49th International Congress on Medieval Studies (2014)

Presented here is the schedule of numbered 90-minute sessions of the 49th International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 8-11, 2014), as well as unnumbered sessions occurring on Friday and Saturday evenings. Excluded are a variety of scheduled activities, including plenary lectures, 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 2, 2014). The complete printed program, including the Corrigenda, is available elsewhere in ScholarWorks at WMU in PDF format.

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Schedule
2014
Thursday, May 8th
10:00 AM

Aelred of Rievaulx, Preacher

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1040

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Agencies and Nuns' Liturgies

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 212

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Allegory in Performance: The Theatricality of Medieval Personification

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Hadley 101

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Anglo-Saxon Predecessors and Precedents: Early English Engagements with Old English Culture and Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Aspects of Warfare in the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 210

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Aspirations Unmet and Exceeded: Failure and Its Fruits in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson 303

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Baptismal Spaces and Their Decoration: Making a Christian Community

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1280

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Compromised Bodies in Late Medieval Italy

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1265

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Digital Media, Medieval Texts, and Traditional Verbal Art (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1360

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Electronic Beowulf at One-and-Twenty

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 158

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Mieux vaut tard que jamais: Reclaiming the Later French Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Eicher 202

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

English Literature under the Tudors

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 213

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Ethnic Identities and Multicultural Societies in Medieval Europe

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1045

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Ideas of the Irish Nation

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1010

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Impossible Words (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1005

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

In Honor of Dolores Warwick Frese I: Medieval Mothers and the Mother Tongue

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Garneau Lounge

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Jerusalem in Medieval Exegesis

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 211

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Langland in Time

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Shilling Lounge

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Law as Culture: Compensation, Punishment, and Impunity

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Ackley 104

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Legacy of Courtly Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1235

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Low German Medieval Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 159

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Mapping with and without Cartography

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1335

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Maritime Miracles in the Medieval Mediterranean

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2030

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Medieval Book Design: Form and Function

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1245

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Medieval Women Wikipedia Write-In (A Workshop)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1060

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Memory and Community in Anglo-Saxon England

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 204

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Naming Medieval Sexualities (A Panel Discussion)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Hadley 102

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

New Innovations in Early Medieval Archaeology: Material Culture before 1000

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2020

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

New Methods in Anglo-Saxon Homiletics

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1325

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Ovid in the Classroom

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1225

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Paleography Workshop with the Penn Paleography Group (A Workshop)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1140

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Philosophical Themes and Issues in Malory's Morte Darthur

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson Lounge

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Queen Elizabeth I and Other Monarchs

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Harvey 204

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Re/Presenting the Abstract, Abstracting Reality I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1345

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Saints for All Occasions

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2040

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Shock! Horror! Didacticism and Diversion in Medieval Biblical Narratives

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1275

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Studying Magic (A Roundtable Discussion)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II LeFevre Lounge

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Anglo-Scandinavian World

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 106

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Dissimilar Image in Medieval Art and Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 209

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Problem of the "Best-Seller" in Pre-Modern Spain

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2016

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Significance of Space in Middle English Romance

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Ackley 105

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Tolkien and His Medieval Sources

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 208

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Topics in the History of the Eastern Roman Empire

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1255

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Visualizing the Middle Ages: Coins, Seals, and Medieval Art

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1120

10:00 AM

1:30 PM

Aelred of Rievaulx, Writer

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1040

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Alfredian Texts and Contexts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Garneau Lounge

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

An Apocalyptic Age? Papers in Honor of E. Randolph Daniel at Seventy-Five

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 212

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Anglo-Saxon Childhood, Adolescence, and Education

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 158

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Anthropological Approaches to Medieval Archaeology I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1120

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Beginnings and Endings in Malory's Morte Darthur

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson Lounge

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Courtly Conspiracies and Deceit

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Shilling Lounge

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Crossing Boundaries / Breaking Rules I: Hagiographies

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2030

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Early Medieval Europe I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson 303

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Edmund Spenser, His Works and His World

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1275

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Figura, Diagramma, Representatio, and the Concept of Geometricized Substance in the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1265

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Piers Plowman and the Rich

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1360

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Richard III: Pre-Texts, Texts, and After-Texts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Harvey 204

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

England's First Colony: Medieval Anglo-Ireland

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1220

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Frauds, Charlatans, and Alchemists: Discerning Deceit in Medieval Magic

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1010

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

From Aachen to the Augustinians: Houses of Canons and Reform, Ninth-Twelfth Centuries

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Hadley 102

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

In Honor of Dolores Warwick Frese II: Ungrammatical Signs and the Recognizing of Allegory

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1045

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Jewish-Christian Studies

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Ackley 105

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Jews in Provintzia: In Memory of Moshe Lazar

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1235

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Latin and the Old English Vernacular

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 204

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Light and Lighting in Early Medieval Buildings I: The Meaning of Light

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1140

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Many Middle Ages I: Multiple Functions of History in Twelfth-Century Liturgy

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2040

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Mary: A Woman for Medieval Times

