48th International Congress on Medieval Studies (2013)

Presented here is the schedule of numbered 90-minute sessions of the 48th International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 9-12, 2013), 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 3, 2013). The complete printed program, including the Corrigenda, is available elsewhere in ScholarWorks at WMU in PDF format.

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Schedule
2013
Thursday, May 9th
10:00 AM

Art and Architecture of Medieval Alsace

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 210

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Boethius and Order

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1125

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

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

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 204

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Cistercian Studies I: Cistercian Writers

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1040

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Collaboration: Scribes with Scribes, Scribes with Artists

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1140

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Constructions of Women Warriors in Medieval Eurasia 2.0

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2355

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Dante I: Dante and the Law of Nature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 105

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Death in the Late Middle Ages: Art and Literature in the Iberian Peninsula

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1225

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Desire, Lovesickness, and Sex in the Libro de buen amor

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 103

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Early Modern English Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 104

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Piers Plowman and Vernacular Theology

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2020

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

“I just don’t want to die without a few scars”: Medieval Fight Clubs, Masculine Identity, and Public (Dis)order

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 201

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

In Memory of Shona Kelly Wray I: Civic Life in Medieval Bologna

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson Lounge

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

In Memory of Ulrich Müller I: Fluid Texts and Literary Traditions in Medieval Germany

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 204

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Intercultural Diplomatic Relations in the Medieval Mediterranean: Documents from the Almohad Chancellery

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1245

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Interdisciplinarity Now

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1255

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Jewish-Christian Studies I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Garneau Lounge

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Late Medieval Europe

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1060

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Law and Epics

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 205

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Medicine in Medieval Iberia

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Medieval Philosophers on the Ultimate End

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 203

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Medieval Poetics

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2345

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Medievalism and the Marvelous in Children's and Young Adult Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2335

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Monastic Literary Production for Lay Audiences in the Late Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 213

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Monstrous Arthuriana

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1280

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

More Than Meets the Eye: Sources for the Imagery of the Holkham Bible Picture Book

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 211

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Reflecting Local Communities and Their Experiences

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1135

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Reformation I: Historical, Political, Personal Conflict and the Search for (Non)Conformity

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 212

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Religious Landscapes in Medieval Ireland

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1120

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Rethinking Narratives about Women's Musical Lives: German Sources, 950–1450

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1265

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Ritual, History, and Identity: Social Dimensions of Byzantine Liturgy

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2030

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Romancing Islam

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 101

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Rulers and Regions I: Rulers’ Problems and Opportunities

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1010

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Saints and Sensibility I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II LeFevre Lounge

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Studies in Honor of Paul Hyams I: Rancor

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 158

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Taking It Public: Programming, Pedagogy, and Outreach (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1005

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Text and Image I: Theories and Crossovers

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2016

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Jeu d'Adam: MS Tours 927 and the Provenance of the Play

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1360

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Cultures of Georgia and Armenia

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1235

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Natural and the Unnatural on Misericords and in the Minor Arts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1355

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Venerable Bede: Intellectual Landscapes I: Latin Writings

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 106

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Vikings in England

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 209

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Tolkien as Medieval Scholar

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1045

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Translation/Adaptation in Medieval England

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Shilling Lounge

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

War and Schism in Iberia of the "Calamitous Fourteenth Century"

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 202

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Women and Authority: Truth and Testimony in Late Medieval English Courts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III 303

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Women and Epistolary Literature: From the Margins to the Center in Medieval Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 102

10:00 AM

1:30 PM

Between Jerusalem and Europe: Shaping and Reshaping Sacred Sites

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1330

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Castles and Landscapes

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1140

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Chaucer Afterlives

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2020

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Cistercian Studies II: Cistercian Sermons

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1040

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Communal Contexts for Monastic Thought

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1360

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Crusade and Commerce in the Western Mediterranean, ca. 1113-1200

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 103

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Dante II: Order and Nature in Dante

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 211

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Early Medieval Europe I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 212

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Ecclesiastical Inventions and Interventions: Exploring the Legacy of Antiquarian Scholarship, Early Conservation and Restoration Practice in Church Buildings, and Concepts of Authenticity from the Medieval Period Onwards

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1335

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Bos Motz: Well-Chosen Words in Occitania

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1120

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Silens and Clamans: A Virtue versus a Vice?

