59th Congress Program

10:00 a.m.–11:30 a.m. EDT

6  "Jewish-Christian Interaction in the Middle Ages (1)." The paper by Mohamed Ahmed Enab has been moved to session 101, "Jewish-Christian Interaction in the Middle Ages (2)."

10  "Breaking Down Bodies." The paper by Baylee Staufenbield has been withdrawn.

14  "Medieval Ibero-Romance Languages: Alfonso X's Scriptorium and the Digital Humanities." The paper by Norma Schifano and Aengus Ward has been withdrawn. The session will be recorded.

21  "Viking Studies and the Medieval North: New Approaches." The paper by Hannah S. Evans has been withdrawn.

23  "Hiberno- and Anglo-Latin Studies." The paper by Stephen H. Harrison has been withdrawn. Chiyoko Inosaki’s affiliation is Kyoto Univ. of Advanced Science.

35  "Gender and Nature (1): Gendered Animals." The session has been withdrawn. The paper by Polina Ignatova has been moved to session 89, "Gender and Nature (2): Liquid Gender."

41  "Churches and Communities." The session will not be recorded.

46  "How Interdisciplinary Can We Be? (Re)Conceiving the Scope of Medieval Studies Today (A Roundtable)." Sofia Barroso Catalão will not participate in this roundtable.

12:00 p.m.–1:00 p.m. EDT

The International Alain Chartier Society and Jean Gerson Society Business Meeting will take place online.

1:30 p.m.–3:00 p.m. EDT

62  "Notre Dame in Color (1): Aesthetics and Meanings of Color." The paper by Jennifer Roth-Burnette has been moved to session 228, "Notre Dame in Color (3): Technologies to Visualize Color."

66  "Alfredian Texts and Contexts." The paper by Matthew Gillis has been withdrawn.

67  "The AI-Generated Middle Ages: The Pitfalls and the Potentials (A Roundtable)." Kevin Quillen will not participate in this roundtable.

68  "Intersecting Iberias: Disability, Gender, and Race." The paper by Ana B. Cano-Carrillo has been withdrawn.

76  "Performing Rituals and Ritual Performance of the Middle Ages (1): Cultural Presentations and Representations (A Roundtable)." Stephen Yeager will participate in this roundtable.

78  "Papers by Undergraduates (1)." The paper by Lasya Ravulapati has been withdrawn.

88  "Prognostication, Palliation, and Prayer from Manuscript to Print." The presider is Katherine Storm Hindley.

90  "Belligerent Saints: Violence in Eastern Christian Hagiography (1): Greek Sources." The session has been withdrawn. The papers by Thomas E. Schweigert and Benjamin Hansen have been moved to session 146, "Belligerent Saints: Violence in Eastern Christian Hagiography (2): Byzantium and Beyond."

94  "Comparative Approaches to the Global Middle Ages." The paper by Zhao Lv has been withdrawn.

95  "Contexts and Contacts of Early Middle English." The paper by Matthew Aiello has been withdrawn.

96  "Depicting the Holy." The paper by Nirit Debby Ben Aryeh has been withdrawn.

99  "Here Be Dragons: Tolkien at the Medieval Margins." The title of Kristine A. Swank’s paper is "Ireland on the Margins of Middle-earth."

102  "Language, Power, Geography (2)." The paper by Annalisa Bocchetti has been withdrawn.

105  "New Research on the Art and Architecture of the Medieval Parish Church (2)." The paper by Mariana Castro Barreira has been withdrawn.

3:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m. EDT

109  "Thomas Aquinas (3)." The paper by Valentina Spune has been withdrawn.

116  "Mester de clerecía: 800 Years Later (2): Literary History and Appropriations." The presider is Paul Larson. 

120  "The Junius Manuscript." The paper by K. H. K. Shimabukuro has been withdrawn.

122  "The Afterlives of Medieval Pageantry and Processional Cultures." The paper by Clare Whitton has been withdrawn.

127  "Holy Bishops: Bishops, the Cult of the Saints, and Holiness in the Medieval World." The paper by Cole Taylor has been withdrawn.

137  "Magic, Nature, and the Environment." The session is virtual.