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1005

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Materiality and Emotion I: Skin and Threads

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2016

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Medieval Alsace: Herrad of Hohenbourg's Garden of Delights

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 209

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Medieval Iberia I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2355

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Medieval Military Personalities

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 210

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Medieval Tradition of Natural Law

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Eicher 202

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Medieval Women Wikipedia Write-In (A Workshop)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1060

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Millennium: The Year 1014

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2020

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Monastic Art and Material Culture in the Context of Reform, ca. 1000–1150 I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1255

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

New Challenges, New Tools, New Teachers: Integrating Fresh Resources and Approaches into the Study and Teaching of the Middle Ages (A Panel Discussion)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1280

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

New Research in Old High German Literature and Linguistics

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 159

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

Other Animals and Humans in Medieval Art

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Ovid in the Courts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1225

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Queering the Medieval Mediterranean

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II LeFevre Lounge

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Re/Presenting the Abstract, Abstracting Reality II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1345

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Singing Old Songs: Gregorian Chant, Chansons, Lais, Virelais (A Performance and Workshop)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Hadley 101

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Teaching Rape: Approaches to Difficult Moments in the Medieval Literature Classroom

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Ackley 104

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Bible in the Byzantine World

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 211

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Poems of Junius 11

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 213

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Tolkien's The Fall of Arthur

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 208

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Tristan Sources and Editions for the Twenty-First Century

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1335

1:30 PM

3:30 PM

Anthropological Approaches to Medieval Archaeology II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1120

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Arthur and Bevis of Hampton in Greek and Yiddish

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1225

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Bishops and Secular Clergy in the Diocese of Lincoln, ca. 1209-1521

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson Lounge

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

"Byzance après Byzance": Adaptations and Transformations in the Balkans, 1260-1500

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson 303

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Comparative Approaches to the Visual Arts of Iberia and Italy: Sites of Exchange and Affinity in the Western Mediterranean

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Crossing Boundaries / Breaking Rules II: Comedy

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2030

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Drama, Phenomenology, and Periodization

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Ackley 105

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Early Medieval Europe II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1045

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Ingegno and the Sabotage of Representation

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Eicher 202

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Facing the Abyss: Visualizing Submarine Worlds, Aquatic Life, and Hybrids in Medieval Art

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 212

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Gothic Language and Linguistics

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 159

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

History-Making through Liturgy and the Arts: In Honor of Margot Fassler's The Virgin of Chartres

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1145

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Landscape and Spatial Poetics in the Literature of the British Isles

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1330

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Langland's Line

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2020

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Light and Lighting in Early Medieval Buildings II: Techniques, Technologies, and Effects

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1140

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Many Middle Ages II: Rethinking Periods and Organizing Concepts for Medieval History

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2040

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Mapping the Liquid Element: Water in Medieval Cartography

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1005

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Materiality and Emotion II: Sticks and Stone

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2016

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Matters of Jurisdiction in Northern Europe

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1350

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medieval Iberia II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2345

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medieval Monarchy and Matrimony: Alliances and Partnerships

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 209

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medieval Women Wikipedia Write-In (A Workshop)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1060

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medieval Writing Materials: Surfaces, "Fixtures," and Enclosures

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1135

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Merlin's Colleagues

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 211

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Methodology and the Future of Occitan Studies: A Roundtable in Memory of Peter Ricketts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1235

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Monastic Art and Material Culture in the Context of Reform, ca. 1000–1150 II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1255

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Monsters I: Parallel Worlds

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1360

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Music in the Late Middle Ages on the Iberian Peninsula

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1155

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

Nicholas of Cusa and Jewish Thought

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Hadley 102

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Paranormal Activity in the Medieval North

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1010

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Pilgrimage: An Interdisciplinary Exploration

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1280

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Que(e)rying Aelred: Desire, Affect, Gender, and Normative Monastic Discourse

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II LeFevre Lounge

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Reading Aloud the French of England (A Workshop)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Garneau Lounge

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Reformist Themes among Franciscan Writers and Preachers in the Mid-Fifteenth Century: Roberto da Lecce, Caterina Vigri, Bernardino da Feltre

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Shilling Lounge

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Saint Paul: Reception, Representation, and Influence in the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1325

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Shakespeare and Adaptation

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Harvey 204

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Single-Manuscript Texts: The Challenges and Opportunities of Uniqueness

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1335

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Speech, Performance, and Authority in Later Medieval Religious Literature I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1345

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 213

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Annual Journal of Medieval Military History Lecture

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 210

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Converso Diaspora: Rejudaization, Philosophical Polemics, and Visions of Inquisitorial Spain

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1160

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Cultures of Armenia and Georgia

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1275

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Exegetical Turn: Exegesis as a Paradigm for New Understandings of the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1320

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Relevance of the Middle Ages Today

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 158

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Textuality of Old English Anonymous Homilies

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 204

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Tolkien's Natural World and Science

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 208

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Tracking Medieval Manuscript Books and Documents through Time: Networks of Transmission and Practices of Collecting

