The Catholic Studies Unit seeks proposals in the area of medieval Catholic history and theology. We especially welcome considerations of medieval studies’ relation to Catholic Studies. Are medievalists doing Catholic Studies? What should Catholic Studies scholars know about the Middle Ages? For example, medieval ideas about “self” and “other” were far more “fluid” with medieval communities shaped by an understanding that human bodies were a microcosm of the universe (the cosmos) while also concretely permeable by blood, breast milk, semen, and the body and blood of Christ. How do historical, literary, and theological explorations of medieval connectivity and fragmentation offer new directions for the field of Catholic Studies?