Marginalia’s 10th Conference

Marginalia, the Journal of the Cambridge Medieval Reading Group has just held it’s 10th anniversary conference ‘Out of the Margins: New Ideas on the Boundaries of Medieval Studies’. Hosted at the English Faculty, the two day conference was packed with papers from graduates and early career researchers, as well as three plenary papers given by Mary Carruthers, Helen Cooper and Máire Ní Mhaonaigh.

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Speakers came from as far as the University of Notre Dame, NYU, and Sapienza University in Rome, but also included five graduates at Cambridge from a variety of disciplines: Stephanie Azarello (PhD candidate, Art History), Ekaterina Chernyakova (PhD candidate, Music), Julianne Pigott (PhD candidate, Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic), Myriah Williams (PhD candidate, Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic), and Madeleine Pepe (MPhil candidate, English Literature).

A twitter feed @ootmargins kept those unable to attend in the loop, and you can read delegates’ brief responses to papers by searching #ootmargins.