Friday 9/19

You can download and print the full program here for convenience: https://dhmedievalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/2025-IAS-EMES-Conference-Program-2.pdf

8:30-9:00am (Outside of Liberman-Miller Lecture Hall)

  • Pastries & Coffee

9:00-10:15am (Liberman-Miller Lecture Hall)
Session 6: Gender, Sexuality, & Medicine
Presider: Alicen Davis

  • The Miraculous Abortive Churching within the Liminal Space of the Nun of Watton
    • Aimee A. Galloway, University of North Dakota
  • Yvette of Huy’s Imitatio Magdalenae and the Female Life-Course
    • Naoë Kukita Yoshikawa, Shizuoka University and Meiji University
  • Margery Kempe’s Trans Thermality
    • Micah Goodrich, Boston University

10:15-10:30am (Outside of Liberman-Miller Lecture Hall)

  • Coffee Break

10:30-11:30pm (Liberman-Miller Lecture Hall)
Session 6: Gender & Mysticism
Presider: Josephine Koster

  • Marguerite Porete and the Queer Art of Mysticism
    • Elizabeth Hubble, University of Montana
  • Julian of Norwich and the Anchoritic Imagination: Beholding the Ineffable in Word and Image
    • Raphaela Rohrhofer, University of St. Andrews

11:30-1:00pm

  • Lunch on own
    or
  • The Faculty Club, Faculty Center Main Dining Room
    Must have pre-purchased Thursday lunch ticket when registering

1:00-2:15pm (Liberman-Miller Lecture Hall)
Plenary
Presider: Dorothy Kim, Brandeis University

  • Postmedieval Anchorites: Nostalgia and the Art of Scholarly Attachment
    • Michelle M. Sauer, Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor of English, University
      of North Dakota (USA)
    • Liz Herbert McAvoy, Professor Emerita of Medieval Literature, Swansea
      University (UK)

2:15-2:30pm (Outside of Liberman-Miller Lecture Hall)
Coffee Break

2:30-3:45pm (Liberman-Miller Lecture Hall)
Session 7: Religious Medievalism & the Americas
Presider: Samuel M. Amendolar

  • Defining a Recluse in Colonial North America: Jeanne LeBer and Early Modern Montreal
    • Laura Moncion, Eberhards Karls Universität Tübingen
  • Martyrdom and Sainthood in Everyone Knows I am a Haunting
    • Bailey Ludwig, Wellesley College
  • Waxy Figures and Tactical Sainthood: Relics and Saints in Latin America
    • Will Rogers, University of Louisiana, Monroe

3:45-4:00pm (Outside of Liberman-Miller Lecture Hall)

  • Coffee Break

4:00-5:15pm (Liberman-Miller Lecture Hall)
Session 8: The Body & Sexuality in Medieval Christian Literature
Presider: Micah Goodrich

  • Body/Horror: Un-Feeling Torture in the Katherine Group
    • Alicen Davis, University of Texas, Austin
  • A Woman’s Sin: Sloth, Passivity, and Female Spirituality in Ancrene Wisse
    • Kyle Robert Moore, University of North Dakota
  • Found Selves: Self-Writing Divine Union in Mechthild of Magdeburg’s Flowing Light of the Godhead and Marguerite Porete’s Mirror of Simple Souls
    • Catherine Introcaso, The City University of New York

5:15-5:30pm (Outside of Liberman-Miller Lecture Hall)

  • Coffee Break

5:30-6:45pm (Liberman-Miller Lecture Hall)
Session 9: The Body & The Wooing Group
Presider: Michelle M. Sauer

  • ‘Ah ouer alle oðer þinges makes te luuvewurði to me þa harde atele hurtes’: Disability and the Abject in the Wooing Group
    • Susannah Mary Chewning, Union College of New Jersey
  • ‘Mi bodi henge wið þi bodi’: Alternate Temporalities and Dying with Christ in Þe Wohunge of ure Lauerd and Richard Rolle’s Meditation B
    • E. Alice Grissom, Rutgers University
  • Beauty As Mysticism
    • Eleanor Forestell, Boston College

7:30pm

Conference Dinner at Peppino’s Dosa, 434 Moody St, Waltham, MA 02453
Must have pre-purchased tickets when registering