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1345

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Emblem Studies

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1325

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Fifteenth-Century England

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1010

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Food and Violence in the Middle Ages I: Representations of Food and Violence in Medieval Art and Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2335

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Gower's Voices

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 104

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Hildegard von Bingen: Bridges to Infinity

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 210

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

In Honor of Verlyn Flieger: The State of Tolkien Scholarship (A Panel Discussion)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1280

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

In Memory of Paul Lachance, OFM, I: Eremitism and Poverty

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 202

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

In Memory of Shona Kelly Wray II: Judges and Notaries in Medieval Italian Life

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2040

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Inspiration from The Cloisters Museum: From Interns to Scholars I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Jewish-Christian Studies II: Theology

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Garneau Lounge

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

John Lydgate and Literary History

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2355

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

La traducción: Ámbito y espacios I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Shilling Lounge

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Late Medieval Collections: Manuscripts and/or Books Bound Together

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 213

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Law as Culture: Secular Punishment and Divine Retribution in Medieval Ireland

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 106

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Linguistic Contact(s) in Medieval Iberia I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 204

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Medieval French Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1060

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Medieval German Narrative Literature I: Games, Wagers, Pursuits

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1340

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Metal Production and Design

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1045

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Musical Traditions: East and West

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1245

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

New Research in Old High German Literature and Linguistics I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1255

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Old Norse Literature and Culture

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1355

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Philosophical Themes and Issues in Malory's Morte Darthur

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III 303

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

Publish, Don't Perish: What Editors Want Authors to Know (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson Lounge

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Reading in Medieval England I: Spaces, Communities, and Media

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2345

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Reformation II: Controversy and Interpretation in the Reformation

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1265

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Romance and Religion: Heresy and Orthodoxy

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2016

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Rulers and Regions II: Concubine, Converta, Queen: Elite Female Roles in the Early and High Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II LeFevre Lounge

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Saints and Sensibility II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1235

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Shakespeare and Material Culture

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1225

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Songs and Chants: A Window into the Middle Ages (A Performance)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 105

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Studies in Honor of Paul Hyams II: Reconciliation

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 158

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Studies in Medieval Military History in Honor of Bernard S. Bachrach I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 209

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Literature of Anglo-Saxon England

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2030

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Medieval Tradition of Natural Law I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 203

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Theorizing Arthur

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 102

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Thriving (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1005

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Words and Deeds in Anglo-Saxon England

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 101

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Wounds, Torture, and the Grotesque

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1125

1:30 PM

3:30 PM

Augustine and Aquinas: The Metaphysics of Evil

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 105

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy in the Vernacular

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1125

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Cistercian Studies III: Bernard of Clairvaux

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1040

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Commerce, Credit, and Finance in the Fourteenth Century

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1235

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Creating Cistercian Nuns: A Book Discussion with Anne E. Lester (A Panel Discussion)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 205

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Cusanus's Political Thought: Medieval or Modern? (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 204

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Dante III: New Perspectives on Dante's Paradiso

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 211

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Dynastic Change and Medieval Monarchy

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1145

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Early Medieval Europe II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 212

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Beowulf and Old Norse Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1360

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

La corónica International Book Award: Noel Fallows, Jousting in Medieval and Renaissance Iberia (A Panel Discussion)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II LeFevre Lounge

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Merchant of Venice I: Pre-Texts, Texts, and After-Texts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1225

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Emblems and Visual Culture

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1325

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Exploring Medieval Pilgrimage Today

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1335

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Food and Violence in the Middle Ages II: Diets That Make (a) Difference: Food, Violence and the Religious "Other"

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2335

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

French Cultural Traditions in Italy: The Era of Andrea da Barberino (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2355

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Guthlac

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1340

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

In Memory of Paul Lachance, OFM, II: Mystics and Mysticism

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 202

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

In Memory of Shona Kelly Wray III: The Theory and Practice of Medieval Medicine

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2040

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Inspiration from The Cloisters Museum: From Interns to Scholars II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Iron Age Ceremonial Centers and the Foundations of the Middle Ages (The Robert T. Farrell Lecture)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1140

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

La traducción: Ámbito y espacios II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Shilling Lounge

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Late Medieval Soundscapes

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1155

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Letters and Law in the Long Twelfth Century: Correspondence and the Application of Church Law in Medieval Society

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2020

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Linguistic Contact(s) in Medieval Iberia II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 204

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Lions of Flanders: Material Culture and Identity in the Flemish Low Countries

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1160

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Loving Relations: Familial Love in the Medieval World ca. 600-1250

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1220

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Marginal Arthurian Figures

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 102

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medieval and New Materialisms: Definitions and Methodologies

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1275

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medieval German Narrative Literature II: Questions of Origin, Justice, Interest

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 101

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medieval Sources in Modern Christian Authors and Thinkers

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 201

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Mental Health in Non-medical Terms

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 106

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Metals in Architecture

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1045

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Middle English Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 103

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Music and Identity

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1245

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

New Research in Old High German Literature and Linguistics II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1255

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Old English Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2030

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Post-Gower Gower

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 104

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Reading Body Language: Digestion, Boundaries, and Community in the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1355

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Reading in Medieval England II: Ways of Reading

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2345

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Reformation III: Voice, Text, (Historical) Context in the Reformation

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1265

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Regional Identity in the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1330

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Robert Thornton and His Books

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 213

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Saints and Their Lives

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1060

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Still Getting Medieval on Television: Medieval-Themed Television of the Twenty-First Century and Its Impact on Medieval Studies (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1005

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Strength and Weakness in Malory's Morte Darthur

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III 303

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Studies in Honor of Paul Hyams III: Villains and Villeins

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 158

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Studies in Medieval Military History in Honor of Bernard S. Bachrach II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 209