139  "Global Courtly Culture." The presider is Brianna Skye Oliver. The paper by Julien Stout has been withdrawn.

144  "Saints from East and West (2): Case Studies in Hagiography across Cultures and Languages." The paper by Jeremy R. Brown has been withdrawn.

146  "Belligerent Saints: Violence in Eastern Christian Hagiography (2): Byzantium and Beyond." The paper by Stephan Sveshnikov has been withdrawn.

151  "Jewish-Christian Interaction in the Middle Ages (3): The Yiddish Bellifortis." The presider is Steven McMichael.

156  "The Languages of the Hêliand (A Roundtable)." Bradley Weiss will not participate in this roundtable.

7:00 p.m.–8:30 p.m. EDT

159  "Medieval Military History (3): Medieval Military Technology." The paper by Mahmoud Attia has been withdrawn.

10:00 a.m.–11:30 a.m. EDT

167  "Marsilius of Padua's Defensor pacis at 700: Then and Now (1)." The paper by Zeynep Koçak-Şi̇mşek has been withdrawn.

169  "Medieval Ecocriticisms (1): Gender and Sexuality." The presider is Amanda Bohne.

170  "Old Books, New Technologies." The paper by Chris Nighman has been withdrawn.

173  "Reading the Archpriest: Deconstructing Autobiography and the Libro de buen amor." The presider is Paul E. Larson.

176  "Desiderata." The paper by Stephen J. Harris has been withdrawn.

182  "Courtly Loves (1): Queer(ing) Le Roman de Silence." Maggie Rebecca Myers’ affiliation is Xavier Univ.

184  "History, Romance, Fantasy, and Others: The Blending of Genres in Arthuriana." The presider is Joseph M. Sullivan.

185  "New Directions in Old English Pedagogy." The presider is Mary Kate Hurley.

189  "Cultural Contacts in Umayyad Cordoba: New Evidence from Archaeology." The session has been withdrawn.

192  "Not Just Nicola: Medieval Women in Office, ca. 700–1400." The paper by Chelsea Shields-Más has been withdrawn.

199  "Dante (1)." The presider is Alyssa M. Granacki.

204  "JMRC @ 50: New Directions in Medieval Religious Studies (A Roundtable)." Alexandra Verini will not participate in this roundtable.

206  "Boethius's Influence Through the Ages: 524–2024." The presider is Rebecca Price.

210  "Female Rulers through the Written Lens." The paper by Barbara R. Javori has been withdrawn.

1:30 p.m.–3:00 p.m. EDT

219  "Cistercian Mysticism." The paper by Sigbjørn Sønnesyn has been withdrawn.

220  "Coins and Seals in Byzantium (2): Reacting to the Imperial System." The paper by Chenye Shi has been withdrawn.

225  "Plague Studies: New Directions, Approaches, and Sources." The paper by Phil Slavin has been moved to session 281, "Silk Roads: Trade and Ecology from the Sassanids to Timurids." The presider is Phil Slavin.

229  "Bede as Source (1)." The presider is Edward J. Christie.

230  "Emotions in English Literature." The papers by Emily Rebekah Huber and Brendan Luke have been withdrawn.

234  "In Honor of Carolyn Dinshaw: Reflections on 25 Years of Getting Medieval." The session has been withdrawn.

235  "Courtly Loves (2): Queer(ing) Arthurian Traditions."  The session has been moved to Sangren 2730 and it will be hybrid.

243  "Sacraments in Medieval Theology." The paper by Gary Macy has been withdrawn.

244  "Medieval Ecocriticisms (2): Animal-Human Relationships." The presider is Catherine Albers-Morris.

248  "Fragments and the Big Picture: Using Manuscript Fragments as Historical Sources (1): Medieval Phenomena." The paper by Anna de Bakker has been moved to session 304, "Fragments and the Big Picture: Using Manuscript Fragments as Historical Sources (2): The Post-Medieval Role of Fragments."

252  "Dante (2)." The paper by Virginia Jewiss has been withdrawn.

261  "Emblem Studies." The presider is Mary Maxine Browne.

264  "Literary Medievalism." The session will not be recorded.

265  "Making Books." The paper by Tatiana Vladimirovna Shingurova has been withdrawn.

3:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m. EDT

276  "Coins and Seals in Byzantium (3): Authority and Devotion." The paper by Heather Duncan has been withdrawn.

279  "Sidney at Kalamazoo (3)." The paper by Moira Donald has been withdrawn.

281  "Silk Roads: Trade and Ecology from the Sassanids to Timurids." The paper by Enerelt Enkhbold has been withdrawn. The presider is Lee Mordechai.

286  "Middle English Religious Literature." The paper by Harley Joyce Campbell has been withdrawn.

293  "Arthurian Studies in Honor of David F. Johnson (2)." The session is virtual. Those attending ICMS in person may join the session in Sangren 3140.

304  "Fragments and the Big Picture: Using Manuscript Fragments as Historical Sources (2): The Post-Medieval Role of Fragments." The papers by Beatrice Alai and Sarah Noonan have been withdrawn.

305  "Women Writing and Written About (3): Portrayals of Power, Sexuality, and Gender Roles." The paper by Rachel Chenault has been withdrawn.

308  "Dante (3)." The paper by Sally A. Tucker has been withdrawn.

311  "Dress and Textiles (4): Dyes and Colors." The title of Chas Jones’ paper is "Does Color Matter? Practical Motives for Color Choices in the Bayeux Tapestry."

313  "Reader Reports: How to Write Them, How to Read Them (A Roundtable)." The presider is Christopher Bellitto. Tyler Cloherty is a discussant in this roundtable.

314  "Cantorales in the Americas (A Roundtable)." The presider is Debra S. Lacoste.

317  "Medievalism on the Screen." The paper by Sercan Batum has been withdrawn.

318  "Reformation (4): Domestication, Compliance and Resistance: Women’s Voices and Roles in the Reformation." The session has been withdrawn. The paper by Sam Ha has been moved to session 154, "Reformation (2): Borderlands, Peripheries, Liminal Spaces: Mainstream and 'Non-Orthodox' Protestantisms in the Reformation."

319  "Saving the Day at Kalamazoo: Finding Comics for Medievalist Research and Teaching (A Workshop)." Sandra Gorgievski will not participate in this workshop.

323  "The Verbal and the Visual." The session has been withdrawn. The paper by Sreekishen Nair has been moved to session 261, "Emblem Studies."

324  "Wisdom of the North: A Roundtable in Honor of Richard L. Harris." Russell G. Poole will not participate in this roundtable.

7:00 p.m.–8:30 p.m. EDT

325  "Medieval Benedictines Think about Salvation (1): Theologians." The session has been withdrawn. The papers by Karolina Białas and Rachel Cresswell have been moved to session 337, "Medieval Benedictines Think about Salvation (2)."

334  "Medieval Ecocriticisms (4): New Approaches (A Roundtable)." The presider is Amanda Bohne.

10:00 a.m.–11:30 a.m. EDT

340  "Cine-Medievalismos." The paper by Lillian Céspedes González has been withdrawn.

344  "Medieval Art History Tomorrow: A Whiteboard Session." Bryan C. Keene will not participate in this workshop.

345  "Editing and Studying Medieval Annals (1)." The session has been withdrawn.

347  "Loss and Grief in the Fourteenth Century." The paper by Pamela Kask has been withdrawn.

352  "'The intrusion of Gaia': Textual, Musical, and Material Ecologies of the Later Middle Ages." The session has been withdrawn. The paper by Jennifer A. Saltzstein has been moved to session 300, "Medieval Ecocriticisms (3)."

353  "Chaucer Studies in Memory of Peter G. Beidler (2): Sources, Analogues, and Retellings." The paper by Robert Simola has been withdrawn.

357  "From Bede to Ælred: Literary Approaches among Early Medieval English Theologians." The session has been withdrawn.

359  "Networks of Song and Story: Medieval Convents and Communities." The paper by Rachel May Golden has been withdrawn.

369  "Bad Examples: The Limits of Exemplarity in Medieval Literature." The presider is Akash Kumar.

371  "The Landscape of Medieval Cities in the Iberian Peninsula." The session has been withdrawn.

377  "Christine de Pizan Across the Disciplines (A Roundtable)." Elisa Rossi’s affiliation is the Warburg Institute.

