47th International Congress on Medieval Studies (2012)

Presented here is the schedule of numbered 90-minute sessions of the 47th International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 10-13, 2012), as well as unnumbered sessions occurring on Friday and Saturday evenings. Excluded are a variety of scheduled activities, including plenary lectures, a film screening, the dance, receptions, and business meetings.

This listing reflects the changes listed in the Corrigenda distributed to attendees as they arrived at the Congress but not last-minute changes effected after the Corrigenda was delivered to the printer (May 4, 2012). The complete printed program, including the Corrigenda, is available elsewhere in ScholarWorks at WMU in PDF format.

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Schedule
2012
Thursday, May 10th
10:00 AM

Against the Grain: The Experience of Subject Religious Communities in the Medieval Iberian and Western Mediterranean World

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1280

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Alfredian Texts and Contexts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 213

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Art and Devotion in Anglo-Saxon England

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 105

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Arthurian Manuscripts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2016

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Aura

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 110

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Border Crossings: Risks and Rewards

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1235

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

“Can these bones come to life?”: Insights from Re-construction, Re-enactment, and Re-creation

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1045

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Central Europe on the Boundaries and at the Core of Empire

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1220

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Chant and Liturgy

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 159

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Chaucer and Pagan Antiquity

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2040

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Christopher Dawson's The Making of Europe Eighty Years Later

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III 304

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Cistercian Humanism

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1040

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Computer-Assisted Analysis of Medieval Texts (A Workshop)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 208

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Conceptions of Love in Medieval Culture, Literature, and Religion

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 101

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Concepts of Space/Place beyond Britain

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 207

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Costume in Medieval Texts: Sessions in Honor of Laura Hodges I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1060

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Hobbit on Its Seventy-Fifth Anniversary

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 102

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Fernán Pérez de Guzmán: The Historian, the Poet, and His Times

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2020

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Gawain and Middle English Romance

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1360

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Gifts and Gift Exchange in the Later Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 200

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Heroes and Villains in the High Middle Ages.

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2030

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

In Honor of Thomas F. X. Noble I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Intersections I: Women outside Traditions

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Garneau Lounge

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Is the History of the English Language Undertheorized?

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 109

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Lay Prayer: Text, Context, and Practice

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 201

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Learned and Lyrical Langland

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Shilling Lounge

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Literature, Theory, and the Future of Medieval Studies: Middle English and Its Others (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 100

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Love and Sin: Reassessing Judgments on Tristan and Isolde

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1225

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Marguerite Porete, Her Inquisition Trial, and the Mirror of Simple Souls

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2145

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Medieval Environments I: Food Shortage and Subsistence Crises in Medieval Europe

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 157

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Medieval Views: The Role of the Medieval in Pictorial Photography

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1010

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Mystical Writing and the Prelapsarian State

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 202

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Old Norse Literature and Culture

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1265

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Peace in Late Medieval London

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1275

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Performing Gender and Shakespeare

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1130

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Peter Abelard (and Heloise)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 211

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Philosophy of Saint Thomas Aquinas I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II LeFevre Lounge

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Queering the Cougar

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 212

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Realms of Play, Regimes of Truth

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1255

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Rethinking Cultures and Identities in the Medieval Mediterranean I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1245

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Robert Pasnau's Metaphysical Themes: Author Meets Critics

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 204

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Robert Southwell at Kalamazoo

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 107

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Age of Las Navas: Iberia at the Turn of the Thirteenth Century

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 210

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Medievalism of J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter Novels

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1005

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Monastery and Order of Savigny

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 203

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Secularization and Modernity Debate: Beyond Negative Theology

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson Lounge

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Topics in Early Modern English Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 105

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

We Were Here First: Pre-Dante Visions of the Christian Afterlife

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 106

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

What We Have Here Is a Failure to Confess: Impediments to Confession in Medieval Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 205

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Working Group in Medieval Sculpture I: Objecthood and Artistic Practice

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1140

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

You're So Juvenile: Monstrous Children in Medieval Culture

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 204

10:00 AM

1:30 PM

A Reckoning: Translation as Cultural Change and Culture Clash

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 106

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Arthur on Stage (A Panel Discussion)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 105

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Concepts of Space/Place within the British Isles

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1010

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Costume in Medieval Texts: Sessions in Honor of Laura Hodges II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1060

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Court Culture in Medieval Iberia I: Writing for Courts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2020

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Dante I: Politics, Law, Exile, and Community in Dante’s Works

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1235

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Describing Digital Images of Medieval Manuscripts Using Dublin Core: Projects and Proposals (A Panel Discussion)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Waldo Library Meader Room

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Dour Gower

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 105

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Ecclesiastical Hierarchies: Law and Custom

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 203

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Macbeth: Pre-texts, Texts, and After-Texts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Shilling Lounge

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

English Cistercians and English Critics

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1040

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Excess and Scarcity in Malory's Morte Darthur

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson Lounge

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Female Agency in Reaching God

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 201

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

French Cultural Traditions in Italy (A Panel Discussion)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1345

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Fuck Me: On Never Letting Go (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1005

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Games at Court, Medieval and Neo-medieval

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 109

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Germanic Languages and Literatures of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 208

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

In Honor of Thomas F. X. Noble II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Garneau Lounge

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Influence or Interchange? Vernacular and Scholarly Cultures

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 107

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Intersections II: Medieval Women's Spirituality in Conversation with Feminist Theory and Theology

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2040

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Jewish-Christian Studies I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 212

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Kindle-ing the Codex: Are E-Books the New Lindisfarne?