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

"Take Anothir Forme": The Selection of Forms in Thomas Hoccleve's Work

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1345

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Teaching Medieval Jews (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2016

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Language of Reform in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Monasticism: East and West

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Garneau Lounge

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Medieval Tradition of Natural Law II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 203

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

"The splendour of his reputation will cast great lustre on you": Manifestations and Representations of Lordship in the High Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 210

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Tolkien and Alterity: In Honor of Jane Chance

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1280

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Troubadours and Philosophers: A Roundtable on De nobilitate animi

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1120

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Unanswered Questions about Joan of Arc

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1010

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

What Now? What Next? A Roundtable Discussion on Graduate Studies and Employment

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson Lounge

3:30 PM

7:30 PM

Adventures in Archives (A Roundtable Discussion)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1120

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Alfredian Texts and Contexts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson Lounge

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Art and Music of The Hobbit

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1280

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Current Issues in Middle English Paleography

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 158

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Dante IV: Dante's Reception from the Middle Ages to the Modern Era

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 211

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Meodu, Ealu, Beor, and Win: The Beverages of the Anglo-Saxon World

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1005

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

The Journal of Medieval Military History Annual Lecture

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1045

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

The Merchant of Venice II: Seen and Unseen (A Performance)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 106

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Festive Gaming Workshop (A Poster Session)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1035

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Gossip and Courtly Reputation in the Medieval Mediterranean

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

"If a Brother Is Set Impossible Tasks": Teaching Monasticism Today (A Panel Discussion)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1040

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

In Memory of Paul Lachance, OFM, III: Angela of Foligno, Passionate Mystic

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2016

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Justice, Law, and Literature in the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 213

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Neighboring Genres in Piers Plowman (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1360

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

New Directions in Twelfth-Century Studies

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2030

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Productive Anachronism? The Promise and Peril of Historical Analogy in the Study of Medieval Culture (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2020

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Sicily and Its Neighbors

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1135

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Technical Communication in the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1220

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

The Built Environment as Material Culture in Medieval Europe

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1140

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

The Old French Fabliaux in Translation: Discussion of the Uses of New Translations in the Classroom (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Garneau Lounge

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

The Spectacle of Punishment in Late Medieval and Early Modern Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1145

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

The Trans-Reformational Imitatio Christi: Translation, Transmission, and Reception

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 204

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Theological Exegesis of Scripture in the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II LeFevre Lounge

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Wales and Middle English Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 204

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

What Was Global in the Middle Ages? (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 210

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Word-Play: Proverbs in the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 212

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Written Culture, Visual Culture in Medieval Works of Art

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 209

7:30 PM

Friday, May 10th
10:00 AM

Affairs of Arms I: A Judicial Duel Demonstration

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 101

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

An Introduction to the Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance (MESA) (A Workshop)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Waldo Library Classroom A

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Anglo-Saxon England and the Celtic World

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1280

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Are We Post-Queer? A Roundtable on the Present and Future of Queer Theory in Medieval Studies

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 205

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Bernard S. Bachrach and the Study of Medieval Military History (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Garneau Lounge

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Byzantium and the Latin West: Comparisons, Dialogues, and Analogies

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1155

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Cistercian Studies IV: Quaestiones Cistercienses

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1040

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Collaborations: The Multi-lingual Classroom, Text Editing, and New Media (A Poster Session)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2020

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Controversies in the Religious Traditions of the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1130

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Cultural and Religious Encounters in East Central Europe: Poland and Neighboring Regions in the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1350

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Dante V: Interpretive Problems in the Divine Comedy

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 213

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Early Medieval Europe III

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II LeFevre Lounge

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Per Singulos Dies: The Liturgy of Holy Week in Medieval Rome

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2345

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Franciscan Spirituality I: Identity and Principles

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 202

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Futures of Allegory: Medieval and Modern (A Collaboratory)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1360

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Games and Ludic Texts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1245

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Guilt and Punishment in the Fourteenth Century

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III 303

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

How to Get Published: Advice from Editors and Insiders

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 104

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

In Honor of Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner I: Chrétien, His Contemporaries, and His Legacy

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Shilling Lounge

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

In Memory of Ulrich Müller II: Words to the Wise: Wisdom, Mentorship, and Friendship in Medieval German Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1060

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Italian Ecclesiastical Art

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2030

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Keeping It Real: Manuscript Studies and Historical Linguistics

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1125

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Langland, Language, and Theology

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2355

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Law and Legal Culture in Anglo-Saxon England I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1330

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Medieval Chronicle

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1135

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Medieval Communities: Bound by Blood, Bound by Oath

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 201

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Monastic Life in Early Medieval Ireland

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1140

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Multilingualism in the Middle Ages I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1255

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

New Research in Oral Traditions and Medieval Studies

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1010

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Old English and Old Norse Connections

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 106

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Orderic Vitalis

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1235

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Playing with Food: Exploring Medieval Food-Ways in Classroom and Popular Culture

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson Lounge

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Post Death / After Life on the Medieval and Early Modern Stage

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1045

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Reading the French of England Aloud (A Workshop)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 105

