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Announcements: Lectures CONFERENCES AND LECTURES - MAY 2025
C o n f e r e n c e s
United States
Conference: 60th International Congress on Medieval Studies
Organizer: Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University
Place: Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States and in a hybrid format
Date: May 8-10, 2025
Language: English
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Conference: 3rd Annual 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers Conference
Theme: Transformations
Place: Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States
Date: May 15-17, 2025
Language: English
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Conference: Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association
Theme: Politics of the Body at the Crossroads
Place: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Date: May 22-25, 2025
Language: English
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Conference: 49th Annual Meeting of the French Colonial Historical Society - 49e Congrès Annuel de la Société d’histoire coloniale française
Theme: Representations of Empire: Art, Museums, International Expos
Place: Buffalo, New York, United States
Date: May 29-31, 2025
Language: English
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Virtual
Conference: Annual Conference of the American Comparative Literature Association
Place: Virtual
Date: May 29 - June 1, 2025
Language: English
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L e c t u r e s
May 8, 2025
Speaker: Elizabeth J. Harper
Title: Rapture or Rape? Women and Lyric in Machaut’s Confort d’amy
Subtitle: -
Conference: 60th International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 8-10, 2025)
Session: 15 Transmission, Translation, and Transformation in Machaut (Presider: Tamsyn Mahoney-Steel)
Place: hybrid
Date: May 8, 2025
Language: English
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Speaker: Julie Van Peteghem
Title: Let’s (Not) Talk About Sex
Subtitle: Reading Ovid’s Stories of Rape in Dante’s Time
Conference: 60th International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 8-10, 2025)
Session: 55 Dante and Ovid (1) (Presider: Jelena Todorović)
Place: hybrid
Date: May 8, 2025
Language: English
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May 10, 2025
Speaker: William E. Arguelles
Title: Know Their Names
Subtitle: Cecily Chaumpaigne, Chanel Miller, and Close Narration
Conference: 60th International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 8-10, 2025)
Session: 340 Theorizing Sexual Consent: Medieval/Modern (Presiders: Charles L. Samuelson and Carissa M. Harris)
Place: Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States
Date: May 10, 2025
Language: English
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Speaker: Sarah Baechle
Title: “My wombe wax out”
Subtitle: Consent, Reproduction, and the Distended Body Politic
Conference: 60th International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 8-10, 2025)
Session: 340 Theorizing Sexual Consent: Medieval/Modern (Presiders: Charles L. Samuelson and Carissa M. Harris)
Place: Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States
Date: May 10, 2025
Language: English
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Speaker: Adam B. Estes
Title: Rape in Aquinas and Gratian
Subtitle: A Case Study in Thomas Aquinas’s Engagement with Legal Sources
Conference: 60th International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 8-10, 2025)
Session: 406 Raptus, Rapture, and Ravishment (Presider: Rebecca Straple-Sovers)
Place: hybrid
Date: May 10, 2025
Language: English
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Speaker: Jesse Njus
Title: Dramatizing Consent
Subtitle: The Complexities of Female Autonomy in Hrotsvit’s Plays
Conference: 60th International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 8-10, 2025)
Session: 340 Theorizing Sexual Consent: Medieval/Modern (Presiders: Charles L. Samuelson and Carissa M. Harris)
Place: Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States
Date: May 10, 2025
Language: English
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Speaker: Grace Elizabeth O’Duffy
Title: The Rapist, the Hero and the Rapist, the Villain in Old Norse Literature
Subtitle: -
Conference: 60th International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 8-10, 2025)
Session: 340 Theorizing Sexual Consent: Medieval/Modern (Presiders: Charles L. Samuelson and Carissa M. Harris)
Place: Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States
Date: May 10, 2025
Language: English
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Speaker: Lindsay Pereira
Title: From a Rhetoric of Ravishment to a Rhetoric of Rape
Subtitle: Malory’s Linguistic Shift in the Bedtricks of Le Morte Darthur
Conference: 60th International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 8-10, 2025)
Session: 406 Raptus, Rapture, and Ravishment (Presider: Rebecca Straple-Sovers)
Place: hybrid
Date: May 10, 2025
Language: English
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Speaker: Gloria Zitelli
Title: Conjugal Rapture in Twelfth–Century Old French Novels
Subtitle: : Investigations into Female Liminality in the Encounter with the Other
Conference: 60th International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 8-10, 2025)
Session: 406 Raptus, Rapture, and Ravishment (Presider: Rebecca Straple-Sovers)
Place: hybrid
Date: May 10, 2025
Language: English
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May 17, 2025
Speaker: Effie Harrington
Title: ‘A Sacred Horror … Unfit for Utterance’
Subtitle: Rape, Testimony and Silence in Mary Shelley’s Mathilda
Conference: 3rd Annual 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers Conference (May 15-17, 2025)
Session: 7A: Dangerous Domesticity (Moderator: Taya Sazama)
Place: Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States
Date: May 17, 2025
Language: English
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