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1275

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Medieval Chronicles

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1045

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Medieval Drama

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 101

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Medieval Environments II: Religion and the Environment

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 157

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Medieval Manuscript Discoveries in North America: Texts, Illuminations, Collections

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 210

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Musician as Profession in the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 204

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Old Norse, Contemporary of Middle English

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1265

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Papers by Undergraduates I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1255

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Philosophy and Theology of Nicholas of Cusa

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 204

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Philosophy of Saint Thomas Aquinas II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II LeFevre Lounge

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Reading Aloud Old French and Middle French (A Workshop)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 110

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Rethinking Cultures and Identities in the Medieval Mediterranean II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1245

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Salvation and the End of Times: Words and/or Images?

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2030

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Eight Hundredth Anniversary of the Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa: The Military Aspects

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Fluid Text: The Case of the Libro de buen amor

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 100

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Future of Medieval Disability Studies: Where Do We Go from Here? (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 202

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Ties That Bound I: Early Medieval Prosopography

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 213

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Theory Manuscripts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 159

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

To See the Forest for the Trees: "Arbor" as a Central Image in Franciscan Spiritual Writing

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 205

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Tolkien and Ideology

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 102

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Translation, Exchange, and the Aesthetics of the Foreign

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III 304

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Tristan Manuscripts and Early Prints: Surveying the Resources Available in the Twenty-First Century

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1225

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Vernacular Religious Writing in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Century

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2016

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Women and the Troubadours

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 211

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Working Group in Medieval Sculpture II: Objecthood and Installation

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1140

1:30 PM

3:30 PM

1212 Remembered: The Eight Hundreth Anniversary of Las Navas de Tolosa

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

"Bad Habits": Religious Dress and Its Controversies

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1280

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Bernard of Clairvaux: Theologian and Mystic

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1040

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Celebrations at Court

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1045

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Church, Mission, Enculturation, and Conversion in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III 304

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Comparative Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2345

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Court Culture in Medieval Iberia II: The Court in Other Contexts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2020

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Cusanus and Fifteenth-Century Studies: Past, Present, and Future (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 204

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Dante II: Perspectives on Dante's Paradiso

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1225

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Debating Debate Poems: Tensos and Partimens (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 204

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Digital Medieval Studies for Dummies (A Workshop)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1350

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Beowulf and the Hêliand in Comparative Cultural Perspective

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 109

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Eyes of the Beholders: A Roundtable Discussion on the Monstrous

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1360

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Fuck This: On Finally Letting Go (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1005

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Gender, Sexuality, and Disability

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1275

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Historiographies of Feeling (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 107

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

In Celebration of the Yale Edward III (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 200

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

In Honor of Thomas F. X. Noble III

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Garneau Lounge

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Intersections III: Women's Texts and Contexts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2040

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Jewish-Christian Studies II: Egypt, Reality and Symbol

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 212

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Loving Relations: Familial Love in the Early Medieval World

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 207

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Low German Medieval Literature: Legends, Drama, Epics, Translations

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 211

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Making Manuscripts (A Workshop)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 210

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Manuscripts (and Surrogates) in North America: Experiencing the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Waldo Library Meader Room

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medieval Chronicles and Their Authors

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 203

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medieval Environments III: Exploiting and Managing Animal Resources

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 157

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medieval Germany: Defining the Empire

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1220

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medieval Icelandic Bishops' Sagas and Law

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1265

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medieval Sources in Modern Catholic Popes, Scholars, and Writers

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1235

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Memory and Community in Anglo-Saxon England

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 110

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Middle English Chronicle and Romance

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 101

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Neomedievalism and the Corporate (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1060

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Old English Poetry

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1010

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Papers by Undergraduates II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1255

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Philosophical Themes and Issues in Malory's Morte Darthur

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson Lounge

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Philosophy of Saint Thomas Aquinas III

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II LeFevre Lounge

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Problematizing Parenthood in Shakespeare

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Shilling Lounge

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Reassessing the Role of Women as "Makers" of Medieval Art and Architecture in Christian Europe

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1325

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Rethinking Cultures and Identities in the Medieval Mediterranean III

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1245

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Sacred Violence in the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 201

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Short Gower

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 105

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Spanish Language and Literature in the Late Middle Ages (including Catalan)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 106

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Cultures of Armenia and Georgia

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1345

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Nine Worthies

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 208

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The State of Early Middle English (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2016

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Theology of Creation from Anselm of Canterbury to Aelred of Rievaulx

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 202

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Ties That Bound II: Prosopography in the Central and Late Middle Ages I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 105

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Thing Theory and Object-Oriented Studies in Medieval Contexts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2030

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

"To Speak the Word of Salvation to All": Franciscan Preaching at the University and to the World

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 205

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Tolkien's Shorter Poems and Lyrics

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 102

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Vernacular and Extraliturgical Music

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 159

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Vessels of Ignominy: Gender and "Race" as Rhetorical Shaming Devices

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2335

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Where Sacred Meets Secular: Medieval Drama

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 213

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Working Group in Medieval Sculpture III: Objecthood and Social Value

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1140

3:30 PM

7:30 PM

A Readers' Theater Performance of Mankind (A Performance and Roundtable Discussion)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 107

