ICMS Kalamazoo 2026

Our ICLS-NAB business meeting will be on Thursday, May 14, 8:00-9:30 p.m., Student Center 3205. I will set up a Zoom for us and will ask speakers to move near the laptop so people attending via Zoom will be able to hear as much of the meeting as possible. Zoom link: https://uky.zoom.us/my/julie.human

Please send any good news you would like to share so I can add it to the slides in advance of the meeting.

We are also sponsoring the following two sessions: 

Thursday, 1:30-3:00 p.m., Session 91, Sangren Hall 4725 

Exceptional Exceptions: Nonconformity in Courtly Literature 

Presider and Organizer: Tamara Bentley Caudill, Jacksonville Univ.

  • Nonconforming Amazon Queens in Courtly Literature, Suzanne C. Hagedorn, College of William & Mary 
  • Illusory Power: Chivalry and Gender Expectations in Partonopeus de Blois, Nicole J. McGee, West Texas A&M Univ. 
  • Imagining Otherworlds: The Art of Queer Failure in Marie de France’s Lanval, Charlie Serigne, Univ. of Notre Dame 
  • Out of Bounds: Nonconformity in Raoul de Houdenc, Kristin Burr, St. Joseph’s Univ.

Thursday, 3:30-5:00 p.m., Session 129, Sangren Hall 4725 

Honoring Christopher Callahan (A Roundtable)

Presider and Organizer:  Susanne Hafner, Fordham Univ. 

  • A roundtable discussion with F. Regina Psaki, Univ. of Oregon; Caroline A. Jewers, Univ. of Kansas; Daniel O’Sullivan, Univ. of Mississippi; Kathy M. Krause, Univ. of Missouri–Kansas City; Julien R. Stout, Princeton Univ.; Tamara Bentley Caudill, Jacksonville Univ. Respondent:  Christopher J. Callahan, Illinois Wesleyan Univ.
  • Some presenters will be joining via Zoom (https://uky.zoom.us/my/julie.human), so if you are unable to attend in person but would like to try to listen in, you’re welcome to use the link as well.

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