CMS Representation at Summer Conferences

May 4, 2026 by Centre for Medieval Studies

This summer, CMS Students, Alumni, and Faculty travel the world to participate in conferences, many of them using this travel time for research and workshops, scouring archives and museums, and collaborating with colleagues abroad. Our ever-busy community has a substantial showing at a variety of international colloquia, as listed below. 

May 14-16: 61st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo

Thursday, May 14

8:30 am - Session 6: Pseudo-Scripts in the Middle Ages
Legible Faith, Illegible Text: The Function of Pseudotext on Canterbury Pilgrim Badges
Zina Uzdenskaya, CMS Alum (PhD 2026)

8:30 am - Session 8: Bede Connections
Affective 'Concordia Discors' in Bede’s Hymn for 'Pentecost': The Influence of Ambrose of Milan’s Indexicals on Bede
Matthew Reid, CMS PhD Candidate
Acca of Hexham as a Source for Bede’s Ecclesiastical History
Richard Shaw, Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College / CMS Alum (PhD 2013)

8:30 am - Session 30: Portrayals of Grief (1), Female Sorrow
The Tyger’s Maw: Laura Cereta’s Invectives Against Fortune
Samuel MacPhee, CMS Student

10:30 am - Session 36: Bad Letters (2): Pseudo-Scripts and Forgeries After the Middle Ages
Presider / Organizer: Damian Fleming, Purdue University Fort Wayne / CMS Alum (PhD 2006)

10:30 am - Session 64: Patterns of Language: Meaning, Metaphor, and Metalinguistics (1): Semantics and Rhetoric
Times Change: Spatiotemporal Metaphor in Middle English
Marcie Sundaram, Laurentian University / CMS Alum (PhD 2003)

1:30 pm - Session 89: Catalan Polemic and Preaching
Disseminating Knowledge for Evangelization and Reform: Ramon Llull’s Strategies for Language Education and Translation
Pamela Beattie, University of Louisville / CMS Alum (PhD 1985)

3:30 pm - Session 121: New Voices in Early Performance Studies
Part-ial Survivals: Actors’ Partscripts in Medieval English and Welsh Plays
Morgan Elizabeth Moore, CMS PhD Candidate

Friday, May 15

8:30 am - Session 147: Watery Landscapes, Systems, and Bodies
Frozen in Place: An Alternative Reading of the Red Sea in the Old English Exodus
Thomas D. Kalil, CMS PhD Student

8:30 am - Session 148: Death and Dying in Medieval Benedictine Theology and Practice
Piety Is Not Enough: The Communitarian Aspect of Suffrages
Charles Hilken, St. Mary’s College of California / CMS Alum (PhD 1994)

10:30 am - Session 177: Dante (2)
The Shadow of Betrayal: Dante and the Proditio Troiae
Claudia Graniero, CMS PhD Student (Congress Travel Award Winner)

10:30 am - Session 189: Alfredian Texts and Contexts
If Not the Preface to the 'Soliloquies', Then What?
Michael Treschow, University of British Columbia / CMS Alum (PhD 1991)

1:30 pm - Session 222: Late Medieval Libraries and Collections
A Legal Library in Transit
Jessie Sherwood, University of California–Berkeley / CMS Alum (PhD 2005)

1:30 pm - Session 227: Bridging Categories of Difference in Performance: Mind the Gap
The Medieval World Drama Working Group: Plays in Translation from French, Spanish, Welsh, Dutch, and Arabic
Matthew Sergi, U of T English / CMS

1:30 pm - Session 236: Occitan as an Epic Language
Sira, Espeia, Damledieu: New Perspectives on the Varying Functions of French Elements in the Occitan Epic Language
Dorothea Kullmann, U of T French / CMS

3:30 pm - Session 247: The Devotional Lives of the Poor Clares
Profile of the Poor Clare Nuns of the Nazareth Monastery in Brussels
Martha Mary Culshaw, CMS PhD Candidate

3:30 pm - Session 248: “Wryte more trewe” (2): Chaucer Review’s Plenty; A Roundtable in Honor of Susanna Fein and David Raybin
A roundtable discussion including Sebastian Sobecki, U of T English / CMS

3:30 pm - Art and Architecture in Cistercian and Monastic Culture (2)
Tiles and the Role of Geometricity in Later Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Cistercian Spiritual Practice
Jamie St. Clair Collings, CMS PhD Candidate

Saturday, May 16

10:30 am - Session 346: Medieval Sermon Studies
Between Homily and Sermon: Characteristics of a Set of Thirteenth-Century Sermons for Parish Priests
Andrew Reeves, Middle Georgia State University / CMS Alum (PhD 2009)