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1245

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Virgil and the Middle Ages: Legacy, Interpretations, Misunderstandings

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1265

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Where Sacred Meets Secular in Hagiography

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2335

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

William of Saint-Thierry

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1040

3:30 PM

7:30 PM

An EnCHANTed Evening: Singing Vespers with CANTUS (A Workshop)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1010

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Commerce, Conflict, and Cultural Interaction in the Late Medieval Mediterranean

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 211

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Constructions of Women Warriors in Medieval Eurasia 3.0

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1335

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Crossing Boundaries / Breaking Rules III: Romance

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2020

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

New Readings on Women in Old English Literature Revisited (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 106

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

"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

Schneider 1360

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Identity in Medieval Art

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2030

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

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

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 159

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

In Memory of Robert Stockwell: Diachronic Linguistic Approaches to Medieval Languages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1330

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Medieval Canon Law and Society

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1325

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Medieval Manuscripts in the Digital Age

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1005

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Medieval Monarchy and the Church: Conflict and Cooperation

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 209

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Medieval Poetry / Modern Poets (A Performance)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Shilling Lounge

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

"Medieval" Games: A Festive Presentation of Digital "Medievalia" (A Workshop)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1035

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Monsters II: Monstrous Gender

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1350

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

New Directions in the History of Scholasticism

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 213

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Norse Bishops’ Sagas and Their European Contexts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2040

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Recording Conversations on Medieval Art (A Workshop)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2016

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Semiotics of Physicality: Medical-Religious Knowledge and Practice in Late-Medieval Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 212

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Shakespeare at Kalamazoo Lecture

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 210

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Sonorous and Brilliant Emptiness: Visual Approaches to White, Empty, and Silent in Medieval Art

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1355

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Speech, Performance, and Authority in Later Medieval Religious Literature II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1345

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Text and Material Culture in Late Antique and Early Medieval Iberia

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 208

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Theory and Practice of Leadership: Political, Religious, and Ethnic Leaders and Their Communities in Medieval Iberia

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 158

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Translingual Authors (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Universal Saints Located in Anglo-Saxon England

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 204

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

What Has the Cloister to Do with the Quadrangle? The Goals, Methodologies, and Complementarity of Academic and Monastic Approaches to Cistercian and Monastic Studies (A Panel Discussion)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1040

7:30 PM

Friday, May 9th
10:00 AM

Alfred the Great: Manuscripts and Texts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 106

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Anglo-Norman Literature in Manuscript: The Physical Contexts of Anglo-Norman Texts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1345

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral: Textual and Material Evidence of Medieval Healing

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 204

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Anti-Formalist Arthur: Postmodern Perspectives on Medieval Arthurian Texts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Shilling Lounge

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Carolingian Art and Artists

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1275

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

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

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1265

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Cistercians in Western Europe

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1040

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Colette of Corbie: Spiritual Reformer or Reactionary at the Turn of the Fifteenth Century

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 211

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Crusades

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Hadley 102

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Dante I: The Polis

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1355

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Ex Arabico in Latinum: Studies in Mediterranean Translation Movements

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson 303

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Gaudeamus Igitur: Exploring Intellectual Values in Medieval Systems

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1330

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Empire, Politics, and Order: Research Presented in Honor of Thomas M. Izbicki

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1130

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Faking It (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 210

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Filling the Gap between “Then” and “Now”: Exploring the Importance of Antiquarian Scholarship and Interpretation in Relation to Church Buildings and the Relative Importance of Authenticity from the Medieval Period Onwards

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2355

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

From "Anarchy" to "Empire": Revising the History of the Counts of Anjou, ca. 1060-1150

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2345

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

From Charisma to Curriculum? Communities of Learning in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson Lounge

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Gerald of Wales

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Garneau Lounge

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Guilds, Confraternities, and Merchant Companies in the Fourteenth Century

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2016

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Imagined Encounters (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1140

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

In Honor of Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 158

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

In Memory of Ulrich Müller I: The Nibelungenlied and the Klage

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1280

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Individual Style or House Style? Assessing Scribal Contributions, Artistic Production, and Creative Achievements

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1155

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Kicking Off (in) Spenser Studies

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2030

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Liturgy and History

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1125

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Manuscript and Early Print Interactions

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2040

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Medieval Art and Architecture in Southern Italy I: Mobility and Materiality

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 209

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Medieval Disability Studies and the Posthuman

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Harvey 204

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Medieval in the Middle: Incestuous Scholarship?

