Oral interventions

     Communications at international symposia

  1. “Ageing in Liège: networks of institutional care on a city scale”, 4-7 July 2021, International Medieval Congress of Leeds, University of Leeds;
  2. “‘Morte a ce monde’, living in the leprosarium of Cornillon (Liège) in the 15th century”, ALTER 11th International Conference, “Protection, autonomy, emancipation”, 29th-30th June 2023, Aubervilliers;
  3. “L’expertise médicale au service de l’évaluation des dommages corporels par la chancellerie apostolique pendant la période avignonnaise (1309-1378)”, International conference: Pouvoir et santé entre Moyen Âge et Temps modernes, 4-6 May 2023, Catholic University of Louvain la Neuve, Belgium;
  4. « Ageing During the 15th Century: At the Intersection of Gender and Ability Gender bias in the requested hygienic accommodations from the Apostolic Penitentiary by elderly monks and nuns », Gender and Medieval Studies, 11-13 January 2023, University College London, London ;
  5. “The ‘blind’, the ‘deaf” and the ‘dumb’. Liturgical practices of sensory and mentally disabled people”, International conference The Role of the Senses in Medieval Liturgies and Rituals, September 21-23 2022, University of Padua, Italy;
  6. “Jeûne et pénurie d’huile d’olive dans les régions froides au XVe siècle. Santé et salut par la grâce de la Pénitencerie Apostolique”, International conference organised by the Société Suisse d’Histoire Rurale on Santé des corps, salut des âmes: soins et religion en milieu rural, September 1-3 2022, Université de Lausanne, Swizterland;
  7. “Disabled Old Women against Romance: the depictions of “La Vieille”, Frontier of Love in Le roman de la Rose”, panel “The Borders of Disability and Ability, Ill-Health and Health II”, 4-7 July 2022, International Medieval Congress of Leeds, Leeds;
  8. “The ambivalence of old age confronted with practical sources: the cases of elderly regular clerics facing the pontifical institution”, panel “Age in Monastic Life”, May 9-14, 2022, 57th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo;
  9. “’Secundum assertionem et consilium medicorum’ – Petitioners as patients in front of the Apostolic Chancery (Avignon Period, 1309-1378)”, conference The Maladies, Miracles and Medicine of the Middle Ages III ‘Patients, Prayers and Pilgrims’, 1 April 2022, The Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Reading;
  10. “Gender, old age, disability and religiosity. The intersectionality invoked by petitioners to contravene Christian prescriptions”, panel “Growing Old in the Middle Ages: A Gendered Perspective I – Social Practices”, 6-9 July 2021, International Medieval Congress of Leeds, Leeds;
  11. “Disabling Consequences of Illnesses on Clerics’ Recruitment in 1459, (Re-)Inclusion of Disabled People within the Church by Pius II”, Virtual conference ‘Reconsidering Illness and Recovery in the Early Modern World’, Funded by the Durham University Centre for Academic Development, 18-19 August 2020, Online;
  12. “Religiosity and Disability in the Papal Letters (13th and 14th centuries)”, Experiences of Dis/ability from the Late Middle Ages to the Mid-Twentieth Century Conference, 21-23 august 2019, Tampere University, Tampere;
  13. “The Canon Law’s Category of the Defectus Corporis and Scandal”, panel “’Deformis formositas ac formosa deformitas‘ II: Materializing Ugliness and Deformity in the Middle Ages”, 2-4 July 2019, International Medieval Congress of Leeds, Leeds;
  14. “Sicut Domino placuit ortus fuisti, disabled children’s births according to the Papal Chancery during the 13th century”, “Deviance: Aspects & Approaches”, Fifteenth Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference, 5-6 April 2019, University of Oxford, Oxford;
  15. “Marginalization on the Margins? Historical Perspectives on the Representations of Physical Disability in some Medieval Manuscript’s margins”, Permeable Bodies in Medieval and Early Modern Visual Culture, 5-6 october 2018, University College of London, London;
  16. “Les disability studies et la discipline historique: la disability history, état des lieux international et perspectives françaises”, panel “Comprendre les disability studies: une perspective croisée”, Les désignations disciplinaires et leurs contenus: le paradigme des studies, 18-20 January 2017, Université Paris 13, Paris;
  17. “Expériences sociales dans un contexte institutionnel: Le latin utilisé par les clercs français pour décrire le handicap”, panel “Pre-modern Disabilities: Ambiguous Bodies, Texts, and Meanings”, Society for French Studies 57th Annual Conference, 27-29 June 2016, Glasgow;
  18. “L’incapacité dans les lettres de dispenses pontificales: aller à l’encontre de la réglementation ecclésiastique médiévale pour franchir la clôture”, L’exception et la Règle, les pratiques d’entrée et de sortie des couvents, de la fin du Moyen Âge au XIXe siècle, 26-27 November 2015, Limoges;
  19. “Being a Leprous Cleric: In/ability to Hold a Benefice”, conference Disease, Disability & Medicine in Medieval Europe 8th Annual Meeting, Infection and Long-term Sickness, 6-7 December 2014, Nottingham Highfield House, Nottingham.

