The International Joan of Arc Society / Société Internationale de l’étude de Jeanne d’Arc has been sponsoring sessions on Joan of Arc since 2000. These sessions bring fresh scholarship from an assortment of faculty, early career researches, and independent scholars. This page provides a complete list of past sessions and papers in descending chronological order.
For future sessions, see our Call for Papers.
60th International Congress on Medieval Studies May 8–10, 2025
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999) Revisited (A Roundtable)
Presider: Stephanie L. Coker, Univ. of North Alabama
Organizer: Scott Manning, Independent Scholar
A roundtable discussion with Gail Orgelfinger, Univ. of Maryland–Baltimore County;
Tara Beth Smithson, Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame; Scott Manning, Independent
Scholar
Remembering What’s Missing: Lapses in Joan of Arc’s History and Memory
Presider: Gail Orgelfinger, Univ. of Maryland–Baltimore County
Organizer: Scott Manning, Independent Scholar; Tara Beth Smithson, Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame
- The Maid of Orléans as “an attendant lord, one that will do / To swell a progress,
start a scene or two”: Joan of Arc on the Stage in Richard Nelson’s Madame Melville and Lanford Wilson’s Book of Days- Kevin J. Harty, La Salle Univ.
- Downplaying the Divine: (Dis)missing Saint Gabriel in Joan of Arc’s Trial
- Stephanie L. Coker, Univ. of North Alabama
- The Misunderstood Squires in the World of Joan of Arc
- Scott Manning, Independent Scholar
- Tous autres actes: Bearing Witness to Torture in Joan of Arc’s Prison Experience
- Tara Beth Smithson, Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame
58th International Congress on Medieval Studies May 11-13, 2023
Teaching Joan of Arc and Her World in and out of the Classroom
Presider: Tara Beth Smithson, Manchester Univ.
Organizer: Scott Manning, Independent Scholar; Stephanie L. Coker, Univ. of North Alabama
- Joan of Arc as an Archetype: Teaching the Maid Abroad, Online, and in Film Festivals
- Stephanie L. Coker
- Joan of Arc Outside of Academia and Church
- Scott Manning
57th International Congress on Medieval Studies May 9-14, 2022
Channeling the Maid: The Avatars of Joan of Arc in Media and Politics
Organizer: Scott Manning, Independent Scholar
Presider: Tara B. Smithson, Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame
- In Conversation with Joan of Arc: Agnès Sorel, Susan B. Anthony, and Isabelle Arc
- Gail Orgelfinger, Univ. of Maryland–Baltimore County
- Channeling Joan of Arc in Doom: Annihilation
- Scott Manning
- A Sacred Sisterhood: Interpreting Joan of Arc in the Short Plays of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux
- Stephanie L. Coker, Univ. of North Alabama
56th International Congress on Medieval Studies May 10-15, 2021
Globalizing Joan of Arc: Positioning the Maid in a Transnational Landscape
Organizer: Scott Manning, Independent Scholar
Presider: Scott Manning
- The Mnemonic Maid: Joan of Arc as a Trigger for Global Counter-Memory
- Tara Beth Smithson, Manchester Univ.
- The Maid’s Future as a Transnational Icon for the LGBQT+ Community
- Deborah L. McGrady, Univ. of Virginia
- Joan of Arc and Her Cinematic Avatars
- Kevin J. Harty, La Salle Univ
Performing Joan: Interpreting the Maid on Screen, on Stage, and in the Streets
Organizer: Tara Beth Smithson, Manchester Univ.
Presider: Tara Beth Smithson
- Any Maid Will Do: Victorian Joan of Arcs in Ringling Bros Couriers and Librettos
- Scott Manning, Independent Scholar
- Joan of Arc: The Maid of New Orleans
- Elizabeth Watkins, Loyola Univ. New Orleans
- Joan of Arc in America: Hellman’s The Lark Soars on Broadway
- Stephanie L. Coker, Univ. of North Alabama
54th International Congress on Medieval Studies May 9-12, 2019
Joan the Woman
Organizer: Gail Orgelfinger, Univ. of Maryland–Baltimore County
Presider: Gail Orgelfinger
- The Redhead and the Widow: Gender Models and Modifications in Joan of Arc’s Two Trials
- Tara B. Smithson, Manchester Univ.
