60th Congress Program

The 60th International Congress on Medieval Studies takes place Thursday, May 8, through Saturday, May 10, 2025. 

Corrigenda

Updated: March 26, 2025.

10:00 a.m.–11:30 a.m. EDT
  • 3  Between Hope and Despair: Forms of Consolation in the Greater/Global Fifteenth Century. Kandace Brill Lombart is an independent scholar.
  • 12  Medievalism on the Small Screen. The paper by Carol L. Robinson and Angela J. Weisl has been withdrawn.
  • 31  Lost Manuscripts and Printed Books. The paper by Ana Sáez-Hidalgo has been withdrawn. The presider is Martha W. Driver.
12:00 p.m.–1:00 p.m. EDT
  • The Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society Executive Luncheon will take place in the Student Center 3203 (Fireplace Lounge).

1:30 p.m.–3:00 p.m. EDT 
  • 51  The "Human" in Digital Humanities (A Roundtable). The presider is Emily C. Francomano.

  • 61  Medieval Ecocriticisms (1): Animals. The paper by Ben Tilghman has been withdrawn.

  • 72  The Church in Medieval Iberia (1): Reform. The paper by Alejandro Pombo-Rial has been withdrawn.

  • 76  On Gowerian Style. The paper by R. F. Yeager has been withdrawn.

  • 78  Jewish-Christian Interaction in the Middle Ages (1): Anti-Jewish Polemics. The paper by Yosi Yisraeli has been withdrawn.

3:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m. EDT
  • 93  Teaching the Divide: Methods for Teaching Works between Chaucer and Shakespeare (A Roundtable). The session will be held virtually.

  • 97  Dante and Ovid (2). The paper by Paola M. Rodriguez has been moved to session 55, Dante and Ovid (1).

  • 101  Law as Culture XXV (2): Conquest, Castles, and Prisoners. The paper by Isaac Amon has been withdrawn.

  • 127  Judeo-Greek across the Centuries: Tracing Greek-Speaking Jews and Their Literatures. The paper by Meron M. Piotrkowski has been withdrawn.

  • 128  Medieval Monsters as Modern Monsters (3): Recovering the Medieval Legacy of Modern Monsters. The paper by Shweta Gupta has been withdrawn.

6:00 p.m.–7:00 p.m. EDT 
  • The Different Visions Reception will take place in Student Center 2207.

  • The John Gower Society Business Meeting will take place in Student Center 3222.

  • The Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society Business Meeting will take place in Sangren 1310.

7:00 p.m.–8:30 p.m. EDT
  • 142  Deconstructing Viking Bodies. The paper by Jacquelyn Truitt has been withdrawn.

10:00 a.m.–11:30 a.m. EDT
  • 154  Dante (1). The paper by Beatrice Arduini has been withdrawn.

  • 183  Teaching Medieval Gender and Sexuality: Strategies, Methods, and Joys. The session has been withdrawn.
12:00 p.m.–1:00 p.m. EDT
  • The Hagiography Society Luncheon will take place in the Student Center 3203 (Fireplace Lounge).

1:30 p.m.–3:00 p.m. EDT
  • 201  Dante (2). The paper by Giovanna de Campos Mauro has been withdrawn.

  • 221  Bishops and Secular Clergy of Medieval Italy (1). The paper by Peter Michael Michelli has been withdrawn.

  • 223  Cistercian Mysticism (1). The paper by Aage Rydstrøm-Poulsen has been withdrawn.

  • 226  Early Medieval Europe (2). The paper by Sean R. T. Karnani-Stewart has been withdrawn.

3:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m. EDT
  • 275  Politics and the Psyche in the Piers Plowman Tradition (A Roundtable). The presider is R. D. Perry.

  • 282  Religious Women and Community. The presider is Macie Sweet.

6:00 p.m.–7:00 p.m. EDT
  • The Italian Studies@Kalamazoo Business Meeting will take place in Student Center 3205.

7:00 p.m.–8:30 p.m. EDT
  • 303  New Approaches to Carolingian and Post-Carolingian Sources. The paper by Daniel F. Melleno has been withdrawn.

10:00 a.m.–11:30 a.m. EDT
  • 324  New Research on Apocrypha across Traditions. The session has been withdrawn.

  • 331  Daily Life and Lived Experience: Critical Approaches. Kandace Brill Lombart is an independent scholar.

  • 335  Cistercian Sermons. The presider is Marsha L. Dutton.

  • 337  Medieval Monsters and Monstrosity. The paper by Morgan Connor has been withdrawn.

  • 346  Jinnitalia: Sex in the Spirit World. The session has been withdrawn.

12:00 p.m.–1:00 p.m. EDT 
  • The International Arthurian Society Business Meeting will take place in Student Center 3203 (Fireplace Lounge).

1:30 p.m.–3:00 p.m. EDT 
  • 362  Queer(ing) Medieval Art (1): New Horizons. The session will take place in Sangren 2720, and it will run as a hybrid event.

  • 369  Exploring Complaint in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period: Traditions and Transformations of Complaint. The session has been withdrawn.

  • 378  1381 After January 6th (A Roundtable). The presider is Paul Megna.

  • 388  Praying in the Vernacular: A Transnational View (2): Medieval Approaches to Prayer. The paper by Robin Koch has been moved to session 351Praying in the Vernacular: A Transnational View (1): From Latin to the Vernacular.

  • 389  Medieval Practices of Adaptation (1): Holy, Improved. The title of the paper by Britt Mize is “Rhizomic, Interjective, and Collage Adaptation: Modes of Remaking in Old and Middle English Verse.”

  • 390  C. S. Lewis and the Middle Ages (1): The Problem of Grief. The paper by Jim D. Stockton has been withdrawn.

3:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m. EDT
  • 409  Temporalities (2): Story Time. The paper by Lainie A. Pomerleau has been withdrawn.

  • 415  Global Medievalisms from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century. The paper by Andrew Hollinger has been withdrawn.

  • 425  Bishops, Clerics, and Digital Medievalists (A Roundtable). The presider is Andrew Reeves.

7:00 p.m.–8:30 p.m. EDT
  • 453  The Pseudo Society Session. The paper by Scott L. Randby and Carol L. Robinson has been withdrawn.

  • 439  Connecting Medieval Studies to Core Standards in Elementary and Secondary Classroom Instruction (A Roundtable). Tai French will not participate in this roundtable.

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