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Professional Conferences and Invited Papers

�The Loci of Performance: Art, Theater, Memory.� Conference: Theater and the Visual Arts in the Middle Ages and Renaissance: Aspects of Representation. Sponsored by the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. State University of New York at Binghamton. October 20-21, 2006.

Invited paper: ��Non pero qui se pente, ma si ride�: the Ambiguity of the Medieval Smile.� Session: Particular Emotions: Smiles and Tears, organized by Barbara Rosenwein. International Medieval Congress 2006. Leeds, England. July 12-15, 2006.

�Theaters of Flesh: the Mapping of the Vierges Ouvrantes.� The 41st International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo. Session: Devotional Geographies: Space, Time and the Body in Medieval Art. Kalamazoo, MI. May 4-7, 2006.

�Tears of Ardor, Tears of Shame: Visualizing Weeping in Gothic Art.� Session: Emotions and the Body, organized by Daniel Smail. Medieval Academy of America Annual Meeting 2006. Boston, MA. March 30-April 1, 2006.

�The Relic, the Book, the Monster, the Womb: the Medieval Shrine Madonna and the Structure of Devotion.� International Congress on Intercultural Relations in the Middle Ages. Dortmund, Germany. January 12-14, 2006.

Invited discussant in the roundtable Teaching Medieval French Literature Outside French Departments. Modern Language Association Meeting 2005. Washington DC. December 27-29, 2005.

Invited paper: �Death, Love and Knowledge in Medieval Gardens.� Loyola University Medieval Studies Center Annual Lecture Series. Loyola University, Chicago. October 24, 2005.

�The Smiling Image: Aesthetics of Emotion in the Late Medieval World.� 21st Annual Conference of the Medieval Association of the Midwest. The University of Illinois at Springfield. September 23-24, 2005.

Invited paper: �Visualizing Death: Medieval Plagues and the Macabre.� Plague and Piety in Europe symposium. Sponsored by the New England Renaissance Conference and Holy Cross College, and held in conjunction with Hope and Healing: Painting in Italy in the Time of Plague, 1500-1800 exhibition. Worcester, MA. April 23, 2005.

Invited paper: �Spectacle and Spectator.� The University of Chicago Department of Art History Faculty Talk Series. Chicago, IL. February 11, 2005. Versions of the paper also delivered at the University of Minnesota and Washington State University in March-April 2005.

Invited paper: �The Body on Display: Figuring Medieval Macabre.� The Franke Institute for the Humanities at the University of Chicago. Chicago, IL. February 9, 2005.

�Displacing Death in the Late Medieval Dance of Death.� Session: Life, Death and Commemoration in the Middle Ages. International Medieval Congress 2004. Leeds, England. July 12-15, 2004.

�Debeo Saltare: Performing the Dance of Death.� Session: Performance. Medieval Academy of America Annual Meeting 2004. Seattle, Washington. April 1-3, 2004.

�Hoc Est Corpus Meum: Visual Space and Theological Construction in Medieval Dance of Death Imagery.� Open Session: Medieval Art. College Art Association, 92nd Annual Conference. Seattle, Washington. February 18-21, 2004.

�Vir Iustus Atque Perfectus: St. Louis as Noah in the Miraculous Recovery of the Breviary Miniature from the Hours of Jeanne D�Evreux.� Conference: Under the Influence: the Concept of Influence and the Study of Illuminated Manuscripts, sponsored by the Courtauld Institute of Art. London, England. July 3-5, 2003.

�Hozdenie Za Tri Morya: Medieval Slavic Illumination and the West.� Session: Medieval Slavic. The 38th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo. Kalamazoo, MI. May 15, 2003.

��Ik wil vor an den Dantz met jw springhen: Performativit�t im Berliner Totentanz.� With Almut Breitenbach. Annual Congress of the Europ�ische Totentanz-Vereinigung. L�beck, Germany. May 2-5, 2003.

�Pleyinge and Peintinge: Performing the Macabre in Fifteenth-Century Europe.� Columbia University Medieval Guild Conference: Performance in the Middle Ages. New York, NY. April 26, 2003.

�Illusion and Deception: Construction of a Proverb in Hieronymus Bosch�s The Conjurer.� The 21st Annual Symposium in the History of Art at FSU. Tallahassee, FL. February 28- March 1, 2003.

�Word, Image, Viewer: The Dance of Death in Fifteenth-Century Reval.� Annual Congress of the Europ�ische Totentanz-Vereinigung. Z�rich, Switzerland. April 26-28, 2002.

�In the Eye of the Beholder: Viewing Images in Fifteenth-Century Europe.� Vagantes, Harvard University Conference in Medieval Studies. Cambridge, MA. March 7-10, 2002.

�Painting the Invisible: Origins and Transformations of the Dance of Death.� Annual Conference at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH. April 7-8, 2001.

�The Dance of Death as the Mirror of Life: Social History in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Art.� New Scholars, New Ideas, annual conference at Virginia Commonwealth University. Richmond, VA. March 27, 2001.

�All Roads Lead to Rus: The Meeting of East and West in Medieval Russian Manuscripts.� Session: Give and Take: Exchanges, Appropriations, and Insights. East/West: Points of Contact, annual conference at Lycoming College. Williamsport, PA. March 15-17, 2001.

�A Gateway to Heaven: Majestas Domini in the Stavelot Bible.� The Fifth Annual Symposium on Liturgy, Worship and the Arts. Boston, MA. September 24, 2000.