ICMA at International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo
Sponsored Sessions and Reception
Friday 15 May 2026
Flesh and Form: The Marked Body in Material and Visual Culture
Session 144, Sangren Hall 1740 at 8:30am ET
Queer(ing) Medieval Art: Queer Spatiality
Session 224, Sangren Hall 3110 (hybrid) at 1:30pm ET
Reception
University Roadhouse at 7pm ET (6:30pm students)
Friday 15 May 2026, 8:30am ET
Session 144, Sangren Hall 1740
Flesh and Form: The Marked Body in Material and Visual Culture
Presider: Theresa Flanigan, Texas Tech University; Janis Elliott, Texas Tech University
Organizer: Katharine Denise Scherff, Northwestern State University of Louisiana
The Wound Man’s Marked Body: Violence in Late Medieval Medical and Devotional Discourse Claudia Haines, Case Western Reserve University
The Saintly and the Sublime: The Queered Body of St. Christopher in Speculum naturale Oliver Benjamin Gratzinger, Duquesne University
Jewish Liturgical Gestures in Early English Manuscripts: The Durham Ritual and Its Illustrations Tiffany Beechy, Univ. of Colorado–Boulder
Respondent: Katharine Denise Scherff, Northwestern State University of Louisiana
Friday 15 May 2026, 1:30pm ET
Session 224, Sangren Hall 3110 (hybrid)
Queer(ing) Medieval Art: Queer Spatiality
Presider: Erika Loic, Florida State University
Organizer: Kris N. Racaniello, Graduate Center, CUNY; Erika Loic, Florida State University
Poetry and Miniature as Queer Domains: An Interdisciplinary Study of Gender in Premodern Iran Ali Bahranipour, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz
Queering the Gaze: Reimagining Gender and Sexuality in Medieval Indian Miniature Paintings: Uncovering Hidden Desires and Gender Fluidity in Mughal and Rajput Miniatures Rohan Yadav, Independent Scholar
Erotic Spaces and Voyeurism in the Works of Obaid Zakani: Representation of Body, Place, and Desire in the Poetry of the Fourteenth-Century Shiraz School Seyedh Zahra Zarei, Independent Scholar
The Spatiality of Erotic Sovereignty: Mahmud, Ayaz, and the Mytho-Historical Orientation of Desire Gilad BenDavid, Graduate Center, CUNY / Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz– Max-Planck-Institut
ICMA Reception
Friday 15 May 2026
6:30pm - Student Meet and Greet
7:00pm - Reception (open to all)
RSVP HERE
Join ICMA members and the ICMA community for a special off-site reception near campus (approximately a 10-20 minute walk) on Friday 15 May 2026 from 7pm-9pm. Students are invited to join early at 6:30pm to meet other student colleagues. Light bites provided while supplies last. Complimentary beer, wine, cider, and alcohol-free drinks all night; mixed drinks available for purchase.
University Roadhouse (upstairs)
1332 W. Michigan Ave (MAP)
Kalamazoo, MI 49006
RSVP HERE
RSVP not required, but it is helpful!
*note: this is not listed in the official ICMS program since it is an off-campus event.