ICMA Sponsored Sessions at International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo
9-11 May 2024
Thursday 9 May 2024, 10:00am
Session 9
Sangren Hall, Room 2110
The Sense of an Ending: Finispieces in Medieval Codices
Presider: Stephen Perkinson, Bowdoin College
Organizer: Julie A. Harris, Independent Scholar
Beginning at the End: The Role of the Table of Contents in the Grandes Heures of Philip the Bold
Maggie Crosland, Washington University in St. Louis / St. Louis Art Museum
Final Authority in Five Illuminated Copies of Boccaccio’s Des Nobles et cleres dames Vérard, 1493
Hope Johnston, Baylor University
Respondent: Julie A. Harris
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Saturday 11 May 2024, 10:00am
Session 368
Sangren Hall, Room 4715
Cross-Cultural Interaction in the Alps: Medieval Artistic Production in the Historic County of Tyrol
Presider: Katherine M. Boivin, Bard College
Organizer: Sarah F. Cohen, Columbia University; Emma Leidy, Columbia University
Actio or Illustration? The Rodenegg Iwein Cycle and the Staging of Oral Storytelling
Grace Alice Walsh, Johns Hopkins University
Between North and South: The Importation, Production, and Veneration of Vesperbilder in Tyrol
Emma Leidy, Columbia University
A Fatimid Crystal Reliquary in Thirteenth-Century Tyrol: Questions of Cross-Cultural Value and Symbolic Reuse
Sarah F. Cohen, Columbia University
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Saturday 11 May 2024, 1:30pm
Session 417
Sangren Hall, Room 4715
Sites of Tension (1): Islands and Isolation
ICMA Student Committee
Presider: Gilbert Jones, Cleveland State University
Organizers: Gabriela Chitwood, University of Oregon; Brittany Forniotis, Duke University; Shannah Rose, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University; Gilbert Jones, Cleveland State University; Nina Gonzalbez, Florida State University Islands
Unknown: Small Islands and Insular Lifeways in the Early Medieval Aegean
Demetrios Athanasoulis, Ephorate of Antiquities of Cyclades, Hellenic Ministry of Culture & Sports; Elizabeth R. Davis, Brown University; Rosie Campbell, Cambridge University; Hallvard Indgjerd, Universitetet i Oslo; Alex R. Knodell, Carleton College; Evan I. Levine, Københavns Universitet; Hüseyin Ç. Öztürk, College Year in Athens
The Colonizer’s Representation of the Colonized: The Construction of Guanche Cultural Identity in Le livre nommé le Canarien
Krystin Cassidy Christy, New York University
“That unhappy wretch will come here to the Iouan island”: Re-Activating the Material Culture of Medieval Iona
Sophie Durbin, University of the Highlands and Islands
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Saturday 11 May 2024, 3:30pm
Session 464
Sangren Hall, Room 4715
Sites of Tension (2): Islands and Interconnectivity
ICMA Student Committee
Presider: Gilbert Jones, Cleveland State University
Organizer: Brittany Forniotis, Duke University; Gabriela Chitwood, University of Oregon; Shannah Rose, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University; Gilbert Jones, Cleveland State University; Nina Gonzalbez, Florida State University
Claiming Victory: The St. George Chapel of Clermont-Ferrand Cathedral and the Use of Crusading in Image and Liturgy
Patricia Marie McCall, University of Oregon
Between Past and Present: Changing Perceptions of the Aegean Region in a Medieval Island Book
Beatrice Abigail Tamara Blümer, Universität Kassel / Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz
Between Sicily and Palma de Mallorca: The Journey of the Cammarata Finials
Hila Manor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
ICMA Reception at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo
Friday 10 May 2024
7pm-9:30pm (6:30pm Student Meet and Greet)
Kalamazoo, Michigan
6:30pm - Student Meet and Greet
7:00pm - Reception (open to all)
Join other ICMA members for a special off-site reception near campus (approximately a 10-20 minute walk) on Friday 10 May 2024 from 7pm-9:30pm. Students are invited to join early at 6:30pm to meet other student colleagues. Drinks and light bites provided while supplies last.
University Roadhouse
1332 W. Michigan Ave (MAP)
Kalamazoo, MI 49006