Kalamazoo 2022: an Exciting Slate of Sessions!

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We’re excited to confirm that the ACS will be sponsoring multiple events at this year's virtual International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo. Sessions will include:

  • Cusanus and Ecology (Monday, May 9, 3 p.m. EDT)

    • Sponsors: American Cusanus Society, Episcopus Society

    • Organizer: Christopher Bellitto (Kean)

    • Presider: Evan A. Gatti (Elon)

    • Christopher Bellitto, "Bishops & Cardinals vs. Papal Authority: a Cusan Approach"

    • Margaret Meserve (Notre Dame), "Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini on Cusanus' Church & Career"

    • Emily O'Brien (Simon Fraser), "Letters to Cusanus: Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini & the Forging of a Papal-Imperial Alliance"

  • Eschatology in the Bohemian Long Reformation, 1400-1700 (Tuesday, May 10, 9 a.m. EDT)

    • Sponsors: American Cusanus Society, Filosoficky ùstav, Akademie ved České republiky

    • Organizer: Christopher Bellitto (Kean)

    • Presider: Wendy Love Anderson (Washington University in St. Louis)

    • Pavlína Cermanová (Czech Academy of Sciences), "Omnes erunt docibiles Dei: Unmediated Knowledge of God's Word in Hussite Radical Apocalypticism"

    • Lucie Storchova (Czech Academy of Sciences), "Adapting Wittenberg Eschatology & Chronology to a New Confessional Environment: the Case of the University of Prague after 1540"

    • Petr Pavlas (Czech Academy of Sciences), "Quod perficit, absolutum esse debet: the Eschatology of J.A. Comenius' Universal Reform"

  • New Approaches to Mysticism & Materiality in Medieval Studies: a Panel Discussion (Wednesday, May 11, 7 p.m. EDT)

    • Sponsors: American Cusanus Society, Mystical Theology Network (University of Oxford)

    • Organizer: Christopher Bellitto (Kean)

    • Presider: Samuel Dubbelman (Boston University)

    • Discussants: Lydia Shahan (Harvard), Kerilyn Harkaway-Krieger (Gordon College), Sean Hannan (MacEwan University), & W. Ezekiel Goggin (Independent Scholar)

Related to that last session: I'm happy to report that the book Mysticism & Materialism in the Wake of German Idealism, which I co-authored alongside Dr. Goggin, has just been released by Routledge (and we're looking forward to discussing it at Kalamazoo!): https://www.routledge.com/Mysticism-and-Materialism-in-the-Wake-of-German-Idealism/Goggin-Hannan/p/book/9780367546137 

We'll also be holding a virtual business meeting during Kalamazoo. It will be held on Monday, May 9, at 7 p.m. EDT. At a later date, our President, Il Kim, will circulate a Zoom link to folks who are interested in participating, but who may not be registered for the Kalamazoo ICMS. 


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