Welcome to the website for Princeton University’s Medieval Studies Graduate Conference, 2021.
The conference will be held on Zoom on Saturday, March 6, 2021 from 10:00am – 4:30pm EST.
It will begin with a keynote address given by Professor Hussein Fancy, Associate Professor of History at the University of Michigan, entitled: “The Law is an Imposter: Restoring Imperial Authority around the Medieval Mediterranean.”
The keynote address will be followed by six graduate student papers reflecting a range of historical contexts and disciplinary entry points. Diverse in their subjects, geographies, chronologies, and approaches, these papers share a common objective—to explore the circumstances under which medieval people made claims to past legacies, how they asserted those claims, and what it meant to express them as calls for restitution.
Javier Albarrán, RomanIslam: Center for Comparative Empire and Transcultural Studies, Universität Hamburg
“Shaping an Islamic ‘Reconquest’: The Loss of Al-Andalus, 11th Century and Beyond”
Maia Ruth Béar, Department of Medieval Studies, Yale University
“Making Things, Making Up for Things, Making Things Up: Female Creativity in a Middle English Romance”
Camila Marcone, Center for Medieval Studies, Fordham University
“From Battleground to Hunting Ground: Recreational Spaces and ‘Reconquista’ in Alfonso XI’s Libro de la montería”
Michael J. Sanders, Fordham University
“1492, the End of the ‘Reconquest?’: Ferdinand II, Martín García, and the Iter per Hispaniam to Jerusalem”
Bailey Sullivan, University of Michigan
“‘The statue I came to see is not here anymore’: The Restoration of Notre-Dame du Pilier at Chartres Cathedral”
Kevin Vogelaar, Tufts University
“The Medieval Armenian Foundation Rite and the Construction of Loss”
Please click on the following link to register for the conference:
https://princeton.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYqce-vrDksE9LdjAuKLDB8hVIPe82Zeu0S
This theme was developed prior to the global spread of COVID-19. It is clear, however, that it now resonates with our collective preoccupations in entirely unexpected ways. We hope these resonances are uplifting and will not only inspire new ways of thinking about the topic in its historical context, but also that they will help point our present thoughts to the future—to the recovery and restoration that lay ahead.