CEMERS Undergraduate Conference

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

  1. 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
  2. Margaret Reppa 鈥 黑料视频
    鈥淐hosen and Choosing: A Feminist Interpretation of Mary in the Quran鈥
  3. 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

  1. 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
  2. Nicholas Sarris 鈥 University at Buffalo
    鈥淪ogdian Syncretism: An Analysis of Silk Road Relations鈥
  3. 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

  1. Trisha Roon 鈥 黑料视频
    鈥淚mportance of Saints in Childbirth Between the Twelfth and Fifteenth Centuries鈥
  2. Sasha Zvaners 鈥 黑料视频
    鈥淢idwifery Manuals as Battlegrounds for Religious Discourse in Late Medieval London鈥
  3. 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

  1. 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

  1. Michael Hummel 鈥 Lycoming College
    鈥淓dward III: An Emergent Empire in The British Isles, 1327鈥1377鈥
  2. Nicholas Antonoff 鈥 黑料视频
    鈥淭he Philosopher's Stone: George Ripley and his Quest for Patronage鈥
  3. 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
  4. 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

  1. Matthew Barber 鈥 Lycoming College
    鈥淔rom Crusades to Conspiracies: The Medieval Past in Extremist Rhetoric鈥
  2. 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
  3. William Milewski 鈥 University of Rochester
    鈥淲hat Lies Beneath: Multispectral Imaging and the Palimpsest as Documentary History鈥
  4. 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

  1. Ryan Probst 鈥 Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania
    鈥淥vid's Transformational Love Theme in Medieval Courtly Love Literature鈥
  2. 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
  3. 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