The Spring Meeting of the Delaware Valley Medieval Association takes place 1:15pm-4:00pm on April 23, 2022 at Albright College and will be held virtually. The theme is "Communicating Trauma" and the meeting features three speakers including the DVMA Paper Prize and Digital Project Prize awardees. A business meeting of the DVMA directly follows the speakers' session.

Program

1:15pm - Participants arrive (Zoom meeting opened)

1:20pm - Welcome (Abby McGovern, Albright College, DVMA Secretary)

1:25pm - Opening remarks (Ana Pairet, Rutgers University, DVMA President)

1:30pm-3:00pm - Speaker session followed by Q&A

• Matthew Aiello (University of Pennsylvania), “Lamenting Loss of Land in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MSS Junius 85 & 86” DVMA Paper Prize
• Lucas McMahon (Princeton University),“GIS Investigations into the Ninth-century Optical Telegraph between the Abbasid-Byzantine Frontier and Constantinople” DVMA Digital Project Prize
• Patricia Turning (Albright College), “Popular Control and Contested Sexuality in Late Medieval Toulouse: A Case of Rape or Childhood Prostitution?”  

3:00pm - 4:00pm DVMA Business meeting (discussion and vote on proposed amendments to the DVMA Constitution)

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