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2020

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Medieval Women Wikipedia Write-In (A Workshop)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1060

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Middle English Literature in Manuscript and Print

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1245

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Monastic Ways of Life for Women

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2335

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Music Theory and Practice

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1235

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Reformation I: Controversial Figures and Issues

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1145

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Rethinking Reform I: The Portrayal of Religious Change in Gesta and Vitae Episcoporum and Abbatum

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 213

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Rhetoric of Violence in the Medieval Western Mediterranean

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1135

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Romancing the Genres I: Romancing Reality

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1340

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Self-Fashioning and Assumptions of Identity in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1005

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Social Contracts and Contacts in Old English and Old Norse Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Teaching the Pearl-Poet: Resources and Strategies

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1220

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Teaching the Islamic World (A Roundtable Discussion)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1045

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The "Mainet" (Young Charlemagne) Epic Tradition

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 212

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Archaeology of Early Medieval Europe: Late Antique and Early Medieval Churches

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1225

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Benedictine Reform in Anglo-Saxon England

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1010

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Economics of Sanctity

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 208

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance (MESA): A Hands-On Workshop

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Waldo Library Classroom A

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Poetry of Geoffrey Chaucer

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Ackley 104

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Real Generic Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1120

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Theological Methodologies of Thomas Aquinas and Other Scholastic Theologians

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1335

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Theologies of Form or Forms of Theology in Piers Plowman

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II LeFevre Lounge

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Topics in Medieval Numismatics

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1350

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

What Is Ecocriticism, Anyway? (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1360

10:00 AM

1:30 PM

Advances in Medieval Archaeology I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1005

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Anchoritic Friendship and Networks of Solitaries

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 212

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Honor of Kevin Kiernan I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 106

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Bilingual England: Translation and Beyond

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2335

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Bonaventure of Bagnoregio: Professor, Pastor, Preacher?

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Shilling Lounge

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

C. S. Lewis and the Middle Ages I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Garneau Lounge

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Chant and Liturgy I: Chant Manuscripts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1235

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Cistercian Expansion

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1040

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Cultural Approaches to Teaching History of the English Language

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1130

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Dante II: Reception, Transmission, and Context

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1355

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

El canon de la épica española y los poemas perdidos

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Eicher 202

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Speculum Arabicum: Medieval Encyclopaedism between the East and the West I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1350

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Translatio: Cultural Exchange in Medieval Iberia I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1360

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Emblem Studies

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2355

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Hanse Realm: Trade, Culture, and Exchange

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1225

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Herbal Therapies and Medicinal Gardens in Art, Literature, and Medicine

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 204

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Imagining the Passion in a Multiconfessional Castile I: Christ and Mary Divinized

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

In Honor of Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 158

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

In Memoriam Carl F. Barnes, Jr. I: Villard de Honnecourt Studies

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 210

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

In Memory of Ulrich Müller II: Oswald von Wolkenstein, Neidhart, Walther von der Vogelweide

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1280

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Celtic Studies and "Celtic"

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1120

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Late Antiquity I: Religion and Society in Late Antiquity

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1335

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Lost in Translation: Negotiating Foreign Languages in Arthurian Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2020

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Lowe and Beyond: New Directions in Research at the Centenary of The Beneventan Script (1914-2014) I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1275

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Making Meaning: Technologies of Transformative Production and Creative Consumption I: Diachronic Redefinition

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2345

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Medieval Art and Architecture in Southern Italy II: Multiethnic and Multi-religious Environments

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 209

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Medieval Translation Theory and Practice I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II LeFevre Lounge

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Medieval Women Wikipedia Write-In (A Workshop)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1060

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Milestones and Watersheds in the Scholarship and Study of the Medieval Church and Secular Clergy from the Nineteenth Century to the Present

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 213

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Monastic Normativities

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1345

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Motion and Emotion I: Movable Texts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2016

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Multidisciplinary Saint Anne

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 208

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

New Media and the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1255

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Papers by Undergraduates I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1245

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Parliamentary Funding of War in the Later Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Hadley 202

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Philosophical Accounts of Personal Identity

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Ackley 104

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Postcolonial Disability in the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1045

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Reading Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1125

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Reformation II: Audience, Voice, and Persona

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1145

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Romancing the Genres II: Romancing Sanctity

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Harvey 204

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Spenserian Synesthesia: Words, Colors, Maps

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2030

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Spirituality Embodied: Encounters of Spirit and Flesh

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson Lounge

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Staging the Divine: Teaching the York Corpus Christi Plays

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1340

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Pearl-Poet, Aesthetics, and Sensory Experience

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1220

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Aftermath of the Templars

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1140

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Exeter Book Riddles and Poems

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 211

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Hundred Years War: New Perspectives

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1010

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Medieval Mother: The Challenges of Balancing Research and Motherhood (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Hadley 101

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Word and the World: Exegetical Readings of Everyday Life in the Early Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1330

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Theologies of Consumption: Eucharistic Thought and Food Practices in the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson 303

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Vernacular Readings of the Medieval Library

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1265

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Violence and Vulnerability I: Slow and Systemic

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1135

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Visualizing Learned Magic and Popular Magic through Talismans, Images, and Objects

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2040

1:30 PM

3:30 PM

Abelard and Heloise

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Eicher 202

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Advances in Medieval Archaeology II: Archaeological Approaches to Medieval Religious Identity

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1005

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Honor of Kevin Kiernan II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 106

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Apocalyptic Exegesis

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Shilling Lounge

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Archbishop Wulfstan and the Sermo Lupi ad Anglos

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 211

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Between Europe and England: Early Middle English Sermons in a European Context