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Are You From Camelot? Recent Arthurian Film and Television as Innovators of the Arthurian Tradition and Their Impact (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 204

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

"Around and about the German Grail"—hôher êren pflegen: A Session in Honor of Francis G. Gentry

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1280

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Burn after Reading: Miniature Manifestos for a Post/medieval Studies (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1005

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Dante III: Critical Perspectives on Intertextuality in Dante’s Comedy

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1225

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Digital Methods and Resources for Paleography and Manuscript Studies

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2030

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Dress and Textiles I: Studies in Memory of Verna Rutz

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 210

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Electronic Medievalist Games (A Festive Workshop and Poster Session)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1055

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Fifteenth-Century English History and Culture

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 204

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Italian Art and the Confluence of Cultures I: Early Medieval Art in Italy

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1235

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Language and Music

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 159

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Las Navas de Tolosa (1212): A Commemoration of Its Eight Hundredth Anniversary

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 208

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Luke-Acts in the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 212

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Marks in Manuscripts and Books (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Mighty Protectors for the Merchant Class: Saints as Intercessors between the Wealthy and the Divine

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 211

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Religious Practice

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2016

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Rethinking Cultures and Identities in the Medieval Mediterranean IV

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1245

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Shakespeare at Kalamazoo Lecture

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 105

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

The Life Cycle of Medieval Monasteries: Birth, Growth, Maturity, Crisis, Rebirth, and Death

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1060

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

The Once and Future ICLS: A Roundtable to Celebrate the International Courtly Literature Society at Forty

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1045

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

The Sight and Sound of the Parish in Medieval England

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1255

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

The Ties That Bound III: Prosopography in the Central and Late Middle Ages II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 213

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

The Workings of Romance: Unhappy Happy Endings

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2040

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Word-Play: The Proverb's Role in Medieval Vernacular Texts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1265

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Working Group in Medieval Sculpture IV: Objecthood and Use, Re-use

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1220

7:30 PM

Friday, May 11th
10:00 AM

Active Objects I: Optics and Transparency

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1130

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Apothecaries and Medical Texts in Medieval Italy

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1060

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Art and Devotion in Medieval England I: Images of Saints

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2145

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Biographies and Biographers in Medieval Iberia

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1265

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Books and Status: Owners, Readers, Consumers

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 204

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Brunhild, Kundrie, Gudrun, and Other Heroines of Medieval Literature in Modern European Culture

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1145

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

C. S. Lewis on Learning: Modern Education, Medieval Practice

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Garneau Lounge

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Cistercian Stories as Historical Sources

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1040

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Constructing and Locating Women Warriors in Medieval Eurasia I: Romance and Legend

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1235

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Crown and Countryside in Late Medieval England

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2020

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Daniel Hobbins's Authorship and Publicity before Print: Jean Gerson and the Transformation of Late Medieval Learning (A Panel Discussion)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 207

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Dante IV: Dante and Intertextuality

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 107

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Death, Burial, and Ethnicity in Viking-Age Ireland

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 210

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Dress and Textiles II: What Not to Wear

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1010

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Ecologies (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1280

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Aglaeca: What's in a Word?

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 110

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Environmental Readings of Medieval Celtic Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 102

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Fifty Years after Lynn White's Medieval Technology and Social Change (1962) I: Military-Technical Revolutions

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Game-Playing, Storytelling, and Manuscripts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2016

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Growing Up with the Middle Ages: The Influences upon Children’s Ideas about the Medieval World

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1245

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

High in Protean Content: Chivalry and Its Transformations

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1045

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

In a Word, Philology: Etymology, Lexicography, Semantics, and More in Germanic

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1135

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

In Honor of Sherry Reames I: The Legenda aurea and Its Written Narratives

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 204

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Insular Perspectives I: Anglo-Saxon Elements in Medieval Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1360

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Italian Art and the Confluence of Cultures II: “Latin” and “Greek” Visual Cultures on the Italian Peninsula

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1140

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Late Antiquity I: Christianity and Culture in Western Late Antiquity

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 212

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Law as Culture: Legal Development and Social Change

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 213

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Literature of the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 101

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Medieval Medicine: Cures, Collections, and/or Textualities of Pain and Remedy

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2030

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Medieval Medievalisms: Recycling, Reworking, Invention, Nostalgia

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II LeFevre Lounge

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

MESA: Growing a Federation for Medieval Studies (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2040

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Middle English Language, Literature, and Life: Papers in Memory of Ann S. Haskell

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 106

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Modern Arthuriads

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1005

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Monastic Vernacularities

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 159

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

National Sentiment in Premodern Culture

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 105

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Old Ballads, New Perspectives

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2345

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Old English Language and Texts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2335

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Performance and Polyphony

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 157

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Queer and Not Queer: Boundaries and Connections, Gaps and Overlaps

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 202

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Re-cycling the Epic

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Shilling Lounge

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Reformation I: Dissonance, Resistance, and Dissent in Reformation Discourse

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1350

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Reuniting Texts: Libraries Dispersed and Books Unbound

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Waldo Library Meader Room

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Romance and Material Culture I: Romance and Familial Objects

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 109

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Spenser's Reading and Spenser's Readers

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 208

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The British Isles: Languages and Literatures of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 211

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Dynamics of the Medieval Manuscript: Text Collections from a European Perspective I: The Poetics of Miscellanies

