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[caption id="attachment_226" align="alignright" width="240"] Thomas de Cantimpré, Liber de natura rerum, Valenciennes, BM, ms. 320, f. 111v. Ca 1285.[/caption]The Medieval Animal Data Network organizes two sessions and a round-table at the International Medieval Congress (Leeds, July 7-10,  2014).The MAD sessions will all take place, Tuesday 8 July 2014, 09.00-10.30 and 11.15-12.45. The two sessions are entitled “Animals and the Creation of Identities”.Our round-table will take place, Wednesday 9 July 2014, 19.00-20.00. We will talk about Whales.The MAD sessions and round table will bring together 10 scholars from Argentina, Hungary, France, Austria, Spain, Portugal , United Kingdom, USA, etc.Program of the sessionsSession504PlaceUniversity House : De Grey RoomTitleAnimals and the Creation of Identities, IDate/TimeTuesday 8 July 2014: 09.00-10.30SponsorDepartment of Medieval Studies, Central European University, BudapestOrganiserAlice Choyke, Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, BudapestModerator/ChairGerhard Jaritz, Institut für Realienkunde, Universität Salzburg, Krems / Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, BudapestPaper 504-aSlavs and Dogs: The Depiction of Slavs in Central European Sources of the 10th and 11th Centuries(Language: English)Andrea Vanina Neyra, Consejo de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Universidad de Buenos Aires / Sociedad Argentina de Estudios MedievalesPaper 504-bAnimals in Medieval Cuman Rituals: The Transformation of a Steppe Heritage and a Group's Identity(Language: English)Kyra Lyublyanovics, Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, BudapestPaper 504-cAnimalia Caesaris: Remembering Imperial Animals in Medieval Menageries(Language: English)Thierry Buquet, Institut Français du Proche Orient, BeirutAbstractAnimals and their qualities were frequently used to create or sustain the identity of groups or individuals of medieval society in a positive or negative way. The session will deal with this phenomenon, on the one hand, concerning peoples and, on the other hand, with regard to the revival of the memory of a glorious past.Session604PlaceUniversity House : De Grey RoomTitleAnimals and the Creation of Identities, IIDate/TimeTuesday 8 July 2014: 11.15-12.45SponsorDepartment of Medieval Studies, Central European University, BudapestOrganiserGerhard Jaritz, Institut für Realienkunde, Universität Salzburg, Krems / Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, BudapestModerator/ChairAlice Choyke, Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, BudapestPaper 604-aAnimals in Bohemian Denominational Polemics(Language: English)Kateřina Horníčková, Institut für Realienkunde, Universität Salzburg, KremsPaper 604-bAnimals and the Visual Construction of the Sinner in the Middle Ages(Language: English)Mónica Ann Walker Vadillo, Hite Art Institute, University of Louisville, KentuckyPaper 604-cAnimals in an Upside Down World - Humans in an Upside Down World?(Language: English)Gerhard Jaritz, Institut für Realienkunde, Universität Salzburg, Krems / Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, BudapestAbstractAnimals and their qualities were frequently used to create or sustain the identity of groups or individuals of medieval society in a positive or negative way. The session will deal with this phenomenon, on the one hand, concerning various aspects of religious life and, on the other hand, with regard to its occurrence in literary evidence.&#160;Session1404PlaceUniversity House : De Grey RoomTitleWhales: A Round Table DiscussionDate/TimeWednesday 9 July 2014: 19.00-20.00SponsorM(edieval) A(nimal) D(ata Network)OrganiserAlice Choyke, Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, BudapestModerator/ChairGerhard Jaritz, Institut für Realienkunde, Universität Salzburg, Krems / Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, BudapestAbstractAs a continuation of the tradition of past congresses the international M(edieval) A(nimal) D(ata Network) again offers the discussion about one animal, its role and perception in the medieval world. This year, the whale will be the topic of the round table, an animal known by people mainly from the bible and as the subject of a number of visual and textual, often very different discourses.Participants include Cristina Brito (Universidade Nova de Lisboa), Thierry Buquet (Institut Français du Proche Orient, Beirut), Alice Choyke (Central European University, Budapest), Irina Metzler (Swansea University), and Mónica Ann Walker Vadillo (University of Louisville, Kentucky).