{"id":2622,"date":"2021-06-09T11:02:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T17:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/?p=2622"},"modified":"2021-06-10T11:33:11","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T17:33:11","slug":"medievalists-participate-in-conferences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/blog\/2021\/06\/09\/medievalists-participate-in-conferences\/","title":{"rendered":"Medievalists Participate in Conferences"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Anita Obermeier, Professor of Medieval Studies, and Nahir Ota\u00f1o Gracia, Assistant Professor of Medieval Studies and British and Irish Literary Studies, participated in the 46th Sewanee Medieval Colloquium virtually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anita Obermeier chaired the session \u201cPlacing Middle English Literature\u201d and acted as the respondent to the papers in the session \u201cMedievalisms\u201d, which included \u201cA Connecticut Yankee in Abelard\u2019s Cloister: A Dialogue between a Medievalist and Civil War Historian<strong><em>\u201d<\/em><\/strong> from Abigail P. Dowling and Sarah E. Gardner, Mercer University, and \u201cWomen\u2019s Positions, Men\u2019s Privilege, and Meghan Purvis\u2019s\u00a0<em>Beowulf<\/em>\u201d from Emily McLemore, University of Notre Dame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nahir Ota\u00f1o Gracia presented her paper,\u00a0\u201cImperial Ambitions and the Ethics of Power: Gender, Race, and the Exclusionary Practices of Medieval Arthuriana\u201d in the session \u201cThe Ethics of Arthur: Medieval and Medievalist.\u201d She also introduced the keynote speaker Seeta Chaganti, University of California, Davis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both Obermeier and Ota\u00f1o Gracia furthermore participated in the 2021 Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America. Anita Obermeier chaired the session \u201cMigration Myths,\u201d and Nahir Otan\u00f1o Gracia participated the Roundtable, &#8220;Graduate Medievalists and the Institutions We Work In: Community and Activism.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anita Obermeier, Professor of Medieval Studies, and Nahir Ota\u00f1o Gracia, Assistant Professor of Medieval Studies and British and Irish Literary Studies, participated in the 46th Sewanee Medieval Colloquium virtually. Anita Obermeier chaired the session \u201cPlacing Middle English Literature\u201d and acted as the respondent to the papers in the session \u201cMedievalisms\u201d, which included \u201cA Connecticut Yankee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2624,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2622"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2625,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2622\/revisions\/2625"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}