The 2024 Winter Meeting of the Delaware Valley Medieval Association takes place on February 2, 1pm-6pm at the University of Pennsylvania’s Van Pelt Library, Class of 1978 Pavilion (6th floor). The theme is “Between Cultures.” Registration is $10 for DVMA members, $15 for non-members. Graduate students attend free of charge (use coupon DVMA24GS).
Program
Welcome, 1:00-1:05
Ada Kuskowski (Penn)
Plenary, 1:05-2:00pm
Anne Lester (Johns Hopkins) & Laura Morreale (Independent Scholar), “Life and Death in Crusader Acre: Collaborations across the Account-Inventory of Eudes of Nevers (1266)”
Panel 1, 2:00-3:25pm
Moderator: Helmut Reimitz (Princeton)
Caz Batten (Penn) “Constructing the Feather Cloak: Disability, Masculinity, and the Prosthetics of Weland the Smith”
Elizabeth Urban (WCUPA) – “Unfree Women in Early Islamic Historical Narratives: A Genre Analysis”
Hartley Lachter (Lehigh), “Supernal Archons of the Nations: Christianity and Islam in Medieval Kabbalistic Theosophy”
Panel 2, 3:35-5pm
Moderator: Elly Truitt (Penn)
Sarah Davis-Secord (IAS/UNM), “Muslim-Christian Encounters in the Italo-Greek Saints Lives”
Alicia Walker (Bryn Mawr), “Ethical Formation and the Byzantine Viewer: Navigating between the Classical and the Christian”
Samantha Kelly (Rutgers), “Negotiating Religious Diversity: Ethiopian Orthodox in Renaissance Rome”
Reception, 5-6pm