Travel Award Winners Announced for the 61st International Congress on Medieval Studies

Please join us in congratulating the following travel award winners for this year's International Congress on Medieval Studies (ICMS). The Medieval Institute and the Richard Rawlinson Center at Western Michigan University offer competitive travel awards for those traveling to Kalamazoo to give papers in sponsored and special sessions at ICMS in the spring of each year. To learn more about the annual travel awards offered and how to apply, please visit the ICMS website. The following are the winners of travel awards for the 61st meeting of the Congress.

Congress Travel Award

• Claudia Graniero, presenting "The Shadow of Betrayal: Dante and the Proditio Troiae" in the session "Dante (2)"
• Ryan Low, presenting "Information Overload: Notarial Experiments in Information Management" in the session "Notarial Cultures and Society in the Long Fourteenth Century"
• Gwendolyne Knight, presenting "Finding the Local in the Global Turn: The Medieval Episteme in Sápmi" in the session "The Glo(cal) Middle Ages on Turtle Island"

Archibald Cason Edwards, Senior, and Sarah Stanley Gordon Edwards Memorial Travel Award

• Isabelle Ostertag, presenting "Holy Mother: Mary and Maternal Imagery in the Lady Chapel of St. Peter Mancroft" in the session "New Research on the Art and Architecture of Medieval Parish Churches (3): Experience"
• Kourosh Nejad, presenting "Early Modern Persian-Venetian Visual and Poetic Dialogue in the Bellini Album Manuscript" in the session "Manuscript Poetics"
• Molly Judd, presenting "On the Border: Interpreting the Romanesque Sculpture of a Fen-Edge Church" in the session "New Research on the Art and Architecture of Medieval Parish Churches (1): Water"
• Scarlett H. Strauss, presenting "Painting Geminianus and Fina as Civic Defenders" in the session "Saints and the Environment (1): Artistic Representations from Medieval Italy"
• Veronica Arntz, presenting "The Sequences of Marienberg bei Helmstedt: A Case Study of Material, Visual, and Ritual Culture" in the session "Music and the Visual Arts"

Otto Gründler Travel Award

• Ani Shahnazaryan, presenting "From Manuscript to Stemma: A Phylogenetic Approach to Medieval Armenian Fables" in the session "Digital Philology and Medieval Studies: Where Are We Now? (A Roundtable)" 

Kathryn N. Karrer Travel Award

• An Shuyu, presenting "From Cloud-Bands to Cosmic Kingship: Chinese Aesthetic Legacies in Safavid Court Art and Textiles" in the session "Dress and Textiles (4): Clothing as Signifier of Social and Political Roles"
• Maryam Mirzaei, presenting "Factors Determining Occult Sciences: Text–Image Signifiers in the Persian Manuscript of Zakhīrah-i Iskandarī" in the session "Magic, Manuscripts, and Material Culture"

David R. Tashjian Travel Award

• Danielle Muller, presenting "Bemonstering: Unraveling Early Settler-Colonialism in Beowulf" in the session "New Voices on Early Medieval England (1): Old English and Anglo-Latin Poetry"
• Millie Horton-Insch, presenting "Textility in Early Medieval English Wall Paintings" in the session "New Voices on Early Medieval England (2): Art and Material Culture"