Presentations
Findings from Unknown Hands have been presented at international conferences and workshops, including:
- Forthcoming: Guéville, Estelle. “Unknown Hands and the Digital Recovery of Female Scribes.” Paper presented as part of the roundtable “New Possibilities and Directions in Digital Medieval Studies” at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, May 2026.
- Guéville, Estelle. “Multilingualism and Literacy Among Medieval Female Scribes.” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University. 9 May 2025.
- Guéville, Estelle.“Unknown Hands: Addressing the Scribal Gender Gap in Manuscript Studies.” Harvard-Yale-Brown Graduate Conference in Book History. 5 May 2025.
- Guéville, Estelle.“Unknown Hands. The Scribal Gender Gap and Historical Exclusion.” Yale Medieval Lunch Colloquium, Yale University. 18 February 2025.
- Guéville, Estelle.“Manuscript Collections and Inclusivity: Making Premodern Female Scribes’ Production Accessible.” (Re)imag(in)ing the Past Symposium, Gjøvik, Norway. 4–6 December 2024.
- Guéville, Estelle.“Unknown Hands: Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts and their Female Scribes.” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University. May 2024.
- Guéville, Estelle. “Women in the Scriptorium: Female Manuscript Production in Pre-Modern Europe.” Race, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Colloquium, Yale University. 24 October 2023.
- Guéville, Estelle.“Unknown Hands: Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts and their Female Scribes.” Yale Medieval Lunch Colloquium, Yale University. 24 October 2023.
Panels and Sessions Organized
- Guéville, Estelle. Panel “Female Scribes in the Pre-Modern World.” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, May 2025.
- Ephraim A. Ishac. “Female Scribes and Patrons in Syriac Manuscripts: A Colophonological Approach.”
- Paula Cardoso, “Writing the Rules: Translation, Copying, and Transmission of Normative Texts among Portuguese Poor Clares in the Sixteenth Century.”
- Cynthia Cyrus. “Organizational Tools in the Scribal Toolkit.”
- Marlene Schilling. “By Women for Women: Late Medieval Prayer Books from Female Convents in Northern Germany.”
- Guéville, Estelle, and Imke Vet. Panel “Female Scribes in the Pre-Modern World.” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, May 2025.
- Mercedes Pérez Vidal, “Soror Eugenia Villana scripsit. Uncovering and Rethinking Female Scribes in Premodern and Early Modern Southern Europe.”
- Paula Cardoso, “Escrever e ensynar: Reform, Education, and Book Production in the Portuguese Dominican Nunneries.”
- Katarzyna Grochowska, “Scribal Practices at the Nunnery of Stary Sącz, Poland.”