discontinuous Literary Histories (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association
Organizer: Mary Kate Hurley (hurleym1@ohio.edu) 
Organizer: Jonathan Davis-Secord (jwds@unm.edu) 
See the Confex call for papers to view descriptions of all sessions
Propose a contribution to Discontinuous Literary Histories
 

Discourse and Disability: Constructing Disability through Speech Acts (virtual)

Sponsoring Organization: Medieval Speech Act Society
Sponsoring Organization: Society for the Study of Disability in the Middle Ages
Organizer: Alison M. Purnell
Organizer: Michael S. Nagy (michael.nagy@sdstate.edu) 
See the Confex call for papers to view descriptions of all sessions
Propose a contribution to Discourse and Disability: Constructing Disability through Speech Acts
 

Dress and Textiles (1): Tools and Techniques (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: DISTAFF (Discussion, Interpretation, and Study of Textile Arts, Fabrics, and Fashion)
Sponsoring Organization: Medieval Dress and Textile Society (MEDATS)
Organizer: Robin Netherton (distaff.org@gmail.com) 
See the Confex call for papers to view descriptions of all sessions
Propose a contribution to Dress and Textiles (1): Tools and Techniques
 

Dress and Textiles (2): Textiles and Nature (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: DISTAFF (Discussion, Interpretation, and Study of Textile Arts, Fabrics, and Fashion)
Organizer: Robin Netherton (distaff.org@gmail.com) 
See the Confex call for papers to view descriptions of all sessions
Propose a contribution to Dress and Textiles (2): Textiles and Nature
 

Dress and Textiles (3): The Figurative and the Functional (hybrid)

Sponsoring Organization: DISTAFF (Discussion, Interpretation, and Study of Textile Arts, Fabrics, and Fashion)
Organizer: Robin Netherton (distaff.org@gmail.com) 
See the Confex call for papers to view descriptions of all sessions
Propose a contribution to Dress and Textiles (3): The Figurative and the Functional
 

Drinking in Old Norse Literature (in person)

Organizer: Hunter A. Morgan
Organizer: Emily Schuhl Brown
See the Confex call for papers to view descriptions of all sessions
Propose a contribution to Drinking in Old Norse Literature

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Early Islam and Christian Monasticism (in person)

Organizer: Ghislaine Comeau
Organizer: Stephen Yeager
 

Early Medieval England and Its Neighbors (hybrid)

Sponsoring Organization: Richard Rawlinson Center
Sponsoring Organization: Early Medieval England and its Neighbours (Cambridge Univ. Press)
Organizer: Rosalind Claire Love
Organizer: Lindy Brady (lindy.brady@edgehill.ac.uk) 
 

Early Medieval Europe (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Early Medieval Europe
Organizer: Maya Maskarinec (maskarin@usc.edu) 
Organizer: Francesca Tinti (francesca.tinti@ehu.eus) 
 

Early Middle English in the Classroom (A Roundtable) (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Early Middle English Society
Organizer: Carla María Thomas (carlathomas@fau.edu) 
 

Editors Behaving Badly (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Lydgate Society
Organizer: Matthew Evan Davis (matthew@matthewedavis.net) 
 

Elizabeth of Hungary among the Mendicants: Cult and Images (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Hagiography Society
Organizer: Amy L. Neff
Organizer: Anne Derbes
 

Emblem Studies (virtual)

Sponsoring Organization: Society for Emblem Studies
Organizer: Sabine Moedersheim (smoedersheim@wisc.edu) 
 

Emerging Scholars of Medieval Arabic Poetry (virtual)

Organizer: June-Ann Greeley (greeleyj@sacredheart.edu) 
 

Emotion, Affect, and the Medieval Epic (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Société Rencesvals, American-Canadian Branch
Organizer: Norval Bard (nlbard@noctrl.edu) 
 

Encountering Heraldry as a Medievalist (A Workshop) (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: The American Heraldry Society
Organizer: Ethan MacDonald
 

Engendering the Monstrous: Gender and Monstrosity in Medieval Contexts (A Roundtable) (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Monsters: The Experimental Association for the Research of Cryptozoology through Scholarly Theory and Practical Application (MEARCSTAPA)
Sponsoring Organization: Society for Queer Medieval Studies (SQMS)
Organizer: Cortney Anne Berg
Organizer: Asa Simon Mittman (asmittman@csuchico.edu) 
Organizer: Zoey Marie Kambour
 

England in the Later Fifteenth Century: Politics, Culture, and Society (hybrid)

Sponsoring Organization: Yorkist History Trust
Organizer: James Ross (James.Ross@winchester.ac.uk) 
Organizer: Christian Steer
 

English Heterodoxy and (Para)liturgical Developments (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Medieval Heresy and Dissent Research Network, Univ. of Nottingham
Sponsoring Organization: Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Memorial Univ. of Newfoundland
Organizer: Rob Lutton (rob.lutton@nottingham.ac.uk) 
Organizer: Benjamin S.W. Barootes (bbarootes@mun.ca) 
 

Expanding Our View of Sherwood: Exploring the Matter of the Greenwood in Comics (A Roundtable) (virtual)

Sponsoring Organization: Medieval Comics Project
Sponsoring Organization: International Association for Robin Hood Studies (IARHS)
Organizer: Michael A. Torregrossa
Organizer: Carl B. Sell
 

Expanding Perspectives on Hoccleve and Gender (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: International Hoccleve Society
Organizer: Arwen Taylor
Organizer: Spencer A Strub (spencer.strub@princeton.edu) 
 

Expanding the "Canon": Exploring New Editions from the Middle English Texts Series (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Rossell Hope Robbins Library, Univ. of Rochester
Sponsoring Organization: TEAMS (Teaching Association for Medieval Studies)
Organizer: Anna Siebach-Larsen (annasiebachlarsen@rochester.edu) 
Organizer: Gale Sigal (sigal@wfu.edu) 
 

Exploring Complaint in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period: Traditions and Transformations of Complaint (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Medieval and Renaissance Colloquium, Univ. of North Carolina–Chapel Hill
Organizer: Mounawar Abbouchi
Organizer: Krista Telford (ktelford@unc.edu) 

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Female Scribes in the Premodern World (hybrid)

Sponsoring Organization: Medieval Studies Program, Yale Univ.
Organizer: Estelle Guéville (estelle.gueville@yale.edu) 
Organizer: Imke Vet
 

Fictive Royal Images of Power (virtual)

Sponsoring Organization: Royal Studies Network
Organizer: Valerie E. Schutte
 

Fire, Dragons, and Jewels, O My: Medieval Poems and J. R. R. Tolkien (virtual)

Sponsoring Organization: International Pearl-Poet Society
Sponsoring Organization: Tolkien at Kalamazoo
Organizer: Jane Beal (janebeal@gmail.com) 
Organizer: Amber Dunai (adunai@tamuct.edu) 
Organizer: Yvette Kisor (ykisor@ramapo.edu) 
 

For the Love of Cheese: Reflecting on the Role of Cheesemaking in Cistercian and Monastic Life (A Roundtable) (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Cistercian and Monastic Studies
Organizer: Jason R. Crow (Jason.crow@monash.edu) 
Organizer: Tyler Sergent (sergentf@berea.edu) 
 

Fourteenth-Century and Later Vernacular Translations and Adaptations of Latin Medical and Surgical Texts (virtual)

Sponsoring Organization: Dipartimento di Lingue e culture moderne, Univ. degli Studi di Genova
Sponsoring Organization: Univ. degli Studi di Ferrara
Organizer: Chiara Benati (chiara.benati@unige.it) 
Organizer: Marialuisa Caparrini
 

Framing the Political Arena through Emotions: Castile in the Fifteenth Century (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Beyond the Word: Political Communication and Discourse in Trastámara Castile (1367–1504)
Organizer: José Antonio Jara Fuente (JoseAntonio.Jara@uclm.es) 
 

From Tree to Truss (1): Wood in Medieval Building(s) (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: AVISTA: The Association Villard de Honnecourt for the Interdisciplinary Study of Medieval Technology, Science, and Art
Organizer: Lindsay S. Cook (lsc5353@psu.edu) 
Organizer: Rebecca Avery Smith (rasmith7@waketech.edu) 
 

From Tree to Truss (2): Woodcarving in Medieval Architecture (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: AVISTA: The Association Villard de Honnecourt for the Interdisciplinary Study of Medieval Technology, Science, and Art
Organizer: Lindsay S. Cook (lsc5353@psu.edu) 
Organizer: Rebecca Avery Smith (rasmith7@waketech.edu) 
 

From Tree to Truss (3): Gothic Carpentry (A Workshop) (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: AVISTA: The Association Villard de Honnecourt for the Interdisciplinary Study of Medieval Technology, Science, and Art
Organizer: Lindsay S. Cook (lsc5353@psu.edu) 
Organizer: Rebecca Avery Smith (rasmith7@waketech.edu) 

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Games in the Classroom (A Workshop) (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Game Cultures Society
Organizer: Sarah J. Sprouse (ssprouse@wtamu.edu) 
Organizer: Glenn Kumhera (gjk19@psu.edu) 
 

Gaylord Workshop on Reading Chaucer Aloud (in person)

Organizer: Jennifer Fast (jennifer.fast@newman.edu) 
 

Gender and Religion in a Fallen World: Session in Honor of Dyan Elliott (in person)

Organizer: Fiona Griffiths (fgriffit@stanford.edu) 
Organizer: Melissa Vise (melissavise@gmail.com) 
 

Gender Games (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Game Cultures Society
Organizer: Sarah J. Sprouse (ssprouse@wtamu.edu) 
 

