Medica's 2016 Schedule at Kalamazoo

International Congress on Medieval Studies, 12-15 May 2016
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan

Thursday, May 12
noon, Bernhard 211-- Medica Business Meeting
open to members and non-members

Friday, May 13
1:30 p.m., Schneider 1130
Session #243 Epidemic Diseases: Medieval Witnesses


Presider: William H. York, Portland State University

The Disappearing Leper and Clandestine Christ: Understanding a Theological Topos in Bonaventure’s Life of Saint Francis of Assisi

             Mark M. Lambert, University of Chicago

Diagnosis of Plague in Gui de Chauliac’s Chirurgia Magna

             Meagan S. Allen, Indiana University, Bloomington

Bone, Stone and Text: Jewish Responses to the Black Death

             Susan L. Einbinder, University of Connecticut

3:30 p.m., Schneider 1130
Session #297 Epidemic Diseases in the Middle Ages: 
Twenty-First Century Understandings

Presider: Monica H. Green, Arizona State University

Plague Diffusion within and out of Europe’s Uplands

             Ann G. Carmichael, Indiana University, Bloomington, Emerita

Is that Plague Image Really an Image of the Plague? Tackling the Digital Disconnect between Medieval Witnesses and Twenty-First Century Understandings of Epidemic Diseases in the Middle Ages

             Lori Jones, University of Ottawa

The Rise and Fall of a Historical Plague Focus: The Case of Ottoman Anatolia

             Nükhet Varlik, Rutgers University, Newark

5:15 p.m., Fetzer 1060 -- Medica Reception with cash bar