- Profaning the Pucelle: Voltaire Comments on the Body Politic
- Stephanie L. Coker, Univ. of North Alabama
- Not As Advertised: The Ringling Bros. Joan of Arc Spectacle
- Scott Manning, Independent Scholar
- The Patron Saint of Dysphoria: Joan of Arc as Transgender
- M. W. Bychowski, Case Western Reserve Univ
53rd International Congress on Medieval Studies May 10-13, 2018
Joan of Arc and the Law
Organizer: Gail Orgelfinger, Univ. of Maryland–Baltimore County
Presider: Bonnie Wheeler, Southern Methodist Univ.
- Joan of Arc and the “Laws of War”
- Kelly DeVries, Loyola Univ. Maryland
- Joan’s Miraculous Code: The Miracle Collection at Sainte Catherine de Fierbois
- Catherine Keene, Southern Methodist Univ.
- A Juribus Evangelico: Joan of Arc, Saint Paul, and Saint Jerome
- Gail Orgelfinger
- Playing the Devil’s Advocate: D’Aubignac and the Legal Rhetoric of Jeanne d’Arc
- Stephanie L. Coker, Univ. of North Alabama
52nd International Congress on Medieval Studies May 11-14, 2017
In Memory of Jeremy duQuesnay Adams II: History Itself (A Roundtable)
Organizer: Gail Orgelfinger, Univ. of Maryland–Baltimore County
Presider: Gail Orgelfinger
A roundtable discussion with Kelly DeVries, Loyola Univ. Maryland; Lane J. Sobehrad, Texas Tech Univ.; and Dorsey Armstrong, Purdue Univ./Arthuriana (“Dinner Parties in Latin: A Short Tribute to Jeremy duQuesnay Adams”).
51st International Congress on Medieval Studies May 12-15, 2016
Re-documenting Joan of Arc
Organizer: Gail Orgelfinger, Univ. of Maryland–Baltimore County; Jane Marie Pinzino, Earlham College
Presider: Gail Orgelfinger
- An Unexamined Greek Report of the Life of Joan of Arc
- Matthew Briel, Univ. of Scranton
- A Contemporary Parisian View of Joan of Arc
- Craig Taylor, Univ. of York
- The Peasant Piety of Jeanne d’Arc: The Domrémy Inquest and the Letters
- Jeremy duQuesnay Adams, Southern Methodist Univ.
Religion in the Hundred Years War
Organizer: Gail Orgelfinger, Univ. of Maryland–Baltimore County; Jane Marie Pinzino, Earlham College
Presider: Gail Orgelfinger
- Crisis in the Cities: God, Death, and Taxes in Late Medieval France
- Adam S. Boss, Medieval Academy of America
- Joan of Arc and Colette of Corbie: Expanding Boundaries of Women’s Leadership in the Hundred Years War
- Jane Marie Pinzino
- Was Joan of Arc Catholic? Reflections on Religion and the Hundred Years War
- Kelly DeVries, Loyola Univ. Maryland
50th International Congress on Medieval Studies May 14-17, 2015
Unanswered Questions about Joan of Arc
Organizer: Stephanie L. Coker, Oral Roberts Univ.
Presider: Nadia Margolis, Independent Scholar
- How Do We Teach Joan of Arc in a Digital Humanities Course?
- Jane Marie Pinzino, Earlham College
- Re-examining the Procès de réhabilitation de Jeanne d’Arc: What Transpired after Her Death in 1431?
- Stephanie L. Coker
- Why Did Thomas Fuller “Sentence” Joan of Arc to the Laundry?
- Gail Orgelfinger, Univ. of Maryland–Baltimore County
49th International Congress on Medieval Studies May 8–11, 2014
Medieval Military Personalities
Co-sponsored with De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History
Organizer: Kelly DeVries, Loyola Univ. Maryland
Presider: Kelly DeVries
- The Condottiere John Hawkwood as a Military Entrepreneur
- Steven D. Sargent, Union College
- The Welshman Who Went up a Mountain and Came down a Hero
- Michael Livingston, The Citadel
- John of Salisbury’s Policraticus: A Source for Machiavelli’s Arte della guerra?