Gendered Violence (virtual)

Organizer: Martha Rampton (ramptonm@pacificu.edu) 
 

Genre and the Fifteenth Century (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Lydgate Society
Organizer: Matthew Evan Davis (matthew@matthewedavis.net) 
 

German Legends of Popular Saints / Constructions of German Saintliness (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Society for Medieval Germanic Studies (SMGS)
Organizer: Violet A. Ingeborg
Organizer: CJ Jones
 

Glimmer, Shine, and the Evocative Nature of Gold in Old English (A Roundtable) (in person)

Organizer: Jan Blaschak (eb7549@wayne.edu) 
 

Global Comparative Anchoritisms and Reclusion (hybrid)

Sponsoring Organization: International Anchoritic Society
Organizer: Kyle Robert Moore (kyle.robert.moore@und.edu) 
Organizer: Alicia Smith
Organizer: Michelle M. Sauer
 

Global Medieval Performance: Performing Death in the Middle Ages (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: International Marie de France Society
Sponsoring Organization: La corónica: A Journal of Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Sponsoring Organization: Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society (MRDS)
Organizer: Tamara Bentley Caudill
Organizer: Regula Meyer Evitt (rmevitt@coloradocollege.edu) 
Organizer: Francis J. Valencia-Turco
 

Global Medievalisms from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century (in person)

Organizer: Robert Sirabian (rsirabia@uwsp.edu) 
Organizer: Daniel C. Najork
 

Global Ovids (virtual)

Sponsoring Organization: Societas Ovidiana
Organizer: William Little (little.447@osu.edu) 
Organizer: Rebecca Menmuir (rebecca.menmuir@lincoln.ox.ac.uk) 
 

Global Petrarch(s) and Petrarchism(s): Intertextuality and Critique (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Italian Studies@Kalamazoo
Organizer: Alani Hicks-Bartlett (alani_hicks-bartlett@brown.edu) 
Organizer: Akash Kumar
 

Grimoires of the Greater West (1): From Arabic and Persian to Hebrew and Latin (hybrid)

Sponsoring Organization: Societas Magica
Sponsoring Organization: Research Group on Manuscript Evidence
Organizer: Matthew Melvin-Koushki
 

Grimoires of the Greater West (2): Multicultural Solomonic Magic: The Case of the Almandal (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Societas Magica
Sponsoring Organization: Research Group on Manuscript Evidence
Organizer: Vajra Regan (vajra.regan@mail.utoronto.ca) 
Organizer: Matthew Melvin-Koushki
Organizer: Gal Sofer
 

Guillaume de Machaut: Digital Resources for Teaching and Research (A Roundtable) (hybrid)

Sponsoring Organization: International Machaut Society
Organizer: Tamsyn Mahoney-Steel
 

Gustatory Diaspora: Moving, Changing, Transforming Taste(s) in Medieval Iberia (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Ibero-Medieval Association of North America (IMANA)
Organizer: Sara M. Gardner

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Hagio-Harmonics: A Duet of Sainthood and Music (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Hagiography Society
Organizer: Margaret McCurry (mm9659@nyu.edu) 
 

Hi Ho, High Hoe, It's Off to Sea We Go: A Voyage Round the Whole Island of High-Brazil (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Pseudo Society
Organizer: Lisa Evans
 

Hiberno- and Anglo-Latin Studies (in person)

Organizer: Brian Cook (bsc0028@auburn.edu) 
 

Historia Gothorum (1): The Past and Present in Ostrogothic and Lombard Italy (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Italian Art Society
Organizer: Alison Locke Perchuk (alison.perchuk@csuci.edu) 
 

Historia Gothorum (2): The Italian Goths in a Post-Gothic World (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Italian Art Society
Organizer: Alison Locke Perchuk (alison.perchuk@csuci.edu) 
Organizer: Liz Wells
 

Historical Professions? Medieval Historians on Their Craft (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Haskins Society
Organizer: Carolyn Cargile
Organizer: Rachel Wilson
 

Holy Objects and the Senses (in person)

Organizer: Thomas Devaney
Organizer: Marika Räsänen (marras@utu.fi) 
 

Holy War and Religious Bellicosity in the Medieval Western Mediterranean (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: The Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East
Organizer: Kyle C. Lincoln
Organizer: Miguel D. Gómez
 

How to Teach the Medieval Book in Today's Classroom (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library
Organizer: Nicole Eddy
Organizer: Daniel Donoghue
 

Humans and/or Animals in Music Medievalism (virtual)

Sponsoring Organization: Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture
Organizer: Anna Czarnowus (annaczarnowus@op.pl) 

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Iberian Heterotopias (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Ibero-Medieval Association of North America (IMANA)
Sponsoring Organization: Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies
Organizer: Gregory Hutcheson
 

Identity and Otherness in the Medieval Mediterranean (in person)

Organizer: Tiago Queimada e Silva (tiasil@utu.fi) 
 

Images of Dancing Women in the Middle Ages: Joy and Sorrow (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA)
Organizer: Licia Buttà (licia.butta@urv.cat) 
 

In Memoriam Marie Kelleher (1): Gender and Law in the Fourteenth Century (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: 14th Century Society
Organizer: Sarah Ifft Decker
 

In Memoriam Marie Kelleher (2): New Directions in Medieval Iberian Studies (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain (AARHMS)
Organizer: Sarah Ifft Decker
 

In Memory of Heiko Wiggers: Low West Germanic Studies (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Society for Medieval Germanic Studies (SMGS)
Organizer: Tina Boyer
Organizer: Adam Oberlin
 

In Search of Marie de France (hybrid)

Sponsoring Organization: International Marie de France Society
Organizer: Joseph R. Johnson (jj892@georgetown.edu) 
 

Information and Knowledge in Medieval Coinage (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: American Numismatic Society
Organizer: David Yoon (dyoon@numismatics.org) 
 

Interrogating "Mysticism" in Medieval Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Medieval Institute, Univ. of Notre Dame
Organizer: Benjamin Kenneth Pykare
Organizer: John Reilly (jreill22@nd.edu) 
 

Intersections between Art, Science, and Cistercian Theology (hybrid)

Sponsoring Organization: Cistercian and Monastic Studies
Organizer: Jason R. Crow (Jason.crow@monash.edu) 
Organizer: Tyler Sergent (sergentf@berea.edu) 

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J. R. R. Tolkien and Medieval Conceptions of the Sea (hybrid)

Sponsoring Organization: Tolkien at Kalamazoo
Organizer: Christopher Vaccaro (cvaccaro@uvm.edu) 
Organizer: Yvette Kisor (ykisor@ramapo.edu) 
 

Jewish Women in the Middle Ages (in person)

Organizer: Reed Alexis O'Mara (rao44@case.edu) 
Organizer: Laura Feigen
 

Jewish-Christian Interaction in the Middle Ages (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Institut für Geschichte der Juden in Österreich
Sponsoring Organization: Academy of Jewish-Christian Studies
Organizer: Steven J. McMichael (sjmcmichael@stthomas.edu) 
Organizer: Birgit Wiedl (birgit.wiedl@injoest.ac.at) 
 

Jinnitalia: Sex in the Spirit World (virtual)

Sponsoring Organization: Societas Magica
Organizer: Matthew Melvin-Koushki
 

Joglars and Joglaressas in Occitania (A Roundtable) (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Société Guilhem IX
Organizer: Courtney Joseph Wells
 

John of Salisbury in Context (in person)

Organizer: Karen Bollermann (kbollermann@icloud.com) 
Organizer: Cary J. Nederman (cary-j-nederman@tamu.edu) 
 

Judeo-Greek across the Centuries: Tracing Greek-Speaking Jews and Their Literatures (in person)

Organizer: Michail Kitsos

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King Arthur in (Con)texts (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Arthurian Literature
Organizer: K. S. Whetter (kevin.whetter@acadiau.ca) 
 

Knights on the Table: Medievalism in Board Games (virtual)

Sponsoring Organization: International Society for the Study of Medievalism
Organizer: Thomas C. Sawyer
Organizer: Angela J. Weisl (angela.weisl@shu.edu) 
 

"Knock, knock." "Who's there?" (Dis)embodied Voices in the Middle Ages (in person)

Organizer: Margaret McCurry (mm9659@nyu.edu) 
 

Kzoo at 60 and the Lone Medievalist Conference Experience (A Roundtable) (hybrid)

Sponsoring Organization: Lone Medievalist
Organizer: Kisha G. Tracy (ktracy3@fitchburgstate.edu) 

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La corónica International Book Award: A Roundtable in Honor of Dr. Sarah Ifft Decker for The Fruit of Her Hands: Jewish and Christian Women’s Work in Medieval Catalan Cities (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: La corónica: A Journal of Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Organizer: David Arbesu
 

Labor and Power in Global Context (hybrid)

Sponsoring Organization: Great Lakes Adiban Society
Organizer: Kaveh L. Hemmat
Organizer: Cameron Cross (kchalipa@umich.edu) 
 

Landscapes Lost and Found: Humans and Their Environments in Medieval Italy (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Italian Studies@Kalamazoo
Organizer: Alyssa M. Granacki
Organizer: Alexander L. Brock (abrock@princeton.edu) 
Organizer: Hannah R. Lloyd
 

Latin Iberia: A Literary Reappraisal of Latin Works in the Peninsula (hybrid)

Organizer: Erik Adams Alder
 

Law and Legal Culture in Early Medieval Britain (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Medieval-Renaissance Faculty Workshop, Univ. of Louisville
Organizer: Andrew Rabin
 