12:00 p.m.–1:00 p.m. EDT

The International Center of Medieval Art Board Meeting has been moved to Student Center 2122.

The Musicology at Kalamazoo Business Meeting has been moved to Student Center 2207.

1:30 p.m.–3:00 p.m. EDT

387  "Animal or Person?". The session has been withdrawn.

388  "The Medieval Tradition of Natural Law (1): Natural Law and Moral Philosophy." The presider is Paul Cornish.

389  "Caesarius of Heisterbach and His Amazing Dialogue of Miracles!". The paper by Ronald E. Pepin has been withdrawn.

394  "In Honor of Monica H. Green (2): Integrating Medicine into Medieval History (A Roundtable)." Ginevra Moscati will not participate in this roundtable.

398  "I Want to Sex (Ed) You Up (1): From Conception to Postpartum." The paper by Ginger Smoak has been withdrawn.

399  "In Memory of Kaaren Grimstad and Ed Haymes: Norse Continental Continuations (A Roundtable)." Bradley Weiss will not participate in this roundtable.

402  "Chaucer Studies in Memory of Peter G. Beidler (3): The Wife of Bath—Theory and Pedagogy." The paper by Lian Zhang has been withdrawn.

408  "'Maken vertu of necessitee': Teaching Medieval and What Else? (A Roundtable)." Jacqueline Stuhmiller and Monica O'Neil will not participate in this roundtable.

410  "Textual Adaptation and the Creation of Culture in Nineteenth-Century Medievalisms (1)." The paper by Mengnan Sun has been withdrawn.

414  "C. S. Lewis and the Middle Ages (1): Planets? Narnia? (Re)Considering the Heavens." The paper by Dylan Tew has been withdrawn.

418  "Global Petrarch(s) and Petrarchism." The paper by Alejandro Cuadrado has been withdrawn.

425  "Creating Camelot(s): The Idea of Community in Arthurian Texts." The papers by Sean Poage and Crystelle Cotnoir-Thériault have been withdrawn.

426  "Editing and Studying Medieval Annals (2)." The session has been withdrawn.

427  "Flora, Fauna, and Fantasy: Medieval Poets and J. R. R. Tolkien." The paper by Kristin Bovaird-Abbo has been withdrawn.

430  "Reflective Roundtable in Honor of Liz Herbert McAvoy and Naoe Kukita Yoshikawa (1)." Kieran Wyatt will not participate in this roundtable.

431  "Saintly Voices, Worldly Noise: Sounding Nature and the Supernatural in Medieval Hagiography (2)." The session will be recorded.

3:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m. EDT

435  "The Medieval Tradition of Natural Law (2): Natural Law and Political Thought." The presider is Bernie Koenig.

442  "Confronting Taboos, Medieval and Modern." The paper by Emily McLemore has been withdrawn.

445  "New Voices on Early Medieval England (2)." The papers by Madelynn Lee and Kauê Junior Neckel have been withdrawn.

446  "Defending the Medieval to Your University: Practical Discussions for Students, Colleagues, and Administrators (A Roundtable)." Michael Calabrese will not participate in this roundtable.

457  "Textual Adaptation and the Creation of Culture in Nineteenth-Century Medievalisms (2): English National Identity." The paper by Andrew LiVecchi has been withdrawn.

458  "Digitized Manuscripts as Sources for Research (A Roundtable)." Nikolas C. Churik will not participate in this roundtable.

460  "Social Networks in Medieval Iberia (3): Early Medieval Social Networks." The paper by Kay Boers has been withdrawn.

465  "Transgressive Boccaccio." The paper by Edoardo Angrilli has been withdrawn.

466  "Interpreting Inventories (2): Recovering Communities." The presider is Marjorie Harrington.

474  "Re-Creating Camelot? Community-Building in Arthurian Studies (A Roundtable)." Sean Poage will not participate in this roundtable.

481  "Tolkien and Twenty-First Century Challenges (A Roundtable)." Adam Debosscher will not participate in this roundtable.

7:00 p.m.–8:30 p.m. EDT

486  "Pseudo Society Session." The presider is M. Wendy Hennequin.