UPCOMING EVENTS:
Master of Belmonte,
Saint Michael, 1450–1500
North Spanish,
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Cloisters Collection, 1955 (55.120.2)
May 2026 ~~ International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo. I’m excited to be the respondent to the double-session called “Buboes, Orifices, and Horns: Non-Normative Medieval Bodies Reconsidered,” sponsored by the Yale Medieval Studies group and organized by Se Jin Park and Imke Vet.
PAST EVENTS:
Wed., March 18, 2020 ~~ Central European University, Budapest, public lecture: “Borders and Boundaries in Sacred Space: The Painted Chancel-Walls of Alpine Franciscan Churches.” Talk given in conjunction with DAAD Workshop on “Borders and Interactions: Monastic Regions, Cult Center, Pilgrimages” [sigh… cancelled due to Covid]
July 6-9, 2020 ~~International Medieval Congress, Leeds. Session 910, roundtable participant in session “(Un)Bound Bodies: New Approaches”; Session 1138, “(Crossing) Boundaries between Laity and Clergy II,” paper on “Bernardino Luini’s ‘Lettnerwand’ at Santa Maria degli Angeli in Lugano: Borders, Boundaries, and Passages in a Late Medieval Swiss Church.” [also cancelled due to Covid]
Sept. 18-21, 2019 ~~ Forum Kunst des Mittelalters conference in Bern, Switzerland. I gave a talk called “Sites of Passage: Walking to Heaven in Gothic Tympana” in the session “Brücken zum Jenseits: Mittelalterliche Kunstwerke in Transferprozessen zwischen irdischer und himmlischer Sphäre II / Bridges to Transcendence: Medieval Artworks within Processes of Transfer between Earthly and Heavenly Spheres II” organized by David Ganz, Sophie Schweinfurth and Katharina Theil, Friday, Sept. 20, 4:45-6:15 pm.
Oct. 17, 2019 ~~ University of Notre Dame, Medieval Institute. My talk was called “Movement, Media, and the Quest for Salvation: A Pillar for Thinking in the Strasbourg South Transept,” 5:00-7:30 pm.
Nov. 2, 2019 ~~ New England Medieval Consortium conference on the topic “Rethinking the Body: Humanity and its Discontents in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.” I presented a keynote address on Gothic sculpture, haptic sensation, and embodied beholding.
Banner photo is from the inaugural “Crumposium” in March 2025, an academic symposium by and for fans of the band Cracker held at the legendary 40 Watt Club in Athens, Georgia..