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1225

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Franciscans and Italian Literature in the Middle Ages . . . and Beyond

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 205

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Health and Lifestyle of Medieval Populations: A Bio-anthropological Perspective

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2355

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Laboring Mediterranean

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1275

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Legacy of Marie de France (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1160

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Outrageous Middle Ages: Transgression, Perpetration, and the Scandalous I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 200

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Political Cultures of Royal, Papal, and Mongolian Courts in the Late Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 201

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Reception of Classical Texts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1345

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Thomas Aquinas I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1120

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Topics in Medieval Numismatics

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1220

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Transnational Literary History I: East and West, from Rus to Wales

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 105

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Words and Deeds in Anglo-Saxon England

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1255

10:00 AM

1:30 PM

Alain Chartier: Courtly, Uncourtly, Anti-Courtly

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1225

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Animal Narratives in Old English Poetry

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1130

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Animals in Marie de France

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 107

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Art and Devotion in Medieval England II: The Image in Alabaster

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2145

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Biblical Exegesis among the Medieval Franciscans

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 205

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Byzantium and Its Neighbors

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1005

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Cistercians and the Lords Temporal

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1040

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Competing Visions of the Religious Life in the Later Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1135

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Concepts of History, Time, and the Past in Celtic Cultures and Texts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1335

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Constructing and Locating Women Warriors in Medieval Eurasia II: Myth and History

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Garneau Lounge

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Dante V: Interpretive Problems in Dante’s Inferno

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1320

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Documents and Monuments of Medieval France

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1340

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Dress and Textiles III: Dress and Textile Vocabulary Revealed

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 105

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Editing Old English: Ælfric's Lives of the Saints

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1125

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Elfland Aesthetics

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 109

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Elizabeth I and Shakespeare

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1245

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Emblem Studies

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1330

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Encountering the Other in Medieval Life and Text: Sessions in Honor of John McCulloh I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2030

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Fifty Years after Lynn White's Medieval Technology and Social Change (1962) II: The Agricultural Revolution

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

From Mankind to Marlowe and Back Again: Growth of Scholarship in the Popular Drama of Tudor England in the Age of Bevington

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Shilling Lounge

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Health and Healing in Early Medieval Britain and Ireland

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1255

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Honoring Foremothers in Medieval Feminist Publishing: University of Pennsylvania's Jerry Singerman and Ruth M. Karras I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson Lounge

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

In Honor of Sherry Reames II: The Legenda aurea and Its Visual Narratives

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 213

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Insular Perspectives II: Chaucer and the Pearl-Poet

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1160

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Italian Art and the Confluence of Cultures III: The Art of Islands and Islets

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1140

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Justice, Law, and Literature in the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 204

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Kingship and Politics in Late Medieval England

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2020

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Late Antiquity II: Christian and Pagan Culture in Late Antiquity

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 210

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Late Medieval French Language and Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 211

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 204

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Medieval Music: Reading from the Sources (A Workshop)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 212

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Medieval New York I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1060

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Medieval Translation Theory and Practice I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 110

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

New Research in Old High German Literature and Linguistics I: Ecclesiastical Writings

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1145

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

On the Margins of King Arthur's World

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 106

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Pedagogy (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 157

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Performance of the Chansons de Geste

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1325

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Publishing Medieval Texts in the Digital Age

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2335

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Queer Utopias and Dystopias

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 202

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Reconstructing Medieval Book Histories: Origins, Provenance, Influence

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 208

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Reformation II: Texts and Contexts in the Reformation

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1350

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Romance and Material Culture II: Objects in Romance

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1155

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Social History of Medieval Iberian Romance Languages I: The Iberian Peninsula: Thirteenth to Fifteenth Centuries

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1265

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Studies in Memory of James M. Powell I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1010

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Sword in Hand I: Practical Insights into the Medieval Long Sword

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1045

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Teaching Paleography and Codicology (A Workshop)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 159

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Archaeology of Early Medieval Europe: New Approaches to Mortuary Practice

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2355

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

"The Decorated Page" of Medieval Images and Graphic Novels: "Sequential Theory" in Dialogue with Medieval Art

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1275

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Music of the Ballads I: Evolution and Variation

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2345

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Outrageous Middle Ages: Transgression, Perpetration, and the Scandalous II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2040

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Thomas Aquinas II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II LeFevre Lounge

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Transnational Literary History II: Jews, Jerusalem, and Babylon

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2016

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Tricks of the Trade: Histories of Buying, Selling, and Acquiring Medieval Manuscript Books and Documents

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1235

1:30 PM

3:30 PM

Aelred of Rievaulx: Preacher and Churchman

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1040

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Art and Devotion in Medieval England III: Materiality

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2145

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Between Theory and Practice: Late Medieval Scandinavian Political Thought

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1275

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Catalyst Frontiers in Eastern Europe: Frontiers and Ethnogenesis

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2355

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Crime and Punishment in the Islamic Late Classical and Middle Periods (Ninth-Fourteenth Centuries CE)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Garneau Lounge

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Dante VI: Critical Perspectives on Dante’s Purgatorio

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1320

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Defining Heresy and Orthodoxy in Medieval Christianity

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 204

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Disjecta Membra: The Evidence of Fragments

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 208

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Dress and Textiles IV: From Field to Fabric: The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Flax-to-Linen Project

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 105

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Natura Nova: Ecocriticism and Medieval Studies

