Please join us online for two sessions and the Annual Business Meeting at the 2022 Virtual International Congress on Medieval Studies hosted by Western Michigan University. The 2022 Virtual Congress runs May 9-14, 2022.

Registration is required to attend. Register

292* Friday, May 13, 9:00 a.m. EDT – will be recorded
Digital Humanities, Lyric Poetry, Textual Studies in Christine de Pizan: A Round-
table Festschrift in Honor of James Laidlaw
Sponsor: International Christine de Pizan Society, North American Branch
Organizer: Geri Smith, Univ. of Central Florida
Presider: Benjamin M. Semple, Gonzaga Univ.

A roundtable discussion with Tina-Marie Ranalli, Independent Scholar; Joan E. McRae,
Middle Tennessee State Univ.; Earl Jeffrey Richards, Bergische Univ. Wuppertal; Andrea
Tarnowski, Dartmouth College; Sarah Delale and Lucien Dugaz, UCLouvain/École nationale
des chartes; Misty Schieberle, Univ. of Kansas

Friday, May 13, 11 a.m. Business Meeting, International Christine de Pizan Society, North American Branch – all Christine scholars are welcome to attend

370 Saturday, May 14, 11:00 a.m. EDT (will NOT be recorded)
Christine de Pizan and the Five Senses
Sponsor: International Christine de Pizan Society, North American Branch
Organizer: Geri Smith, Univ. of Central Florida
Presider: Julia A. Nephew, Independent Scholar

The Role of the External and Internal Senses in Christine de Pizan’s Epistemology
Christine Reno, Vassar College; Edward Reno, Vassar College

Gender and the Sense of Becoming: Christine de Pizan’s Corporeal Transformation
and Its Effects on the Senses, Charles Firestone East, Columbia Univ.

“O lumen ecclesiae”: Sensual Encounters in Christine de Pizan’s Writings
Kandace Brill Lombart, Independent Scholar

Manipulating Political and Material Bodies for Peace: Tracing Embodied Rhetoric
in The Treasure of the City of Ladies
Kaitlyn J. Engel, Univ. at Buffalo