Law as Culture XXV: Substance, Procedure, and Institutions in the Middle Ages (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Selden Society
Organizer: Alexander Volokh
 

Legions of the Divine: The Role of Military Forces in Fostering Religious Change in Afro-Eurasia, 300–1000 (A Roundtable) (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Center for Medieval Studies, Univ. of Minnesota–Twin Cities
Organizer: Stephan Knott (knott133@umn.edu) 
Organizer: Elijah T. Wallace
 

Letting the Mystery Be: Performing Illocutionary Acts in the Medieval Mystery Cycles (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Medieval Speech Act Society
Organizer: Alexander Vaughan Ames
 

Lexicography 101: Glosses, Annotations, and Word Lists (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Early Book Society
Organizer: Martha W. Driver (mdriver@pace.edu) 
 

Literature and Non-Literary Sources: Topics and Debates in Medieval French (A Roundtable) (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Medieval French in the Midwest
Organizer: Johannes Junge Ruhland (jjungeru@nd.edu) 
 

Lived Experience from the Bottom Up in the Atlantic Archipelago: Papers in Memory of Cherie N. Peters (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: American Society of Irish Medieval Studies (ASIMS)
Organizer: Vicky McAlister (vmcalister@towson.edu) 
 

Lived Religion and Relics (in person)

Organizer: Marika Räsänen (marras@utu.fi) 
Organizer: Thomas Devaney
 

Lost Manuscripts and Printed Books (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Early Book Society
Organizer: Martha W. Driver (mdriver@pace.edu) 
 

Love Shacks and Lonely Crossroads: Locating Emotions in Medieval Iberia (hybrid)

Sponsoring Organization: Ibero-Medieval Association of North America (IMANA)
Sponsoring Organization: Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies
Organizer: Matthew V. Desing (mvdesing2@utep.edu) 
Organizer: Robin M. Bower
Organizer: Jessica A. Boon
 

Ludic Power: Parody, Play, and Innovation in Magic (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Societas Magica
Organizer: Marla Segol

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Magic Mirrors (1): Fairy Tales, Folklore, and the Esoteric (hybrid)

Sponsoring Organization: Societas Magica
Organizer: Samuel P. Gillis Hogan (spgh14@gmail.com) 
 

Magic Mirrors (2): Post-Medieval Reflections of Medieval Magic (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Societas Magica
Organizer: Veronica Menaldi
 

Malory Aloud: Tristram and Isode, Part 3 (A Performance) (in person)

Organizer: Kathryn M. Wilmotte (kmwilm520@gmail.com) 
Organizer: Rebecca Fox Blok
 

Malory's Healing of Sir Urry: New Insights and Fresh Approaches (A Roundtable) (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Arthurian Literature
Organizer: K. S. Whetter (kevin.whetter@acadiau.ca) 
 

Manuscripts Before the Year 1000 (in person)

Organizer: Bruce Gilchrist
 

Marie de France in the Classroom (A Roundtable) (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: International Marie de France Society
Organizer: Joseph R. Johnson (jj892@georgetown.edu) 
Organizer: Tamara Bentley Caudill
 

Mary: Woman, Mother, Exemplar? (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Cistercian and Monastic Studies
Organizer: Marsha L. Dutton (dutton@ohio.edu) 
Organizer: Tyler Sergent (sergentf@berea.edu) 
 

Material Mimicry: Transformative Craft Practices (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Medieval and Early Modern Studies Program (MEMS), Univ. of Michigan
Organizer: Julia R. LaPlaca (jlaplaca@umich.edu) 
Organizer: Bethany L. Donovan (donobeth@umich.edu) 
 

Materializing Arthur in Manuscripts, Sculpture, Video, and More (hybrid)

Sponsoring Organization: International Arthurian Society, North American Branch (IAS/NAB)
Organizer: Joseph M. Sullivan
Organizer: Siân Echard (sian@mail.ubc.ca) 
 

Media, Technology, and Virtuality before the Modern Era (in person)

Organizer: Katharine Denise Scherff (Katharine.d.scherff@ttu.edu) 
 

Medieval and Early Modern Jubilees (in person)

Organizer: Silvia Tita (titasilv@msu.edu) 
 

Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy
Organizer: Catherine Peters (Catherine.Peters@lmu.edu) 
 

Medieval Art History Tomorrow (1): A Whiteboard Session (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Different Visions: New Perspectives on Medieval Art
Organizer: Eliza B. Garrison
Organizer: Ben Tilghman (btilghman2@washcoll.edu) 
Organizer: Nina Rowe
 

Medieval Art History Tomorrow (2): A Lightning Session (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Different Visions: New Perspectives on Medieval Art
Organizer: Nina Rowe
Organizer: Eliza B. Garrison
Organizer: Ben Tilghman (btilghman2@washcoll.edu) 
 

Medieval Board Games on Display (A Poster Session) (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Univ. of Florida
Sponsoring Organization: Antiquarian Boardgames
Organizer: Valerie Dawn Hampton (vhampton@ufl.edu) 
 

Medieval Dance and Processions: In Honor of the Centenary of Ingrid Brainard's Birth (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Musicology at Kalamazoo
Organizer: Melanie Batoff
 

Medieval Disability Studies and Narrative Prosthesis at Twenty-Five (hybrid)

Sponsoring Organization: Society for the Study of Disability in the Middle Ages
Organizer: Kisha G. Tracy (ktracy3@fitchburgstate.edu) 
 

Medieval Documentary Cultures (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Haskins Society
Sponsoring Organization: Medieval Documentary Cultures
Organizer: Laura L. Gathagan (laura.gathagan@cortland.edu) 
 

Medieval Ecocriticisms (1): Animals (hybrid)

Sponsoring Organization: Medieval Ecocriticisms
Organizer: Heide Estes (heide.estes@gmail.com) 
Organizer: Ilse A. Schweitzer (schwei53@msu.edu) 
 

Medieval Ecocriticisms (2): Environmental Crises, Medieval and Modern (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Medieval Ecocriticisms
Organizer: Heide Estes (heide.estes@gmail.com) 
Organizer: Ilse A. Schweitzer (schwei53@msu.edu) 
 

Medieval Ecocriticisms (3): Theory and Approaches (hybrid)

Sponsoring Organization: Medieval Ecocriticisms
Organizer: Heide Estes (heide.estes@gmail.com) 
Organizer: Ilse A. Schweitzer (schwei53@msu.edu) 
 

Medieval Ecologies and the Human Soul (in person)

Organizer: Kelsey Boor
Organizer: Emily O'Brock
 

Medieval Franciscan Preaching (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: International Medieval Sermon Studies Society
Sponsoring Organization: Franciscan Institute, St. Bonaventure Univ.
Organizer: Steven J. McMichael (sjmcmichael@stthomas.edu) 
Organizer: Jessalynn L. Bird (jbird@saintmarys.edu) 
 

Medieval Iberia in a Connected World: The Raw Materials Record (hybrid)

Sponsoring Organization: Instituto de Estudos Medievais, Univ. Nova de Lisboa
Organizer: Erika Loic (eloic@fsu.edu) 
Organizer: Alicia Miguélez
 

Medieval Intermedialities (virtual)

Organizer: Grace Catherine Greiner (gcg49@cornell.edu) 
Organizer: Jennifer Rabedeau (jbr263@cornell.edu) 
 

Medieval Languages and Tolkien's Language Invention (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Tolkien at Kalamazoo
Organizer: Christopher Vaccaro (cvaccaro@uvm.edu) 
Organizer: Yvette Kisor (ykisor@ramapo.edu) 
 

Medieval Languages of Iberia: Linguistic Approaches to Medieval Texts (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies (HSMS)
Organizer: Pablo Pastrana-Pérez
 

Medieval Manuscripts in North America and Where to Find Them (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Peripheral Manuscripts Project
Organizer: Sarah L. Noonan
Organizer: Liz Hebbard
 

Medieval Materialities (in person)

Organizer: Elina Gertsman
 

Medieval Metadata: Expanding Catalogue Records with Student Projects (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Purdue Univ. Libraries and School of Information Studies
Organizer: Juliane Tiemann
Organizer: Kristin Leaman (leamankb@purdue.edu) 
 

Medieval Military History (1): Early Medieval Warfare (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History
Organizer: Valerie Eads (veads@sva.edu) 
 

Medieval Military History (2): Late Medieval Warfare (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History
Organizer: Valerie Eads (veads@sva.edu) 
 

Medieval Military History (3): Teaching Medieval Military History (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History
Organizer: Valerie Eads (veads@sva.edu) 
 

Medieval Military History (4): Medieval Military Technology (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History
Organizer: Valerie Eads (veads@sva.edu) 
 

Medieval Monsters and Monstrosity (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Medieval Association of the Midwest (MAM)
Organizer: Tory Schendel-Vyvoda
Organizer: Michael S. Nagy (michael.nagy@sdstate.edu) 
 

Medieval Monsters as Modern Monsters: Exploring Continuums of the Monstrous (virtual)

Sponsoring Organization: Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture
Sponsoring Organization: Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular Culture Association
Organizer: Michael A. Torregrossa
 

Medieval Music and the Modern Imagination (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Musicology at Kalamazoo
Organizer: Alessandra Ignesti (alessandra.ignesti@mail.mcgill.ca) 
 

Medieval Performance of Chastity and Gender (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Society for Queer Medieval Studies (SQMS)
Organizer: Logan Spencer (medievalspencer@gmail.com) 
Organizer: Kylie L. Owens
Organizer: Felipe E. Rojas (felipe.rojas@westliberty.edu) 
 

