“A Holy Arms Race: Leprosy Miracles in the Cults of St. William of York and St. Thomas Becket,” American Association for the History of Medicine, May 2021.
“Holy Women and Leprosy (East) and West,” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2021
“Reacting and Christine de Pisan: Examining Medieval Women’s Power through the Querelle de la Rose in a Reacting to the Past Classroom,” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2021
“Holy Healing: Saints and Leprosy in Medieval Europe,” Fordham University Center for Medieval Studies, New York, December 3, 2020
“’Preferable to the lips of a king who must die’: Queens, Holiness, and Leprosy,” Berkshire Conference on Women’s History, Baltimore, MD, July 2020 (accepted; canceled due to COVID-19)
“Building Community: Material Concerns in the 15th-Century Monastic Reform,” International Medieval Congress, Leeds, UK, July 2019
“Blessed With Leprosy: Disease and Devotion in the Cult of the Saints,” Leprosy and the “Leper” Reconsidered, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada, September 2018
“’The restoration of your health lies in Ely’: Saints’ Shrines, Enclosure, and Holy Healing,” Southeastern Medieval Association Annual Meeting, Charleston, SC, November 2017
“Who Heals and Who Cares: Medieval Women, Gender and the Holy Treatment of Leprosy,” Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, NY, June 2017
“Patterns of Disputed Authority: Election Disputes in Thirteenth and Fifteenth Century Poitiers,” SEIFMAR, Basel, May 2017
“Still On Top? Dissonances in Holy Healing Practiced by Male and Female Saints,” American Association for the History of Medicine, Nashville, TN, May 2017
“Holy Healing: Saints, Healing and Leprosy in Medieval Europe,” Dante group, Manhattan College, February 2017.
“SMFS Survey on Sexual Harassment,” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2016.
“#Femfog and Blurred Lines: The Risks of Academic Feminism in Public and Online,” invited lecture for Marist College’s Medieval and Renaissance Studies and Women’s Studies departments, April 18, 2016, Poughkeepsie, NY.
“Not so Grands Jours: Abbess Marie Berland’s Exile from the Abbey of Sainte-Croix, Poitiers,” International Medieval Congress, Leeds, UK, July 2015
“Si me non osculeris, hinc mihi cura nec ulla est”: Radegund, the leper’s kiss, and holy healing in Poitou,” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2015
“Holy Healing: Defining Boundaries between Medical and Spiritual Healing in Medieval England,” Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Toronto, May 2014
“Wiki Women: Critiquing and Revising Wikipedia in Women’s History Courses,” WAGS Brownbag, Manhattan College, April 2014
“Competition between Medical and Spiritual Healing in Medieval Miracle Stories,” Invited paper as part of “The Healing Arts Across the Mediterranean” colloquium, Rutgers University Medieval Studies Program, March 2014
“Election Disputes and Medieval Women,” (Invited Lecture) Rhode Island College, March 2012
“Casting, Plotting, and Enchanting: Morgan(a) and Guinevere/Gwen in Starz’s Camelot and the BBC’s Merlin,” 26th Annual International Conference on Medievalism, October 2011
“Reading Telemachus through Orestes: Using the Oresteia to explain The Odyssey,” Association for Core Texts and Courses Seventeenth Annual Conference, April 2011
“My Sister for Abbess: Election Disputes at Sainte-Croix in Fifteenth-Century Poitiers,” Society for French Historical Studies Annual Meeting, February 2011
“Female Power and Monastic Reform: Fifteenth-Century Abbesses of Fontevraud and Sainte-Croix,” American Historical Association Annual Meeting, January 2011
“Petty Nobility in Serious Contests: Marking Poitiers’ Religious Spaces,” International Medieval Congress, Leeds, July 2010
“Gendering Space and Power in Fifteenth-Century Poitiers,” International Medieval Society, Paris Sixth Annual Symposium, June 2009
“Power Plays and Feast Day Celebrations in Fifteenth-Century Poitiers,” Forty-Fourth International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 2009
Presented as PhD student
“Poitiers’ Revolting Nuns,” Forty-Second International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 2007
“The Cult of Saint Radegund in Poitiers, ca. 550-1460,” Twenty-Fourth Meeting of the Illinois Medieval Association, February 2007
“Radegund’s Role in the Miracle des Clefs: Asserting Community and Privilege in Poitiers,” Forty-First International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 2006
“The Spiritual Significance of Serpents in Medieval French Holy Legends,” Fifty-Second Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, April 2006
Panelist, “Demystifying the Journal Article: A Roundtable with the Journal of Women’s History,” Seventh Annual Graduate Symposium on Women’s and Gender History, March 2006
“Women Put the Serpent Before Christ: Contesting Female Community, Identity and Status on Parade in Fifteenth-Century Poitiers,” American Historical Association Annual Meeting, January 2006
“Choosing Isabelle: A Thirteenth-Century Dispute in the Abbey of Sainte-Croix, Poitiers,” German Historical Institute IV Medieval Seminar, Venice, October 2005
“Holy Battleground or Community Garden?: Negotiation and Competition Revealed in the Church of Sainte-Radegonde, Poitiers,” VAGANTES Graduate Symposium in Medieval Studies at the University of Notre Dame, March 2005
“Imag(in)ing the Saint: Visual and Textual “Vitae” Devoted to Radegund in Poitiers, 1050-1300,” SAHA Symposium on Negotiating the Intersections between Art and Text, September 2004
“The Bishop’s City, the Saint’s Burg: Dispute over Religious Authority and Urban Space in Medieval Poitiers,” Social Science History Association Annual Meeting, Baltimore, November 2003
“Re-Placing Saint Radegund: Battles over Gender Identity, Power, and Space in High Medieval Poitiers,” Midwest Medieval History Conference at the University of Notre Dame, October 2003
“Maternity Born of Violent Spirit: The Cult of Saint Radegund in Medieval Poitiers,” International Medieval Congress at the University of Leeds, July 2003
“Mother in Spirit Only: Expressions of Maternity in the Life of Saint Radegund,” Feminist Scholarship Series, UIUC Women’s Studies Program, March 2002
“This Queen Has Three Bodies: Representations of the Progressing Queen Elizabeth I,” Second Annual Graduate Symposium on Women’s and Gender History, UIUC, March 2001
“Gendered Notions of Morality: Dhuoda of Septimania and Jonas of Orleans,” Eleventh Annual Columbia University Medieval Guild Symposium, October 2000
Jennifer C. Edwards 