> Acknowledging Loss and Building Anew: The Meanings of Medieval 

> Mourning (A Roundtable)
>
> This panel explores medieval conceptions of grief and expressions of 
> mourning through interdisciplinary methods, entailing an array of 
> historical, literary, artistic, musical or related approaches, and 
> investigations of sources from a variety of cultural registers. 
> Drawing on relevant scholarly dialogues, and acknowledging our 
> current climate of pandemic and loss, we investigate meanings of 
> mourning—as public performance, private contemplation, secular 
> remembrance, or religious devotion. For example, in the ubi sunt 
> tradition, mourning could contemplate the transitory nature of life, 
> process liminal experiences, and commemorate lost peoples, places, 
> or cultures. Further, mourning was often understood as gendered, 
> especially tied to feminized motifs of abandoned women and the Mater 
> Dolorosa.
>
> Please submit abstracts through the ICMS Confex system by September 15.
>
> https://wmich.edu/medievalcongress/call
>
> Thank you!
> Mary Dzon