Medieval Place-Making: Relationships Between People and Their Environments (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Center for Premodern Studies, Univ. of Minnesota–Twin Cities
Organizer: Karen E. Soto
Organizer: Katherine Pierpont
 

Medieval Practices of Adaptation (in person)

Organizer: Amber Dunai (adunai@tamuct.edu) 
Organizer: Britt Mize
 

Medieval Resonances in Tolkien's Letters (A Roundtable) (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Tolkien at Kalamazoo
Organizer: Christopher Vaccaro (cvaccaro@uvm.edu) 
Organizer: Yvette Kisor (ykisor@ramapo.edu) 
 

Medieval Sacramental and Liturgical Theology (in person)

Organizer: Richard Nicholas (rnicholas@stfrancis.edu) 
 

Medieval Sermon Studies (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: International Medieval Sermon Studies Society
Organizer: Jessalynn L. Bird (jbird@saintmarys.edu) 
Organizer: Andrew Reeves
 

Medieval Theisms (virtual)

Organizer: Gamble Madsen
 

Medieval Visual Culture and Didactic Messages (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Dept. of Historical Studies, Central European Univ.
Organizer: Gerhard Jaritz (jaritzg@ceu.edu) 
 

Medieval Women Sing the Divine: Women Mystics and Poets of Non-Christian Faiths (virtual)

Organizer: June-Ann Greeley (greeleyj@sacredheart.edu) 
Organizer: Amina Boukail (leaminaz@yahoo.fr) 
 

Medieval/ist Disabled Affect (A Roundtable) (hybrid)

Sponsoring Organization: Society for the Study of Disability in the Middle Ages
Organizer: Kisha G. Tracy (ktracy3@fitchburgstate.edu) 
 

Medievalism and Cultural (Mis)appropriation (virtual)

Sponsoring Organization: International Society for the Study of Medievalism
Organizer: Leah Haught (lhaught@westga.edu) 
Organizer: Angela J. Weisl (angela.weisl@shu.edu) 
 

Medievalism and Disability (virtual)

Sponsoring Organization: International Society for the Study of Medievalism
Organizer: Angela J. Weisl (angela.weisl@shu.edu) 
Organizer: Carol L. Robinson (clrobins@kent.edu) 
 

Medievalism and Modern Monarchy (virtual)

Sponsoring Organization: International Society for the Study of Medievalism
Organizer: Michael R. Evans
Organizer: Angela J. Weisl (angela.weisl@shu.edu) 
 

Methodological Perversity (in person)

Organizer: Jason Jacobs
Organizer: Julie Singer
 

Microsoft HoloLens Art History Experience (A Demonstration) (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Interactive Commons, Case Western Reserve Univ.
Organizer: Karen Rhoad
Organizer: Susan M. Steuer
 

Millennium Women: You Must Follow Another Plan (A Heritage Engagement Demonstration) (virtual)

Organizer: Gail Borrow
 

Mind the Gap: Teaching the Medieval from Fragmentary Collections (A Roundtable) (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Bibliographical Society of America
Sponsoring Organization: Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale Univ.
Organizer: Gina Marie Hurley
Organizer: Agnieszka Rec
Organizer: Katherine Storm Hindley
 

More than The Green Knight: Exploring the Ongoing Tradition of Adapting and Appropriating Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (hybrid)

Sponsoring Organization: Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture
Sponsoring Organization: International Arthurian Society, North American Branch (IAS/NAB)
Sponsoring Organization: International Pearl-Poet Society
Organizer: Michael A. Torregrossa
Organizer: Joseph M. Sullivan
Organizer: Amber Dunai (adunai@tamuct.edu) 
 

Mothers as Makers: The Role of Women in Medieval Politics (in person)

Organizer: Lauren E. Wood
Organizer: Katie Despeaux
 

Moving Beyond Models: A Toolkit Approach to Disability (A Workshop) (virtual)

Sponsoring Organization: Society for the Study of Disability in the Middle Ages
Organizer: Alison M. Purnell
 

Moving the Mail: Letters, Couriers, and Post Offices in the Medieval World (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Postal History at Kalamazoo
Sponsoring Organization: Research Group on Manuscript Evidence
Organizer: David W. Sorenson
Organizer: Mildred Budny (mildredbudny@gmail.com) 
 

Multilingualism in Pre-Norman Britain (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Richard Rawlinson Center
Organizer: Lindy Brady (lindy.brady@edgehill.ac.uk) 
Organizer: Nicole Guenther Discenza (ndiscenza@usf.edu) 
 

Music and Politics (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Musicology at Kalamazoo
Organizer: Melanie Batoff
 

Musical Theory (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Musicology at Kalamazoo
Organizer: Henry T. Drummond
Organizer: Melanie Batoff
 

Mysterious Symbolism in Art and Literature: The Art of Revelations (virtual)

Sponsoring Organization: Association for Textual Scholarship in Art History (ATSAH)
Organizer: Liana De Girolami Cheney (Liana_Cheney@uml.edu) 
 

Mysticism and the Twenty-First Century (A Roundtable) (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Medieval Association of the Midwest (MAM)
Organizer: Tory Schendel-Vyvoda

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Names and Naming in Medieval Literature (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Medieval Academy of America
Organizer: Carla María Thomas (carlathomas@fau.edu) 
Organizer: Haruko Momma
 

Names and Naming in Medieval Studies (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Medieval Academy of America
Organizer: Carla María Thomas (carlathomas@fau.edu) 
Organizer: Haruko Momma
 

Narrativa and Historica (Including Hagiographica) (virtual)

Sponsoring Organization: Platinum Latin
Sponsoring Organization: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library
Sponsoring Organization: World Philology Union
Organizer: Danuta Shanzer
Organizer: Nicole Eddy
 

Narrowing In, Broadening Out: Teaching the Medieval from a Single Object (A Roundtable) (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Bibliographical Society of America
Sponsoring Organization: Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale Univ.
Organizer: Katherine Storm Hindley
Organizer: Agnieszka Rec
Organizer: Gina Marie Hurley
 

Navigating Archival Research as a Graduate Student (A Roundtable) (virtual)

Sponsoring Organization: Medieval Association of the Midwest (MAM)
Sponsoring Organization: International Pearl-Poet Society
Organizer: Lauren Colwell
Organizer: Amber Dunai (adunai@tamuct.edu) 
Organizer: Mickey M. Sweeney (msweeney@dom.edu) 
 

Navigating the Ether: A Pearl-Poet Online Resources Roundtable (virtual)

Sponsoring Organization: International Pearl-Poet Society
Organizer: Amber Dunai (adunai@tamuct.edu) 
 

Negro Wenches, Black Venuses: Black Feminist Approaches to Matere, Form, and Flesh (A Roundtable) (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship (SMFS)
Organizer: Dontay M. Givens
 

New Approaches to Aljamiado Linguistic and Literary Studies (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Ibero-Medieval Association of North America (IMANA)
Organizer: Donald W. Wood
 

New Directions in Old English Pedagogy (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Disinventing Old English
Organizer: Donna Beth Ellard (donna.ellard@du.edu) 
Organizer: Mary Kate Hurley (hurleym1@ohio.edu) 
Organizer: Tarren Andrews
 

New Editions of the Medieval Ovid (A Roundtable) (hybrid)

Sponsoring Organization: Societas Ovidiana
Organizer: William Little (little.447@osu.edu) 
Organizer: Rebecca Menmuir (rebecca.menmuir@lincoln.ox.ac.uk) 
 

New Methodologies in Medieval Religious Studies (hybrid)

Sponsoring Organization: Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures (JMRC)
Organizer: Barbara Zimbalist
Organizer: Jessica Barr
 

New Opportunities for the Study of Apocrypha across Cultures and Linguistic Traditions (A Roundtable) (hybrid)

Sponsoring Organization: Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML)
Organizer: Matthew Z. Heintzelman (mheintzelma@hmml.org) 
Organizer: James E. Walters
 

New Research in Germanic Medieval Studies (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Society for Medieval Germanic Studies (SMGS)
Organizer: Evelyn Meyer (evelyn.meyer@slu.edu) 
Organizer: Jonathan Seelye Martin (jsmart5@listu.edu) 
 

New Research on Apocrypha across Traditions (hybrid)

Sponsoring Organization: Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML)
Organizer: Matthew Z. Heintzelman (mheintzelma@hmml.org) 
Organizer: James E. Walters
 

New Research on the Art and Architecture of Medieval Parish Churches (in person)

Organizer: Sarah Blick (blicks@kenyon.edu) 
 

New Voices in Early Drama and Performance Studies (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society (MRDS)
Organizer: Jeffery G. Stoyanoff
 

New Voices in Medieval History (hybrid)

Sponsoring Organization: Haskins Society
Organizer: Laura L. Gathagan (laura.gathagan@cortland.edu) 
 

New Voices on Early Medieval England (hybrid)

Sponsoring Organization: International Society for the Study of Early Medieval England
Organizer: Shannon Godlove (godlove_shannon@columbusstate.edu) 
 

New Work by Early-Career Scholars in Celtic Studies (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Celtic Studies Association of North America
Organizer: Joshua Byron Smith (jbs016@uark.edu) 
Organizer: Joey McMullen
 

No Stranger in Medieval Society: A Roundtable in Honor of Stephanie Cain Van D'Elden (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: International Courtly Literature Society (ICLS), North American Branch
Organizer: Susanne Hafner
Organizer: Julie Human (julie.human@uky.edu) 
 

Not Just Nazis: Political Medievalisms beyond the Far Right (virtual)

Sponsoring Organization: International Society for the Study of Medievalism
Organizer: Angela J. Weisl (angela.weisl@shu.edu) 
 

