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W Ednesday Evening Forty-Fourth International Congress on Medieval Wednesday evening Wednesday Forty-fourth International Congress on Medieval Studies May 7–10, 2009 Wednesday, May 6 12:00 noon Registration begins and continues daily Eldridge-Fox Lobby 12:00 noon–5:00 p.m. COFFEE SERVICE Valley III 312 5:00–6:00 p.m. Director’s Reception for Early Arrivals Valley III 313 6:00–7:00 p.m. DINNER Valley II Dining Hall Thursday, May 7 Morning Events 7:00–8:30 a.m. BREAKFAST Valley II Dining Hall 7:30–10:30 a.m. COFFEE SERVICE Valley II and III 8:00 a.m. TEAMS (Consortium for the Teaching of the Valley III 304 Middle Ages) Board of Directors Meeting 8:30 a.m. Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture (SASLC) Valley III Business Meeting Stinson Lounge 9:00–10:30 a.m. COFFEE SERVICE Bernhard and Fetzer 1 Thursday, May 7 10:00 a.m.–11:30 a.m. Sessions 1–54 Thursday 10:00 a.m. Thursday Session 1 Prisoners and Imprisoners in Malory’s Morte Darthur Valley III Organizer: Felicia Nimue Ackerman, Brown Univ. Stinson Presider: Felicia Nimue Ackerman Lounge Patterns of Imprisonment in Malory’s Knight of the Cart Janet Jesmok, Univ. of Wisconsin–Milwaukee Imprisoned in the Realms of Prophecy: Excuses and Expectations in Malory’s Le Morte Darthur Susan Butvin Sainato, Kent State Univ. Discordant Cellmates: Wolves and Sheep in Prison Peter R. Schroeder, California State Univ.–San Bernardino A Castle as a Prison: Morgan, Lancelot, and Bagdemagus’s Daughter Stephen Atkinson, Park Univ. Session 2 Developing Interdisciplinarity on Your Campus (A Panel Discussion) Valley II Sponsor: Medieval Academy Graduate Student Committee 200 Organizer: James Wade, Pennsylvania State Univ. Presider: Jennifer A. T. Smith, Univ. of California–Los Angeles A panel discussion with Nancy van Deusen, Claremont Graduate Univ.; Jeremy duQ. Adams, Southern Methodist Univ.; Thomas F. Madden, St. Louis Univ.; Henry Ansgar Kelly, Univ. of California–Los Angeles; and Jennifer M. Feltman, Florida State Univ. Session 3 Rethinking Cultures and Identities in the Medieval Mediterranean I Valley II Organizer: Amity N. Law, Princeton Univ. 201 Presider: Adam Franklin-Lyons, Yale Univ. “I call the people”: Church Bells in Fourteenth-Century Catalunya Michelle Garceau, Princeton Univ. The Mercenary Mediterranean, or, The Microecology of Law Hussein Anwar Fancy, Michigan Society of Fellows Unveiling Wombs of Muslim-Christian Spiritual Entwinement Anjela M. Cannarelli Peck, Hamilton College Greek, Frank, or Moreote: Narratives of Hybridity in the Chronicle of Morea Kiril Petkov, Univ. of Wisconsin–River Falls 2 Thursday 10:00 a.m. Thursday Crown and Policy in Later Medieval England Session 4 Sponsor: Society of the White Hart Valley II Organizer: Mark Arvanigian, California State Univ.–Fresno 202 Presider: Michael Bennett, Univ. of Tasmania Patronage and the Loyalty in the Household of Edward II Jeffrey S. Hamilton, Baylor Univ. Political Statement, Public Spectacle, or Farce? The Trial by Combat between the Prior of Kilmainham and the Earl of Ormond, 1446 Malcolm Mercer, Canterbury Cathedral Archives Reshaping the Good Parliament Mark Arvanigian Clerics Behaving Badly: Scandal, Reform, Discipline Session 5 Organizer: Christine Dunn, Indiana Univ.–Bloomington Valley II Presider: Christine Dunn 203 Superbia, Avaritia, and the Inquisitorial Office Janine Larmon Peterson, Marist College Bad-Boy Friars: Disorder and Inertia in the Fourteenth-Century Dominican Order Michael Vargas, SUNY–New Paltz De Verbis ad Verberis (From Words to Wounds): Criminous Clerics and Their Narrative Strategies in the Church Courts of Carpentras Elizabeth Hardman, Fordham Univ. Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies: The Inaugural Issue (A Roundtable) Session 6 Sponsor: Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies (JMIS) Valley II Organizer: Simon R. Doubleday, Hofstra Univ. 204 Presider: Simon R. Doubleday A roundtable discussion with Michael Kulikowski, Univ. of Tennessee–Knoxville; David Nirenberg, Univ. of Chicago; Janina Safran, Pennsylvania State Univ.; Maya K. Soifer, Stanford Univ.; and Aengus Ward, Univ. of Birmingham. Historiography of the Crusades Session 7 Sponsor: Texas Medieval Association (TEMA) Valley II Organizer: Paul E. Chevedden, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 205 Univ. of California–Los Angeles Presider: James R. King, Midwestern State Univ. A Pluralist Society: Jonathan Riley-Smith and Crusades Studies in the Twenty-First Century Sam Zeno Conedera, SJ, Univ. of California–Los Angeles Distinguishing between Holy War and Crusade: Jonathan Riley-Smith versus John Gilchrist Andrew P. Holt, Univ. of Florida Carl Erdmann and the Copernican Revolution in Crusade Studies Paul E. Chevedden 3 Session 8 J. K. Rowling’s Medievalism Valley II Organizer: Carol R. Dover, Georgetown Univ. 207 Presider: Gail Orgelfinger, Univ. of Maryland–Baltimore