Discussions at international symposia

  1. Moderation of the panel “The Borders of Disability and Ability, Ill-Health and Health” III, 6-9 July 2022, International Medieval Congress of Leeds, Leeds;
  2. Discussion during the seminar “Santés / Médecines du point de vue des Sciences Humaines”, 26 January 2022, University of Paris, Paris;
  3. Moderation of the panel Miracles and Metaphors, Conference Disease, Disability & Medicine in Medieval Europe 10th Annual Meeting, Disability and religion, 2-4 December 2016, Swansea University, National Waterfront Museum.

Interventions during seminars

  1. « La longue histoire des prêtres catholiques en situation de handicap », séminaire Construire une histoire du handicap et de la surdité au travers des siècles coordonné par Fabrice Bertin, Gildas Brégain et Ninon Dubourg, 21 mars 2023, EHESS, Paris ;
  2. « Handicaps et Religion à la fin de l’époque médiévale, Donner et recevoir les sacrements lorsqu’on est handicapé », séminaire pour l’Institut des Hautes Etudes de Belgique coordonné par Alexis Wilkin, 27 février 2023, Université Libre de Bruxelles ;
  3. “Disability history”, Seminar for Master students organised by Eric Geerkens, “Débats historiographiques contemporains” (Contemporary historiographical debates), 2 May 2022 and 8 May 2023, University of Liège;
  4. “Handicap et pratiques religieuses: dévotion privée et expériences communes” (Disability and religious practices: private devotion and shared experiences), Seminar organised by Véronique Beaulande-Barraud, “Exclusion et communauté au Moyen Âge” (Exclusion and community in the Middle Ages), 27 April 2022, University Grenoble Alpes;
  5. With Megan Kateb « Autour de la publication de l’article Témoignages médiévaux de la privation des sens Empreintes matérielles de la cécité et de la mutité à l’époque médiévale », séminaire organisé par Fabrice Bertin, Gildas Brégain et Ninon Dubourg, « Construire une histoire du handicap et de la surdité au travers des siècles », 5 avril 2022, EHESS Paris ;
  6. “Religious experiences of older women during the Late Middle Ages – How elderly women are involved in Christian practices and conventual life”, Seminar organized by Laura Cayrol Bernardo, “gender and Ageing”, 17 February 2022, University of Bergen;
  7. “Discussions autour de la notion de handicap en histoire, en sociologie et en antrhopologie” (Discussions on the notion of disability in history, sociology and anthropology), Seminar organized by Mathilde Martinais and Marie Potvain, “Santé et médecine du point de vue des sciences humaines”, 26 January 2022, University of Paris;
  8. “Discussion et débats”, Seminar “Construire une histoire du handicap et de la surdité au travers des siècles” (Building a history of disability and deafness through the centuries) (EHESS UE899), with Fabrice Bertin (Paris, EHESS) and Gildas Brégain (Rennes, CNRS), 2 November 2021, EHESS Paris;
  9. “Introduction” Seminar “Construire une histoire du handicap et de la surdité au travers des siècles” (Building a history of disability and deafness through the centuries) (EHESS UE899), with Fabrice Bertin (Paris, EHESS) and Gildas Brégain (Rennes, CNRS), 7 April 2021, online (EHESS, University of Paris, University of Rennes, ALTER association);
  10. “L’expertise médicale légale dans l’évaluation des dommages corporels et mentaux par la chancellerie apostolique durant la période Avignonaise (1309-1378)” (Legal medical expertise in the evaluation of physical and mental damages by the apostolic chancellery during the Avignon period (1309-1378)), Seminar organized by Jean-François Ravaud “Jeunes chercheur.euse.s Handicap(s) et Sociétés”, 3 March 2021, EHESS Paris;
  11. “In/capables d’assurer le service divin? Les requêtes des prêtres handicapés auprès de la chancellerie pontificale (13e-14e siècles)” (Unable to perform divine service? The requests of disabled priests to the papal chancery (13th-14th centuries)), Seminar organized by Béatrice Delaurenti, Charles de Miramon and Pierre Monnet, “Histoire intellectuelle et sociale du Moyen Âge”, 29 January 2020, EHESS Paris;
  12. “La pertinence de l’utilisation du concept de “handicap” dans les études historiques” (The relevance of using the concept of “disability” in historical studies), Seminar organized by Jean-François Ravaud, “Jeunes chercheur.euse.s Handicap(s) et Sociétés”, 22 March 2016, EHESS Paris;
  13. “Bilan historiographique sur le handicap et les infirmités au Moyen Âge” (Historiographic review of disability and infirmity in the Middle Ages), seminar organized by Didier Lett, Famille, parenté et genre au Moyen Âge (xiie-xve siècles), 7 December 2015, Université Paris Diderot;
  14. “Le corps mutilé, vieillissant ou malade comme créateur d’identité. Au croisement de trois notions: corporalité, individualité et handicap” (The mutilated, aging or sick body as a creator of identity. At the crossroads of three notions: corporality, individuality and handicap), thematic and methodological seminar Questions de corps coordinated by Florence Gherchanoc, 16 October 2014, Université Paris Diderot;
  15. “La masculinité des clercs” (Cleric Masculinity), seminar organised by Didier Lett, Famille, parenté et genre au Moyen Âge (xiie-xve siècles), 26 November 2013, Université Paris Diderot.