Notable Books in Medieval Germanic Studies (A Roundtable) (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Society for Medieval Germanic Studies (SMGS)
Organizer: Evelyn Meyer (evelyn.meyer@slu.edu) 

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Old Books, New Technologies (hybrid)

Sponsoring Organization: Early Book Society
Organizer: Martha W. Driver (mdriver@pace.edu) 
 

On Gowerian Style (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: John Gower Society
Organizer: Brian W. Gastle (bgastle@wcu.edu) 
 

Otherworlds (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: American Society of Irish Medieval Studies (ASIMS)
Sponsoring Organization: Monsters: The Experimental Association for the Research of Cryptozoology through Scholarly Theory and Practical Application (MEARCSTAPA)
Organizer: Melissa Ridley Elmes (MElmes@lindenwood.edu) 

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Palestine and Medieval Feminist Scholarship (hybrid)

Sponsoring Organization: Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship (SMFS)
Organizer: Emily R. Gerace
 

Papers by Undergraduates (in person)

Organizer: Richard Nicholas (rnicholas@stfrancis.edu) 
 

Para-Biblical Texts: Glosses, Prefaces, Dictionaries, Genealogies, Concordances, Distinctiones, and What They Say about the Medieval Bible (hybrid)

Sponsoring Organization: Society for the Study of the Bible in the Middle Ages (SSBMA)
Organizer: Frans van Liere (fvliere@calvin.edu) 
 

Pay No Attention to that Lachmann behind the Curtain: Restorative Queer and Trans Text Editing (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Society for Queer Medieval Studies (SQMS)
Organizer: Holly McArthur (hmcarthur@wisc.edu) 
Organizer: Felipe E. Rojas (felipe.rojas@westliberty.edu) 
 

Pearl's Gardens: Ecocritical and Environmental Humanities Approaches to Pearl (virtual)

Organizer: Gabrielle DaCosta-Yulsman (gjd2111@columbia.edu) 
 

Pedagogy and the Medieval in the Digital Age (hybrid)

Sponsoring Organization: The UNICORN Castle
Organizer: Carol L. Robinson (clrobins@kent.edu) 
 

Performing Le Roman de Silence (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship (SMFS)
Sponsoring Organization: Society for Queer Medieval Studies (SQMS)
Organizer: Sarah Barringer
 

Personal Narrative in Manuscripts and Printed Books (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Early Book Society
Organizer: Martha W. Driver (mdriver@pace.edu) 
 

Peter Lombard: University Master, Biblical Exegete, and Preacher (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: International Medieval Sermon Studies Society
Sponsoring Organization: Society for the Study of the Bible in the Middle Ages (SSBMA)
Organizer: Jessalynn L. Bird (jbird@saintmarys.edu) 
Organizer: Frans van Liere (fvliere@calvin.edu) 
 

Philologica and Ekdotica (virtual)

Sponsoring Organization: Platinum Latin
Sponsoring Organization: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library
Sponsoring Organization: World Philology Union
Organizer: Nicole Eddy
Organizer: Danuta Shanzer
 

Playing the Medieval Manuscript (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Game Cultures Society
Organizer: Sarah J. Sprouse (ssprouse@wtamu.edu) 
 

Playing with Gender: A Global History of Gender-Crossing Saints (hybrid)

Sponsoring Organization: Hagiography Society
Sponsoring Organization: Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship (SMFS)
Sponsoring Organization: Society for Queer Medieval Studies (SQMS)
Organizer: Maeve Callan
Organizer: Kartik Maini
 

Podcasting the Past: Innovations in Medieval Scholarship and Pedagogy (hybrid)

Sponsoring Organization: TEAMS (Teaching Association for Medieval Studies)
Organizer: Lindsay Pereira
 

Political Dynamics in the Age of Christine de Pizan (1360s–1430s) (hybrid)

Sponsoring Organization: International Christine de Pizan Society, North American Branch
Organizer: Charles-Louis Morand-Métivier (cmorandm@uvm.edu) 
 

Political Engagements of Medieval Studies (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures
Organizer: Julie Singer
 

Politics and the Psyche in the Piers Plowman Tradition (A Roundtable) (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: International Piers Plowman Society
Organizer: Paul Megna (Paul.megna@purchase.edu) 
Organizer: Spencer A Strub (spencer.strub@princeton.edu) 
 

Postpandemic Discourse in Literature and Art (virtual)

Organizer: Lorenz A. Hindrichsen (lorenz.hindrichsen@cis.dk) 
 

Pragmatics and Speech Act Theory in the Medieval Classroom (A Roundtable) (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Medieval Speech Act Society
Organizer: Michael S. Nagy (michael.nagy@sdstate.edu) 
 

Praying in the Vernacular: A Transnational View (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: When Danes Prayed in German
Sponsoring Organization: Pages of Prayer: The Ecosystem of Vernacular Prayer Books in the Late Medieval Low Countries, ca. 1380–1550
Organizer: Anna Dlabačová (a.dlabacova@hum.leidenuniv.nl) 
Organizer: Seán D. Vrieland (sean.vrieland@hum.ku.dk) 
 

Proverbs and/in Material Culture (A Roundtable) (hybrid)

Sponsoring Organization: Early Proverb Society (EPS)
Organizer: Johanna Kramer
Organizer: Sarah M. Anderson
 

Publishing as a Grad Student: A Follow-Up (A Roundtable) (hybrid)

Sponsoring Organization: Medieval Academy Graduate Student Committee
Organizer: Andrea Kate Klassen
Organizer: Charles Firestone East
 

Purgatory to Paradise: Visualizing the Iter Salvationis in Medieval Art (virtual)

Organizer: Fiammetta Campagnoli (fiammetta.campagnoli@gmail.com) 
 

Pushing the Boundary: Boundaries and Frontiers in the Medieval World (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Medieval People
Sponsoring Organization: Medieval Studies Research Group, Univ. of Lincoln
Organizer: Amy Livingstone

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Queer and Trans Medievalisms in Game Culture (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Society for Queer Medieval Studies (SQMS)
Organizer: Felipe E. Rojas (felipe.rojas@westliberty.edu) 
Organizer: William Rogers-MacDonald
 

Queer Occult Utopias (hybrid)

Sponsoring Organization: Societas Magica
Sponsoring Organization: Society for Queer Medieval Studies (SQMS)
Organizer: Alex Matthews (acmatthews@uchicago.edu) 
 

Queer Theorizing in Medieval Iberian Studies (A Roundtable) (hybrid)

Sponsoring Organization: La corónica: A Journal of Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Organizer: Emily C. Francomano
Organizer: Michelle M. Hamilton (hamilton@umn.edu) 
 

Queer(ing) Medieval Art (1): Seeing Queerly Now (A Workshop) (in person)

Organizer: Maeve K. Doyle (doylemae@easternct.edu) 
Organizer: Christopher T. Richards (crichard@colby.edu) 
 

Queer(ing) Medieval Art (2): New Horizons (in person)

Organizer: Maeve K. Doyle (doylemae@easternct.edu) 
Organizer: Christopher T. Richards (crichard@colby.edu) 

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Race and Racism in Premodern Hagiography (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Hagiography Society
Organizer: Hannah L. Jones (hjones3@binghamton.edu) 
 

Rædy Player One: Participation, Subjectivity, and the First-Person in Medievalist Games (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Program in Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS), Univ. of North Carolina–Chapel Hill
Sponsoring Organization: Critical Game Studies Initiative, Univ. of North Carolina–Chapel Hill
Organizer: Antonia DiNardo
 

Reading Aloud in Old French and Middle French (A Workshop) (in person)

Organizer: Tamara Bentley Caudill
 

Reading Aloud in Old Occitan (A Workshop) (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Société Guilhem IX
Organizer: Courtney Joseph Wells
 

Reading Medieval Texts Aloud (A Workshop) (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Sources of Old English and Anglo-Latin Literary Culture Project (SOEALLC)
Organizer: Benjamin D. Weber
Organizer: Brandon W. Hawk
Organizer: Amity Reading
 

Reading Old English Aloud (A Workshop) (in person)

Organizer: Christopher Vaccaro (cvaccaro@uvm.edu) 
 

Reading the Pearl-Poet Aloud (A Workshop) (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: International Pearl-Poet Society
Organizer: Amber Dunai (adunai@tamuct.edu) 
 

Reading Women in England, ca. 1150–1350 (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Early Middle English Society
Organizer: Carla María Thomas (carlathomas@fau.edu) 
 

(Re)building the Middle English Texts Series (1): Opportunities, Challenges, and Lessons Learned (A Roundtable) (hybrid)

Sponsoring Organization: Rossell Hope Robbins Library, Univ. of Rochester
Sponsoring Organization: TEAMS (Teaching Association for Medieval Studies)
Organizer: Anna Siebach-Larsen (annasiebachlarsen@rochester.edu) 
 

(Re)building the Middle English Texts Series (2): A Workshop on Using the New Digital Edition (hybrid)

Sponsoring Organization: Rossell Hope Robbins Library, Univ. of Rochester
Sponsoring Organization: TEAMS (Teaching Association for Medieval Studies)
Organizer: Anna Siebach-Larsen (annasiebachlarsen@rochester.edu) 
 

Reconceptions of European Literary History (1): How Do We Study Historical Text Traditions? (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Post-National Reconceptions of European Literary History (Post-REALM)
Organizer: Olivia Colquitt (olivia.colquitt@hhu.de) 
 

Reconceptions of European Literary History (2): Methods, Tools, and New Foundations (A Roundtable) (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Post-National Reconceptions of European Literary History (Post-REALM)
Organizer: Olivia Colquitt (olivia.colquitt@hhu.de) 
 

