Undergraduate Conference in Medieval Studies
- Saturday, April 26, 2025
- Downtown Center, 67 Washington St, Binghamton NY 13902
Conference Schedule:
10:00 AM
Registration and Coffee
10:15 AM 鈥 Welcome
Location: Room 226
Speakers:
- Celia Klin, Dean of Harpur College
- Olivia Holmes, CEMERS Director
- Meg Leja, Sean Dunwoody, Tina Chronopoulos, Conference Organizers
10:30 AM 鈥 Session 1 (60 minutes)
Panel 1: New Interpretations of Premodern Women
Location: Room 226
- Francesca Smith 鈥 黑料视频
鈥溾楥ause it鈥檚 Witchcraft, Wicked Witchcraft鈥: The Representation of Witchcraft in Elizabethan and Jacobean Theaters鈥 - Margaret Reppa 鈥 黑料视频
鈥淐hosen and Choosing: A Feminist Interpretation of Mary in the Quran鈥 - Eleanor Brooks 鈥 SUNY Oswego
鈥淭he Genre Question and Hildegard of Bingen鈥檚 Ordo Virtutum: What Phylogenetics Can Teach Us about Gender, Authorship, and the Medieval Morality Play鈥
11:30 AM
Brief Break (10 minutes)
11:40 AM 鈥 Session 2 (60 minutes)
Panel 2: Defining Transgression, Defining Enemies
Location: Room 224
- Rachel Pasternak 鈥 黑料视频
鈥溾楥hristians in Name, In Fact Pagans鈥: The Intersection of Irish-English Politics, Identity, and Medieval Heresy in the Trial of Alice Kyteler鈥 - Nicholas Sarris 鈥 University at Buffalo
鈥淪ogdian Syncretism: An Analysis of Silk Road Relations鈥 - Raymond Wronka 鈥 黑料视频
鈥淣ecromancy's Development in The Middle Ages鈥
Panel 3: Childbirth and Its Figurations
Location: Room 226
- Trisha Roon 鈥 黑料视频
鈥淚mportance of Saints in Childbirth Between the Twelfth and Fifteenth Centuries鈥 - Sasha Zvaners 鈥 黑料视频
鈥淢idwifery Manuals as Battlegrounds for Religious Discourse in Late Medieval London鈥 - Ksenya Mull 鈥 黑料视频
鈥淗ildegard of Bingen on Female Anatomy鈥
12:40 PM
Lunch
2:00 PM 鈥 Plenary Talk
Location: Room 226
- Bridget Whearty 鈥 黑料视频
鈥淲hy What We Do Matters: The Purpose of Medieval Scholarship in Uncertain Times鈥
2:30 PM
Brief Break (5 minutes)
2:35 PM 鈥 Session 3 (75 minutes)
Panel 4: Projecting Power
Location: Room 224
- Michael Hummel 鈥 Lycoming College
鈥淓dward III: An Emergent Empire in The British Isles, 1327鈥1377鈥 - Nicholas Antonoff 鈥 黑料视频
鈥淭he Philosopher's Stone: George Ripley and his Quest for Patronage鈥 - Shan Wu 鈥 Penn State University
鈥淐onstructing a Legacy from a Heritage: Medieval Conservation at the Basilica of San Isidoro in Le贸n鈥 - Terrance Ring 鈥 Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania
鈥淎gainst All Witches: A History of the Roman Inquisition鈥
Panel 5: New Points of Approach in Medieval Studies
Location: Room 226
- Matthew Barber 鈥 Lycoming College
鈥淔rom Crusades to Conspiracies: The Medieval Past in Extremist Rhetoric鈥 - Ari White 鈥 黑料视频
鈥淭he Echo of Silence: What Le Roman de Silence Tells Us About Identity in the Past and Today鈥 - William Milewski 鈥 University of Rochester
鈥淲hat Lies Beneath: Multispectral Imaging and the Palimpsest as Documentary History鈥 - Christopher Hoffart 鈥 Ithaca College
鈥淎las for the Red Dragon, for Its End Is Near: Prophecies and Augustinian Temporality in Geoffrey of Monmouth鈥檚 History of the Kings of Britain鈥
3:50 PM
Brief Break
4:00 PM 鈥 Session 4 (60 minutes)
Panel 6: Complicating Ideas of Love, Marriage, and Identity
Location: Room 226
- Ryan Probst 鈥 Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania
鈥淥vid's Transformational Love Theme in Medieval Courtly Love Literature鈥 - Justyn Cooke 鈥 Vassar College
鈥淢edieval Muslim Sodomy and Fears of Contamination: The Crusades鈥 Place in the History of Homosexuality in Western Europe鈥 - Owen Beury 鈥 Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania
鈥淪yneisaktism: Spiritual Marriage on the Island of Patrick鈥
5:00 PM
Send-off / Farewells
Location: Room 226
Questions:
If you have any questions, please direct them to Bing.Mdvl@gmail.com