Women of the Medieval World/Medieval Women of the World

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship (SMFS)

Organizer Name

Seokyung Han

Organizer Affiliation

Binghamton Univ.

Presider Name

Sally Livingston

Presider Affiliation

Ohio Wesleyan Univ.

Paper Title 1

Non-Uppity Women Poets of al-Andalus in Their Apartment

Presenter 1 Name

Doaa Omran

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Univ. of New Mexico

Paper Title 2

On the Re-establishment of Gender Roles in Medieval Korea

Presenter 2 Name

Seokyung Han

Paper Title 3

Same-Sex Intimacies in an Ethiopian Hagiography: The Queer Relations of the Ethiopian Orthodox Female Saint Walatta Petros

Presenter 3 Name

Wendy Laura Belcher

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Princeton Univ.

Paper Title 4

Medieval Feminists at Work in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Presenter 4 Name

Ellie Crookes

Presenter 4 Affiliation

Univ. of Wollongong

Start Date

16-5-2015 3:30 PM

Session Location

Fetzer 1005

Description

This panel seeks papers that explore and excavate another way of representing the medieval era, women’s roles, and the relationship between the two. Previous studies on women’s roles in the medieval era have illustrated and problematized how the conventional understanding and common use of the word "medieval" was based on the conceptualized setting of the spatio-temporal West. This session is interested in papers that address gender, medieval studies, and the narrative split between the West and the rest of the World.

Dorothy Kim