Pearl Kibre Medieval Study 18th Annual Conference: The Medieval Uncanny

The 18th annual PKMS Conference, "The Medieval Uncanny", will be held at the CUNY Graduate Center in NYC and on Zoom May 3, 2024.

By Pearl Kibre Medieval Study

Date and time

Friday, May 3 · 9:30am - 3pm EDT

Location

CUNY Graduate Center

365 5th Avenue PKMS Room/TBD New York, NY 10016

Agenda

9:30 AM - 9:45 AM

Welcome Address

9:45 AM - 11:15 AM

Panel Block 1A: Abundance

Panel 1: Abundance (Koyuki Smith, Non-Maternal Breastfeeding in Medieval Literature; Cullen Arn, Bodyless Tears and Embodied Mystical Weeping in The Life of St. Osith; Will Arguelles, An Abundance of...

9:45 AM - 11:15 AM

Panel Block 1B: Arthurian Assemblages

Panel 1B: Arthurian Assemblages (Ellen Pan, “C’est l’histoire de tous les hommes”: Morgana in La Légende du Roi Arthur; Geoffrey Ramirez, Clerics and Consciousness Raising: The Use of the Medieval by...

11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Panel 2A: Aesthetics and Material Culture

Panel 2A: Aesthetics and Material Culture (Anastasios Kantaras, Incised enkolpia as amulets in Byzantium: magic or faith?); Meredith McLaughlin, A Privilege on the Frontier: Analyzing the Mozarabic I...

11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Panel 2B: Weird Romance

Panel 2B: Weird Romance (Dermot Burns, ‘Þow art not Gawayn’: abject hero, uncanny homecoming, and weird words in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; Giulia Gilmore, The Uncanny in Medieval Legends of Al...

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Keynote: Dr. Megan Cook, "Minor Medievalisms"

The field of medievalism studies has developed a variety of frameworks for assessing the serious social and ideological work achieved through allusions to and invocations of the Middle Ages in contem...

About this event

5 hours 30 minutes

This conference will explore the uncanny and related terms– the weird, the abject, the spectral– that describe the moment of rupture which can’t be assimilated by modern perspectives or previous experience, an experience common to contemporary readers and medieval ones. Papers will address modern and medieval interpretations of temporal and cultural distance, shifts between the normal and the fantastic, and weird medieval stories that persist until today.

Keynote by Dr. Megan Cook of Colby College.

Masks are required for in-person attendees, and will be provided.

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Pearl Kibre Medieval Study