Members of the CWRU community took the International Congress on Medieval Studies by storm! Rebekkah Hart and Cecily Hughes co-organized a session “Scales of Devotion,” which featured a talk by Gerhard Lutz; Reed O’Mara led an online session on Jewish Women in the Middle Ages; Sarah Frisbie organized two sessions on medieval graffiti; and Prof. Gertsman put together two sessions on medieval materialities, one of which featured Zoe Appleby’s paper on Palermo’s lava stones. Tess Artis, Cecily, Sarah, and Rebekkah also presented papers in various sessions: on the CMA’s macabre double portrait, on sacrament niches, on the Beatus apocalypse, and on the seven sacraments fonts, respectively. Claudia Haines, Anna Farber, Rachel Sweeney as well as Sarah, Rebekkah, and Cecily helped prof. Gertsman run a day-long set of Immersive Realms HoloLens demos, brought to Kalamazoo by the fabulous Peter Gao and Anna Faxon. The gang was joined, at various times, by the alumni Laura Rybicki and Julia LaPlaca, and KSL’s digital preservation librarian and an avid member of GAMS Alyssa Pierce. And the famous book exhibit was greatly enriched by the presence of Nikki DeLuca’s freshly published book on shadows in medieval manuscripts!