- John Hosler, Morgan State Univ.
Joan of Arc in Theory
Organizer: Jane Marie Pinzino, Earlham College
Presider: Gail Orgelfinger, Univ. of Maryland–Baltimore County
- What’s Old Is New Again: A New Historicist Reading of Jeanne d’Arc
- Stephanie L. Coker, Oral Roberts Univ.
- Joan of Arc and Theories of Charismatic Leadership
- Jane Marie Pinzino
- Theatrical Witchcraft: Restoring Shakespeare’s Joan
- Lesley Kordecki, DePaul Univ., and Karla Koskinen, Univ. of Alabama–Birmingham
48th International Congress on Medieval Studies May 9–12, 2013
Unanswered Questions about Joan of Arc
Organizer: Stephanie L. Coker, Univ. of Kentucky, and Jane Marie Pinzino, Earlham College
Presider: Bonnie Wheeler, Southern Methodist Univ.
- Henry V and Joan of Arc: Whose Side Was God On?
- Bryan Berry, Independent Scholar
- Joan of Arc and the English Goddams: What Did She Know and When Did She Know It?
- Gail Orgelfinger, Univ. of Maryland–Baltimore County
- Public Places and Various Faces of Joan of Arc: How Did the City of Paris Memorialize the Maid?
- Stephanie L. Coker
47th International Congress on Medieval Studies May 10-13, 2012
Joan of Arc at 600 I: American Joans
Organizer: Gail Orgelfinger, Univ. of Maryland–Baltimore County
Presider: Jane Marie Pinzino, Univ. of South Florida Libraries
- Maid in America: From Joan of Arc Park to Capitol Hill
- Nora Heimann, Catholic Univ. of America
- Executing Joan of Arc in American Picture Books for Children
- Gail Orgelfinger
- Joan of Arcadia: A Modern Day Maiden on Primetime Television
- Stephanie L. Coker, Univ. of Kentucky
Joan of Arc at 600 II: In Her Own Time
Organizer: Gail Orgelfinger, Univ. of Maryland–Baltimore County
Presider: Gail Orgelfinger
- “Sibylla Francica”: A German Perspective of Joan of Arc
- Jason A. S. Drake, Ohio State Univ.
- “Women of Status but Not of Honor”: Gender and Sexuality in Crisis in an Account of Warfare in Fifteenth Century France
- Adam S. Boss, Brown Univ.
- Joan of Arc and Colette of Corbie
- Jane Marie Pinzino, Univ. of South Florida Libraries
- Who Won the Siege of Orleans?
- Kelly DeVries, Loyola Univ. Maryland
46th International Congress on Medieval Studies May 12-15, 2011
Approaching Six Hundred Years of Joan of Arc, Looking Back (A Roundtable)
Organizer: Jane Marie Pinzino, Florida State Univ.
Presider: Bonnie Wheeler, Southern Methodist Univ.
- The Legacy of Joan to the English, 1431–1831
- Gail Orgelfinger, Univ. of Maryland–Baltimore
- Six Hundred Years of British Reactions to Joan
- Jeremy duQuesnay Adams, Southern Methodist Univ.
- La Pucelle, the “Puzzel,” and La Poncella: Joan of Arc in Early Modern England and Spain
- Nancy Bradley Warren, Florida State Univ.
- Joan of Arc in the Field
- Kelly DeVries, Loyola Univ. Maryland
- Joan of Arc in Life and Death
- Larissa Juliet Taylor, Colby College
Approaching Six Hundred Years of Joan of Arc, Looking Forward (A Roundtable)
Organizer: Jane Marie Pinzino, Florida State Univ.
Presider: Nancy Bradley Warren, Florida State Univ.
- Extending Our Knowledge of Joan of Arc Sources
- Deborah Fraioli, Simmons College
- The Maid Marches On: Joan in Modern France and the USA
- Nadia Margolis, Mount Holyoke College
- The Communion of Saints in a Modern Age and Heroic Virtue in a Time of War
- Nora M. Heimann, Catholic Univ. of America
- Joan of Arc, the Eucharist, and Martyrdom
- Ann W. Astell, Univ. of Notre Dame
- The International Joan of Arc Society in 2012
- Jane Marie Pinzino
- Looking Back and Looking Forward
- Bonnie Wheeler, Southern Methodist Univ.