Red Reading the Premodern (hybrid)

Organizer: Sarah LaVoy-Brunette (sfl39@cornell.edu) 
Organizer: Brenna Duperron
 

Reform and Nostalgia (hybrid)

Organizer: Christopher Riedel
 

Reformation (1) Liminal Spaces and Borderlands: Constructing Alternative Social, Political, Theological Identities in the Long Reformation (virtual)

Sponsoring Organization: Society for Reformation Research
Organizer: Maureen Thum (mthum@umich.edu) 
Organizer: Kristin M. S. Bezio
Organizer: Edward A. Boyden
 

Reformation (2) Voices of the Persecuted and Marginalized: Martyrdom, Suffering, Healing and Loss during the Long Reformation (virtual)

Sponsoring Organization: Society for Reformation Research
Organizer: Maureen Thum (mthum@umich.edu) 
Organizer: Kristin M. S. Bezio
Organizer: Edward A. Boyden
 

Reformation (3) Literary Expressions of the Long Reformation (virtual)

Sponsoring Organization: Society for Reformation Research
Organizer: Maureen Thum (mthum@umich.edu) 
Organizer: Kristin M. S. Bezio
Organizer: Edward A. Boyden
 

Reformation (4) Compliance, Resistance, Power and Control: Women's Gains and Losses in the Reformation (virtual)

Sponsoring Organization: Society for Reformation Research
Organizer: Maureen Thum (mthum@umich.edu) 
Organizer: Kristin M. S. Bezio
Organizer: Edward A. Boyden
 

Relational Approaches to the Indigenous Turn (in person)

Organizer: Sarah LaVoy-Brunette (sfl39@cornell.edu) 
Organizer: Jordan Chauncy
 

Remembering What's Missing: Lapses in Joan of Arc's History and Memory (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: International Joan of Arc Society/Société Internationale de l'étude de Jeanne d'Arc
Organizer: Tara Beth Smithson (tsmithson@saintmarys.edu) 
Organizer: Scott Manning (scottmanning13@gmail.com) 
 

Rending the Veil: The Rupture of Image and Text in Medieval Apocalypse Commentaries (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Research Group on Manuscript Evidence
Organizer: Vajra Regan (vajra.regan@mail.utoronto.ca) 
Organizer: Mildred Budny (mildredbudny@gmail.com) 
 

Re-Reading, Re-Writing, and Re-Playing: Video Game Adaptations of Classical and Medieval Mythologies (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Center for Premodern Studies, Univ. of Minnesota–Twin Cities
Organizer: Michelle M. Hamilton (hamilton@umn.edu) 
Organizer: Karen E. Soto
 

Return of the Franchise: Twenty-First-Century Continuations of Tolkien's Medievalism (hybrid)

Sponsoring Organization: Tales after Tolkien Society
Sponsoring Organization: Tolkien at Kalamazoo
Organizer: Rachel Sikorski
Organizer: Yvette Kisor (ykisor@ramapo.edu) 
 

Romancing the Monster (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Monsters: The Experimental Association for the Research of Cryptozoology through Scholarly Theory and Practical Application (MEARCSTAPA)
Sponsoring Organization: American Society of Irish Medieval Studies (ASIMS)
Organizer: Melissa Ridley Elmes (MElmes@lindenwood.edu) 
 

Roundtable on Nicholas of Cusa's On Learned Ignorance: A Commentary by Karsten Harries (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: American Cusanus Society
Organizer: Erin Risch Zoutendam (erin.zoutendam@shu.edu) 
 

Royal Images of Power: Portrait Medals, Coins, and Seals (virtual)

Sponsoring Organization: Royal Studies Network
Organizer: Valerie E. Schutte
 

Rules of the Game (A Roundtable) (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Game Cultures Society
Organizer: Sarah J. Sprouse (ssprouse@wtamu.edu) 
 

Runes et al. (virtual)

Sponsoring Organization: RuneS
Organizer: Gaby M. Waxenberger (gaby.waxenberger@adwgoe.de) 
Organizer: Kerstin Kazzazi (kerstin.kazzazi@ku.de) 

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Sacred Sustenance: Food and Religious Identity in the Medieval World (in person)

Organizer: Leila Al-Shibibi (la23h@fsu.edu) 
 

Saints and Sinners in Medieval Iberia (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain (AARHMS)
Sponsoring Organization: Hagiography Society
Organizer: Maeve Callan
Organizer: Kyle C. Lincoln
 

Saints in the Making: Exploring Medieval Autohagiography (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Hagiography Society
Organizer: Margaret McCurry (mm9659@nyu.edu) 
 

"Sandalphon, send me a dream": Dream Books, Spells, Divination, Incubation, and Interpretation (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Research Group on Manuscript Evidence
Sponsoring Organization: Polytheism-Oriented Medievalists of North America (P-OMoNA)
Sponsoring Organization: Societas Magica
Organizer: Dr. Claire L. Fanger (claire@celestiscuria.org) 
Organizer: Phillip A. Bernhardt-House (phillip.bernhardthouse@gmail.com) 
 

"Sapchatz qu'es veritatz": Old Occitan as a Language of Nonfiction (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Société Guilhem IX
Organizer: Courtney Joseph Wells
 

Scales of Devotion: Relative Size and Embodied Religious Experience (in person)

Organizer: Cecily E. Hughes (ceh145@case.edu) 
Organizer: Rebekkah C. Hart
 

Scanderbeg: Medieval Balkan Hero (hybrid)

Organizer: David Hosaflook (protestantinstitute@gmail.com) 
Organizer: Etleva Lala
 

Scandinavian Studies (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies
Organizer: Shaun F. D. Hughes (sfdh@purdue.edu) 
 

Scary Stories: Sites of Horror in Medieval Iberia (hybrid)

Sponsoring Organization: Ibero-Medieval Association of North America (IMANA)
Organizer: Robin M. Bower
 

Science and Magic in the Brut Tradition (hybrid)

Sponsoring Organization: Society for International Brut Studies
Organizer: Kenneth Tiller (kjt9t@uvawise.edu) 
 

Seeing What We Cannot Hear: Linguistic Approaches to Medieval Languages (virtual)

Sponsoring Organization: Society for Medieval Languages and Linguistics
Organizer: Andrew Troup (atroup@csub.edu) 
 

Session in Honor of Elizabeth J. Bryan: Collaborative Meaning and the Brut Texts (hybrid)

Sponsoring Organization: Society for International Brut Studies
Organizer: Kenneth Tiller (kjt9t@uvawise.edu) 
 

Shakespeare's Games (A Workshop) (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Shakespeare at Kalamazoo
Organizer: Nora L. Corrigan
 

Shakespeare's Medieval Royals (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Shakespeare at Kalamazoo
Organizer: Sarah Waters (sarah.waters@buckingham.ac.uk) 
 

Shakespeare's Troubled Moralities (A Roundtable) (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Shakespeare at Kalamazoo
Organizer: Joe Ricke (jsricke@outlook.com) 
 

Sidney and Spenser at Kalamazoo (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Spenser at Kalamazoo
Sponsoring Organization: International Sidney Society
Organizer: David Wilson-Okamura (david@virgil.org) 
Organizer: Brad D. Tuggle (bdtuggle@ua.edu) 
 

Sisterhood of the Traveling Song: Gendered Voices in Religious and Secular Lyric (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: International Courtly Literature Society (ICLS), North American Branch
Organizer: Christopher J. Callahan
Organizer: Julie Human (julie.human@uky.edu) 
 

Slowly Engaging with the Indigenous Turn (A Roundtable) (in person)

Organizer: Tarren Andrews
Organizer: Sarah LaVoy-Brunette (sfl39@cornell.edu) 
 

Soundscapes (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Musicology at Kalamazoo
Organizer: Henry T. Drummond
Organizer: Melanie Batoff
 

Sources at Sixty (A Roundtable) (virtual)

Sponsoring Organization: Sources of Old English and Anglo-Latin Literary Culture Project (SOEALLC)
Organizer: Benjamin D. Weber
Organizer: Brandon W. Hawk
Organizer: Amity Reading
 

Sticks and Stones: Runes and Crosses in the Medieval English Landscape (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Richard Rawlinson Center
Sponsoring Organization: Chancery Hill Books and Antiques
Organizer: Thomas A. Bredehoft (tabrede@gmail.com) 
 

Studies in Old Saxon (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Old Saxon at Kalamazoo
Organizer: David Eugene Clark (clarkd@sunysuffolk.edu) 
Organizer: Perry Neil Harrison (PNHarrison@fhsu.edu) 
 

Studies of Medieval Woodwork in Memory of Charles Tracy, F.S.A. (1938–2024) (hybrid)

Organizer: Sarah Blick (blicks@kenyon.edu) 

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Teaching Medieval Gender and Sexuality: Strategies, Methods, and Joys (in person)

Organizer: Emily E. Jay
 

Teaching Medieval Latin Texts by Women (A Roundtable) (hybrid)

Organizer: Skye Alta Shirley
 

Teaching Queer and Trans in Medieval Literature (A Roundtable) (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Society for Queer Medieval Studies (SQMS)
Organizer: Madison Noel Gehling
Organizer: Felipe E. Rojas (felipe.rojas@westliberty.edu) 
 

Teaching the Divide: Methods for Teaching Works between Chaucer and Shakespeare (A Roundtable) (hybrid)

Sponsoring Organization: Lydgate Society
Organizer: Matthew Evan Davis (matthew@matthewedavis.net) 
 

