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Sessions on Disability History - The 52nd International Congress on Medieval Studies - campus of Western Michigan University - May 11-14, 2017.&#160;Friday, May 12 - Evening EventsSociety for the Study of Disability in the Middle Ages=&#62; Valley II, LeFevre Lounge Business Meeting&#160;Friday 10 AM214 - BERNHARD 210Landscape Approaches to the PlagueSponsor: Contagions: Society for Historic Infectious Disease StudiesOrganizer: Michelle Ziegler, Independent ScholarPresider: Philip Slavin, Univ. of Kent1. Michelle Ziegler - Plague in the Sixth-Century Bavarian Landscape2. Carenza Lewis, Univ. of Lincoln - 44.7%: New archaeological Evidence for the Impact of the Black Death inEngland and Its Implications for Future Research3. Fabian Crespo, Univ. of Louisville - Heterogeneous Immunological Landscapes and Medieval Plague&#160;Saturday 10 AM345 - VALLEY III ELDRIDGE 309Piers Plowman and DisabilitySponsor: International Piers Plowman SocietyOrganizer: Curtis Gruenler, Hope CollegePresider: Curtis Gruenler1. Dana Roders, Purdue Univ. - Intersections of Disability and Sin in Piers Plowman2. Laura Godfrey, Univ. of Connecticut - Must I Here-Wel to Do-Wel? Sensory Impairments in Piers Plowman3. Richard H. Godden, Loyola Univ. New Orleans - Dismodern Will&#160;Saturday 10 AM393 - BERNHARD BROWN &#38; GOLD ROOMFair Unknowns (A Roundtable) Sponsor: ArthurianaOrganizer: Dorsey Armstrong, Purdue Univ./ArthurianaPresider: Dorsey Armstrong,1. Joseph M. Sullivan, Univ. of Oklahoma - What’s So Interesting About Fair Unknown Romances in Germanic Arthurian Literatures?2. Kevin J. Harty, La Salle Univ. - Rescued from the Archives: The Fair Unknown on CBS TV in 1951: Mr. I. Magina-tion’s “Sir Gareth, Knight of the Round Table”3. Christopher A. Snyder, Mississippi State Univ. - Jay Gatsby as the Fair Unknown: Arthurian Resonances in Fitzgerald4. Tory V. Pearman, Miami Univ. Hamilton - (Dis)abling the Fair Unknown: Disability and Gender in Malory’s “Alexander the Orphan”5. Ryan Naughton, Arizona State Univ.  - Natural Nobility and Fair Unknowns&#160;Saturday 10:30 PM 436 - BERNHARD 158Space, Place, and Disability (A Panel Discussion)Sponsor: Society for the Study of Disability in the Middle AgesOrganizer: Joshua Eyler, Rice Univ.Presider: Tory V. Pearman, Miami Univ. Hamilton1. Julie Paulson, San Francisco State Univ. - “Fooles that Goon in Goddis Weys”: Mental Disability and Moral Personhood in Late Medieval Literature2. Danielle Allor, Rutgers Univ.  - “Mobile as Wishes”: Disability, Intersubjectivity, and Community in the Liber confortatorius3. Leah Pope, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison - The Grave’s a Fine and Private Place: Death and the Embodied Anglo-Saxon Subject4. Aleksandra Pfau, Hendrix College - Disability in the Village: Household Care in Late Medieval France&#160;Sunday 8:30 AM527 - BERNHARD 158Medievalism and Disability (A Roundtable)Sponsor: Society for the Study of Disability in the Middle AgesOrganizer: Joshua Eyler, Rice Univ.Presider :John P. Sexton, Bridgewater State Univ.1. Jess Genevieve Bailey, Univ. of California–Berkeley - Urs Graf ’s Daughter Courage: Violence and Disability in Late Medieval Europe2. Christopher Baswell, Barnard College - A Visual Database for Medieval Disability3. Tirumular Narayanan, California State Univ.–Chico - Impaired in Camelot: An Analysis of Ableism in Hal Foster’s Prince Valiant4. Kisha G. Tracy, Fitchburg State Univ. - Trope or Truth? Medievalism and the Ubiquity of Disability5. Elizabeth Wawrzyniak, Marquette Univ.  - Life Was Like That: The Grotesque Medieval in the Modern Imagination&#160;Sunday 10:30 AM556 - SCHNEIDER 1325Gray Matter: Brains, Diseases, and DisordersOrganizer: Deborah Thorpe, Univ. of YorkPresider: Aleksandra Pfau, Hendrix College1. Wendy J. Turner, Augusta Univ. - Treatment of Learning Disabilities and Other Mental Health Issues in Medieval English Medicine and Law2. Agnes Karpinski, Univ. des Saarlandes  - Madness, Nightmares, Melancholy: Exceptional Mental States in Medieval Com-mentaries on Aristotle’s De somno3. Eliza Buhrer, Loyola Univ. New Orleans - Attention and Distraction in Medieval Thought&#160;&#160;Full program of the Medieval congress here