IMC 2025: Sessions
Session 707: Locating Women, I: Material Culture
Tuesday 8 July 2025, 14:15-15:45
| Sponsor: | Calgary Institute for the Humanities, University of Calgary |
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| Organisers: | Jay Paul Gates, Department of English, City University of New York Courtnay Konshuh, Department of History, University of Calgary |
| Moderator/Chair: | Courtnay Konshuh, Department of History, University of Calgary |
| Paper 707-a | Women Travellers and Their Chaperones between Early Medieval England and Italy: A Story in Five Faded Names (Language: English) Index terms: Monasticism, Onomastics, Religious Life |
| Paper 707-b | Seeing the Invisible: Finding Medieval Women through the Mnemonic Aspects of Material Culture (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Women's Studies |
| Paper 707-c | Brides, Bodies, and Belief: The Curious Case of Channel-Crossing Crosses (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Art History - Decorative Arts, Women's Studies |
| Abstract | This session will centre not around the women themselves, but rather on the methodologies we are using to access women, their stories, and the worlds around them. In particular, this panel explores methodologies grounded in material culture to consider how we access women and their histories in order to gain a wider understanding of the networks these women were part of, the actions they could take, and the way their actions were remembered and transmitted. The papers focus on questions of how memory is constructed, transmitted, and changed over time. |