MaRSA Graduate Student Symposium
The 2026Medieval and Renaissance Student Association Annual Symposium:
Medieval and Early Modern People and Their Things
October 24, 2026 in Room LA3-120
8:30 - 9:00AM - Registration/Sign In
9:00 - 9:15AM - Opening Remarks
9:15 - 9:30AM - Intermission
9:30 - 10:45AM - Panel One: (In)accessibility: Making Meaning of Community through Hierarchical Structures
Moderator: Daniel Rancic
Beka Castro - UC Irvine
Margery Kempes Cushioned Heart
Omar Del Rio - Cal Poly Pomona
Materiality and Meaning in Arthurian Narrative
Zuleima Arquieta Aleman - CSU Long Beach
Workshop Culture and Legal Red Taping in Northern Renaissance Nuremberg"
10:45 - 11:00AM - Intermission
11:00AM - 12:00PM - Panel Two: Weaving Status: Womens Work and the Fibers of Identity
Moderator: Rayelyn Mallari
Brianna-Isabella Aispuro - CSU Fullerton
Women by a Thread: Seeing Medieval Women through Embroidery, 14th-16th century
Maggie Mallison - CSU Long Beach
Weaving the Language of Cr疆ft: Early English to Today
12:00 - 1:30PM - Lunch
1:30 - 2:30PM - Keynote Address
Dr. Heather Graham, CSU Long Beach
A Room of Her Own: Art and Emotion in Bronzinos Chapel for Eleonora di Toledo
2:30 - 2:45PM - Intermission
2:45 - 4:00PM - Panel Three: Commodifying Time in Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Cavendish
Moderator: Rebekah Hahn
Aaron Halverson - UC Davis
To Hold the Heavens in Your Hands: Revisiting the Astrolabe in Chaucers Treatise on the Astrolabe
Laudan Payne - CSU Long Beach
Smoke, Lilies, and Jade: The Colonial Relationship that is Shakespeares Romantic Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra
Zack Medway - CSU Long Beach
Clocks and the Misperception of Time in Margaret Cavendish
4:00 - 4:15PM - Intermission
4:15 - 5:30PM - Panel Four: Womens Embodiment and Material Catharsis
Moderator: Chiara Aleman
Drea Wineman-Dorris - CSU Long Beach
Materiality and Immateriality, Union and Disunion: The Maternal Elegies of Katherine Philips
Allie Wright - CSU Long Beach
Embodied Shame: Gender, Emotion, and the Female Figure in Masaccios Expulsion from the Garden of Eden
Jade Saffery - Independent Scholar
Eat Me Devout: Food, Sexuality, and Bodily Worship in Medieval Depictions of Female Mystics
5:30 - 6:00PM - Closing Remarks
