YLMS 20th Anniversary Symposium - Looking back to look forward. 20 years of YLMS

Event time: 
Friday, February 28, 2025 - 9:00am to 5:00pm
Location: 
HQ 276 See map
Humanities Quadrangle, 320 York St
NeW Haven, CT 06511
Event description: 

09:00 - 09:30

Welcoming participants and breakfast

09:30 - 09:45

Opening remarks - Estelle Guéville, Medieval Studies, Yale University

09:45 - 10:30

Lecture by Emily Thornbury, Associate Professor of English, Yale University

10:30 - 10:45

Break

10:45 - 12:15

Session 1

Presider: Michelle Keefe, PhD student in Medieval Studies, Yale University

  • Margot E. Fassler, Keough-Hesburgh Professor of Music History and Liturgy, Emerita, University of Notre-Dame

  • Jeffrey Hamburger, Kuno Francke Professor of German Art & Culture, Harvard University

  • Robin Flemming, Professor of History, Boston College

12:15-13:30

Lunch on campus

13:30 - 15:00

Session 2

Presider: Kamila Kaminska-Palarczyk, English Department, Yale University & Angus Warren, Medieval Studies, Yale University

  • Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Professor of medieval studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton

  • Stacy Klein, Associate Professor of English, Rutgers University

  • TBC

15:00 - 15:15

Break

15:15 - 16:45

Session 3: Ubi sunt qui ante nos fuerunt? A Roundtable with Yale Alumni

Presider: Estelle Guéville, Medieval Studies

  • Agniezska Rec, Curator, Beinecke Library

  • Gina Hurley, Associate Director, Teaching Development and Initiatives, Yale Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning

  • Chelsea Connelly, Publishing Coordinator, Yale University Press

  • Carson Koepke, Assistant Professor of English, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  • Christopher Platts, Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Cincinnati

16:45 - 17:00

Closing remarks - Angus Warren, Medieval Studies, Yale University