45th International Congress on Medieval Studies May 13-16, 2010
Constructions of Joan of Arc: Fifteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Organizer: Jane Marie Pinzino, Florida State Univ.
Presider: Craig Taylor, Centre for Medieval Studies, Univ. of York
- Engendering Fama at the Nullification Trial of Joan of Arc
- Gail Orgelfinger, Univ. of Maryland–Baltimore County
- Scriptural Interpretations in the Rehabilitation of Joan of Arc
- Jane Marie Pinzino
- “Occupying” Her Place in History: Joan of Arc in Postwar France
- Stephanie L. Coker, Univ. of Mississippi
44th International Congress on Medieval Studies May 7-10, 2009
Joan of Arc and Those Who Knew Her: Personality and Public Image
Organizer: Gail Orgelfinger, Univ. of Maryland–Baltimore County
Presider: Gail Orgelfinger
- The Meaning of a Martyr: Joan of Arc and the Vocation of France in Leon Bloy’s Jeanne d’Arc et l’Allemagne
- Nicholas T. Groves, St. Sava Seminary
- Trick or Treat? Joan of Arc and Yolande of Aragon
- Larissa Juliet Taylor, Colby College
- Violence at the Rouen Trial of Joan of Arc
- Craig D. Taylor, Centre for Medieval Studies, Univ. of York
Joan of Arc in the Archives
Organizer: Gail Orgelfinger, Univ. of Maryland–Baltimore County
Presider: Gail Orgelfinger
- Daily Life in Orléans at the Time of the English Siege: Insights from the Archives
- Adam Boss, Brown Univ.
- Blurring the Boundaries: Christine de Pizan’s Historical Account of Joan of Arc
- Stephanie L. Coker, Univ. of Mississippi
- Dusting Off the Sources: The Approach of Etienne Pasquier to Historical Research
- Deborah Fraioli, Simmons College
43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies May 8-11, 2008
Joan of Arc’s Afterlife
Organizer: Kelly DeVries, Loyola College in Maryland
Presider: Kelly DeVries
- Staging Jeanne d’Arc for a Francophone Audience in 1912
- Carolyn Snipes-Hoyt, Pacific Union College
- “One of the First Protestant Martyrs”: Shaw’s Joan
- Rosemary Johnsen, Governors State Univ.
- “The Girl Patriot”: Personal versus Political Sacrifice in Joan the Woman
- Dianne E. Berg, Independent Scholar
42nd International Congress on Medieval Studies May 10-13, 2007
Joan of Arc’s Historical Legacy I
Organizer: Kelly DeVries, Loyola College in Maryland
Presider: Kelly DeVries
- Ten Thousand Joans: Treasures from the Boston Public Library Joan of Arc Collection
- Deborah Fraioli, Univ. of Maryland–Baltimore County
- “The Stake Awaits You”: Chastisement of the Viewer in Carl Th. Dreyer’s La passion de Jeanne d’Arc
- Dean A. Hoffman, Univ. of North Carolina–Charlotte
- Jeanne d’Arc: Sublime Symbol of the French Far Right
- Kristina Watkins Mormino, Georgia Perimeter College
Joan of Arc’s Historical Legacy II
Organizer: Kelly DeVries, Loyola College in Maryland
Presider: Deborah Fraioli, Simmons College
- The Rehabilitation of Bishop Cauchon, Or, Did He Give Joan of Arc a Fair Trial?
- Henry Ansgar Kelly, Univ. of California–Los Angeles
- The Legacy of Joan of Arc in English Historical Writing
- Gail Orgelfinger, Univ. of Maryland–Baltimore County
- Fashion Maid: The Art of What Joan of Arc Wore to War
- Nora M. Heimann, Catholic Univ. of America
- Secret Joan
- Jim Dolan, Independent Scholar
41st International Congress on Medieval Studies Maу 4-7 2006
Joan of Arc’s Life and Afterlife
Organizer: Kelly DeVries, Loyola College in Maryland
Presider: Jane Marie Pinzino, Univ. of Pennsylvania
- Gilles de Rais: Companion, General, Demon?
