Current Department Chair, and Professor and Director of Medieval Studies, Anita Obermeier was invited to present her paper, “Self-Promotion through Putative Self-Criticism in Hrotsvit of Gandersheim, Mechthild of Magdeburg, and Christine de Pizan” at the international symposium, Weibliche Genieentwürfe: Eine alternative Geschichte des schöpferischen Subjekts (Women Geniuses: an Alternative History of Feminine Creativity) hosted by the Freie Universität Berlin.