Congratulations to PhD students Cecily Hughes and Reed O’Mara for being accepted to From “Fuzzy” to “Eclectic” and Everything in Between: Intercultural Encounters in the Pre-Modern World conference at Yale University that will take place this April. Cecily will present “Overpowering Dragons, or Putting Paganism in its Place,” the paper she wrote in Prof. Gertsman’s Medieval Bodies class on the CMA’s 12th-century Anglo-Norman dragon head, an object that uses humor to articulate the power of Western Christianity.  Reed will discuss a thirteenth-century biblical commentary made for a Jewish patron and illuminated by a Christian workshop in her paper “Idol/Idle Viewing: Contact Zones in the Munich Rashi”; Reed will also present a longer version of this paper at the Baker Nord Center on February 16th.