61st Congress Program

8:30 a.m.–10:00 a.m. EDT

5  Jewish-Christian Interaction (1). The paper by Jeroen Verrijssen has been moved to session 61, Jewish-Christian Interaction (2). The paper by Emilie Amar-Zifkin has been withdrawn.

16  Gower, Tyranny, and Social Justice. The paper by Kara L. McShane has been withdrawn.

18  Old English Poetry. The paper by Jonathan B. Rolfe has been withdrawn.

20 Comparative Approaches to Medieval French Literature. The presider is Jan Solberg. The paper by Ana Clara Mônico has been withdrawn. 

10:30 a.m.–11:30 a.m. EDT

43  Saints and the Environment (2): Hagiographical Expressions. The paper by Fiona Baldwin has been withdrawn.

45 Clothing and Textiles. The paper by Mária Lupescu Makó has been withdrawn.

59  Adapting and Using Religious Texts. The paper by Andrew Rivard Hill has been withdrawn.

1:30 p.m.–3:00 p.m. EDT

70  Boccaccio and Boccaccian Medievalisms: Representations of Gender in Storytelling. The paper by Kristen Keach has been withdrawn.

72  Lived Experiences in Fantastical Settings: Marginalization and Gaming Medievalisms. The paper by Olivia Mathers has been withdrawn.

84 Revenge in the Arthurian Tradition. The paper by Hope D. Hecht has been withdrawn.

99 The Influence of Greek and Medieval Art and Literature on Nineteenth-Century European Art. The paper by Jennifer A. Bates Ehlert has been withdrawn.

3:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m. EDT

138  Understanding Otherness and Difference. The paper by Nissaf Sghaïer has been withdrawn.

8:30 a.m.–10:00 a.m. EDT

381 Absence in the Middle Ages (1): Mysticism, Silence, and Theological Absence. This session has been moved to this time slot, in Sangren 1720.

147 Death and Dying in Medieval Benedictine Theology and Practice. The paper by Antonio Raschi has been withdrawn. 

165  Reconceptualizing Reproductive Bodies. The presider is Intisar S. Alshammari.

167  The Scribal Presence: Knowing, Working, and Learning. The presider is Mark Saltveit. The paper by David Fredrick has been withdrawn. The paper by Kamran Asat Irsyady has been withdrawn. 

10:30 a.m.–11:30 a.m. EDT

416 Absence in the Middle Ages (2): Manuscripts, Material Culture, and Bodily Absence. This session has been moved to this time slot, in Sangren 1720.

182 Diocesan Saints and Holy Bishops. The paper by Edward Coleman has been withdrawn. 

187 Jinnitalia: Sex in the Spirit World. The paper by Amy Hale has been withdrawn. 

192 Law as Culture XXVI: Substance, Procedure, and Institutions in the Middle Ages. The paper by Belen Vicens has been withdrawn. 

203 Medieval Roots and Modern Branches (2): J. R. R. Tolkien, from Medieval Sources to Modern Sub-Creators to Lord of the Rings: War of the Rohirrim. The paper by Patrick Lyon has been withdrawn. 

206 Adapting Medieval Monarchy in Novels, Film, and Public History (1): Medievalism in England and America. The paper by Wendy H. Vencel has been withdrawn. 

207 New Research on the Art and Architecture of Medieval Parish Churches (4): Pieces of the Whole. The paper by David H. Kennett has been withdrawn. 

1:30 p.m.–3:00 p.m. EDT

216  You Study What? Using Medieval Studies for Public Engagement (A Roundtable). Wendy H. Vencel will not participate in this roundtable.

234 The Liber Mulierum: Bible Books on Women and Their Medieval Commentators. The paper by Elizabeth Crabtree has been withdrawn.

3:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m. EDT

247 The Devotional Lives of the Poor Clares. This session will take place at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, May 16, in Sangren 2720.

248 “Wryte more trewe” (2): Chaucer Review’s Plenty: A Roundtable in Honor of Susanna Fein and David Raybin. The presider is Wendy A. Matlock.

261 Feeling Other: Emotions and Difference in Medieval Iberia. The paper by Mary Beringause has been withdrawn. 

266 The Wonder Cabinet: Collecting Curiosities, Oddities, and Monstrosities. The presider is Larissa “Kat” Tracy.

268 Papers by Undergraduates (2): Literature. The paper by Dustin Wilde has been withdrawn. 

281  Library Careers for Medievalists (4): Reference and Instruction (A Roundtable). Alan Witt will not participate in this roundtable.

274 Dress and Textiles (3): Textiles in Texts. The paper by Lily Tun has been withdrawn. 

279 Here's the Thing: Ontology and Objects In and Around Early Medieval England (2): Thinking the Intangible. The paper by Holly Hoffmann has been withdrawn. 

8:00 p.m.–9:30 p.m. EDT

The Medieval Institute Alumni Reception will take place in HÔU JIA Kitchen & Bar, on the first floor of the Student Center. 

8:30 a.m.–10:00 a.m. EDT

289 Timely Tusks (1): Byzantine Ivories. This session will take place online. 

293 Annual Journal of Medieval Military History Lecture. The presider is Stephen Morillo. 

295 Writing at Helfta. The paper by Macie Sweet has been withdrawn.

301 Imagining Women in Medieval French Literature. The paper by Dominique Hoche has been withdrawn.

309  George MacDonald and Medieval Culture. The paper by Rhiannon Jeffrey has been withdrawn.

10:30 p.m.–12:00 p.m. EDT

247 The Devotional Lives of the Poor Clares. This session has been moved to this time slot, in Sangren 2720.

314 Adapting the Medieval in the Twentieth Century. The paper by Małgorzata Dowlaszewicz and Jan Załęcki has been withdrawn.

324 The Lyric Subject and Subjectivity in Global Petrarch(s) and Petrarchism(s). The paper by James Taylor has been withdrawn.

353 Timely Tusks (2): Walrus Tusks. The paper by Lindsay Corbett has been withdrawn.

12:00 p.m.–1:30 p.m. EDT

The Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship Business Meeting will take place in Student Center 1135. 

1:30 p.m.–3:00 p.m. EDT

361 Queerness of Solitude (2): Sex, Gender, and Space in Mystical Literature. The paper by Tasrif Mahmud has been withdrawn.

369 Medieval Classics (Re)Illustrated: A Medieval Comics Project Teamup. The paper by Becky Presnall has been withdrawn.

375  Rethinking Kings and Emperors. The presider is Mary Blanchard. The paper by Andrea L. Glass has been withdrawn.

379 Law and Legal Culture in Early Medieval Britain (3): Post-Conquest Memories of Pre-Conquest Law. The title of the paper by Karen Orren has been changed to “Dispensation Nation: Periodizing the Anglo-American Liberennium.”

381 Absence in the Middle Ages (1): Mysticism, Silence, and Theological Absence. This session will take place at 8:30 a.m. on Friday, May 15, in Sangren 1720.

3:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m. EDT

391  Material World of Bishops (3). The presider is Kyle C. Lincoln.

403 Problems of Provenance. The paper by Katy Zane has been withdrawn.

412  Early Medieval Epigram and Elegy. The paper by Amelia Lehosit has been withdrawn.

416 Absence in the Middle Ages (2): Manuscripts, Material Culture, and Bodily Absence. This session will take place at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, May 15, in Sangren 1720.

420  Female Spirituality of the "Long" Global Middle Ages (A Roundtable). The presider is Amina Boukail.