Travel Award Winners Announced for the International Congress on Medieval Studies

Contact: Kylie Owens
December 13, 2024
'A manuscript image of two birds facing each other, one white and one brown, with a small bearded face between them. Next to this is the text "60th International Congress on Medieval Studies." '

 

Please join us in congratulating the following travel awards winners for this year's International Congress on Medieval Studies (ICMS). The Medieval Institute and the Richard Rawlinson Center at Western 九一麻豆制片厂 University offer competitive travel awards for those traveling to Kalamazoo to give papers in sponsored and special sessions at ICMS in the spring of each year. To learn more about the annual travel awards offered and how to apply, please visit the ICMS website. The following are the winners of travel awards for the 60th meeting of the Congress.

Congress Travel Award

  • Arnisha Ashraf, presenting "Women and Marriage Alliances: Exploring Gender, Power, and the Politics Behind the 'Female Body'" in the session "Mothers as Makers: The Role of Women in Medieval Politics (2): High to Late Middle Ages"
  • Farooq Hassan, presenting "Exchanges and Interactions between the Early Islamic Community and the Byzantine World" in the session "Byzantine Engagement with Islam: Actors, Sources, and Their Impact on the Western View of Islam"
  • Md. Azharrul Haque Mallick, presenting "Foreign Encounters, Native Concerns: The Impact of European Travelers on Medieval Indian History and Urdu Scholarship" in the session "Reconceptions of European Literary History (1): How Do We Study Historical Text Traditions?"

Archibald Cason Edwards, Senior, and Sarah Stanley Gordon Edwards Memorial Travel Award

  • Baylee Woodley, presenting "Too Femme to Function? Exploring the Role of Queer Fem(me)ininities in Constructing the Non-Human in Late Medieval Visual Culture" in the session "Queer(ing) Medieval Art (2): New Horizons"
  • Sarah Dyer Magleby, presenting "The Inventoried Home: Utilizing Archival Sources to Reconstruct the Turquam-Gilles Household in Late Medieval Paris" in the session "Women, Objects, and Space (1)" 

Otto Gr眉ndler Travel Award

  • Polina Ignatova, presenting "Undying Love: Sharing a Bed with a Restless Corpse" in the session "Romancing the Monster" 

Kathryn N. Karrer Travel Award

  • Grace O'Duffy, presenting "The Rapist, the Hero and the Rapist, the Villain in Old Norse Literature" in the session "Theorizing Sexual Consent: Medieval/Modern"
  • Selenay Aydin, presenting "Shaping the 'Other': Turkish-Italian Relations in the Late Medieval Mediterranean" in the session "Identity and Otherness in the Medieval Mediterranean (2): Italy, Byzantium, and the Levant"

David R. Tashjian Travel Award

  • Alexia Kirov, presenting "'Gang 奴t!' Healing in Old Saxon and Old English Medical Charms" in the session "Studies in Old Saxon (1)"