“Sanctity and Sinfulness: Hagiographical Studies in Memory of Thomas Head” – 2016 Conference Schedule
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
- Alexander Baldassano, CUNY Graduate Center – The Life of Saint Eugenia: Beyond Gender in the Legenda Aurea
- 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
- Marlene Hennessy, CUNY Hunter
- Paul Freedman, Yale University
- Cynthia Hahn, CUNY Graduate Center & Hunter
2:30 Exploring the Kinship of the Sacred and the Secular
- Stephanie Petinos, CUNY Graduate Center – Relicized bodies in Le Roman de la Manekine
- Alyssa Coltrain, Rutgers University – “Now art thus Goddus child”: Appropriating Hagiography and Rewriting Family in Sir Gowther
- David A. Heayn, CUNY Graduate Center – Byzantine Monasticism in Two Anatolian Provinces, ca. 500-700
4:15 Reception, room 5105