Special session hosted by the Society for Queer and Trans Meival Studies at the International Congress for Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, MI in May 2025 seeks submissions for the panel "Medieval Performances of Chastity and Gender."

This panel aims to uncover ways that chastity could have been used as a way to perform gender in the medieval world, as well as how chastity and gender are performed more generally in medieval historical and literary contexts. In looking at the intersection between the performance of chastity and gender, we embrace the vibrant tapestry of lived experiences and gender performances of the medieval world. We aim for the discussion to be as intersectional as possible and invite discourse regarding queer studies, trans and gender studies, and other theoretical studies.