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1255

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

C. S. Lewis and the Middle Ages II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Garneau Lounge

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Chant and Liturgy II: Liturgy

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1235

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Cistercians and the World

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1040

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Corporeal Consciousness: Embodiment as Means to Enlightenment

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Hadley 101

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Dante III: Critique, Vituperium, Satire, and Invective

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1355

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Disability Studies and the Digital Humanities (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1155

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Speculum Arabicum: Medieval Encyclopaedism between the East and the West II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1350

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Translatio: Cultural Exchange in Medieval Iberia II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1360

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Emblems and Visual Culture

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2355

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

European Countercurrents: English Influence on Continental Literature during the Long Twelfth Century

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1340

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Fifteenth-Century England

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson 303

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Global Sanctity

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 208

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Imagining the Passion in a Multiconfessional Castile II: Sufi and Jewish Influence and Responses (A Panel Discussion)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

In Memoriam Carl F. Barnes, Jr. II: Architectural Studies

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 210

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

In Memory of Ulrich Müller III: Medievalis: The Middle Ages on the Stage: Medieval Texts and Topics in Modern and Postmodern Opera, Drama, and Musical

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1280

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Introduction to vHMML, an Online Environment for Manuscript Studies (A Workshop)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 158

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Late Antiquity II: Late Antique Italy

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1335

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Law and Justice in the Fourteenth Century

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1010

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Lowe and Beyond: New Directions in Research at the Centenary of The Beneventan Script (1914-2014) II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1275

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Lydgate without Chaucer?

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1225

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Making Meaning: Technologies of Transformative Production and Creative Consumption II: Manufacture of Meaning

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2345

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Marginal Bodies: Corporeal Communities in Anglo-Saxon Religious Life

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2335

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medieval Art and Architecture in Southern Italy III: Learning, Production, and Exchange in Schools, Monasteries, and Courts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 209

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medieval Geographies

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2020

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medieval Translation Theory and Practice II: A Practicum with Three Recently Published Translators

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II LeFevre Lounge

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medieval Women Wikipedia Write-In (A Workshop)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1060

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Mester de Clerecía: Miracles, Hagiography, and Secular Discourse

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1330

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Middle English Arthuriana

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Ackley 104

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Monks Going Wild

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1345

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Motion and Emotion II: Textual Triggers

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2016

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

New Approaches to Performance Practice: Process, Theory, Technique

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1120

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

New Work by Young Celtic Studies Scholars

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1130

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Old English Lexis and Alliteration

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 212

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Old French Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1125

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Papers by Undergraduates II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1245

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Philosophy and Natural Philosophy

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 213

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Reading and Teaching the Medieval Secular Lyric

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1265

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Reformation III: Problematic Texts and Concerns

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1145

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Rethinking "Medieval" for the Twenty-First Century

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson Lounge

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Richard Rolle

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2030

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Romancing the Genres III: Romancing the Ridiculous

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Harvey 204

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Sauces from Poitou: Twelfth-Century Culinary Recipes in a Medical Collection

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 204

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Stones, Gems, and Metals in Medieval Magic

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2040

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Kathleen Williams Lecture

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Hadley 102

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Translating Form across the Channel (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1140

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Violence and Vulnerability II: Sacred and Spectacular

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1135

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Women and Outlawry: Female Agency in the Medieval Outlaw Tradition

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1220

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Writing the Middle Ages for Multiple Audiences (A Panel Discussion)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1045

3:30 PM

5:15 PM

The 2014 Morimichi Watanabe Lecture

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 106

5:15 PM

5:30 PM

The White Hart Lecture

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2030

5:30 PM

7:00 PM

Tolkien Unbound (A Performance)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1010

7:00 PM

7:30 PM

Malory Interruptus: Sex and Love in the Morte (A Readers' Theater Performance)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson Lounge

7:30 PM

8:00 PM

New Books Germanic Studies Roundtable

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2016

8:00 PM

9:30 PM

A Hands-On Introduction to Astrolabes (A Workshop)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson 303

9:30 PM

Saturday, May 10th
10:00 AM

A Neglected Empire: Bulgaria between the Late Twelfth and Late Fourteenth Century I: Shaping, Defining, and Reshaping an Empire

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1130

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Augustine: Conversion and Its Impact

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson 303

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Beyond Medieval Women and Power (A Roundtable Discussion)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 158

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Cistercian Ecclesiology and Ecclesiastics

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1040

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Controlling the Power of Material Things

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1350

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Digging Up the Past: Using Archaeology in the Classroom

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1360

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Digital Methods I: Citation and Representation of Medieval Manuscripts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 208

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Dress and Textiles I: Celebrating Ten Years of Medieval Clothing and Textiles

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 209

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Early Medieval Art and Architecture

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1255

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Early Medieval Prose and Verse

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson Lounge

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Eastern Anatolia in Translation: Cultural Competition, Coexistence, and Transformations (1000-1500)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1320

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

En cadea sen prijon: A Groundbreaking Discovery on Fifteenth-Century Galician Poetry in the Iberian Peninsula

