See below to read about some of the amazing work our graduate students have been doing:

Lindsay Gill (English)

Sangalli Institute (2024), "The Archives of the Holy See and the Roman Catholicism: instructions for use and new research perspectives," winter seminar, Rome, Italy

Leeds IMC (2024), "Beowulf’s Modthryth: Looking for En-closure," The Role of Women in Medieval Germanic Crisis Narratives, Leeds International Medieval Congress 2024, Medieval Institute at the University of Leeds

Kalamazoo ICMS (2023), “Heorot and Hagiography: Reading Beowulf’s Wealhtheow through a Marian Lens,” Elite Women and Memory II, Sponsored Panel: The Haskins Society, Conference Presentation, International Congress of Medieval Studies 2023, Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University

Benjamin N Yusen (English)

"A Thorn and Steel Grendel: Attacking the Meadhall in Dan Simmons' Hyperion Cantos" at NeMLA

"'Who Draws it Out Shall Follow After': Arthurian Themes, Motifs, and Canon in Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time" at the PCA National Conference

"'Eal þis Eorþan Gesteal Idel Weorþeð': Encountering Alien Spaces in The Wanderer" for ICMS at Kalamazoo

Pouyan Shahidi (Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine)

Conference papers:

• “A philosophical journey on the map: Constructing a geospatial bio-bibliography of Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna)” [updated], Canadian Society for Digital Humanities Annual Conference, York University, Toronto (May 2023)
• “A Philosophical Journey on the Map: Constructing a Geospatial Bio-bibliography of Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna)”, Wednesday Noon Digital Scholarship Series, IU Libraries, USA (March 8, 2023)

Invited talks:

• “Between natural philosophy and mathematical astronomy: Celestial physics of Ibn Sīnā and Ptolemaic kinematic models”, Project Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus, Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Munich, Germany (July 2023)
• “Moonlight, quintessence, and Gabriel: The explanation and use of the lunar spots across fields of intellectual inquiry in Islam”, Institut für den Nahen und Mittleren Osten, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany (July 2023)

Workshops:

• “From textual data to digital maps” (Asynchronous workshop), Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana (Launched Dec. 2023)