Saturday 9/20

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

Saturday, September 20

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

  • Coffee & Pastries

9:00-10:00am
Session : Reading Manuscripts: Past & Present
Presider: Carla María Thomas

  • Gregorian Books, Roman Foundations, and the Formation of Ecclesiastical Identity in Medieval England
    • John Gallagher, University of St. Andrews
  • Marguerite Porete’s post-medieval philosophical afterlives: Simone Weil, Luce Irigaray, and the hermeneutics of reclamation
    • Emily Griffiths, University of Antwerp

10:00-10:15am

  • Coffee Break

10:15-12:00am
Session 11A: Creative Writing Workshop (online only via Zoom)
Presider: Aurora Soriano

  • A workshop on using medieval devotional texts as stimuli for creative writing. Recent examples include Matrix by Lauren Groff and For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain by Victoria MacKenzie.
  • Artemis Writers (Sophia Adamowicz and Heather Clark-Hope)

Session 11B: The Monastic Archaeology Field School at Lindores Abbey (Liberman-Miller Lecture Hall)
Presider: Victoria Yuskaitis

  • Field Training in Monastic Archaeology: The Monastic Archaeology Field School at Lindores Abbey
    • Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom, Brandeis University
  • Using Estuarine Physical Oceanography as a Tool to Understand Water use in the Lindores Abbey
    • Sally Warner, Brandeis University
  • ‘With Common Pasture for Animals’: An Archeological and Textual Analysis of Food Sources at Lindores Abbey
    • Allison Gentry, Brandeis University
  • A Case for Getting History Students into the Dirt
    • Natalie Greenfield, Brandeis University

12:00-1:00pm (Women’s Studies Research Center)

  • Lunch provided in the Women’s Studies Research Center

1:00-2:00pm (Liberman-Miller Lecture Hall)
Session 12: Anchoritic Digital Humanities
Presider: Kyle Robert Moore

  • Geospatial Inquiry & the Medieval Anchorhold: Mapping Enclosure in the Islands of the North Atlantic
    • Michelle M. Sauer, University of North Dakota
    • Justin Wigard, University of North Dakota
  • An Open Ancrene Wisse Corpus Project with AI and Data Visualization
    • Dorothy Kim, Brandeis University

2:00-2:15pm (Outside of Liberman-Miller Lecture Hall)

  • Coffee Break

2:15-3:30pm (Liberman-Miller Lecture Hall)
Session 13: Anchorites & Space
Presider: Barbara Zimbalist

  • Anchorites and the City: Archaeological Interpretations and Lived Experience, Then and Now
    • Victoria Yuskaitis, DigVentures
  • Three Days Beyond a Cell: Connecting an Anchorite with His Times
    • Clare M. Dowding, King’s College London
  • Merging Living Spaces: Aligning Performances and Spatial Practices in Goscelin of St. Bertin’s Liber Confortatorius
    • Samuel M. Amendolar, University of North Dakota

3:30-3:45pm (Outside of Liberman-Miller Lecture Hall)

  • Coffee Break

3:45-5:00pm (Liberman-Miller Lecture Hall)
Session 14: Approaches to Julian of Norwich
Presider: Bailey Ludwig

  • Female Modesty and the Vernacular in the East and West: The Diary of Murasaki Shikibu and Julian of Norwich
    • Fumiko Yoshikawa, Hiroshima Shudo University
  • Wounds that Heal: Julian of Norwich’s Theology of Productive Pain
    • Josi Carder, Brooklyn College
  • Keep this Precious Stone in the Nest of your Heart: Defining the Eucharist in Julian of Norwich’s Revelations of Divine Love
    • Eduardo de Oliveira Correira, Kings College London

5:00-6:15pm (Outside of Liberman-Miller Lecture Hall)

  • Dinner, Snacks, & Beverages provided in Women’s Studies Research Center

6:15-6:30pm

  • Walk to Sachar International Center

6:30-8:30pm (Wasserman Cinematheque, Room 117)

  • Film Screening of Revelations of Divine Love
    Ticket included in conference registration or purchased separately for non-conference attendees

8:30-8:40pm (Outside of Wasserman Cinematheque)

  • Break
  • Snacks & drinks available

8:40-9:30pm (Wasserman Cinematheque, Room 117)

Read an interview with Caroline from the Spring 2023 International Anchoritic Society newsletter here: https://commons.und.edu/ias-newsletter/

Film Q&A with Director Caroline Golum

Caroline Golum is a filmmaker and writer living in Brooklyn, NY. She is a contributing editor and occasional podcast co-host for Screen Slate. Her debut feature, A Feast of Man, is streaming on Amazon Prime, Vimeo, and Tubi. Revelations of Divine Love, is her second feature.