Travel and Translation
New England Medieval Studies Consortium Graduate Conference 3.28.2015
About our plenary speaker
Cecilia Gaposchkin (Associate Professor, Dartmouth College) received her Ph.D. from Berkeley in 2001. She works on late medieval French cultural history, and has published on the intersection between politics, kingship, and representation. Her first book, The Making of Saint Louis (IX) of France: Kingship, Sanctity and Crusade in the Later Middle Ages, was published with Cornell University Press in 2008 (paperback ed. 2010). She is also the author of Blessed Louis, The Most Glorious of Kings: Texts relating to the Cult of Saint Louis of France (Notre Dame: 2012), and, with Sean Field and Larry Field, The Sanctity of Louis IX: Early Lives of Saint Louis by Geoffrey of Beaulieu and William of Chartres (Cornell: 2014). She is now working on a devotional history of the crusades, tentatively entitled "Crusade, Liturgy, Ideology, and Devotion: 1050-1400." She also serves as the Assistant Dean of Faculty for Pre-Major Advising.
About the New England Medieval Studies Conference
This spring, the Yale Medieval Studies Program will host the 32nd Annual New England Medieval Studies Consortium Graduate Student Conference. The conference, founded in 1983 by the late Prof. Alison Goddard Elliott of Brown University, is hosted on a rotating basis by Yale, the University of Connecticut, and Brown, and it brings together graduate students in Medieval Studies from the Northeast. In recent years, it has grown to attract an even wider geographic spread of submissions from across the country. The conference is designed to support the development of graduate students; as such, it is organized by graduate students, and only graduate students may present papers at the conference. While the conference began in New England, it has grown to include participants from across the world. The Alison Goddard Elliott Award is an annual prize awarded to the best paper submitted in advance of the conference.
The Alison Goddard Elliott Award
The Alison Goddard Elliott Award, named for the founder of the conference, is an annual prize for the best paper submitted in advance of the conference.
Two rising medievalists offered their support and expertise in judging the many excellent submissions we received for this award.
Marita von Weissenberg graduated with her PhD in history from Yale University in 2013. She is currently visiting assistant professor at Xavier University, where she will start an assistant professor appointment in August 2015. Her research centers on intersections of sanctity, family, and masculinity, and her current project examines how authors of late medieval vitae juxtaposed secular and clerical notions of masculinity in biographies of married saints to tell the story of sanctity.
Mary Kate Hurley, who received her PhD from Columbia University, is an assistant professor of English at Ohio University. Her work centers on the formation of community within and around translations.
About NEMSC 2015: "Travel and Translation"
We are pleased to announce the 32nd Annual New England Medieval Studies Consortium Graduate Student Conference, to be held on March 28th at Yale University. Our theme for this year's conference is “Travel and Translation in the Middle Ages.” In light of recent endeavors such as the Global Chaucers project, the growing interest in the multilingual cultures of England, and the upcoming anniversaries of two great medieval councils, Fourth Lateran (1215) and Constance (1415), “travel” and “translation” are immediately relevant to many branches of Medieval Studies.
Our capacious topic has elicited proposals for papers from all disciplines of Medieval Studies, including translation theory and comparative studies, manuscript transmission and paleography, and musicology and liturgical studies.
About our sponsors
The Conference has been made possible by the generous support of many Yale University departments and councils, including the Medieval Studies Program, the Lamont Lectureship, the Yale Divinity School, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, the Council on Middle East Studies, the Judaic Studies Program, the European Studies Program, the Dean's Fund for Student-Led Symposia, and the Departments of English, History, Spanish and Portuguese, and Religious Studies.