1:30 pm - Session 359: Revealing the Hidden: A Conversation About Multispectral Imaging of Medieval Artifacts
A roundtable discussion including Jessica J. Lockhart, U of T Old Books New Science / CMS Alum (PhD 2017)

1:30 pm - Session 368: Grimoires of the Greater West: Conversations on Solomonic Magic
The' Book on the Four Rings of Solomo'n ('Liber de quattuor anulis Salomonis'):Origins, Sources, and the Problem of Defining the “Solomonic Corpus”
Vajra Regan, CMS Alum (PhD 2025)

Session 392: The Glo(cal) Middle Ages on Turtle Island
Convergence, Simultaneity, and the Problem of Periodization
Jack C. Wiegand, University of Oklahoma / CMS Alum (PhD 2020)

May 19-22: Convegno Internazionale Tommaso d'Aquino filosofo, Rome

Wednesday, May 20

11:00 am - Sessione di Apertura
Tommaso d’Aquino filosofo
Pasquale Porro, Linceo, Università di Milano / CMS-PIMS Bennett Visiting Scholar (2023) / Coordinatore

Thursday, May 21

3:00 pm - Debating the Nature of Human Agency: The Case of 'De malo', q. 6
Martin Pickavé, U of T Philosophy / CMS

 

May 26-28: Canadian Society of Medievalists / Atlantic Mediaeval Association Joint Annual Conference, St. Francis Xavier University

Tuesday, May 26

9:00-10:30 am - Session 1A: Women and Political Culture
Chair: Joanne Findon, University of Guelph / CMS Alum (PhD 1994)

9:00-10:30 am - Session 1B: Land, Sea, and Society
Chair: Shannon McSheffrey, Concordia University / CMS Faculty

11:00 am-12:30 pm - Session 2A: Liturgies and Devotion in Medieval Culture
“þe felasshipe of hem þat hoolden þe nargh wey”: A Consideration of the Wycliffite Bible and John Clanvowe’s The Two Ways
Ben Barootes, Memorial University, Grenfell Campus / CMS Postdoctoral Fellow (2016-2018)

11:00 am-12:30 pm - Session 2B: Queer World-Making I: Relational Fault Lines
Chair: Richard Firth Green, The Ohio State University / CMS Alum (PhD 1975)

1:30-3:00 pm - Session 3A: Medicine and Disability // Médecine et handicap
Tracing Medical Knowledge Networks in Premodern Europe
Emma Gabe, Research Assistant, Carleton University / CMS Alum (PhD 2025)

Wednesday, May 27

8:45-10:15 am - Session 6A: Rethinking Borders in Medieval Romance
Sir Gawain's Journey
Chair: Richard Firth Green, The Ohio State University / CMS Alum

8:45-10:15 am - Session 6B: Medieval Race-Making I: Making Monstrosity
"The Source of All Evils in Wales": Revolt, Race, and the Label of Welsh Monstrosity in Fifteenth-Century English Chronicles
Rebecca Onken, CMS PhD Student

10:45 am-12:15 pm - Session 7A: Reception and Reinterpretations
Chair: Benjamin Barootes, Memorial University, Grenfell Campus / CMS Postdoctoral Fellow (2016-2018)

Thursday, May 28

8:45-10:15 am - Session 10B: Languages of Authority: The Herbal of Henry Daniel
From Henry of Huntingdon to Henry Daniel: Creating a Uniquely English Herbalism
Winston Black, St Francis Xavier University / CMS Alum (PhD 2007)

10:45 am-12:15 pm - Session 11B: Uses of the Past
Medieval and Faux-Medieval Religious Objects in Three Saskatchewan Churches
Allison D. Fizzard, Campion College, University of Regina / CMS Alum (PhD 1998)
Chair: Shannon McSheffrey, Concordia University / CMS Faculty

June 8-10: Thirteenth Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Saint Louis University

Tuesday, June 9

2:30 pm - Session T21: Henry of Ghent’s Philosophy of Mind
Henry of Ghent on the Distinction between Divine Practical and Theoretical Ideas
Rui Xu, CMS PhD Student

Wednesday, June 10

9:00 am - Session W4: Subjectivity and Eternity in Muslim and Jewish Philosophy
Ibn ʿArabi’s Reality of Realities and Kantian Transcendental Subjects
Reza Hadisi, U of T Philosophy / CMS Faculty

2:30 pm - Session W16: Scholastic Culture
Peter Lombard's Recently Discovered Biblical Prologues: The Codices
Simon Whedbee, Loyola University New Orleans / CMS Alum (PhD 2021)

June 29-July 3: VI International Congress of the John Gower Society 2026

Monday, June 29

10:30 am - Session 2: Manuscripts and Books, I
Information Aesthetics: Eye-Tracking the Manuscripts of the 'Confessio Amantis'
Tamara F. O’Callaghan, Northern Kentucky University / CMS Alum (PhD 1995)