Interventions during workshops

  1. “‘The collective Butterbriefe and the Apostolic Penitentiary (1455-1521)”, workshop organized by Emily Corran, Arnaud Fossier, “Penitential Hierarchies in the later Middle Ages”, Institut d’Études Avancées de Paris, 30th March 2023.
  2.  “‘The Literary and Illuminated Depictions of “La Vieille” – A Disabled Old Women as a “narrative prosthesis”’, CHSTM working group “Medieval European Medical Manuscripts, November 17, 2022.
  3. “In/capables d’assurer le service divin? Les requêtes des prêtres handicapés auprès de la chancellerie pontificale (13e-14e siècles)”, Journées Jeunes Chercheurs en histoire des sciences et des techniques 2020, Organised by the SFHST, the SHESVIE, the SFHSH, the CoFrHiGeo, the GHC, the SACDHTE and the GDR « Histoire des mathématiques », 27 November 2020.
  4. “La reconnaissance de la condition de personne infirme par la chancellerie pontificale (XIIe-XIVe s.), présentation des travaux de recherche doctorale”, workshop organised by Carole Avignon (ANR Fil_IAM) Corps empêchés, first session on “Dialogue méthodologique autour des disability studies: Approches médiévistiques”, University of Angers, 10 November 2020.
  5. “Les disability studies aujourd’hui, tour d’horizon des lieux et des objets de recherche en SHS”, workshop organised by Carole Avignon (ANR Fil_IAM) Corps empêchés, first session on “Dialogue méthodologique autour des disability studies: Approches médiévistiques”, University of Angers, 10 November 2020.
  6. “Approches de la construction identitaire cléricale par l’émasculation: entre désirs coupables ou consommés et incapacité canonique (xiie-xive siècles)”, organised by the GRER/SAGEF/PEFH, Genre, ‘race’ et handicap, Vivre ensemble dans la sphère publique, Université Paris Diderot, 10 March 2017;
  7. “Aux origines du handicap médiéval dans les lettres de dispense pontificales (xiiie-xive siècles)”, 9è rencontres doctorales de Paris-Diderot Origine/Origines, 9-10 June 2016, Université Paris Diderot;
  8. “Trois itinéraires pour aborder l’identité du clerc émasculé (xiiie-xve siècle)”, organised by Encyclo, Revue de l’ED 382, Itinéraires singuliers, identités plurielles, 22 February 2013, Université Paris Diderot.