International Congress on Medieval Studies 2021 (‘Kalamazoom’)

From our North American Branch website, courtesy of NAB secretary, Julie Human.

Please join us for our ICLS-NAB panels and business meeting next week! All times listed are in Eastern Daylight Time. All events will take place via the ICMS Zoom interface, which you login to using the email address you used to register for the conference, with the exception of our ICLS-NAB business meeting. The business meeting will be hosted separately and is open to all (and not listed in the program). See link below to join.

311* Thursday, May 13, 7:00 p.m. EDTImpropriety and Notoriety in Courtly Society (A Roundtable)
Presider: Suzanne C. Hagedorn, College of William & Mary

A roundtable discussion with Shawn Phillip Cooper; Caroline M. Fleischauer, Univ. of Wyoming; and Julie Human, Univ. of Kentucky.

Thursday, May 13, 9:00 p.m. EDT: Business meeting (Zoom link)

343* Friday, May 14, 1:00 p.m. EDTOvid and His Heirs at Court
Presider: Suzanne C. Hagedorn, College of William & Mary

Invisible Echo: Narcissus’s Hermaphroditic Role in The Romance of the Rose,Lesleigh B. Jones, Southern Methodist Univ.
Ovidian Myth and Auctoritas in Chaucer’s Book of the Duchess, Vincent Mennella, Southern Methodist Univ. (Recipient of the 2021 ICLS-NAB Emerging Scholars Grant)
Singing at Pluto’s Court in Halberstadt and Wickram’s Metamorphosen,Jennifer S. Carnell, Univ. of Minnesota–Twin Cities

401* Saturday, May 15, 11:00 a.m. EDTLove on the Battlefield
Presider: Susanne Hafner, Fordham Univ.

Do you know who my father is?!”: Gendered Imperialism and the Exceptional Parent Excuse in Sir Degaré, Arielle C. McKee, Gardner-Webb Univ.
Violence, Vulnerability, and Hurt/Comfort Fanfiction in the Stanzaic Guy of Warwick and the Alliterative Morte Arthure, Megan B. Abrahamson, Central New Mexico Community College (Recipient of the 2021 ICLS-NAB Emerging Scholars Grant)
Love, Sex, and Amazons, Suzanne C. Hagedorn, College of William & Mary”