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1010

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

La corónica International Book Award: Michael A. Vargas, Taming a Brood of Vipers: Conflict and Change in Fourteenth-Century Dominican Convents (A Panel Discussion)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Eicher 202

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Engaging the Sacred: Connections of Text and Image in Illuminated Manuscripts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1225

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Extraprofessional Manuscripts: Image and Text in Hybrid Contexts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1160

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Feeling the Middle Ages (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2016

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Fifteenth-Century Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1330

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

French in Italy: Itinerant Texts (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1345

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Gothic Ivory Sculpture

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 210

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Gower and Science

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1245

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Hoccleve In Dialogue

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Ackley 104

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Identity Formation and Religious Culture in the Later Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 211

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

In Honor of Helen Damico I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1220

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Inter-Cultural Exchange in the Medieval Western Mediterranean

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2030

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Joan of Arc in Theory

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 106

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Late Medieval Art in Northern Europe

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 212

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Literature and Culture in the March of Wales

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1335

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Machaut's Motets: Music, Text, Image

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1235

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Manuscript Context for Early Anglo-Saxon, Caroline, and Germanic Verse

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1145

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Marie de France and the Canon (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Shilling Lounge

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Masters, Means, and Methods: The (Liberal) Arts in the Medieval World

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1155

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Medieval Peasants: New Directions and Trends

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1135

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Medieval Women Wikipedia Write-In (A Workshop)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1060

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Metalwork

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1355

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Monastic Sexualities

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1280

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Nature and Creation: Reassessing Concepts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Hadley 102

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Old English and Old Norse Connections

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 204

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Old English Hagiography

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1125

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Online, Hybrid, and MOOCs: Should We be Flipping Out? (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Performance of Women’s Voices in Medieval Lyric: Theory and Evidence

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1340

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Politics and Political Culture in Late Medieval England

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1120

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Portable Culture: Objects and Ideas across the Northern Seas, 500-1500 (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1045

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Ports and Coastal Societies in the Medieval North Sea and Baltic Sea Areas

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2345

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Rethinking Reform II: Councils as Context, Catalyst, and Communicator of Reform

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Garneau Lounge

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Saints in Thirteenth-Century France

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1265

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Science and Magic in Lawman and the Brut Tradition

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2020

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Studies in Honor of Richard W. Kaeuper I: Chivalry and Violence

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2040

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Teaching Piers Plowman (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1140

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Formation of Identity in Middle English Arthurian Romance

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Hadley 101

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Thomas Aquinas I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Harvey 204

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Twelfth-Century England

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2335

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Twenty-First-Century Medievalism

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1275

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Visitatio Sepulchri: A Tenth-Century Liturgical Drama (A Performance)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1005

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Women and the Sensory in Medieval Art

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 213

10:00 AM

1:30 PM

A Neglected Empire: Bulgaria between the Late Twelfth and Late Fourteenth Century II: Engaging in Empire, from Center to Periphery and Beyond

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1130

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

#;()@?":—*! (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1005

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Animals in Arthuriana

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 204

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Animals in Marie de France

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Shilling Lounge

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Arabic and Aljamiado-Morisco Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 210

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Archiving Time: Remediation and Temporality in Medieval Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1335

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Astrology and Its Objects in the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 212

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Cistercian Texts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1040

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Crime or Sin? Rethinking Ideas of Wrongdoing in Medieval Europe

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Garneau Lounge

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Critical Imperatives

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1255

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Debate and Dialogue

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 211

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Dress and Textiles II: Identity and Self-Expression

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 209

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Rules of Isabelle of France: An English Translation with Introductory Study by Sean Field (A Roundtable Discussion)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II LeFevre Lounge

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Games and Ludic Texts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1235

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Gower and Material Culture

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 213

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

In Honor of Geoffrey Richard Russom: Aspects of Early English Poetic Culture I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 158

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

In Honor of George Beech I: Prosopography and Family Ties

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2040

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

In Honor of Helen Damico II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2020

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

In Memory of Giuliana Cavallini: Saint Catherine of Siena

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1265

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Interdisciplinary Studies of Visual Imagery in the Mirror of Simple Souls

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1135

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Killing Them Softly? Martyrdoms in Late Medieval Art

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1160

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Law and Legal Culture in Anglo-Saxon England I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1145

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Made of Silver and Gold: Reconsidering Metalwork for Sacred Space I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1345

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Market Power: Royal, Civic, and Manorial Enterprise in Fourteenth-Century England

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1120

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Medieval Environments I: Disasters

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1125

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Medieval Poetics

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1320

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Medieval Women Wikipedia Write-In (A Workshop)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1060

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Medievalism and the Academy Today (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1045

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Moving Image as a Means of Documenting and Promoting Byzantine and Medieval Culture (A Panel Discussion)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1275

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Music, Literature, Art: Teaching Machaut and Fourteenth-Century Contexts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2016

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Names, Dates, and Signatures in Medieval Culture

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2355

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

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

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1155

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Noble Households, Castles, and Culture

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1355

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Philosophical Texts and Traditions