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Richard Blank and German Medievalisms

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1005

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Saga Studies in the Undergraduate Classroom: Finding a Place for the Sagas at Two- and Four-Year Colleges and Universities (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1120

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Saints, Relics, and Books on the Move in the Early Medieval World

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2040

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Scripture in Vernacular Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 204

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Self-Styled: Fashioning Identity in Iberia and the Mediterranean World in the Later Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 209

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Spenser at Kalamazoo I: Poet, Giant, Bishop, Sheep

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Teaching the Medieval Survey

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2016

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Text and Image II: Memory and Visual Space

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 211

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Texts in Their Manuscript Context

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 212

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

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

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 204

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Crusades in the Eyes of the Other

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 210

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

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

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1220

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Eight Modes of Medieval Chant (A Workshop)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 102

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Impact of the Book: Manuscripts, Books, and Cultural Change

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1265

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Legacy of Marie de France

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 103

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

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

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 158

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Venerable Bede: Intellectual Landscapes II: Vernacular Adaptations and Audiences

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1225

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Thomas Aquinas I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 203

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Topics in Medieval Numismatics

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2335

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Water as Symbol, Sign, and Trial: Aquatic Semantics in the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1355

10:00 AM

1:30 PM

Affairs of Arms II: Wrestlers, Brawlers, Horse Archers, Oh My: Not-So-Knightly Arts of the Middle Ages (A Demonstration)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1045

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

After Lateran IV I: Knowing and Not Knowing

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II LeFevre Lounge

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Anonymous Women: Women without Names

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1220

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Breaking Down Enclosures: Monks and Society in Early Medieval Europe I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2040

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Cistercian Studies V: Cistercians of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1040

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Constantine's Conversion and Its Afterlife

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1160

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Critical Remediation: Intersections of Medieval Studies and Media Theory

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2335

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Dress and Textiles I: Looking North

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1120

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Duns Scotus's Categories Commentary

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 105

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

E-publishing and Medieval Studies (A Roundtable Discussion)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson Lounge

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Editing and the Cotton Nero A.x. Manuscript

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 213

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Encounters with the Paranormal in Medieval Iceland I: Social Concerns

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1140

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Feeling like Langland I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 103

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Fourteenth-Century Health Care

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1275

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Franciscan Spirituality II: Mission and Program

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 202

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

French Humanism

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1280

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

German Hanse History and Culture: From Medieval to Modern

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1235

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Honoring Ilene Forsyth: Letter-Play, Word-Play, and Medieval Visual Art

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 106

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

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

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1225

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

In Honor of Marcia Marzec: Papers by Undergraduates I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1155

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

In Honor of Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner II: Courtly Insiders and Outsiders

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 209

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

In Memory of John Miles Foley I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1010

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Institution and Society: Church Councils in Early Medieval Europe

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2345

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Jacques de Vitry: His Career, Writings, and Impact

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 102

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Late Medieval French Language and Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 204

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Late Medieval Urban Identities in Southern and Eastern Europe

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1245

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Law and Legal Culture in Anglo-Saxon England II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1330

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Literary Contexts for Lawman's Brut

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1060

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Lydgate without Chaucer

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1325

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Medieval Translation Theory and Practice I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III 303

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Mediterranean Horizons I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1340

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Monasteries and Auctoritas in Medieval Europe I: Auctoritas and Heads of Religious Houses

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 210

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Monsters I: Haunting the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1360

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Multilingualism in the Middle Ages II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 212

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Musical Practices in Context

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1135

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

New Approaches to the Reception of Boccaccio's Decameron in the Iberian Peninsula: Papers in Honor of María Hernández Esteban I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2020

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

New Work by Young Celtic Studies Scholars

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1345

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Noble Lives

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1255

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Orality, Manuscripts, Old Popular Prints: Development and Changes of Media throughout the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1355

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Performing the End Times: Medieval and Medievalism

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1335

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Philosophers and the Bible

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Garneau Lounge

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Queer Hrotsvit

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 204

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Rachel Koopmans's Wonderful to Relate: Miracle Stories and Miracle Collecting in High Medieval England (A Panel Discussion)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Shilling Lounge

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Ruptures in Italian Medieval Art and Architecture I: Ruptures in Historiography

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2030

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Sex, Marriage, and Monarchy in Medieval Iberia

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 158

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Sources of Anglo-Saxon Culture

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1130

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Spenser at Kalamazoo II: The Nature of the Beast

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 101

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Teaching Marie de France (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1125

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Teaching Medieval History to Undergraduates (A Roundtable Discussion)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Teaching the Black Death

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2016

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Crusades I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1005

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Latin Works of Richard Rolle

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1320

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Sciences and Medieval Studies: New Approaches, New Questions

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1265

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The University and the World: The Early University of Paris and Its Influence

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 211

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Work and Times of Don Pedro, Constable of Portugal

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1350

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Thomas Aquinas II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 203

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Women in Tolkien's Professional Life

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 104

1:30 PM

3:30 PM

After Lateran IV II: England

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1330

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Anglo-French Cultural Exchange: Translation in Theory and Practice (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II LeFevre Lounge

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Anglo-Saxon and Old Saxon (and Other) Cross-cultural Connections

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 106

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Apocalypse New! The Genevan Beatus Manuscript

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1125

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Approaches to Medieval Jewish Exegesis (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 201

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Architecture in Islamic Jerusalem

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2016

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Aristocratic Display

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1255

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Breaking Down Enclosures: Monks and Society in Early Medieval Europe II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2040

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Celebration

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1120

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Childhood and Adolescence in Medieval Narrative

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 105

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Cistercian Studies VI: Cura atque Negligentia Monialium

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1040

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Critical Imperatives

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 204

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Dogs, Dogs, Dogs!