Teaching the Saints (A Roundtable) (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Hagiography Society
Organizer: Laura Ackerman Smoller
 

Temporalities: Lived Time and Modern Approaches to Medieval Time (hybrid)

Sponsoring Organization: Institute for Medieval Studies, Univ. of Leeds
Organizer: Iona McCleery (i.mccleery@leeds.ac.uk) 
Organizer: Axel Müller
 

Text, Image, and Musical Practice (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Musicology at Kalamazoo
Organizer: Henry T. Drummond
Organizer: Alison Altstatt
Organizer: Melanie Batoff
 

Text, Image, Object: Material Hagiography and Extra-Textual Representations of Saints (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Hagiography Society
Organizer: Heidi Zmick
 

The Almost-Major Poems: Cleanness, Patience, and St. Erkenwald (virtual)

Sponsoring Organization: International Pearl-Poet Society
Organizer: Amber Dunai (adunai@tamuct.edu) 
 

The Bad Book: Censorship, Suppression, and/or Naughty Texts (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Early Book Society
Organizer: Martha W. Driver (mdriver@pace.edu) 
 

The Best Sources You've Never Heard Of: Queer and Trans Philology in Action (A Roundtable) (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Society for Queer Medieval Studies (SQMS)
Organizer: Bridget Whearty (bwhearty@binghamton.edu) 
Organizer: Felipe E. Rojas (felipe.rojas@westliberty.edu) 
 

The Busy-ness of Gower's ''Businesse'' (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: John Gower Society
Organizer: Brian W. Gastle (bgastle@wcu.edu) 
 

The Canterbury Fails: Live and in Person (A Roundtable) (in person)

Organizer: David K. Coley (david_coley@sfu.ca) 
Organizer: Matthew Hussey (mhussey@sfu.ca) 
 

The Care and Keeping of Medieval Documents (hybrid)

Sponsoring Organization: International Society of Medievalist Librarians
Organizer: Allison M. McCormack (allie.mccormack@utah.edu) 
 

The Church in the Fourteenth Century (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: 14th Century Society
Sponsoring Organization: Episcopus: Society for the Study of Bishops and Secular Clergy in the Middle Ages
Organizer: Sarah Ifft Decker
Organizer: Kyle C. Lincoln
 

The Church in Medieval Iberia (1): Reform (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies
Sponsoring Organization: American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain (AARHMS)
Organizer: Jessica A. Boon
Organizer: Burton Westermeier
 

The Church in Medieval Iberia (2): Institutions (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain (AARHMS)
Sponsoring Organization: Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies
Sponsoring Organization: Episcopus: Society for the Study of Bishops and Secular Clergy in the Middle Ages
Organizer: Kyle C. Lincoln
 

The Classics and the Vernacular in Medieval English Literature (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Medieval Studies Program, Yale Univ.
Organizer: Angus C. B. Warren (angus.warren@yale.edu) 
Organizer: Kamila Kaminska-Palarczyk (kamila.kaminska-palarczyk@yale.edu) 
 

The Cultures of Georgia and Armenia (virtual)

Sponsoring Organization: Rare Book Dept., The Free Library of Philadelphia
Organizer: Bert K. Beynen (kesaphela@aol.com) 
 

The Enigmatic Beowulf (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Medieval Studies Research Blog, Univ. of Notre Dame
Sponsoring Organization: Journal of Early Medieval Northwestern Europe (JEMNE)
Organizer: Chris Vinsonhaler
Organizer: Richard Fahey (rfahey@nd.edu) 
 

The Epic Enigma of Beowulf: Riddling the Grendel Episode: A Bardic Performance in Modern English (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Medieval Studies Research Blog, Univ. of Notre Dame
Sponsoring Organization: Journal of Early Medieval Northwestern Europe (JEMNE)
Organizer: Richard Fahey (rfahey@nd.edu) 
 

The Eye of the Beholder: Courtly Representations of Beauty (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: International Courtly Literature Society (ICLS), North American Branch
Sponsoring Organization: International Courtly Literature Society (ICLS), North American Branch
Organizer: Julie Human (julie.human@uky.edu) 
 

The Future of Legal History: Papers from the Johnson First Book Mentorship Program in Early Medieval Law (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: The Wallace Johnson First Book Mentorship Program in Early Medieval Law
Organizer: Andrew Rabin
 

The Future of the Medieval Past: AI and the Digital Humanities (A Roundtable) (virtual)

Sponsoring Organization: Medieval Association of the Midwest (MAM)
Sponsoring Organization: International Pearl-Poet Society
Organizer: Tory Schendel-Vyvoda
Organizer: Mickey M. Sweeney (msweeney@dom.edu) 
Organizer: Amber Dunai (adunai@tamuct.edu) 
 

The Global Middle Ages: Non-European Perspectives (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Studies in the Age of Chaucer
Organizer: Michelle Karnes
Organizer: Misty Schieberle
 

The "Human" in Digital Humanities (A Roundtable) (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures
Organizer: Julie Singer

 

The Investiture Controversy: A Reacting to the Past Game in Development (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: The Reacting Consortium
Sponsoring Organization: Episcopus: Society for the Study of Bishops and Secular Clergy in the Middle Ages
Organizer: William H. Campbell (whc7@pitt.edu) 
Organizer: Kyle C. Lincoln
 

The Late Medieval: Discussing a Period of Changes and Its Impacts (hybrid)

Sponsoring Organization: Univ. Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM)
Organizer: Francisco de Paula Souza de Mendonça (kirijy@gmail.com) 
Organizer: Augusto Machado Rocha (Augusto.Rocha@colorado.edu) 
 

The Limits of the Human in the Works of Marie de France (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: International Marie de France Society
Organizer: Joseph R. Johnson (jj892@georgetown.edu) 
Organizer: Karen Casey Casebier
 

The Meaning of Raptus (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Studies in the Age of Chaucer
Organizer: Michelle Karnes
Organizer: Misty Schieberle
 

The Medieval End/Medieval Ends/End of the Medieval? (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Medieval Association of the Midwest (MAM)
Organizer: Tory Schendel-Vyvoda
Organizer: Amity Reading
 

The Medieval Receptions of the Josephan Tradition: The State of the Question (A Roundtable) (hybrid)

Organizer: Karen M. Kletter (kkletter@methodist.edu) 
Organizer: Carson Bay (cbay@kennesaw.edu) 
 

The Medieval Roots of the Poems of J. R. R. Tolkien (A Roundtable) (hybrid)

Sponsoring Organization: Tolkien at Kalamazoo
Organizer: Christopher Vaccaro (cvaccaro@uvm.edu) 
Organizer: Yvette Kisor (ykisor@ramapo.edu) 
 

The Medieval Tradition of Natural Law (hybrid)

Organizer: Harvey Brown (hbrown2@uwo.ca) 
 

The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999) Revisited (A Roundtable) (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: International Joan of Arc Society / Société Internationale de l'étude de Jeanne d'Arc
Organizer: Scott Manning (scottmanning13@gmail.com) 
 

The Middle Ages Reloaded: Activism, Public Engagement, and Political Realities (A Roundtable) (in person)

Organizer: Larisa Grollemond (lgrollemond@getty.edu) 
Organizer: Laura Tillery (ltillery@hamilton.edu) 
 

The Modern Independent Scholar in the Medieval Research World: Becoming a Digital Detective (virtual)

Sponsoring Organization: American Society of Dorothy L. Sayers Studies
Organizer: Barbara L. Prescott (bprescott125@gmail.com) 
 

The Narrative Adaptation of Death in German(ic) Literature and Culture from the Early Medieval to the Early Modern Periods (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Society for Medieval Germanic Studies (SMGS)
Organizer: Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand (hellenbranda@appstate.edu) 
Organizer: Ernst Ralf Hintz (ehintz@truman.edu) 
 

The Natural World in Medieval Thought (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Medieval Association of the Midwest (MAM)
Organizer: Tory Schendel-Vyvoda
Organizer: Rosanne Gasse (gasse@brandonu.ca) 
 

The Nova Festa across English Culture (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Memorial Univ. of Newfoundland
Sponsoring Organization: Institute for Medieval Research, Univ. of Nottingham
Organizer: Benjamin S.W. Barootes (bbarootes@mun.ca) 
Organizer: Rob Lutton (rob.lutton@nottingham.ac.uk) 
 

The Ordinary and the Extraordinary in the Book History Classroom (A Roundtable) (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Bibliographical Society of America
Sponsoring Organization: Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale Univ.
Organizer: Gina Marie Hurley
Organizer: Katherine Storm Hindley
Organizer: Agnieszka Rec
 

The Other(ed) Kings: A Roundtable on Arthurian Kings (not Arthur) and Otherness (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: International Arthurian Society, North American Branch (IAS/NAB)
Organizer: Joseph M. Sullivan
Organizer: Alice G. Fulmer (alicefulmer@ucsb.edu) 
Organizer: Maiya R. Xirinachs (mxirinachs2017@fau.edu) 
 

The Pleasures of the Arthurian Text: A Conversation about Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (A Roundtable) (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Arthuriana
Organizer: Dorsey Armstrong (sarmstr@purdue.edu) 
Organizer: Laurie A. Finke
 

The Potential History of Contradictory Theology (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: American Cusanus Society
Organizer: Samuel Dubbelman (Samuel.dubbelman@lts.edu) 
 

The Power of Love: Affection and Authority in Courtly Settings (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: International Courtly Literature Society (ICLS), North American Branch
Sponsoring Organization: International Arthurian Society, North American Branch (IAS/NAB)
Organizer: Shawn Phillip Cooper
Organizer: Joseph M. Sullivan
Organizer: Julie Human (julie.human@uky.edu) 
 

