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We are pleased to announce the schedule for the Pearl Kibre Medieval Study’s upcoming annual graduate student conference, “Sanctity and Sinfulness: Hagiographical Studies in Memory of Thomas Head.” The conference will be held on Friday, February 26 from 10:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. in Room 9204 of the CUNY Graduate Center.

10:30 Registration

11:00   Panel 1: Embodiment and Evidence in the Lives of Holy Women

1. Alexander Baldassano, CUNY Graduate Center – The Life of Saint Eugenia: Beyond Gender in the Legenda Aurea
2. Alicia Cannizzo, CUNY Graduate Center – The Case of Margherita of Città di Castello and the Burden of Proof for Sainthood in the Later Middle Ages

12:00   Lunch Break

1:00     Roundtable: Hagiography and the Work of Thomas Head: The Legends and the Legacy

1. Marlene Hennessy, CUNY Hunter
2. Paul Freedman, Yale University
3. Cynthia Hahn, CUNY Graduate Center & Hunter

2:30     Exploring the Kinship of the Sacred and the Secular

1. Stephanie Petinos, CUNY Graduate Center – Relicized bodies in Le Roman de la Manekine
2. Alyssa Coltrain, Rutgers University – “Now art thus Goddus child”: Appropriating Hagiography and Rewriting Family in Sir Gowther
3. David A. Heayn, CUNY Graduate Center – Byzantine Monasticism in Two Anatolian Provinces, ca. 500-700

4:15     Reception, room 5105