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2345

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Dress and Textiles II: How Shall a Man Be Armed? (A Demonstration)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1005

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

"Mester es sen pecado"?: Questioning Perfection in the Mester de Clerecía

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson Lounge

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Encounters with the Paranormal in Medieval Iceland II: Myth and Language

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1140

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Feeling like Langland II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 103

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Franciscan Spirituality III: Embodiment and Practice

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 202

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

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

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1225

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

In Honor of Marcia Marzec: Papers by Undergraduates II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1155

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

In Honor of Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner III: Shaping Courtliness (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 209

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

In Memory of John Miles Foley II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1010

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Irish Roots: Celtic Sources of Continental Texts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1265

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Language and Music

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1320

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Last Things

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 102

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Law, Ethics, and Politics

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 211

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medieval Business: Commerce, Economics, and Trade

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1135

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medieval Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1160

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medieval Iberia in the Mediterranean

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medieval Manuscripts in North American Collections

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1275

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medieval Medievalisms

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1335

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medieval Serbia

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1245

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medieval Social Networking

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1235

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medieval Translation Theory and Practice II: Generic Considerations Past and Present (A Practicum)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III 303

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Mediterranean Horizons II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1340

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Monsters II: Down to the Skin: Images of Flaying in the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1360

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Multilingualism in the Middle Ages III

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 210

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

New Approaches to the Reception of Boccaccio's Decameron in the Iberian Peninsula: Papers in Honor of María Hernández Esteban II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2020

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

New Perspectives on Cleanness and Patience

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 213

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Panel Is Coming: A Game of Thrones Discussion (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1280

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Performances of Marie de France

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Shilling Lounge

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Queer Tolkien

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1220

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Reading Old Italian Aloud (A Workshop)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2335

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Reflecting in Text and Image

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1130

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Rethinking Reform I: Textual Perspectives

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1350

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Revolts and Rebellions in the Fourteenth Century

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1325

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Ruptures in Italian Medieval Art and Architecture II: Ruptures in Architecture

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2030

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Source Study, Translation, and the Work of Interpretation

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 158

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Spenser at Kalamazoo III: Delaying the Inevitable

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 101

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Spoken Word, Written Word: Ideas Crossing Contexts in Late Medieval Europe: In Memory of Gilbert Ouy (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 205

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Crusades II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1045

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

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

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 204

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Middle High German Database and Cooperating Projects: Emotions by Mouseclick

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1345

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Prosthetic Impulse in the Middle Ages: Metaphor, Materiality, and the Promise of the (Post)human

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 104

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Ties That Bind I: The High Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2355

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Thomas Aquinas III

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 203

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Un/making Mistakes in Medieval Manuscripts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1355

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Ways of Teaching Lawman's Brut (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1060

3:30 PM

5:15 PM

The 2013 Morimichi Watanabe Lecture

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 204

5:15 PM

5:30 PM

The Society of the White Hart Lecture

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Garneau Lounge

5:30 PM

7:30 PM

Tales of the Unchivalrous in Malory's Le Morte Darthur (A Readers' Theater Performance)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson Lounge

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Tolkien Unbound (Performances)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1045

7:30 PM

8:00 PM

New Books Roundtable

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2016

8:00 PM

Saturday, May 11th
10:00 AM

Anonymous Anglo-Saxon Prose Saints' Lives

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 106

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Arthuriana

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1255

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Asia Minor and South Eastern Europe: Spirituality and Identity: In Honor of George Alexe

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 204

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Beyond the Compilation: Technologies of Power and Administration in Post-Gratian Canon Law

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1275

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Biblical Mediation and Remediation

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1225

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Bilingual England: French and English Interactions in Later Medieval England

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 213

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Blogging the Medieval(ist) World (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1160

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Boccaccio Studies: In Celebration of the Seven Hundredth Anniversary of His Birth I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Books Have Their Histories: Medieval Chronicles and Their Scribes, Manuscripts, and Early Editions: In Memory of Lister M. Matheson I: Practices and Portents

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 209

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

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

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1045

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Carolingian Legends: Adapting Medieval and Renaissance Literature for Twenty-First-Century Audiences (A Panel Discussion)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2355

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Chant from Scratch: A Pentecost Lauds from Original Sources (A Workshop)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1010

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Cistercian Studies VII: Cistercian Networking

