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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

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10:15 AM – Welcome

Location: Room 226

Speakers:

• Celia Klin, Dean of Harpur College
• Olivia Holmes, CEMERS Director
• Meg Leja, Sean Dunwoody, Tina Chronopoulos, Conference Organizers

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10:30 AM – Session 1 (60 minutes)

Panel 1: New Interpretations of Premodern Women
Location: Room 226

1. Francesca Smith – ��������Ƶ
   “‘Cause it’s Witchcraft, Wicked Witchcraft’: The Representation of Witchcraft in Elizabethan and Jacobean Theaters”
2. Margaret Reppa – ��������Ƶ
   “Chosen and Choosing: A Feminist Interpretation of Mary in the Quran”
3. Eleanor Brooks – SUNY Oswego
   “The Genre Question and Hildegard of Bingen’s Ordo Virtutum: What Phylogenetics Can Teach Us about Gender, Authorship, and the Medieval Morality Play”

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11:30 AM

Brief Break (10 minutes)

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11:40 AM – Session 2 (60 minutes)

Panel 2: Defining Transgression, Defining Enemies
Location: Room 224

1. Rachel Pasternak – ��������Ƶ
   “‘Christians in Name, In Fact Pagans’: The Intersection of Irish-English Politics, Identity, and Medieval Heresy in the Trial of Alice Kyteler”
2. Nicholas Sarris – University at Buffalo
   “Sogdian Syncretism: An Analysis of Silk Road Relations”
3. Raymond Wronka – ��������Ƶ
   “Necromancy's Development in The Middle Ages”

Panel 3: Childbirth and Its Figurations
Location: Room 226

1. Trisha Roon – ��������Ƶ
   “Importance of Saints in Childbirth Between the Twelfth and Fifteenth Centuries”
2. Sasha Zvaners – ��������Ƶ
   “Midwifery Manuals as Battlegrounds for Religious Discourse in Late Medieval London”
3. Ksenya Mull – ��������Ƶ
   “Hildegard of Bingen on Female Anatomy”

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12:40 PM

Lunch

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2:00 PM – Plenary Talk

Location: Room 226

1. Bridget Whearty – ��������Ƶ
   “Why What We Do Matters: The Purpose of Medieval Scholarship in Uncertain Times”

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2:30 PM

Brief Break (5 minutes)

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2:35 PM – Session 3 (75 minutes)

Panel 4: Projecting Power
Location: Room 224

1. Michael Hummel – Lycoming College
   “Edward III: An Emergent Empire in The British Isles, 1327–1377”
2. Nicholas Antonoff – ��������Ƶ
   “The Philosopher's Stone: George Ripley and his Quest for Patronage”
3. Shan Wu – Penn State University
   “Constructing a Legacy from a Heritage: Medieval Conservation at the Basilica of San Isidoro in León”
4. Terrance Ring – Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania
   “Against All Witches: A History of the Roman Inquisition”

Panel 5: New Points of Approach in Medieval Studies
Location: Room 226

1. Matthew Barber – Lycoming College
   “From Crusades to Conspiracies: The Medieval Past in Extremist Rhetoric”
2. Ari White – ��������Ƶ
   “The Echo of Silence: What Le Roman de Silence Tells Us ��������Ƶ Identity in the Past and Today”
3. William Milewski – University of Rochester
   “What Lies Beneath: Multispectral Imaging and the Palimpsest as Documentary History”
4. Christopher Hoffart – Ithaca College
   “Alas for the Red Dragon, for Its End Is Near: Prophecies and Augustinian Temporality in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s History of the Kings of Britain”

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3:50 PM

Brief Break

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4:00 PM – Session 4 (60 minutes)

Panel 6: Complicating Ideas of Love, Marriage, and Identity
Location: Room 226

1. Ryan Probst – Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania
   “Ovid's Transformational Love Theme in Medieval Courtly Love Literature”
2. Justyn Cooke – Vassar College
   “Medieval Muslim Sodomy and Fears of Contamination: The Crusades’ Place in the History of Homosexuality in Western Europe”
3. Owen Beury – Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania
   “Syneisaktism: Spiritual Marriage on the Island of Patrick”

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5:00 PM

Send-off / Farewells
Location: Room 226

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Questions:

If you have any questions, please direct them to Bing.Mdvl@gmail.com