12:00 pm - Plenary I
Rita Copeland, University of Pennsylvania / CMS-PIMS Bennett Visiting Scholar 2025

1:00 pm - Session 4: Manuscripts and Books, II
Histories and Stories, World Maps and the End of the World: The Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Martin
Siân Echard, University of British Columbia / CMS Alum (PhD 1990)

Tuesday, June 30

3:30 pm - Session 11: Of latine and othere lore
'De triplici eius opere': The Unconventional Verse Associated with John Gower's Tomb
Bard Swallow, CMS Alum (PhD 2025)

July 1-5: 25th International Medieval Sermon Studies Symposium, Nijmegen, Collecting, transmitting, and (re)using sermons

Wednesday, July 1

5:00 pm - Session 1: Network of Sermons
‘Patchwork’ Compilation and Original Crafting in Carolingian Latin sermons: The Case of the Homilies on the Assumption
Riccardo Macchioro, CMS
Thirteenth-century Antecedents to the Fourteenth-century Middle English Sermon
Andrew Reeves, Middle Georgia State University / CMS Alum (PhD 2009)

Sunday, July 5
Keynote Lecture: Early Modern Sermons as Starting Point and Model for Other Works of Doctrinal and Moral instruction
Bert Roest, Radboud University / CMS Faculty

July 6-9: International Congress on the Study of the Middle Ages, LEEDS

Monday, July 6

4:30 pm - Session 304: Lollard Knights and Rebels
The Piety of the Chaucer Circle: A Reassessment
Ben Barootes, Memorial University, Grenfell Campus / CMS Postdoctoral Fellow (2016-2018)

4:30 pm - Session 345: Navigating the Post-Roman Landscape
Blended Pasts and the Imagination of Otherness in the Old English Ruin 
Karin Olsen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen / CMS Alum (PhD 1994)
Bede, Acca, and the 'Making of the Ecclesiastical History'
Richard Shaw, Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College / CMS Alum (PhD 2013)

Tuesday, July 7

2:15 pm - Session 730: In and Out of Time: Mystics and Holy Persons Engaging with Time, III - Envisioning Eternity
Margery Kempe and St Cecilia across Time
Mary Dzon, University of Tennessee / CMS Alum (PhD 2004)

2:15 pm - Session 746: Medieval Onomastics, I
Personal Names in the 13th-Century Charters of the Premonstratensian Abbey of Beauport in Northwestern Brittany
Claude Evans, U of T Language Studies / CMS

4:30 pm - Session 841: Cataloguing, Weighing, and Measuring: Alternative Approaches to Manuscript Study
Time Wounds All Skins: From Parchment Science to Manuscript Insights
Stephanie Lahey, U of T Old Books New Science / CMS Postdoctoral Fellow (2023)

Wednesday, July 8 

9:00 am - Session 1049: Late Antique and Early Medieval Latin Poetry: Poteics, Metrics, and Rhythmics
The Rhythm of Virtue: Augustine's Own Metrical Lessons in His Vision for 'De musica'
Daniel Nodes, Baylor University / CMS  Alum (PhD 1981)

11:15 am - Session 1103: Early Medieval Riddles
Organiser / Moderator: Megan Cavell, University of Birmingham / CMS Alum
Not Just a Literacy Trope: Senses and the Soul in Golden Ring, 'Exeter Book Riddle 59'
Jennifer Neville, Royal Holloway, University of London / CMS Alum

11:15 am - Session 1109: Constructing Masculinities and Ideas of Manhood in the Premodern World, II
Moderator: Jacqueline Murry, University of Guelph / USMC Fellow / CMS Faculty & Alum (PhD (1987)

2:15 pm - Session 1208: Constructing Masculinities and Ideas of Manhood in the Premodern World, III
Queering Masculinity through the Liturgical Sermon at Rievaulx, 1134-1167
Emmanuel Davidson, University of Leeds / CMS Alum

2:15 pm - Session 1217: Medieval Environments, III: Animality, Culture, and Environment
Predators of the Edge: Foxes in Early Medieval Saints' Lives
Megan Cavell, University of Birmingham / CMS Alum

4:30 pm - Session 1307: Noblewomen Network, IV: Patronage, Politics, and Agency
Rus' Noblewomen in 13th-Century Poland: A Study in Contrasts?
Natalia Zajac, Niagara University / CMS Alum (PhD 2017)

4:30 pm - Session 1309: Constructing Masculinities and Ideas of Manhood in the Premodern World, IV
Masculinity and Embodiment: Personal Stresses and Social Anxieties 
Jacqueline Murry, University of Guelph / USMC Fellow / CMS Faculty & Alum (PhD (1987)

