On April 9, the storied Sewanee Medieval Colloquium, held on the topic of Contact / Touch, featured not one but two plenary speakers from Case Western Reserve University: Professors Elina Gertsman (Art History) and Gabrielle Bychowsky (English). In the afternoon, after the plenary reading, Prof. Bychowsky spoke with the extraordinary poet Jos Charles on trans poetics and history; and in the evening, Prof. Gertsman delivered the Brinley Rhys Memorial Lecture on books as bodies.