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The 91st Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America will take place on February 25-27 at the Hyatt Regency in Boston. The meeting will be hosted by the Medieval Academy of America, Boston College, Boston University, Brandeis University, Harvard University, Lesley University, The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and Wellesley College.

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Friday, February 26 • 10:15am - 12:00pm
Disability Studies in the Middle Ages

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Organizer: Kisha G. Tracy (Fitchburg State University)

Chair: David Perry (Dominican University)

John P. Sexton (Bridgewater State University) and Kisha G. Tracy (Fitchburg State University), “Disability Studies in the Middle Ages: Where Are We Now?”

Wendy Turner (Georgia Regents Unversity), “The Past, Present, and Future of Medieval Disability Studies” 

Moira Fitzgibbons (Marist College), “Managing Diagnosis in the Medieval/Disability Studies Classroom” 

Karen Bruce Wallace (Ohio State University), “The Body That Is Not a Body: Wisdom’s Construction of the Impaired Body in the Old English Boethius, and Anglo-Saxon Conceptions of Corporeal Form and Function” 

M. W. Bychowski (George Washington University), “Mad for Margery: Disability and the Imago Dei in the Book of Margery Kempe

Friday February 26, 2016 10:15am - 12:00pm EST
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