{"id":2638,"date":"2021-06-23T12:16:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T18:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/?p=2638"},"modified":"2021-06-23T13:48:14","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T19:48:14","slug":"medievalists-strongly-represented-at-international-congress-on-medieval-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/blog\/2021\/06\/23\/medievalists-strongly-represented-at-international-congress-on-medieval-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"Medievalists Strongly Represented at International Congress on Medieval Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Several of our Medievalists participated in the 2021 International Congress on Medieval Studies:<br><br><strong>Robert Esquibel<\/strong>, MA student in Medieval Studies presented \u201cMedieval Origins of Modern American Identity and Oppression.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Anita Obermeier<\/strong>, Medieval Studies Professor, and <strong>Marian Hessink<\/strong>, Instructor of College Writing at CNM presented the paper, \u201cChaucer under Glaze: The Weller Pottery \u2018Canterbury Tales\u2019 Vase.\u201d&nbsp;Anita Obermeier additionally organized the session \u201cChaucerian Artifacts and Material Culture,\u201d sponsored by the UNM Institute for Medieval Studies, and was furthermore a panelist for the roundtable on \u201cThe Many Faces of Lunete in the Arthurian Tradition.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>St\u00e9fan Koekemoer<\/strong>, MA student in Medieval Studies, presented the paper \u201cA Kingdom for a Horse: Horses, Humans, and Emotional Attachment in Early Indo-European Studies.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Lisa Myers<\/strong>, UNM English Instructor, presented the paper \u201cWilliam Shakespeare as Anime Hero: Fate\/Apocrypha\u2019s Master Illusionist.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Nahir Ota\u00f1o Gracia<\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Medieval Studies and British &amp; 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