- Kelly DeVries
- Joan of Arc’s Trial Performance: A Reappraisal
- Larissa Juliet Taylor, Colby College
- Joan of Arc among the Romantics
- Gail Orgelfinger, Univ. of Maryland–Baltimore County
40th International Congress on Medieval Studies May 5-8, 2005
Joan of Arc and Spirituality
Organizer: Gail Orgelfinger, Univ. of Maryland–Baltimore County
Presider: Deborah Fraioli, Simmons College
- Wonderful Children: Joan of Arc and the Cult of Childhood in the Spiritual Revival of Late Nineteenth-Century France
- Nora M. Heimann, Catholic Univ. of America, and Laura Coyle, Corcoran Gallery of Art
- Joan of Arc in the Life and Spirituality of St. Thérèse of Lisieux
- Mary Frohlich, Catholic Theological Union
- Catholic, Protestant, Druid? The Spirituality of Joan of Arc in American Poetry
- Alan C. Jalowitz, Pennsylvania State Univ
The World as Seen by Witnesses for Joan of Arc’s Nullification Trial
Organizer: Gail Orgelfinger, Univ. of Maryland–Baltimore County
Presider: Craig D. Taylor, Univ. of York
- The Village Voice: Testimony and Remembrance of Joan of Arc in the Nullification Proceedings
- Larissa Juliet Taylor, Colby College
- “With the Subtlety of a Woman”: Gender and Credibility in Women’s Testimony at the Nullification Trial for Joan of Arc
- Gail Orgelfinger
- The Grand Inquisitor’s Code of Lay Rights
- Jane Marie Pinzino, Univ. of Pennsylvania
39th International Congress on Medieval Studies Маy 6-9, 2004
The Life and Lives of Joan of Arc
Organizer: Ann W. Astell, Purdue Univ.
Presider: Gail Orgelfinger, Univ. of Maryland
- Joan of Arc, Primarily Speaking
- Dianne E. Berg, Higgins Armory Museum
- Matching Writer and Subject: Mary Gordon’s Joan of Arc
- Sharmila Mukherjee, Purdue Univ.
- Films, Flesh, and Flatware: Joan of Arc’s Schizophrenic Afterlife
- Shannon L. Rogers, St. Joseph’s Univ
Teaching Joan of Arc: A Roundtable Discussion
Sponsor: International Joan of Arc Society
Organizer: Gail Orgelfinger, Univ. of Maryland
Presider: Ann W. Astell, Purdue Univ.
A roundtable discussion with Gail Orgelfinger; Larissa Juliet Taylor, Colby College; Kelly DeVries, Loyola College in Maryland; and Nora Heimann, Catholic Univ. of America.
38th International Congress on Medieval Studies May 8-11, 2003
Images of Joan of Arc
Organizer: GailOrgelfinger, Univ. ofMaryland-Baltimore County
Presider: Gail Orgelfinger
- Christine de Pizan and Joan of Arc: History as Miracle
- Heather Arden, Univ. of Cincinnati
- Thunder and Reign: Joan of Arc and the July Monarchy
- Nora M. Heimann, Catholic Univ. ofAmerica
- Joan in Children’s Books, 1874-1914
- Josette A. Wisman, American Univ.
- Joan of Arc in American LongPoetry: National Savior and Martyr
- Alan C. Jalowitz, Pennsylvania State Univ.
Joan of Arc in History
Organizer: Gail Orgelfinger, Univ.of Maryland-Baltimore County
Presider: Ann Astell, Purdue Univ.
- The Case of the Abjuration of Joan of Arc Seen by the Testimonies of the Rehabilitation
- Jean Fraikin, Patrimonie culturel, Ministère de la Communauté Wallonie-Bruxelles
- The Grand Inquisitor, a Bishop, and the Maid: Joan of Arc’s Nullification Trial and the Reform of Inquisition
- Jane Marie Pinzino, Univ. of Puget Sound
- St. Joan and Confession: Internal and External Forums
- Henry Ansgar Kelly, Univ. of California-Los Angeles
37th International Congress on Medieval Studies May 2-5 2002
Joan of Arc
Organizer: Bonnie Wheeler, Southern Methodist Univ.
