Thursday, May 14 1:30 pm-3:00 pm

THE CROSS IN MEDIEVAL ART
Sponsor: International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA)
Organizer: Beth Williamson, Univ. of Bristol
Presider: Beth Williamson

The Filigree Reliquary Cross: A Must-Have Object of the Beginning of the Thirteenth Century in the North of France and the Mosan Area?

Hélène Cambier, Univ. de Namur

Ecclesia and Synagoga on the “Wrong” Sides of the Cross at Chartres Cathedral

Jennifer Lyons, Emory Univ.

Reconsidering the Monumental Crux Gemmata: Just How Real, and Just How Monumental?

Joseph Salvatore Ackley, Columbia Univ.
Respondent: Maggie M. Williams, William Paterson Univ./Material Collective

Friday, May 15 10:00 a.m.–11:30 a.m.

SUPER MEDIEVAL VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS OF "MEDIEVAL SUPERHEROES"

Sponsor: International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA) Student Committee
Organizer: Stephanie Marie Rushe Chapman, Univ. of Missouri–Columbia
Presider: Stephanie Marie Rushe Chapman

No Medieval Superhero Is an Island: A Case Study of Hedwig of Silesia

Allison McCann, Univ. of Pittsburgh

Defending Christianity: Constantine the Great in Fifteenth-Century Moldavia

Alice Isabella Sullivan, Univ. of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Sunday 8:30 am

MOVING WOMEN, MOVING OBJECTS I
Sponsor: International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA)
Organizer: Tracy Chapman Hamilton, Sweet Briar College, and Mariah Proctor- Tiffany, California State Univ.–Long Beach
Presider: Tracy Chapman Hamilton and Mariah Proctor-Tiffany

Heresy, Conversion, and a Gift for a Queen: Raymond de Béziers’ Kalila (BnF MS Latin 8504) and Queen Jeanne de Navarre

Amanda Luyster, College of the Holy Cross

Following the Path of a Late Medieval Illustrated Health Guide

Jennifer Borland, Oklahoma State Univ.–Stillwater

Translatio and Translation in Jeanne II of Navarre’s Picture Bible (NYPL Spence Coll. MS 22)

Julia Finch, Morehead State Univ.

Sunday 10:30 am

MOVING WOMEN, MOVING OBJECTS II

Sponsor: International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA)
Organizer: Tracy Chapman Hamilton, Sweet Briar College, and Mariah Proctor-Tiffany, California State Univ.–Long Beach
Presider: Tracy Chapman Hamilton and Mariah Proctor-Tiffany

Networks of Gold and Silver: The Collecting of Isabella of France

Anne Rudloff Stanton, Univ. of Missouri–Columbia

Women Collectors and Patrons: Toward a Cartography of Exchange in the Late Middle Ages

Diane Antille, Univ. de Neuchâtel

Empress Matilda and the Valasse Reliquary Cross: From the Holy Roman Empire to the Plantagenet Realm

Nicolas Hatot, Musée des Antiquités, Rouen Respondent: Joan A. Holladay, Univ. of Texas–Austin

RECEPTIONS

7:30 p.m.
International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA) Student Committee
Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

9:00 p.m.
International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA)
Reception with cash bar
Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

SPECIAL SESSIONS IN HONOR OF FORMER ICMA PRESIDENT, ANNEMARIE WEYL CARR

Thursday 10:00 am
In Honor of Annemarie Weyl Carr I: Women as Artists and Patrons
Sponsor: Medieval Foremothers Society
Organizer: Rachel Dressler, Univ. at Albany
Presider: Rachel Dressler

Unexpected Statements of Female Power: Case Studies from Crete and Cyprus
Cristina Stancioiu, College of William & Mary

Lillian P. Bliss as a Patron of Byzantine Art
Helen C. Evans, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Re-Purposing West for East at Resafa: A Woman Patron in the Christian Middle East
Glen Peers, Univ. of Texas–Austin

Female Sovereignty and Strategic Art Making: Crossing Cultural and Religious Borders in Medieval Iberia
Therese Martin, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas

Thursday 3:30 pm
In Honor of Annemarie Weyl Carr II: Visualizations of Mary, East and West
Sponsor: Medieval Foremothers Society
Organizer: Rachel Dressler, Univ. at Albany
Presider: Pamela A. Patton, Southern Methodist Univ.

The Early Cult and Images of the Virgin Mary
Diliana Angelova, Univ. of California–Berkeley

The Virgin and Child in an Angevin Sea: Iconography Forged “in the Crucible of the Crusades”
Rebecca W. Corrie, Bates College

Bilateral Icons, East or West? The Case of a Bilateral Icon with the Mother of God at Veroia
James Rodriguez, Yale Univ. Reading Women Reading Mary Catherine Keene, Southern Methodist Univ.