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 159

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Veniat Pax: Gerson and His Contemporaries on War and Peace

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 207

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Emblems and Visual Culture

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1330

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Encountering the Other in Medieval Life and Text: Sessions in Honor of John McCulloh II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2030

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Fame! Exploring Reputation, Rumor, and Historical Legacy in the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 200

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Fifty Years after Lynn White's Medieval Technology and Social Change (1962) III: The Mechanical Revolution

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Foundations, Re-foundations, and Failed Foundations: The Challenges of Establishing a Monastic Community

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1135

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Hildegard of Bingen's Visionary Theology as Expressed in the Chants for Saint Ursula and Her Companions (A Lecture Recital)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1005

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Honoring Foremothers in Medieval Feminist Publishing: University of Pennsylvania’s Jerry Singerman and Ruth M. Karras II: Today’s Issues in Feminist Publishing (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson Lounge

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Imaginary Jews in Pre-Conquest England

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1125

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

In Honor of Sherry Reames III: Saints as Students and Teachers

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 213

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Insular Perspectives III: English Affiliations

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1160

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Intellectual Disability in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1350

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Italian Art and the Confluence of Cultures IV: Cross-Cultural Exchanges within and beyond the Peninsula

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1140

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Late Antiquity III: Material Culture and Frontiers in Late Antiquity

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 212

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Law and Legal Culture in Anglo-Saxon England

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1280

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medical Texts of the Early Medieval Mediterranean

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1255

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medieval New York II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1060

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medieval Religious Cultures: Key Questions and Directions for Future Research

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1245

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medieval Translation Theory and Practice II (A Practicum)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 110

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medieval Women: Coining Identity, Sealing Power

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2335

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Networks of Travel and Communication in the Early Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1340

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

New Research in Old High German Literature and Linguistics II: Secular Writings

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1145

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

New Trends in Medieval Franciscan Thought: Bonaventure's Epistemology and Aesthetics

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 205

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Old French Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 210

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Parody, Farce, and Authority in Early Drama

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2016

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Performances of Les deux amants

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 107

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Postcolonial England

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1235

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Queer Pedagogy (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 202

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Reformation III: Self, Persona, and Audience

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1345

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Romance and Material Culture III: Romance and the Material Book

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1155

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Social History of Medieval Iberian Romance Languages II: The Iberian Peninsula and Beyond: Post-medieval Repercussions of Castilian Expansion

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1265

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Source Studies

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 157

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Static and Shifting Landscapes in Medieval Literature, Art, and Thought

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 106

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Studies in Memory of James M. Powell II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1010

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Sustainability in Digital Medieval Studies (A Panel Discussion)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1360

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Sword in Hand II: But One Art of the Sword: Comparison between Fiore's and Lichtenauer's Approaches to the Fight (A Demonstration)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1045

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Teaching Tolkien (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 204

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Archaeology of the British Isles and Denmark

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1325

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Case for the Quotidian: Comparative Studies of Everyday Life in the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1335

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Dawn of the Modern Era: Humanism and Early Renaissance in Northern Europe

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 211

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Dynamics of the Medieval Manuscript: Text Collections from a European Perspective II: Codicological and Typological Issues

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1225

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Kathleen Williams Lecture

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 109

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Music of the Ballads II: Analysis and Adaptation

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2345

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Role of Things in Old English Poetry

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1130

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Thomas Aquinas III

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II LeFevre Lounge

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Transnational Literary History III: Iceland, Avignon, and the Heart of Europe

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2040

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Violence and Warfare during the Hundred Years War

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2020

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Who Painted the Lion? Revisiting the Roles of Medieval Women

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1220

3:30 PM

5:15 PM

2012 Morimichi Watanabe Lecture

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 204

5:15 PM

5:15 PM

Chaucer Aloud in Honor of Alan T. Gaylord (A Workshop)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Eldridge Lounges

5:15 PM

5:30 PM

The Society of the White Hart Lecture

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2020

5:30 PM

7:00 PM

Performing Malory Aloud: The Book of Sir Tristram (A Readers' Theater Performance)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson Lounge

7:00 PM

7:30 PM

Cistercian Prayer

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1040

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Projects in Digital Medieval Studies (A Poster Session)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1035

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Tolkien Unbound (Performances)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1010

7:30 PM

8:00 PM

New Books Roundtable

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2020

8:00 PM

8:00 PM

The Salvation Suit Workshop: A Demonstration and Critique of the Virtual Reality Piers Plowman Simulation

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1045

8:00 PM

Saturday, May 12th
10:00 AM

Active Objects II: Agency and Phenomenology

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1135

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

After Chaucer

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1005

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Art and Devotion in Medieval England IV: Devotional Performance

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 105

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Bede: Friends and Enemies I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2145

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Biblical Interpretation from the Marginalized

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 205

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Boccaccio and Dante

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1140

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Cistercian Intellectual History

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1040

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Communicating with the Sacred: Visual Puns, Rebuses, and Codes: Words and Images in the Art of the Later Middle Ages (1200-1600)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Contexts of Early Medieval Monasticism I: Architectural Contexts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1255

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Creating Temporal Space: Time and Place in Middle High German Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Shilling Lounge

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Digital Gower

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1245

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Dream Books

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1130

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Early Medieval Europe I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 203

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

La corónica International Book Award: Folke Gernert, Parodia y contrafacta en la literatura románica medieval y renacentista (A Panel Discussion)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 106

