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The two-day event includes sessions on this year’s theme “The Secular Realm in the Age of Faith.” The theme relates to the private and public spheres of life in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Europe where the profane, the quotidian, romantic, and religious intersect. Romantic ideals and earthy realities coexisted in the Medieval and Renaissance world—Are there boundaries? Papers are not confined to the topic, but cover many aspects of Medieval and Renaissance life both secular and religious drawing from the intersecting spheres of literature, theater, art history and music, as examples. New approaches to interdisciplinary studies are welcome. A forum tradition, the festival opens at 9:30 a.m. Friday, April 25, with a gathering (with students in period garb) at the HUB Fireplace Lounge beginning with a procession followed by opening ceremonies that feature a reading from Chaucer’s General Prologue and a poem by our poet laureate . President Sara Jayne Steen will deliver a formal welcoming to all. The Opening ceremonies conclude with the traditional singing of Gaudeamus Igitur. FRIDAY, APRIL 25 th -- 8:30 AM Registration, 1 st Floor Rounds • Registration available until 9:20, then during sessions throughout the day • Coffee, refreshments, and vendors are located in Rounds 103 -- 9:30 AM - Opening Ceremony (Hartman Student Union Building- Fire Place Lounge) • Procession in Academic Regalia or Medieval/Renaissance Inspired Garb, with Dr. Naomi Kline, Forum Director, Professor of Art History, Plymouth State University; Dr. Karolyn Kinane, Forum Coordinator, Assistant Professor of English; the Medieval Society of Plymouth State University, and more. • Reading from Chaucer’s General Prologue by Prof. A. Robin Bowers, Professor of English, Emeritus, Plymouth State University • Formal Opening and Welcome by Dr. Sara Jayne Steen, Plymouth State University President and Dr. Naomi Kline, Forum Director, Professor of Art History, Plymouth State University • Opening Poem by Prof. Philip F. O’Mara and Mr. Scott Chico, Bridgewater College • Gaudeamus Igitur – all join in! Friday 10:10-11:45AM Chaucer I Rounds 107 Moderator: Dr. Kimberly Thompson Macuare Clayton State University • Dr. Brian Campbell “Chaucer, the Three Eagles, and the Desire to Please in ‘The Parliament of Fowls’” Emeritus, Vanier College • Dr. Lisa LeBlanc “Blurred Visions of Public and Private Realms” Anne Maria College • Prof. Thomas Napierkowksi “Chaucer's ‘Nun's Priest’s Tale’ and Scholastic Theories of Authorship” University of Colorado at Colorado Springs Art History I: Significant Spaces Rounds 203 Moderator: Dr. Carl Grindley Hostos Community College • Prof. Anne Harris “Looking In: Spectatorship, Voyeurism and Other Ways of Seeing the Sacred and the Secular in the ‘Roman de la Rose,’ Douce 195” DePauw University • Mr. Jasper Van Putten “Kaleidoscope of Microcosmi: Use and Representation in Annibel Caro's Art Collection” University of Massachusetts, Amherst • Dr. Donald Hochstetler “Rhetoricians in Peace and War: The Netherlands Chambers of Rhetoric as Institutions of Secular Expression in an Age of Faith” Worcester State College Program | Page 1 Women I: Marriage and Household Rounds 303 Moderator: Dr. Bonnie Epstein Plymouth State University • Ms. Sharon Teague “Private Act/ Public Document: Marriage Reflected in the Wills of Husbands and Wives” Rhode Island College • Dr. Jan Marie Evans “Creating a Sacred Space: Marriage as Sacrament” Anne Maria College • Ms. Alice Cooley “The Female Household in the Lais of Marie de France” Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto Religion and Morality in Early Modern Literature Rounds 322 Moderator: Meredith Clermont-Ferrand Eastern Connecticut State University • Dr. Vanita Neelakanta “Under Heaven’s Eye: ‘Comus’ as Theatrum Mundi” Rider University • Dr. Robert Kellerman “The Penitential Moment in George Herbert's ‘The Temple’” University of Maine at Augusta --12:00 – 2:00pm – FRIDAY LUNCHEON & KEYNOTE ADDRESS -- (Hartman Student Union Building—Multi Purpose Room) Those without tickets for the luncheon may join us for the Keynote Address at 12:45pm The keynote speaker, Dr. Frédéric Billiet, Professeur des Universités and Director de l’UFR de Musique et Musicologie de Paris IV-Sorbonne, will present a talk entitled “Some Sounds for Silence: Music to Illustrate Sculptured Scenes in Medieval Choir Stalls.” Tickets are required for the luncheon, but limited public seating will also be available for the address. Dr. Frédéric Billiet, holds a Ph.D. in Medieval Music from the Sorbonne, Paris. He specializes in music of the fifteenth century and has combined his study of music with the iconography of music on medieval choir stalls. His publications include the book Les stalles