Medieval Performance as Appropriation
Sponsoring Organization(s)
ROMARD
Organizer Name
Susannah Crowder
Organizer Affiliation
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY
Presider Name
Susannah Crowder
Paper Title 1
Female Masochism and Shadow Feminism in a Medieval French Farce
Presenter 1 Name
Noah D. Guynn
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Univ. of California-Davis
Paper Title 2
"This saint is my saint": Episcopal Appropriation of Predecessors' Image through Ritual Performance in Eleventh-Century Lotharingia
Presenter 2 Name
Pieter Byttebier
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Univ. Gent/Columbia Univ.
Paper Title 3
The Sacrifice of Abraham in Greece: Immanence, Interpellation, Appropriation
Presenter 3 Name
Stratos E. Constantinidis
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Ohio State Univ.
Paper Title 4
Respondent
Presenter 4 Name
Kathleen Ashley
Presenter 4 Affiliation
Univ. of Southern Maine
Start Date
12-5-2016 7:30 PM
Session Location
Schneider 1140
Description
As part of its ongoing engagement with topics that spring from new theories and methodologies, the journal ROMARD seeks to spark a dialogue on the ways that the concept of appropriation can enrich the study of performance and drama. As noted by Kathleen Ashley and Véronique Plesch, appropriation is a flexible concept that encompasses critical notions such as “influence”, “reuse”, “recuperation”, and “recycling”, permitting an exploration of “the complex processes by which spaces, objects, and other ‘cultural expressions’ are brought to represent something different from their original purposes.” Although appropriation has been applied to varied disciplines of medieval studies, the fields of performance and theater studies are ripe to benefit from it. Accordingly, this session will bring together papers that consider varied kinds of cultural performances — such as liturgy and personal devotions, interactions with material objects, dramatic productions, or music, for example — from a wide variety of time periods and geographical locations. Presenters are invited (though not required) to situate their own work within the larger field as well as to suggest possible areas for future development.
Susannah Crowder
Medieval Performance as Appropriation
Schneider 1140
As part of its ongoing engagement with topics that spring from new theories and methodologies, the journal ROMARD seeks to spark a dialogue on the ways that the concept of appropriation can enrich the study of performance and drama. As noted by Kathleen Ashley and Véronique Plesch, appropriation is a flexible concept that encompasses critical notions such as “influence”, “reuse”, “recuperation”, and “recycling”, permitting an exploration of “the complex processes by which spaces, objects, and other ‘cultural expressions’ are brought to represent something different from their original purposes.” Although appropriation has been applied to varied disciplines of medieval studies, the fields of performance and theater studies are ripe to benefit from it. Accordingly, this session will bring together papers that consider varied kinds of cultural performances — such as liturgy and personal devotions, interactions with material objects, dramatic productions, or music, for example — from a wide variety of time periods and geographical locations. Presenters are invited (though not required) to situate their own work within the larger field as well as to suggest possible areas for future development.
Susannah Crowder