SE students present at MEMNTO Undergraduate Conference

March 4, 2024

Seven students from Southeastern Oklahoma State University presented at the annual undergraduate conference of the Medievalist and Early Modernists of North Texas and Oklahoma (MEMNTO), hosted by Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth.

The MEMNTO conference featured undergraduate speakers from six universities: Southeastern, hosts Texas Wesleyan, Southern Methodist University, University of Dallas, University of North Texas, and the University of Texas at Arlington.

Presenters from Southeastern and their topics were:

Sarah Coblentz, sophomore in the honors program, political science and history double major, presented “Christine de Pizan and Argumentation from the Ciceronian Narrative”
Kenzie Hicks, sophomore in the honors program, Political Science major, presented “A Comparison of Medieval and Modern Feminism”
Kai Jones, sophomore in the honors program, history and biology double major, presented “Matilda of Tuscany, Hildegard of Bingen and the Value of Women’s History”
Hailie Pittman, sophomore in the honors program, English major, Choctaw language minor, presented “The Acquisition and Validity of Knowledge from the Perspective of Saint Augustine’s Confessions and The Song of Roland”
Cory Taylor, senior English major, presented “Ganymede’s Prescribed Chivalry”
Calia Walker, senior in the honors program, Political Science major, presented “The Strategic Interpretation of The Prince: Analyzing the Influences of the Medici Family on the Development of Machiavelli’s Political Ideas”
Brooklyn Young, sophomore in the honors program, Psychology major, English minor, will present: The Art of Persuasive Biblical Referencing in “The Book of the City of Ladies”

Professors from Southeastern were also prominently featured in the conference’s programming, as Dr. Meg Cotter-Lynch, professor of English and Honors Program director, and Dr. Joshua Held, assistant professor of English moderated sessions which contained the student presentations.

Dr. Kyle C. Lincoln, assistant professor of Pre-Modern European History and Interdisciplinary Humanities and Director of Study Abroad provided the keynote lecture for the conference, titled “Afterwards He Was Sent to Palencia: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying (About Law School) and Love Academic Research.”

Students were also mentored and prepared for the conference by honors program advisors Rachel Childers and Skip Robinson.