The First Annual Symposium Hosted by the Consortium Medievalists: (Re)Conceptualizing Communities will take place on Saturday, April 2nd, 2022 via Zoom. The link to register can be found after the full programme listed below:
10:00-10:15 AM (EST): Virtual Coffee and Welcome
Introduction by Dr. Hal Momma with The Consortium Medievalists
10:15-11:15 AM (EST): (Re)Conceptualizing Medieval Studies
Moderator: Katie Clark (NYU)
Dr. Afrodesia McCannon (NYU): Everyone in the Pool: Thinking about Race and Medieval Studies
Dr. Sierra Lomuto (Rowan University): Forthcoming
12:00-1:30 PM (EST): (Re)Conceptualizing Disability in the Middle Ages
Moderator: Margaret McCurry (NYU)
Dr. Tory Pearman (Miami University): Disability and the Chivalric Community in Malory’s Morte Darthur
Dr. Kisha Tracy (Fitchburg State University): Saint Dymphna of Geel and Communities of Mental Health
Dr. Edward Wheatley (Emeritus, Loyola University, Chicago): Communities of People with Disabilities
2:00-3:00 PM (EST): (Re)Conceptualizing Professionalization
Community Discussion Open to All
Moderators: Alice Grissom (Fordham) and E.G. Asher (NYU)
How might the pandemic transform the trajectory of graduate student research and teaching, as well as undergraduate education? What is the assumed role of individuals and of communities in professionalization? Please join us as we consider these questions among others in a lively discussion open to all.
3:30-4:30 PM (EST): (Re)Thinking Medieval Community: A Perspective from Early Career Academics
Moderator: Alina Shubina (Columbia)
Dr. Ali Gibran Siddiqui (Princeton): Epistolary Spaces and Sacred Networks: A Reappraisal of the Ahrari Naqshbandi Tariqa
Dr. Tamar Rotman (Columbia): Envisioning Identities and Communities in Early Medieval Hagiographies
Dr. Hiba Abid (NYU): Forthcoming
5:00-6:00 PM (EST): Keynote Lecture
Moderator: Ariela Algaze (NYU)
Dr. Asa Mittman (CSU Chico): “Cast Them Out”: Building English Identity through Jewish Exclusion
The Consortium Medievalists are a group of graduate scholars from Columbia, CUNY, Fordham, NYU, Princeton, Rutgers, Stony Brook, and Yale. We would like to kindly thank our sponsors: NYU Critical Theory and Medievalisms Forum, NYU Center for Disability Studies, Columbia Medieval Literature Colloquium, Fordham GSA and Medieval Studies, and an anonymous donor from NYU.
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