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Canterbury Tales

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1275

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Virumque Cano: Those Fighting Medieval Wars

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1045

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Exploring Medieval Values in Asia Minor and South-Eastern European Geographies

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 201

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Faith and Certainty: Augustine and Aquinas on the Adequacy of Faith in Understanding God in This Life

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II LeFevre Lounge

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Filling In the Gaps? Considering the Contribution of Digital Modeling and Virtual Reconstruction in Research, Teaching, and Heritage Interpretation (A Panel Discussion)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2355

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Following Certain Traces: Gene Vance (An Emory Memorial Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1320

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Fourteenth-Century France

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1350

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Goscelin of Saint-Bertin

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 105

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Hell Studies

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2040

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Hildegard of Bingen: Bridges to Infinity

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 208

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Identity and Material Culture at the Frontier: An Archaeological Perspective

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2335

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

In Honor of E. Ann Matter I: The Writings, Revelations, and Reception of Italian Women Mystics

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Garneau Lounge

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Inspired by Sherry Reames (A Roundtable)

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Fetzer 2016

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

James J. Paxson Memorial Sessions I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 107

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Keeping It Real: Manuscript Studies and Historical Linguistics

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Bernhard 157

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Landscape and Culture in Medieval Britain I: Spaces and Buildings

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Schneider 1340

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Machaut and His Contemporaries

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Schneider 1155

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Meals Medieval and Medievalist

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Schneider 1235

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Medieval Medicine

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Bernhard 211

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Medieval Sermon Studies I: Saints, Sinners, and the Pastoral Art of Preaching

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Schneider 1265

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Mediterranean Cross Cultural, Religious, and Economic Relations

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Fetzer 1060

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

New Perspectives on Old English Wisdom

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Schneider 1125

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Papers in Honor of M. Teresa Tavormina

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Schneider 1160

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Performativity in Early Music and Drama

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Fetzer 2020

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Politics and Political Literature in Late Medieval England

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Schneider 1220

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Queenship, Reputation, and Gendered Power I: Queenly Power and Infamy

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Schneider 1335

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Re-thinking Reform I: Bishops, Issues, Texts

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Bernhard 212

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Relics and Reliquaries

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Schneider 1330

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Religions and "Races" in Contact

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Schneider 1325

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Self-Perception by Evaluating Others

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Schneider 2345

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Sidney I: The Idea Incarnate from Sidney through the Seventeenth Century

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Valley I 109

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Studies in Medieval Romance in Honor of Harriet Hudson

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Schneider 1225

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Teaching Christine across the Disciplines (A Roundtable)

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Bernhard 159

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Teaching Environmental History: Interdisciplinary Approaches (A Roundtable)

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Fetzer 2030

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Teaching the Exotic Other with TEAMS Texts

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Valley I 102

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Anglo-Saxon Past

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Bernhard 210

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Comics Get Medieval at Kalamazoo: New Perspectives for Incorporating Comics into Medieval Studies Teaching and Research (A Roundtable)

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Bernhard 204

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Usage of Models in Medieval Book Illumination (Ninth to Fifteenth Century)

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Schneider 1360

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Tolkien and Women

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Schneider 1280

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Understanding, Describing, and Constructing the World in Medieval Literature

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Schneider 1145

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Uses and Abuses of the Medieval Tradition in Contemporary Spain

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Bernhard 213

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Vernacular Lives: Old French Biographical Writing

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Fetzer 1010

10:00 AM

1:30 PM

A Small Sound of the Trumpet: Women, Writing, History: Essays in Memory of Margaret Wade Labarge

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Bernhard 210

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Activism and the Academy (A Roundtable)

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Valley II 202

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Anchoritic Studies I: Rules

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Schneider 1325

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Bede: Friends and Enemies II

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Valley I 102

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Boethius and the Liberal Arts I

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Bernhard 211

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Christian Hebraism in the Middle Ages

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Bernhard 213

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Cistercians in Brittany and Flanders

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Fetzer 1040

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Cognitive Approaches to the Middle Ages I: Cognition, Space, and Identity

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Schneider 2335

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Coming to Terms with Medievalism (A Roundtable)

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Schneider 1280

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Contexts of Early Medieval Monasticism II: Texts and Textual Traditions

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Valley II Garneau Lounge

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Cosmopolitanism and the Middle Ages

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Schneider 1275

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Creating a Medieval Studies Program (A Roundtable)

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Bernhard 159

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Digital Imaging for Medievalists (A Workshop)

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Schneider 2145

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Early Medieval Europe II

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Schneider 1155

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Arma: The Technology of Fighting Wars

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Fetzer 1045

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Emerging Theory, Method, and Practice in Medieval Archaeology

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Bernhard 208

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Exercise and Accommodation: Women and Power in the Medieval Iberian and Western Mediterranean World

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Bernhard 157

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Gower and Translation

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Valley I Shilling Lounge

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Herbs and Healing from the Ancient Mediterranean through the Medieval West: Papers in Honor of John M. Riddle I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2020

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Historical Awareness and Memorial in the Anglo-Norman World I: Paths of Memory

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2016

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

In Honor of Thomas Cable: Messy Linguistics: Metrics, Markers, and Morphology

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Bernhard 105

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Innovative Assignments from the Chaucer Classroom (A Roundtable)