County Harry Potter’s Alchemical Transformation: J. K. Rowling’s Alchemical and Esoteric Symbolism Thursday 10:00 a.m. Thursday Jon Porter, Butler Univ. Ghosts, Zombies, and Voldemort’s Puppets: Inferi and Medieval Necromancers Vanessa R. Taylor, Catholic Univ. of America Imagining the White Stag Carol R. Dover Session 9 Medieval Lacan Valley II Sponsor: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, St. Louis Univ. Garneau Organizer: Antony J. Hasler, St. Louis Univ. Lounge Presider: Erin Felicia Labbie, Bowling Green State Univ. The Troubadours and the Gregorian Reform: Representing Power beyond the Law Suzanne Verderber, Pratt Institute Lacan and the Interpretation of Medieval Literature Daniel M. Murtaugh, Florida Atlantic Univ. The Revenant Logic of the Middle Ages Kate Koppelman, Seattle Univ. Session 10 Societal Reform and Religious Orders in the Later Middle Ages Valley II Organizer: David Zachariah Flanagin, St. Mary’s College of California LeFevre Presider: Christopher M. Bellitto, Kean Univ. Lounge Carthusians as Public Intellectuals: Cloistered Religious as Advisors to Lay Elites on the Eve of the Protestant Reformation Dennis D. Martin, Loyola Univ., Chicago Premonstratensian Voices of Reform at the Fifteenth-Century Councils William P. Hyland, St. Norbert College “He did not say, ‘I am custom’”: Pope Gregory VII’s Idea of Reform Ken A. Grant, Univ. of Texas–Pan American Session 11 Old Norse Literature and Culture Valley I Sponsor: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, St. Louis Univ., and 100 the Viking Society for Northern Research Organizer: Paul Acker, St. Louis Univ. Presider: Jill Fitzgerald, St. Louis Univ. With Friends like These . : Thor as Outsider among the Æsir Kevin J. Wanner, Western Michigan Univ. The New World and the Numinous in the Vinland Sagas Mahlika Hopwood, Fordham Univ. Saving Face: Negotiating Feud in the Fornaldarsogur Michael Nagy, South Dakota State Univ.–Brookings 4 Thursday 10:00 a.m. Thursday Tudor Literature I: Plays Session 12 Presider: William Kamowski, Montana State Univ.–Billings Valley I 101 From Chester to the Globe: Sixteenth-Century Narratives of Early English Drama Kurt A. Schreyer, Univ. of Missouri–St. Louis “What ys a man wythowte mercy?”: Mankind and Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus Cameron Hunt, Univ. of South Florida–Tampa Marlowe, the Crusades, and Modernity Mathew Martin, Brock Univ. The Kingly Bastard: Royalty, Blood, and Performance in Shakespeare’s King John Kristin M. Smith, Boston Univ. Family and Kinship in Arthurian Literature Session 13 Sponsor: Arthurian Literature Valley I Organizer: David F. Johnson, Florida State Univ., and Elizabeth Archibald, 102 Univ. of Bristol Presider: David F. Johnson Centripetal Kinship: Non-biological and Blood-Based Community Formation in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Randy R. Schiff, Univ. at Buffalo Malory’s Bands of Brothers (and Their Sisters) Carolyne Larrington, St. John’s College, Univ. of Oxford The (K)Intertextual Morgan: Kinship Ties between Cycles Cory James Rushton, St. Francis Xavier Univ. “Morgain [ . ] la fee qui l’avoir norri”: The Role of the Mother in Floriant et Florete Helen L. M. Neat, Univ. of Nottingham Respondent: Elizabeth Archibald Male Garrulity Session 14 Sponsor: Dept. of Medieval Studies, Central European Univ. Valley I Organizer: Gerhard Jaritz, Central European Univ. 105 Presider: Gerhard Jaritz Talkative Men in Old Norse Culture: How Were They Judged? Else Mundal, Senter for Middelalderstudier, Univ. i Bergen Speaking of Violence: Male Discourse and Homosocial Exclusion in The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnell and Chaucer’s The Reeve’s Tale Robert Coffman, Independent Scholar “Stop the tongue wagging”: Volubility and Preaching Elena Lemeneva, Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies 5 Session 15 Perceforest: Renewal of the Arthurian French Romance Valley I Sponsor: Centre d’Étude des Textes Médiévaux, Univ. Rennes II–Haute 106 Bretagne Organizer: Christine Ferlampin-Acher, Univ. Rennes II–Haute Bretagne Presider: Anne Berthelot, Univ. of Connecticut Thursday 10:00 a.m. Thursday In the Dream’s Nets or the Love Trap: Story of Noral and Gorloze in the Roman de Perceforest (Book V) Anne Delamaire, Univ. Rennes II–Haute Bretagne Disembodied Voices: Women’s Artistry in Perceforest Brooke Heidenreich Findley, Pennsylvania State Univ.–Altoona De astrologia in Le Roman de Perceforest Nathalie Ettzevoglou, Univ. of Connecticut Dialogues in the Romance of Perceforest: Rhetorics and Humor Corinne Denoyelle, Univ. of Toronto Session 16 The Chanson de Geste and the European Epic Valley I Sponsor: Société Rencesvals, American-Canadian Branch 107 Organizer: Catherine M. Jones, Univ. of Georgia Presider: Catherine M. Jones Birds, Beds, and Broads: The Degeneration of an Epic Motif Leslie Zarker Morgan,
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