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1245

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Place of Reading in Medieval Benedictine Monasticism

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson 303

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Post-War Scholarship and the Study of the Middle Ages I: Auerbach

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1225

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Publication and Reputation in the Sidney Circle

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2030

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Reading Aloud Old French and Middle French (A Workshop)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1340

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Reading Old Italian Aloud (A Workshop)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Eicher 202

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Reading the Romance of the Rose: Hermeneutics, Knowledge, and Desire

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1330

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Scandinavian Studies

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1350

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Scribes, Scripts, and Readers: In Memory of Malcolm B. Parkes

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1280

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Shrews before Shakespeare I (A Readers' Performance of Medieval "Shrew Plays")

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Britton 103

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

So You Think You Can Chant: Gregorian or Old-Roman? (A Demonstration and Panel Discussion)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1220

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Stone: New Research concerning Masons and Sculptors I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 106

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Studies in Honor of Richard W. Kaeuper II. Society and Public Order

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson Lounge

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Teaching the History of the Spanish Language: New Challenges and Opportunities (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1010

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Arthurian Legend and Material Culture

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1360

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Ballad: Traditions, Texts, Treatments

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2335

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Life of the Early Irish Monk

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1140

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Medieval Monster as Mirror: Translation, Hybridity, and Cultural Identity

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2345

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Thomas Aquinas II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Harvey 204

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Visions, Apparitions, and Superstitions: Supernatural Experience in the Medieval World

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Hadley 102

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

What Is a Wycliffite Book?

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

1:30 PM

3:30 PM

Anglo-Saxon England

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2030

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Anonymous Anglo-Saxon Prose Saints' Lives

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1130

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Arthurian Literature and the Sea

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1360

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Boethius and the Liberal Arts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 212

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Carolingian Culture

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1235

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Christine in the Digital Age

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 211

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Chronicles and Chroniclers in Late Medieval England

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1120

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Cistercian Themes

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1040

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Crusade and Inquisition: In Honor of James Brundage

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Garneau Lounge

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Deviance and Doubt in Medieval Religion

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1255

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Disciplinary Approaches to an Authentic Middle Ages (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1280

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Dress and Textiles III: Analyzing Artifacts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 209

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Emerging Perspectives on Medieval Franciscan Women

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II LeFevre Lounge

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Eucharistic Controversies, Byzantine East and Latin West

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1320

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

French Romance

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1330

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Gender, Culture, and Trade in the Medieval Islamicate World (Seventh to Fifteenth Centuries)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1245

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Hildegard von Bingen: Bridges to Infinity

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1340

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Holy Gower!

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 213

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

In Honor of Geoffrey Richard Russom: Aspects of Early English Poetic Culture II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

In Honor of George Beech II: Prosopography and Medieval Women

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2040

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Ingestion and Excess: Consumption, Regurgitation, and Excretion in Medieval Europe

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Hadley 102

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Innovative Approaches to Teaching Dante (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1140

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Intellectual and Physical Monstrosity

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 208

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Interdisciplinarity in Twenty-First-Century Medieval Studies: Archaeoscience, Advanced Methodologies, and Consilience

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 158

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Inversion, Dissolution, Dialectic: Three Hermeneutical Binaries

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Hadley 101

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Language and Identity in Medieval Iberia

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1010

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Latin Homoerotics in the Central Middle Ages (ca. 950-1250)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2355

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Law and Legal Culture in Anglo-Saxon England II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1145

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Made of Silver and Gold: Reconsidering Metalwork for Sacred Space II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1345

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Manuscript Studies across the Disciplines

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1265

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medieval Environments II: Resource Exploitation

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1125

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medieval Mothers: Reproductive Health in the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson 303

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medieval Traditions in Post-Medieval Iceland: Literature and Manuscripts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1350

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medieval Women Wikipedia Write-In (A Workshop)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1060

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Multilingual Texts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1275

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

No/Thing: Medieval Art and Apophasis

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 210

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Nobility, Chivalry, and War on the Frontiers of Christendom

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1355

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Of the Same Bone and Blood: Anglo-Saxon and Other Germanic Literature in Comparative Perspective

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1155

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Of Whom Shall I Be Afraid? Enemies in the Medieval Period

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson Lounge

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Performances of Milun by Marie de France

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Shilling Lounge

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Post-War Scholarship and the Study of the Middle Ages II: Kantorowicz

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1225

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Premonstratensian Houses: Their Foundations, Socio-Economic and Cultural History

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2020

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Robert T. Farrell Lecture

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1045

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Sacred Music and Liturgy

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1160

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Shrews before Shakespeare II (A Panel Discussion)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Britton 103

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Stone: New Research concerning Masons and Sculptors II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 106

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Beguiler Beguiled: Disguise and Trickery in Medieval Culture

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1335

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

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

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2016

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Reception of "Heresy" in the Fourteenth Century

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1135

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Thomas Aquinas III

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Harvey 204

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Traditional Ballads and Their Illustrations: Graphic Arts Meet Narrative

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2335

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Un/making Mistakes in Medieval Media

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2345

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

What a World! (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1005

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

What Is the Magic of Merlin? The Appeal of the Wizard in the Contemporary World: In Celebration of the Tenth Anniversary of the Virtual Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 204

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

What to Do with a Vielle? Medieval Stringed Instruments in Practice and in Iconography

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1220

3:30 PM

8:00 PM

And So We Beat On . . .

