9:00a-10:45a--Plenary II: Economies

Writing the Lives of Our Men: Factual Fictions, Eyewitness Accounts, and the Competition for Truth
Megan Matchinske, English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Columbus' Sister: Imagining Female Agency and Women's Bodies in Early Modern Atlantic and Mediterranean Imperial Discourse
Holly Hurlburt, History and Women's Studies, Southern Illinois University

Significance and Impace of Women's Property Rights in Islamic Law: Lessons from Fifteenth Century Granada
Maya Shatzmiller, History, University of Western Ontario, Canada

2:45p-4:30p--Plenary III: Faiths & Spiritualities

Christianity, Religion and Identity in a Muslim Environment: Mother Maria, Queen of Larantuka, Indonesia
Barbara Watson Andaya, Asian Studies, University of Hawaii

Women's Spiritual Narratives from the Black Atlantic
Jon Sensbach, History, University of Florida

The Intervening Widow: Performing Spousal Salvation through Rogier van der Weyden's Braque Triptych
Penny Howell Jolly, Art History, Skidmore College

Workshops to follow Plenary II--will be held from 11:15a-12:45p (Plenary III Workshops will be held on Satruday)
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