de Rouen , Rouen, Publications de l’Université de Rouen, 2002. He has written numerous articles and edited Bible de bois du Moyen Age , Actes du colloque d’Angers, Angers, Les éditions de l’UCO, 2002. He is presently working with Brepols Publishers on a number of books on the subject of musical iconography. As a scholar of the early music of Picardy, he has produced the catalogue of the musical collection of the Choir School St. Evode of the Cathedral of Rouen and directed and produced the music CD featuring the ensemble “Les Ménestriers Picards” performing early music of Picardy. Friday 2:20-3:50PM Arthuriana I: The Grail Rounds 104 Moderator: Dr. Roberta Staples Sacred Heart University • Dr. Peter Schwartz “Malory's Grail Quest: From Romance Back to Ritual” Elmira College • Prof. Ann McCullough “Sacred Questions: Judaic Influence in Chrétien de Troyes’ ‘Conte du Graal’” Virginia Tech • Ms. Leigh Elion “In a Grotta Da Vida, Baby: Trevrizent's Cave as a Place of Re-Birth in Wolfram's ‘Parzival’” Boston College Shakespeare I Rounds 107 Moderator: Prof. Elizabeth Patton Johns Hopkins University • Prof. Christa Mahalik “Background Noise and Uncertainties: Nightmares, Blood, and Sexual Being in the World of Lady Macbeth” Quinnipiac University • Dr. William Marx “‘What's in a Name?’: Black Will Slaughter and the Dramatization of Richard III's Murder of the Boy Princes” Michigan State University • Ms. Danielle Tovsen “Send Ophelia to a Nunnery: A Cultural Perspective” Seton Hall University Program | Page 2 Women II: Women in Early Medieval Popular Religion Rounds 124 Moderator: Prof. Claire-Marie Hart North Shore Community College • Prof. Vincent Corrigan “Juliana's Office: The Corpus Christi Service” Bowling Green State University • Prof. Barbara Walters “Liturgist for the Secular Church: Juliana of Mont Cornillon” The City University of New York • Ms. Ivy Page “The Unveiling of a Virgin: Saint Christina Mirabilis’ Life as a Demoniac” New England College Bodies and Identities I: Sexuality Rounds 303 Moderator: Dr. Rebecca Noel Plymouth State University • Dr. Raymond Eichmann “The ‘Priestess’ in the French Fabliaux” University of Arkansas • Dr. Roberta Milliken “Women's Glory, Women's Wickedness: Hair as Symbol in the Writings of the Church Fathers” Shawnee State University • Ms. Elena Gonzalez-Blanco “The Claim of the Secular Topics in the Age of Faith: Romance Goliardic Poetry” Harvard University Historical Romances Rounds 322 Moderator: Ms. Jolanta Komornicka Boston University • Ms. Rachel Kapelle “Angels and Ermines: Guy of Warwick's Dreams” Brandeis University • Mr. Raul Ariza Barile “Fictional Temporality, Historical Time, and Authorial Present in ‘King Horn’” Dartmouth College • Dr. Irene Gnarra “Two Cases of Love Madness in the 12th century: ‘Layla with the Madman’ and ‘Yvain with the Lion’” Kean University Live Chess Match (Alumni Green—In Front of the HUB) Sponsored by the Medieval Society of Plymouth State University (MEDSOC) – Join the excitement! Friday 4:00-5:20PM Rabelais: Gender and Genre Rounds 104 Moderator: Dr. Roberta Milliken Shawnee State University • Dr. Meredith Clermont-Ferrand “Rabelais, Gargantua, Pantagruel: Utopia as Extra Textual Place” Eastern Connecticut State University • Dr. Rosa Alvarez Perez “The Workings of Desire: Punurge and the Dogs” Bryant University Medieval Drama Rounds 107 Moderator: Dr. Robert Kellerman University of Maine at Augusta • Dr. Andrea Harbin “Virgin’s End: The Suppression of the Marion Pageants of the York Corpus Christi Play” George Mason University • Mr. John Tompkins “She Holds the Stage Alone: The Person of the Grieving Mother in the Chester Gouldsmythes Playe” Purdue University • Ms. Tanya Anderson Hooper “The Devil’s Playthings: Diabolic Occupations in the Medieval Mystery Cycles” University of North Texas Program | Page 3 Bodies and Identities II: Marking Status Rounds 124 Moderator: Ms. Jo-Ann Guilmett Plymouth State University • Ms. Tanya Stone “Living in a Material World: Bourgeoisie Motifs in ‘The Book of Margery Kempe’” Eastern Connecticut State University • Ms. Heidi Febert “Adorning All: Women and Metal Dress Accessories in Late Medieval England” Fordham University • Dr. Kimberly Thompson Macuare “Through the Eye of a Needle: St. Alexius, Perfection and Poverty” Clayton State University Art History II: The Profane and Religious Rounds 303 Moderator: Dr. Robin O’Bryan Harrisburg Area Community College • Ms. Lisa Mayer “Reformation and the Artist: Sacred and Profane Images in the Art of Pieter Bruegel” Minnesota State University • Dr. Paulette Barton “The Green Man and His Role in the Choir” University of Maine Theology, Science, Behavior Rounds 322 Moderator: Dr. Robin Gower Georgian Court University • Dr. Peter Ellard “The Role of Science in the Age of Faith: The Early Twelfth Century”