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1040

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Contemplative and Active Franciscan Women

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 204

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Counts and Countship in France, ca. 1050-1200

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1335

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Dress and Textiles III: Interpreting Surviving Artifacts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2016

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Hospitality at Court

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 102

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Human-Animal Transformations

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1245

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

In Honor of Emanuel J. Mickel, Jr. I: Saints and Sinners in Old French Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2020

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

In Honor of Jane Chance

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 210

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

In Memory of Eugene Vance

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1120

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

In Memory of John Miles Foley III (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Shilling Lounge

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Interpreting the Psalms

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 211

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Irish Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1265

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

John of Salisbury and His World

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 201

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Learning from the Lyric: Interdisciplinary and Comparative Approaches to the Medieval Lyric

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2345

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Legacies, Heirs, and Family in Late Medieval England

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1330

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Lewis and the Last Things I: Death

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 105

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Machaut's Music: New Directions

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1360

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Medieval Sermon Studies I: Late Medieval Reformist Preaching

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Garneau Lounge

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Medieval Studies in China: Reception and Application

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2335

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Medievalism in Architecture and Design

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1235

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

New Perspectives on Pearl

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1355

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Philosophy of Saint Thomas Aquinas I: Knowledge and Freedom

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 203

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Platinum Latin I: Texts and Editing

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1220

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Politics and Poetics in Late Medieval France

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1350

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Quests and Questioning: The Search for Truth

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1125

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Rediscovering Lost Letters of Everyday Life: Finding, Publishing, Teaching

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II LeFevre Lounge

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Rethinking Reform II: Liturgies of Reform

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1345

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Rivalrous Masculinities I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1325

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Rules and Regulations I: Ecclesiastically Imposed Challenges and Reforms

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 205

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Scandinavian Studies I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1140

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Sidney I: "Affirm" Is a Funny Word: Sidney's Poetics, Protestantism, and Politics

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 101

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Somatic Identities in Medieval Iberia: The Body as a Locus of Meaning

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 158

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Sorcery, Witchcraft, and Magic in Medieval Spain: From Martin de Braga to Enrique de Villena

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1340

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Speaking in Tongues: Reconsidering Macaronic Performance Texts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 103

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Text and Image III: Chaucerian Pictorial Arts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2040

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Coming of Knut

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1155

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Contribution of Adalbert de Vogüé to Monastic Studies

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 202

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Future We Want: A Collaboration (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1005

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

"The Greatest Sport": Histories of Collecting Medieval Manuscripts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1130

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Making of Medieval Manuscripts: Analyzing the Materials and Methods of Scribes, Compilers, and Artists

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1280

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Multimedia Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1060

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Old Saxon Hêliand

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 104

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Transformations of East Central Europe

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1320

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The World of the Ovide moralisé

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2030

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Twelfth-Century England

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1135

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Voice, Dialogue, and Conversation in Later Medieval Religious Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson Lounge

10:00 AM

1:30 PM

Arthurian Monster Quest: Investigating the Monsters of the Arthurian Tradition (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1005

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Astrology and Magic

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1245

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

At the Edge: Boundaries and Limits in Medieval Art and Architecture

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1060

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Ballads as Culture Markers and as Cultural Resistance

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1335

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Behind the Throne: Counselors, Courtiers, and Favorites, 500-1500

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2345

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Boccaccio Studies: In Celebration of the Seven Hundredth Anniversary of His Birth II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 210

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Books Have Their Histories: Medieval Chronicles and Their Scribes, Manuscripts, and Early Editions: In Memory of Lister M. Matheson II: The Uses of History

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 209

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

“Can these bones come to life?” II: Equines and Equestrianism in Medieval Culture

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1045

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Chant and Liturgy: Papers in Memory of Michel Huglo I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1345

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Cistercian Studies VIII: Aelred of Rievaulx

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1040

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Courtly Scandals

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2040

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Crown and Country in Late Medieval England

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1355

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Defining the Boundaries of Religious Communities I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 204

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Dress and Textiles IV: Speaking of (and with) Clothing and Textiles

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2016

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Emotion as Truth: Expressions of Affectivity in Medieval Popular Thought

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson Lounge

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Encountering Evil in the Medieval World

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1320

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Gender in the Medieval Islamicate World (Seventh through Fifteenth Centuries)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2355

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Images and Imagery in Machaut

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1360

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

In Honor of Emanuel J. Mickel, Jr. II: The Lyrical and the Epic

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2020

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

In Memory of Joachim Bumke I: Hartmann von Aue

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1280

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Incorporating Medieval Disability Studies into the Classroom (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II LeFevre Lounge

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Lewis and the Last Things II: Hell

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 105

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Marco Institute Conversations on Manuscripts: Reading the Readers

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 212

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Medieval Sermon Studies II: Holy Identities in Medieval Sermons

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1160

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Medievalisms I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1235

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Memory and Community in Anglo-Saxon England

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 202

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Multidisciplinary Saint Nicholas

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1130

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Natural Philosophy and the Desire for God: Science and the Spirit in Later Medieval Iberia