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Schneider 1255

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

James J. Paxson Memorial Sessions II

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Valley I 107

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Landscape and Culture in Medieval Britain II: Places and Maps

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1340

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Law and Rules: Legal Concepts and Terminology in Medieval English, German, and Scandinavian Literature

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Schneider 1320

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Machaut in History

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Schneider 1245

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Magic, Judgment, and Punishment

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Valley II 203

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Marian Statues: Object and Cult I

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Schneider 1130

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Material and Craft Aspects of Manuscript Production

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Schneider 1160

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

"Materialities" and Material Cultures in Parish Communities

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Schneider 2355

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Medieval Cultures of Death: Historical, Literary, and Material Perspectives I: The Christian Experience

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Schneider 2345

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Medieval Oral Tradition: Papers in Honor of John Miles Foley

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1010

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Medieval Sermon Studies II: From Benedictine Monks to Reforming Bishop: Preaching in Durham, ca. 1400-1579

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1265

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Medieval Sicily as a Cultural Frontier

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Schneider 1330

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Medievalists and Teaching World History: What’s Important and Why? (A Roundtable)

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Valley I 105

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

New Approaches to Chartres I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1140

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

New Approaches to Early English Genres I: Mobility

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1125

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

New Voices in Anglo-Saxon Studies I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1350

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

New Work by Young Celtic Studies Scholars

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2040

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Nobles and Kings in Northern France and England

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Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Order and Disorder in Late Medieval English Towns

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Fetzer 1060

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Outsiders and Others in German Arthurian Romance

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Schneider 1145

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Ovidian Inspirations and Interpretations

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Schneider 1135

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Performance in Middle English Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 204

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Queenship, Reputation, and Gendered Power II: Queenly Motherhood and Changing Reputations

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Valley II 201

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Re-thinking Reform II: Law and Change in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 212

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Reading the French of England Aloud (A Workshop)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 106

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Romanian Medievalia: Narratives of Identity

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1360

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Scandinavian Studies I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1225

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Sidney II: Violence and Virtues in Sidney's Worlds

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 109

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Teaching Beowulf in the High School Classroom

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1220

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Technical Communication in the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1335

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Centrality of Late Antiquity for the Study of the Middle Ages

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Fetzer 2030

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Glossa Ordinaria (A Roundtable)

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Valley II 205

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Medieval Tradition of Natural Law I

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Valley II LeFevre Lounge

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Origin of the Crusades in the Western Mediterranean

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Fetzer 1005

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Seven Hundredth Anniversary of the Suppression of the Templars

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Valley II 204

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

(Un)easy Joinings

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Valley I 100

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Women and Relics

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1235

1:30 PM

3:30 PM

Anchoritic Studies II: Anchoritic Guidance Texts in the Modern Classroom (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1325

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Boethius and the Liberal Arts II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 211

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Cathedrals in Context: Considering the Interplay of Secular and Sacred

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2355

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Cistercian Expansion and Innovation

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1040

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Cognitive Approaches to the Middle Ages II: Cognitive Linguistics

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2335

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Contexts of Early Medieval Monasticism III: New Perspectives on the Historiography of Monasticism

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Garneau Lounge

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Early Irish Monastic Culture: The Bible and Apocrypha at Home and Abroad

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Valley II 207

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Early Medieval Europe III

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1155

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Feast and Famine: Abundance, Scarcity, and Power in the Medieval World

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1330

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Games Played in the Middle Ages

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Valley I 106

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Gender and Sexuality in the Literature of the Iberian Peninsula

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 105

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Hafiz, Sufism, and Islam in the Fourteenth Century

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1060

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Herbs and Healing, from the Ancient Mediterranean through the Medieval West: Papers in Honor of John M. Riddle II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2020

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Historical Awareness and Memorial in the Anglo-Norman World II: Paths of History

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2016

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Ideology and Memory of the Crusades

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 105

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Imagining the Crusades in the Nineteenth Century

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Schneider 1280

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

In Honor of E. Ann Matter II: Transforming the Map of Gender and Bodies, Medieval to Modern (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1220

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Italian Cities and Their Saints

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 208

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

James J. Paxson Memorial Sessions III

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 107

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Justice, Law, and Christine

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 159

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Karl der Große and Märendichtung: Lives, Chronicles, Legends, Chansons de Geste, Epics, Novellas, Meisterlieder, Drama

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1145

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Landscape and Culture in Medieval Britain III: Domestic and Wild Spaces

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1340

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Latin Texts, Barbarian Contexts: Challenges of Early Medieval Sources

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2040

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Machaut in His Material Context

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1245

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Magic, Mystagogues, and Charlatans

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2030

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Marian Statues: Object and Cult II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1130

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medieval Cultures of Death: Historical, Literary, and Material Perspectives II: Beyond the Christian Experience

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2345

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medieval Sermon Studies III: Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic: Composition and Sources in Late Medieval Preaching

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1265

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medieval Writing Materials: Manufacture, Use, and Trade

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1160

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medieval(ist) Alterities: Cultural and Temporal Alterities in Transdisciplinary Perspective (A Panel Discussion)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 202

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Mediterranean Identities

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 204

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Merlin, God, and the Devil

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1255

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Miscellanea Beneventana

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1135

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Monks against Bishops? Reconsidering Episcopal-Monastic Relationships

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 213

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Narrative Discipline

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1125

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Neighboring Textualities: Author, Narrative, and Discursive Practices in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Shilling Lounge

