ICMA AT THE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON MEDIEVAL STUDIES 2023
For a full listing of the sessions, consult the ICMS program, available here:
https://wmich.edu/sites/default/files/attachments/u385/2023/2023CongressProgram.pdf
Mining the Collection: Kalamazoo Edition
Thursday, May 11, 12:00 p.m.
A behind-the-scenes visit to the Walters Art Museum (Baltimore) with Christine Sciacca and Lynley Herbert.
Friday, May 12, 12:00 p.m.
A behind-the-scenes visit to the Art Institute of Chicago with Jonathan Tavares.
The Medieval Institute and the International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA) are
teaming up to offer a series of virtual museum visits during the International Congress on Medieval Studies. These visits will be broadcast live on the meeting site, and recordings be made available to all registrants Monday, May 15 through Wednesday, May 31.
Organized by Shirin Fozi (Metropolitan Museum of Art) in collaboration with curators at the participating museums, the events highlight carefully selected medieval objects from the permanent collections, with commentary by museum professionals and other experts. Ample time is allowed for questions from and discussion with attendees.
Blurring the Sacred and the Secular in Late Medieval Visual Culture I: Material Mediations
An International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA) Student Committee Sponsored Session
Friday 12 May 2023
1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. EDT
Session 212
Fetzer Center 2030
Presider: Nina Gonzalbez, Florida State Univ.
Organizer: Shannah Rose, Institute of Fine Arts, New York Univ.
Gabriela Chitwood, Univ. of Oregon
St. Agnes’ Roundel: A Site for Sienese Material Translations and Transformations
Brooke Hannah Wrubel, Univ. of Pennsylvania
Materiality and Spirituality in the Urbino Studiolo of Federico da Montefeltro
Matan Aviel, Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem
The Artist-Saint Joins the Painted Saint? Religious and Art Historical Pietas as
Factors in the Care of a Fra Angelico Altarpiece, ca. 1500
Annika Svendsen Finne, Institute of Fine Arts, New York Univ.
Blurring the Sacred and the Secular in Late Medieval Visual Culture II: Spatial Mediations
An International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA) Student Committee Sponsored Session
Friday 12 May 2023
3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. EDT
Session 261
Fetzer Center 2030
Presider: Nina Gonzalbez, Florida State Univ.
Organizer: Shannah Rose, Institute of Fine Arts, New York Univ.
Gabriela Chitwood, Univ. of Oregon
The Nest of the Silver-Winged Dove: The Transmutation of Sacred Space at San
Damiano in Assisi and the Early Eucharistic Culture of the Poor Clares
Michael Shane Harless, Rice Univ.
Fitting Concepts: “Secular” and “Sacred” Elements at the Papal Court of Avignon
Tanja Hinterholz, Univ. Wien
Poised for Devotion: The Nave Stone Relief Icons of St. Mark’s Basilica
Sarah F. Cohen, Columbia Univ.
New Critical Terms for “Medieval” Art History (A Roundtable)
Friday 12 May 2023
3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. EDT
Session 289
Schneider Hall 2345 (hybrid)
Presider: Elizabeth Dospel Williams, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and
Collection
Organizer: Heather A. Badamo, Univ. of California–Santa Barbara
A roundtable discussion
“Visuality,” Diliana Angelova, University of California, Berkeley (VIRTUAL)
“Sensory,” Patricia Blessing, Princeton University (VIRTUAL)
“Sexuality,” Bryan Keene, Riverside Community College
“Labo(u)r,” Christina Normore, Northwestern University (VIRTUAL)
“Eclecticism,” Alice Sullivan, Tufts University (+ Alessia Rossi, VIRTUAL)
“Object-based art histories,” Nancy Wicker, University of Mississippi
ICMA STUDENT RECEPTION
FRIDAY 12 MAY 2023
6:00–7:00 P.M.
FETZER CENTER 1040/1050
DRINK TICKETS PROVIDED
ICMA RECEPTION
FRIDAY 12 MAY 2023
7:00 P.M. - 9:30 P.M.
FETZER CENTER 1040/1050
CASH BAR
The Visual and Literary Legacy of Hrabanus Maurus: Interdisciplinary Examinations
Saturday 13 May 2023
10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. EDT
Session 324
Bernhard Center 212
Presider: Jennifer Awes Freeman, United Theological Seminary of the Twin
Cities
Organizer: Kelin Michael, Emory Univ.
The Pseudo-Hrabanus Tractatus on Acts and the Glossa ordinaria
Bill Schipper, Memorial Univ. of Newfoundland
Copying from the “Original”: Emperor Rudolf II, Hrabanus’s Carmina figurata,
and the Power of Legacy
Kelin Michael
Medieval California: A Case Study of the Middle Ages in America (A Roundtable)
Saturday 13 May 2023
3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. EDT
Session 443
Schneider Hall 1340 (hybrid)
Presider: Bryan C. Keene, Riverside City College
Organizer: Bryan C. Keene; Roland Betancourt, Univ. of California–Irvine; Larisa Grollemond, J. Paul Getty Museum; Alison Locke Perchuk, California State Univ.–Channel Islands
A roundtable discussion with Wallace Thomas Cleaves II, Univ. of California–Riverside; Larisa Grollemond; Alison Locke Perchuk; Abby Ang, Indiana Univ.–Bloomington; and Roland Betancourt