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 211

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

New Comparative Approaches to Anglo-Saxon Literature: Celtic, Germanic, Latin I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1120

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

New Perspectives on John of Salisbury

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1275

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

New Voices in Anglo-Saxon Studies I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 106

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Peripheries

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1330

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Philosophy of Saint Thomas Aquinas II: Ethics

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 203

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Platinum Latin II: Prose and Verse

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1155

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Plunder (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 158

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Queenship at Kalamazoo I: New Issues in Queenship Studies

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Garneau Lounge

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Religion and War in Medieval Culture

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2335

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Rereading the Ormulum

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1225

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Resonances of the Mirror of Simple Souls: Literary, Theological, Historical, Aesthetic

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1125

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Rethinking Reform III: Unity or Plurality? Local Reforms and Global Narratives, Eleventh-Twelfth Centuries

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 213

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Rivalrous Masculinities II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 102

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Romanian Medievalia: The Center with No Periphery: In Memory of Lucian Rosu

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1265

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Rules and Regulations II: Foundations and Reforms in Women's Religious Life

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1340

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Ruptures in Italian Medieval Art and Architecture III: Ruptures in Forms I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1010

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Scandinavian Studies II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1140

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Sidney II: The Loci of Sidneian Character

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 101

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Archaeology of Early Medieval Europe: New Approaches to Ethnicity

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1255

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Bibliothèque Nationale and Beyond: Research Resources in Paris (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1325

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Time and the Medieval Object

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 204

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Translating the Ovide moralisé (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2030

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Translations of the Spanish Classic Celestina: Half a Millennium and Counting

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Shilling Lounge

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

(Un)true Confessions: Love's Affairs, Adventures, and Consolations in the Iberian Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1135

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Versions of Piers Plowman I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1220

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Women and Nature/Ecofeminist Medieval

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

1:30 PM

3:30 PM

Abelard, Heloise, and Astrolabe

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1320

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Acts of Mentorship in the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 102

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Anglo-Saxon Childhood, Adolescence, and Education

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1325

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Blunder (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 158

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Boccaccio Studies: In Celebration of the Seven Hundredth Anniversary of His Birth III

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Books Have Their Histories: Medieval Chronicles and Their Scribes, Manuscripts, and Early Editions: In Memory of Lister M. Matheson III: Scribes and Editors

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 209

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Canon and Case Law

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1235

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Celebrating the Work of Jane Chance (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 210

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Chant and Liturgy: Papers in Memory of Michel Huglo II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1345

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Chaucer and the "Celtic Fringe": Revisiting Geographic and Cultural Margins

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2016

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Christine de Pizan: Images and Iconography

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 212

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Cistercian Studies IX: Cistercians and Later Writers

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1040

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Court Presentations (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2040

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Defining the Boundaries of Religious Communities II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1265

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Elizabeth I on Film

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2345

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Exorcism and Other Magical Practices in Medieval China

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1245

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Feeling the Pain in Arthurian Literature: Wounds, Sickness, and Emotion

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1045

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Gender Issues in Old Icelandic Saga Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2030

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

In Honor of Emanuel J. Mickel, Jr. III: Old French Narrative

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2020

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

In Memory of Joachim Bumke II: Wolfram von Eschenbach and Hartmann von Aue

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1280

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

In Praise of Folie: The Uses of Madness in Medieval French Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Shilling Lounge

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Iron Smelting Demonstration (A Workshop)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Swan Pond

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Late Antiquity I: Secular and Religious Life in Late Antiquity

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1255

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Lewis and the Last Things III: Purgatory and Heaven

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 105

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medieval Sermon Studies III: Preaching Tools: Liturgy, Poem, Handbook

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1160

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medieval Writing Materials: Texts, Transmission, and the Manifestation of Authority

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1140

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medievalisms II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 204

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medievalists Reading and Teaching Shakespeare

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1135

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Memory at Work In Anglo-Saxon England

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 211

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Multilingual Early Middle English

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1225

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Mystical Gets Physical: The Bodily Element in Female Spirituality

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1340

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

New Comparative Approaches to Anglo-Saxon Literature: Celtic, Germanic, Latin II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1120

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

New Developments in Digital Resources on Medieval Austria, Germany, and Switzerland

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

Bernhard 106

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

One Cult, Many Cultures

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1130

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Perception and Consciousness in the Medieval Centuries

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 201

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Philosophy of Saint Thomas Aquinas III: History

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 203

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Plants in the Middle Ages: Between Philosophy and Medicine

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 104

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Polyglot Iberia

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1060

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Popular Piety in the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2335

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Queenship at Kalamazoo II: Patronage and Power

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Garneau Lounge

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Rethinking Reform IV: Textual Perspectives on Monastic Reform and the Secular Clergy

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 213

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Ruptures in Italian Medieval Art and Architecture IV: Ruptures in Forms II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1010

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Slavery, Representation, and Gender in the Medieval Islamicate World (Seventh through Fifteenth Centuries)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2355

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Smooth Criminals: Blandishment, Satire, and Communicative Trickery in the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II LeFevre Lounge