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

New Approaches to Chartres II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1140

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

New Approaches to Early English Genres II: Proximity

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1275

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

New Voices in Anglo-Saxon Studies II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1345

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Pathways of the Medieval Mind: In Honor of John Miles Foley (A Panel Discussion)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1010

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Re-thinking Reform III (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 212

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Reading Legal Sources

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1320

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Recent Perspectives on the Medieval Nobility (A Roundtable Discussion)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Record and Commemoration in the Medieval Diocese of Lincoln

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Schneider 2145

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Representations of the Secular in Medieval Art

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1360

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Rethinking the Apocalypse: How the Middle Ages Approached the End of the World

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1350

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Scandinavian Studies II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1225

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Seeing Saints in Art

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1235

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Sidney III: Space, Figure, and Image in the Sidneian Text

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Valley I 109

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Sixth-Century Italy I: Representing the Ostrogothic Kingdom

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Valley II 203

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Social Relations across Town and Country in the Late Medieval Empire

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 204

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Teaching Popular Literature and Popular Culture of the Middle Ages in the Liberal Arts Classroom

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1335

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Annual Journal of Medieval Military History Lecture

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1045

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Canon in the Classroom (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 102

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Medieval Tradition of Natural Law II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II LeFevre Lounge

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Venerable Bede

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Bernhard 210

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Verse Forms of Middle English Romance: In Honor of Thomas Cable

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 157

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Tradition and the Individual Hoccleve

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1005

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Victorine Hermeneutics

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 205

3:30 PM

8:00 PM

There's What at the Bottom of My Garden?

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1005

8:00 PM

Sunday, May 13th
8:30 AM

Affect and Emotional Production in Early Drama

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 202

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Apocalyptic Expectations and Apprehensions in Premodern Culture and Society I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2020

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Christianity in and out of Church (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 204

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Clare's Influence on Franciscan Women I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 159

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Conjuring Fairies

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1225

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Contingency and Necessity in Medieval Philosophy

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II LeFevre Lounge

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Early Modern Devotional Writing

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 109

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Games Medieval Authors Play

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2040

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Gardens and Social Space in Medieval Spain

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Garneau Lounge

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Italian Medievalisms in Contemporary Poetry

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Shilling Lounge

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Joan of Arc at 600 I: American Joans

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1005

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

"Lefe chylde lore be-houeth": Sharing and Interpreting the Middle Ages in Children's and Young Adult Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1010

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Little Known Chapters in Cistercian History

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1040

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Love and Compulsion in Medieval German Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 205

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Medieval Manuscript Culture: Patronage, Production, Texts, and Uses

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2030

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Noble Suffering

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2016

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

On a Mission: Theological Footprints of Conversion and Christianization

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 157

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Platinum Latin I: Texts and Intertexts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1060

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Regional Chant

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1235

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Sixth-Century Italy II: Representing the Gothic War

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 203

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Sources of Anglo-Saxon Culture I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1245

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

The Basics of Medieval Ireland (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

The Con-Text of Church Decoration in the Middle Ages I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 210

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Travel and Travel Narrative in the Fourteenth Century

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1045

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Trends and Taste in Medieval Art

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1265

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Truth or Dare: Secrets and Revelations in the Arthurian Tradition

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1220

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Uncanny Animations I: Performing Objects, Automata, and Beyond

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1280

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Women and Their Environments: Real and Imagined

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 105

8:30 AM

10:30 AM

Apocalyptic Expectations and Apprehensions in Premodern Culture and Society II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2020

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Authors and Texts from the Carolingian Age

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 212

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Cistercian Teaching Appropriated and Transmitted

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1040

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Clare's Influence on Franciscan Women II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 159

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Commerce, Economics, and Finance in the Fourteenth Century

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1220

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Diet, Dining, and Everyday Life: The Uses of Ceramics in the Third- to Ninth-Century World

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 211

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Drawing Lines: Identity and Self-Fashioning in Medieval Iberia

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1275

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Gardens and Nature in Medieval Italy

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1010

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Gender and Voice

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 105

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Germany and the Crusading Movement

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 208

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Irish Literature, Legend, and Lore: Recovering the Theology of Secular and Spiritual Texts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Joan of Arc at 600 II: In Her Own Time

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1005

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Magic and Religion: Applied Methodologies

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1225

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Medieval Art and the Cult of the Dead

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1265

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Medieval Coitus (Iberia)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2030

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Men of the Cloth: Vestments and the Performance of Episcopal Power

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2016

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Narrative Strategies in Medieval German Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Garneau Lounge

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Neo-medievalism

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1235

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

New Perspectives on John of Salisbury

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II LeFevre Lounge

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Old Saxon Hêliand

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Bernhard 213

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Platinum Latin II: Editing and Textual Criticism

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Valley II 204

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Refiguring the Medieval World: Participation, Perception, and Consciousness

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Fetzer 2040

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Sixth-Century Italy III: Religious Politics and Culture

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Fetzer 1060

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Sources of Anglo-Saxon Culture II

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Schneider 1245

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Tableaux Vivants

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Schneider 1255

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The Con-Text of Church Decoration in the Middle Ages II

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Bernhard 210

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The Medieval Undead

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Bernhard 157

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Transcultural Arthur

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Fetzer 1045

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Uncanny Animations II: Enlivened Images

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Schneider 1280

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