Saturday, March 23

Location: All sessions will be held at the University Club's Faculty Room at the IMU other than the Reader's Circle Banquet, which will be in the President's Room 

9 a.m. — Breakfast and Coffee

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9:30 a.m. — Panel 3: Representations of Pilgrimage

• “Patronage & Pilgrimage: The Cult of the Magdalene in a Transregional Context,” Aaron Kinskey, Marquette University.

• “Badge Clusters: How to Spot a Misguided Pilgrim in Medieval Art”
  Jennifer Lee, IUPUI.

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10:30 a.m. — Break

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11:00 a.m. — Panel 4: Materiality and the Body

• “Sir Orfeo and Ambivalent Attitudes Toward the Earth,” Matt McGraw, Lincoln University.
• “Moving distinctions: Medieval travel and the episteme of bodily difference,”
  Christian Hoffarth, Institut für Personengeschichte, Bensheim.
• “They Can Hardly Get Rid of It: Smell in Early Islamic Pilgrimage,” Adam Bursi, Utrecht University.

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12:30 p.m. — Lunch

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2:00 p.m. — Roundtable: Teaching Travel

• Jeremy Schott, Religious Studies, Indiana University, "Hypertextualities and Egeria's Travel Writing"

• Elizabeth Hebbard, Dept. of French and Italian, Indiana University, “Mapping Romance”

• Shannon Gayk, English and Medieval Studies, Indiana University, “Learning on the Road”

• Karma Lochrie, English and Gender Studies, Indiana University, “Where Have I Been?”

• Ron Sela, Islamic Studies Program, Indiana University, “Travelers and Explorers in Central Asia.”

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3:00 p.m. — Break

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3:15 p.m. — Panel 5: Death and Freedom on the Road

• “The Perilous Road to Sanctity: The Reality and the Metaphor of St. Æthelthryth’s Flight to Ely,” Ian Styler, University of Birmingham

• “Final Destination: Clairvaux Abbey and the perception of Cistercian saints in the twelfth-century,” Georgina Fitzgibbon, University of Birmingham

• “Your Money or Your Life!: The Role of the Highway in Fourteenth-Century Crime and Punishment,” Janine Bryant, University of Birmingham

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4:45 p.m. — Break

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5:00 p.m. — KEYNOTE by Suzanne Akbari, University of Toronto: “The Material Landscape in The Book of John Mandeville and Christine de Pizan's Livre du chemin de long estude.”

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6:30 p.m. — Reader's Circle Banquet

President's Room, University Club, IMU