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Ballad: Text and Song in the Nineteenth Century

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1335

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The History of Ethics: Continuations of Foucault's Final Project

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 202

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Scandalous and the Marvelous in Medieval Art

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1155

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Ties That Bind II: The Late Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1350

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Translating Ovid

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 101

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Translation, Transliteration, and Medieval Alphabets

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1330

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Versions of Piers Plowman II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1220

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Violence and Warfare in Late Medieval England

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1355

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

When Women Fight: The Ideal, Reality, and Idealization of Female Aggression in the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1360

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Which Mirror of Simple Souls? Reconsidering Manuscript Transmission and Translation

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1125

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Women Who Lead: The Varied Worlds of the Later Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 205

3:30 PM

6:30 PM

Rowley's Birth of Merlin (A Performance)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I 106

6:30 PM

8:00 PM

Mirely We Roll Along

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1005

8:00 PM

Sunday, May 12th
8:30 AM

Archaeology of the Countryside

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1140

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Aspects of Medieval Military History I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2016

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Challenging Dualisms: Historicizing Old English Psychologies, Anthropologies, and Theologies

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 106

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Cistercian Studies X: Cistercians on Cistercian Life

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1040

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Cognitive Approaches to Medieval Studies I: Cognition and Emotion

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II LeFevre Lounge

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Communities, Communications, and Conflict

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Garneau Lounge

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Digitizing Saintly Space: Barking Abbey

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 204

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Doing Things with Manuscripts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 210

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Eco-Critical Approaches to Medieval Art, East and West I: Landscapes

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 209

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Ruodlieb: New Approaches

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1135

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Form, History, and Middle English Literature I: Multilingual Formalism

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1145

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

From Anglo-Norman to English Knight: Romance and Reality

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1005

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Gower and Gender

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Hildegard in Context

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1220

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Issues in Monastic Reform: How Religious Groups Experienced Institutional and Spiritual Change

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 213

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Late Antiquity II: Barbarians, Communication, and Frontiers

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2030

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Low German Medieval Literature I: Print Production, Legends, Language Atlas

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 211

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Marks of Shame: Stains Moral, Physical, and Psychological

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2020

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Monarchy and Kingship in Late Medieval England

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2040

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

New Studies of the North Transept of Reims I: Archeology, Architecture, and Stained Glass

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1010

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Performativity I: Emotion, Mind, Body

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1280

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Robin Hood and the Outlaw Canon: Medieval Texts and Contexts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1130

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Saints, Region, and Community

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1125

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Speaking Ovid: Vernacular Ovidianisms

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1360

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Tales after Tolkien: Medievalism and Twenty-First-Century Fantasy Literature I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1120

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

The Benedictine Reform in Anglo-Saxon England

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 203

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

The Brit Lit Survey: Reform or Abolish? A Panel Discussion in Celebration of a Special Issue of Pedagogy: Teaching Medieval Literature Off the Grid

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 158

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

The Nine-Hundredth Anniversary of the Order of the Hospital: Hospitaller Rules and Statutes I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 202

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Visions of Polity in World Culture

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 204

8:30 AM

10:30 AM

Aspects of Medieval Military History II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2016

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Cistercian Studies XI: Cistercian Life Reflected in the Sources

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1040

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Cognitive Approaches to Medieval Studies II: Cognitive Disorders

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II LeFevre Lounge

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Commentaries and Treatments of Metaphysics IX: Thirteenth through Seventeenth Centuries

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1125

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Eco-Critical Approaches to Medieval Art, East and West II: Objects

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 209

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

European Merlins

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1130

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Exeter Book Riddles and Short Poems

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 106

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Form, History, and Middle English Literature II: The Form of Historicism

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1145

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Historiographical Gower

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Innovative Assignments from the Romance Epic Classroom (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2020

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Late Antiquity III: Late Latin Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2030

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Low German Medieval Literature II: Medicine, Weltchronik, History, Osterspiel

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 211

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

New Studies of the North Transept of Reims II: Sculpture

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1010

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Observant Reform in the Late Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 204

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Old English Alliterating Prose

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 212

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

On the Borders: Reconceptualizing the Literature of Late Medieval/Early Modern Scotland

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1135

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Peasant Economies

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1140

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Performativity II: Color, Sound, Gesture

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1280

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Political Culture in Late Medieval England

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2040

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Queering Medieval Disability

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 203

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Socializing with Saints: Popular Reception and Experience of Saints' Cults in Medieval England

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 158

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Source Studies in Music

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1220

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Tales after Tolkien: Medievalism and Twenty-First-Century Fantasy Literature II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1120

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Temporalities and Medieval Drama

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1360

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The Formation of Identity in Middle English Arthurian Romance

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1005

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The Material Culture of Magic

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 213

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The Nine-Hundredth Anniversary of the Order of the Hospital: Hospitaller Rules and Statutes II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II 201

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The Righteous Heathen in Medieval England

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Valley II 202

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The Scribes of Medieval English Manuscripts: New Knowledge, New Technologies

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 210

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