Presider: Gail Orgelfinger, Univ. of Maryland – Baltimore County
- La controverse juridique et passionelle soulevee parl’abjuration de Jeanne d’Arc au cimetiere de Saint-Ouen (24 mai 1431)
- Jean Fraikin, Traditions et Parlers Populaires, Wallonie-Bruxelles
- Do Clothes Make the (Wo)Man?
- Wendy Marie Hoofnagle, Independent Scholar
- The Maid and the Inquisitor: Jean Brehal and the Rehabilitation of Joanof Arc
- Thomas W. Grzebien, Providence College, and Jane Marie Pinzino, Univ. of Puget Sound
36th International Congress on Medieval Studies Маy 3-6, 2001
Joan of Arc and Jean Gerson
Organizer: Jane Marie Pinzino, Univ. of Puget Sound
Presider: Bonnie Wheeler, Southern Methodist Univ.
- Scattering the Darkness of Doubt: The Chancellor, the Maid, and Spiritual Illumination
- Deborah Fraioli, Simmons College
- Seeing Double: Jean Gerson, the Discernment of Spirits, and Joan of Arc
- Dyan Elliott, Indiana Univ.
- Jean Gerson and Popular Feminine Devotion: The Cases of Hermine, Agnes, and Joan of Arc
- Yelena Matusevich, Univ. of Alaska
Joan of Arc and Chronicles
Organizer: Jane Marie Pinzino, Univ. of Puget Sound
Presider: Thomas W. Grzebien, III, Providence College
- From Dramatic Narrative to Narrative Drama: Creating the Maid of Orleans
- Vicki Hamblin, Western Washington Univ.
- The Figure of a Queen? Joan of Arc as Figure and Example of Isabel the Catholic in the Poncella de Francia
- Cristina Guardiola, Univ. of California – Berkeley
35th International Congress on Medieval Studies May 4-7, 2000
A Medieval Film Fest: La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc
Co-sponsored with the Medieval Feminist Forum
Organizer: Bonnie Wheeler
A session on La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc will take place on Saturday, May 6 at 10:00
a.m. in Room 1055, Fetzer Center.
Visualizing Joan: Cinematic Representations of the Saint (Dreyer’s La Passion
de Jeanne d’Arc)
Co-sponsored with A Medieval Film Fest and Medieval Feminist Forum
Organizer: Bonnie Wheeler, Southern Methodist Univ.
Presider: Jeremy duQuesnay Adams, SouthernMethodist Univ.
- Joan of Arc among the Nazis: From Dreyerto Gustav Ucicky
- Kevin J. Harty, La Salle Univ.
- The Contemporaneous Reception of Dreyer’s La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc
- Robin Blaetz, Emory Univ.
- Carl Dreyer’s Passion Play
- Gail Orgelfinger, Univ. of Maryland
Joan of Arc and Women’s Spirituality
Organizer: Bonnie Wheeler, Southern Methodist Univ.
Presider: Jane Marie Pinzino, Univ. of Puget Sound
- Jhesu Maria: Joan of Arc and the Virgin Mary
- Ann W. Astell, Purdue Univ.
- The Flip Side of the Coin: Female Spirituality, Lancastrian Symbolic Capital, and Joan of Arc
- Nancy Bradley Warren, Utah State Univ.
- She Gets Inside Your Head: Joan of Arc and Contemporary Women’s Spirituality
- Anne Llewellyn Barstow, Independent Scholar
Joan of Arc and Modes of Late Medieval Chivalry
Organizer: Bonnie Wheeler, Southern Methodist Univ.
Presider: Nadia Margolis, Independent Scholar
- Just War Doctrine and the Rehabilitation of Joan of Arc
- Jane Marie Pinzino, Univ. of Puget Sound
- The Ideal of Chivalry in Le Mystere du Siège d’Orléans and Le Bréviairedes Nobles
- Gertrude H. Merkle, Independent Scholar
- Le Mystere du Siège d’Orléans‘ Warrior Maid: A Reconstruction
- Vicki Hamblin, Western Washington Univ.
- Performing Joan/Joan Performing in Le Mystere du Siège d’Orléans
- Robert L. A. Clark, Kansas State Univ.