The Role(s) of Generative AI in Medieval Studies? (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Journal of Early Medieval Northwestern Europe (JEMNE)
Organizer: Deanna Forsman
 

The Shipman's Tale: A Performance in Memory of Paul Thomas (in person)

Organizer: Susan Yager (syager@iastate.edu) 
 

The Spectral Anchorhold (A Roundtable) (hybrid)

Sponsoring Organization: International Anchoritic Society
Organizer: Michelle M. Sauer
Organizer: Liz Herbert McAvoy
 

The TEAMS Bonnie Wheeler Session: The Seductions of Chivalry (hybrid)

Sponsoring Organization: TEAMS (Teaching Association for Medieval Studies)
Organizer: Gale Sigal (sigal@wfu.edu) 
 

The Theology and Practice of Hospitality in Medieval Benedictine Monasteries (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: American Benedictine Academy
Organizer: Hugh Bernard Feiss (hughf@idahomonks.org) 
 

The Tristan Tale as Text: Poetic and Pragmatic Language Use in Translations of the Tristan Legend (virtual)

Sponsoring Organization: American Society of Dorothy L. Sayers Studies
Organizer: Barbara L. Prescott (bprescott125@gmail.com) 
 

The UNICORN Castle Demonstration and Workshop (virtual)

Sponsoring Organization: The UNICORN Castle
Organizer: Carol L. Robinson (clrobins@kent.edu) 
 

The Vernacular Bible: Translation and Adaptation (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Society for the Study of the Bible in the Middle Ages (SSBMA)
Organizer: Frans van Liere (fvliere@calvin.edu) 
Organizer: Jeanette Patterson
 

The Women of Le Roman de Tristan: Considering the Narrative and Metaphorical Significance of Female Protagonists in the Tristan Legend from Twelfth-Century Literature to Modern Media (virtual)

Sponsoring Organization: American Society of Dorothy L. Sayers Studies
Organizer: Barbara L. Prescott (bprescott125@gmail.com) 
 

Theorizing Sexual Consent: Medieval/Modern (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Exemplaria: Medieval / Early Modern / Theory
Organizer: Carissa M. Harris
Organizer: Charles L. Samuelson
 

Thomas Aquinas (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Thomas Aquinas Society
Organizer: Robert J. Barry (rbarry@providence.edu) 
 

Thomistic Philosophy (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Center for Thomistic Studies, Univ. of St. Thomas, Houston
Organizer: Steven J. Jensen
 

Time for Women? Gender, Chronology, and Historiography before 900 (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: GENCHRON Research Project
Organizer: Mairin MacCarron (mairin.maccarron@ucc.ie) 
 

Time, Tempo, and Storytelling in Merovingian Gaul (in person)

Organizer: Yaniv Fox
Organizer: Michaela J. R. Selway
 

Times of Crisis: Medieval Responses (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Taiwan Association of Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies (TACMRS)
Organizer: Carolyn F. Scott (cscott@mail.ncku.edu.tw) 
 

'Tis (Not) But a Scratch: New Directions in Medieval Graffitological Scholarship (hybrid)

Organizer: Sarah E Frisbie
 

Tolkien and Medieval Feminisms (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Tolkien at Kalamazoo
Organizer: Christopher Vaccaro (cvaccaro@uvm.edu) 
Organizer: Yvette Kisor (ykisor@ramapo.edu) 
 

Tolkien and Old Norse (hybrid)

Sponsoring Organization: Tolkien at Kalamazoo
Organizer: Yvette Kisor (ykisor@ramapo.edu) 
Organizer: Christopher Vaccaro (cvaccaro@uvm.edu) 
 

Tortured Poets: Verse and Violence in Courtly Literature (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: International Courtly Literature Society (ICLS), North American Branch
Organizer: Shawn Phillip Cooper
Organizer: Julie Human (julie.human@uky.edu) 
 

Trans* Play: Queering Medieval Drama, Performance, and Adaptation (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society (MRDS)
Organizer: Jenna Soleo-Shanks (jsoleosh@d.umn.edu) 
 

Transforming Silence: Black Feminist Approaches to Medieval Silence, Speech, and Survival (A Roundtable) (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: English Department, Temple Univ.
Organizer: Sarah Baechle
Organizer: Carissa M. Harris
 

Transmission, Translation, and Transformation in Machaut (hybrid)

Sponsoring Organization: International Machaut Society
Organizer: Tamsyn Mahoney-Steel
 

Twelfth-Century Thought on Eternal Life (A Roundtable) (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Cistercian and Monastic Studies
Organizer: Joseph Van House
Organizer: Tyler Sergent (sergentf@berea.edu) 
 

Twenty-First Century Perspectives on the Medievalist Writings of Sigrid Undset (hybrid)

Organizer: Cynthia C. Rostankowski (cynthia.rostankowski@sjsu.edu) 

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Ugly Feelings in Medieval English Literature (hybrid)

Organizer: Annette Kern-Stähler
Organizer: Mary C. Flannery
 

Urban Vikings (in person)

Organizer: Mary A. Valante

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Vernacular Urban Political Theology: Italy and the Low Countries (virtual)

Organizer: Stephen Surh (ss138@wellesley.edu) 
Organizer: Chase Padusniak (chasejp@princeton.edu) 
 

Vikings on the Periphery of Society (A Roundtable) (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Univ. of Florida
Organizer: Valerie Dawn Hampton (vhampton@ufl.edu) 
 

Violence, Trauma, and Alienation in Medieval and Early Modern Crusading Texts and Images (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Univ. of Tennessee-Knoxville
Organizer: Anne-Helene M. Miller
 

Vision as Faith: Sensing the Divine in Byzantium (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture
Organizer: Ioanna Christoforaki
Organizer: Brandie Ratliff (mjcbac@hchc.edu) 
 

Voicing the Other (in person)

Organizer: Jason Jacobs
Organizer: Julie Singer

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Ways of Seeing Islamic Maps (A Roundtable) (hybrid)

Organizer: Karen C. Pinto
 

Wayward Wills and Animal Appetites (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Program in Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS), Univ. of North Carolina–Chapel Hill
Organizer: Isabel G. T. Howard (ihoward@unc.edu) 
Organizer: Alexander L. Brock (abrock@princeton.edu) 
 

Who Is She? Medieval Responses to Shifting Ideas of Womanhood (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Magistra: A Journal of Women's Spirituality in History
Organizer: Anne E. Crafton (acrafto2@nd.edu) 
Organizer: Macie Sweet (msweet2@nd.edu) 
Organizer: Kristina Kummerer (kkummere@nd.edu) 
 

Wisdom and Authority: The Proverb as Revolt and Regulation (hybrid)

Sponsoring Organization: Early Proverb Society (EPS)
Organizer: Johanna Kramer
Organizer: Sarah M. Anderson
 

Wise Words and Worldbuilding: Forms of Wisdom in Medievalizing Speculative Fiction (virtual)

Sponsoring Organization: Early Proverb Society (EPS)
Organizer: Johanna Kramer
Organizer: Sarah M. Anderson
 

Women and Games: Relationships and Representations (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Game Cultures Society
Organizer: Sarah J. Sprouse (ssprouse@wtamu.edu) 
 

Women and Manuscripts: Questions of Authorship (hybrid)

Sponsoring Organization: Research Group on Manuscript Evidence
Organizer: Jaclyn A. Reed
Organizer: Mildred Budny (mildredbudny@gmail.com) 
 

Women in Machaut: Patrons and Protagonists (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: International Machaut Society
Organizer: Tamsyn Mahoney-Steel
Organizer: Elizabeth J. Harper (ejh5sp@virginia.edu) 
 

Women, Objects, and Space (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Medieval People
Sponsoring Organization: Haskins Society
Organizer: Amy Livingstone
Organizer: Laura L. Gathagan (laura.gathagan@cortland.edu) 
 

Women's Books: Owners, Makers, Patrons (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Early Book Society
Organizer: Martha W. Driver (mdriver@pace.edu) 
 

Women's Productive Work in Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Agricultural, Textile, Glass, and More (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship (SMFS)
Organizer: Karen Eva Carr
 

Women's Work in Cistercian and Monastic Theology (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Cistercian and Monastic Studies
Organizer: Jason R. Crow (Jason.crow@monash.edu) 
Organizer: Tyler Sergent (sergentf@berea.edu) 
 

Workshop on Ibero-Romance Paleography (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies (HSMS)
Organizer: Pablo Pastrana-Pérez
 

World-Building and Mapping the Lay Imaginary (in person)

Organizer: Kimberly Tate Anderson (andersonkt@vmi.edu) 
 

Worshiping the Ashes, Passing on the Fire: Greek Anatolia and Its Identities after 1204 (in person)

Organizer: Daniel J. Berardino (daniel_berardino@berkeley.edu) 
Organizer: Massimiliano Dalmasso (md9214@princeton.edu) 
 

Writing at Helfta (hybrid)

Sponsoring Organization: Cistercian and Monastic Studies
Sponsoring Organization: Hagiography Society
Sponsoring Organization: Magistra: A Journal of Women's Spirituality in History
Organizer: Ella Johnson
Organizer: Anna Harrison (annaharrison@lmu.edu) 
Organizer: Tyler Sergent (sergentf@berea.edu) 

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York Plays Now! (in person)

Sponsoring Organization: Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society (MRDS)
Organizer: Matthew Evan Davis (matthew@matthewedavis.net) 
 

Zero to Hero: Recovering Neglected Romances (in person)

Organizer: Kristin Burr