4:40 pm - Session 1318: Time and the Otherworld, IV: Otherworlds through the Ages
Moderator: Cameron Wachowich, University of Cambridge / CMS Alum (PhD 2024

4:30 pm - Session 1336: Glittering, Gingling, Bejewelled, and Beringed: The Experience and Interpretation of Materials in a Pious Context
As if Bound by a Seal: Changing Interpretations of the Episcopal Ring in the Central Middle Ages 
John Schechtman-Marko, CMS PhD Candidate

7:00 pm - Session 1446: Remembering Walter Goffart: A Round Table Discussion
A roundtable discussion including Michael Kulikowsky, Pennsylvania State University / CMS Alum (PhD 1997)

Thursday, July 9

2:15 pm - Session 1739: INSULAR, III: Palaeography, Pilgramage, and the Pauline Letters
Northumbrian Exegetical Manuscripts in the Age of Bede: The Trinity-Vitellius Glosses on Paul in a New Light
Samuel Cardwell, University of Nottingham / CMS Alum (PhD 2023)

2:15 pm - Session 1741: The LIves and Times of the Kings of Scots
Remembering Margaret Drummond and Her Relationship to James IV
Mairi Cowan, UTM Historical Studies / CMS Faculty / Alum (PhD 2003)

4:30 pm - Session 849: Whales in the Middle Ages, II: Literature
Moderator: Megan Cavell, University of Birmingham / CMS Alum

July 14-17: 17th Celtic Conference in Classics 2026, Maynooth

Program forthcoming
Cillian O'Hogan, CMS

July 27-31: New Chaucer Society 24th Biennial Congress 2026

Monday, July 27

11:30 am - Session 1A: Queer Medieval Ecologies
Queer Ecologies in Early Medieval English Medicine
Renée R. Trilling, U of T CMS / English

11:30 am - Session 1F: Medieval Aesthetics
Chair: Kara Gaston, U of T Engilsh / CMS

2:30 pm - Session 2E: Piety in Late Medieval England I
Nowhere to Hide?
Mary Dzon, University of Tennessee / CMS Alum (PhD 2004)

4:30 pm - Session 3A: Understanding the Colonizer/Re-Imagining the Medieval I: Indigenous Medievalism
Restorying History: Kent Monkman’s Medieval Futures
Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton / CMS Faculty

Tuesday, July 28

9:00 am - Session 4A: Understanding the Colonizer/Re-Imagining the Medieval II: Postcolonial Medievalism
Chair: Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton / CMS Faculty

9:00 am - Session 4E: Affective Piety Reconsidered: Affective Piety and Affective Communities
Organizer / Chair: Mary Dzon, University of Tennessee / CMS Alum (PhD 2004)

Wednesday, July 29

9:00 am - Session 6F: Affordances and the Unyielding
‘Wordyly wrought’: Textual and Textorial Affordance in 'Emaré'
Andrea Schütz, St. Thomas University / CMS Alum (PhD 1995)

2:00 pm - Session 8C: Ageless Medievalisms
Immortal Love: Medievalism, Age Difference, and Dissonant Temporalities in ‘New Adult’ Romantsy Fiction
Anna Wilson, Harvard University / CMS Alum (PhD 2015)

4:00 pm - Session 9: Medieval Elsewheres
‘Icham to meche to be cristine’: Translating and Worldbuilding Monstrosity in 'Sir Bevis of Hampton'
Wynn Martin, CMS PhD Candidate

4:00 pm - Session 9G: Institutions
Westminster Hall, the Home of Writing in Medieval England
Sebastian Sobecki, U of T English / CMS

Thursday, July 30

9:00 am - Session 10C: Reading and Doing
Sample Exercises in the Treatise on the Astrolabe
Kara Gaston, U of T English / CMS

9:00 am - Session 10E: Medieval Narrative, Then and Now I: Medieval Ideologies and Narrative Worlds (Focalizations, Characterizations, Audience Response)
Epistolary WorldBuilding: Classical Models and Narrative Identity in Loire Valley Literary Networks
Jonathan Newman, Missouri State University / CMS Alum (PhD 2008)

11:00 am - Session 11B: Interloping Latinities
Interloping Latin in Disce mori: Intercalated Verse in a Vernacular Devotional Compilation
Bard Swallow, CMS Alum (PhD 2025)

2:00 pm - Session 12E: Medieval Narrative, Then and Now III: Developments in Medieval Narrative
Narrative Structures between French and English: Middle English Romances and their French Models
Dorothea Kullmann, U of T French / CMS

2:00 pm - Session 12G: Time Management II
Chaucer's Book, Time Traveller
Alexandra Gillespie, U of T Old Books New Science / English / CMS Faculty / UTM Vice President & Principal / English & Drama

 

Categories