| Conferences and Sessions Organized
Chair and organizer of the session The Monstrous and the Uncanny: Figuring the Macabre. The 42nd International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo. Kalamazoo, MI, May 10-13, 2007 Organizer and discussant for the session Macabre Relics: Medieval, Renaissance, Modern. Conference: Constructions of Death, Mourning and Memory. Woodcliff Lake, NJ. October 27-29, 2006. Organizer of the panel Reinventing Narratives: Text and Image in ate Medieval France and Spain. Strand: Rendering the Past and Visualizing the Future. International Medieval Congress 2005. Leeds, England, July 12-15, 2005. Organizer, chair and coordinator for the international interdisciplinary conference Performance/Performativity in the Middle Ages. Developed the theme for the conference; wrote a grant proposal; managed a budget of $6500; planned and coordinated all conference events. Speakers: Jody Enders (University of California Santa Barbara), Erika Fischer-Lichte (Free University of Berlin), Pamela Sheingorn (City University of New York) and Mary Suydam (Kenyon College). Under the auspices of the Franke Institute for the Humanities, and co-sponsored by the Divinity School and the Art History, Germanic Studies, and Romance Languages and Literatures Departments at the University of Chicago. Chicago, IL. May 20-21, 2005. Chair and organizer of the session Apocalypse: New Perspectives. The 40th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo. Kalamazoo, MI. May 5-8, 2005. |