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1005

8:00 PM

8:00 PM

The Mystery of Saint Veronica (A Performance and Post-Show Panel Discussion)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Ackley 106

8:00 PM

Sunday, May 11th
8:30 AM

Beyond World's End: Scotland and Europe in the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1360

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Byzantium and Contested Spaces

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 106

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

“Can These Bones Come To Life?”: Insights from Re-construction, Re-enactment, and Re-creation

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 210

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Cistercian Hagiography

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1040

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Collaboration: Made to Order? Customizing Medieval Manuscripts and Early Printed Books

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Community, Memory, and Self-Representation

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2040

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Constructing Faith: Imitation, Personal Piety, and Conversion

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1275

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Cultures of Reading in Anglo-Saxon England

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2020

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Doggy Deux: Dogs, Dogs, Dogs! Redux

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1235

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

A Casa de Avis: Legacies from Portugal

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2030

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Piers Plowman and Post-Pestilence England

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Shilling Lounge

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Foodways

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1245

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

From Experience to Experiment: Longer Perspectives on Medieval Science

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1045

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Irrationality as a Fruitful Methodology (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1220

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Malory's Morte: Women Looking at Men Behaving Knightly

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 212

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Material Metamorphoses

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1355

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Medieval Art and Medieval Angelology: Divine Messengers in the Art of Judaism, Islam, and Christianity in the (Christian) Middle Ages I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1335

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Medieval Literary Ethics

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1350

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Medieval Sermon Studies I: Mendicant Preachers: Their Tools, Audiences, and Influence

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 211

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Medieval Women Wikipedia Write-In (A Workshop)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1060

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Medievalism I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson Lounge

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Medievalists and the Social Media Pilgrimage: The Digital Life of Twenty-First-Century Medieval Studies (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1280

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Mobility

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 158

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Multicultural Students Respond to Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Tale

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1010

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Musical Traditions

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1320

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

New Pictures, Texts, Ideas, and Concepts: The Middle Ages as a Period of Origins

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1155

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

New Theoretical Approaches to Medieval and Early Modern German Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 213

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Open Access and Graduate Student Dissertations: A Roundtable on the Changing North American Publishing Industry and What Grads Need to Know

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1225

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Prologue and Auctoritas in the Translation and Interpretation of Medieval Iberian Texts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1345

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Saint Louis 800 I: Piety

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1255

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Strange Letters: Alphabets in Medieval Manuscripts and Beyond I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 209

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

The Afterlives of Medieval Women

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1265

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

The Destruction and Reconstruction of Medieval Art and Architecture: Ethics and Approaches

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1330

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

The Global Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1155

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

The Medieval Text: Manuscript to Digital

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1160

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

The Role of Philosophy in the Theology of the Trinity: The Tradition of the Lombard

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1340

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

The Seventh Century across Cultures: New Perspectives

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 204

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

The Venerable Bede I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2016

8:30 AM

10:30 AM

All God's Brutes: Medieval Perspectives on the Ethical Treatment of Animals

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1275

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Capital and Corporal Punishment in Anglo-Saxon England (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2020

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Collaborative Editing and Middle English Miscellanies: The Book of Brome (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1360

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Community in Anglo-Saxon England: A Multidisciplinary Approach

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2030

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Digital Methods II: Reading between the Lines of Medieval Manuscripts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 208

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

England and the Celtic World in Insular Chronicles

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1350

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Hagiography and Historians

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1040

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Hell Studies

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1225

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Historicizing Form

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1355

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Isabel de Villena and Fifteenth-Century Spirituality in the Iberian Peninsula

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Shilling Lounge

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Manuscript to Print and Back Again: Medieval Manuscripts and Early Printed Books

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Materiality and Aesthetics in Medieval Art

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1330

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Medieval Apocalypticism: The Meaning of History at the End of Days

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1340

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Medieval Art and Medieval Angelology: Divine Messengers in the Art of Judaism, Islam, and Christianity in the (Christian) Middle Ages II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1335

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Medieval Sermon Studies II: Preaching to the Laity: Orthodoxy, Heterodoxy, and Gender

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 211

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Medieval Texts and Digital Editions: Obstacles and Opportunities

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1245

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Medieval Women Wikipedia Write-In (A Workshop)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1060

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Medievalism II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson Lounge

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Memory and Commemoration in Medieval Europe

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2040

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Mistakes, Mishaps, and Medieval Moments of Failure

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1160

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Monastic Expression of Scientia in the Later Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1045

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Music, Sound, and Meaning

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1320

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

New Approaches to Carolingian Charters

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 204

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Prescriptions for Well-Being: Food, Bodily Health and Spiritual Health in the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1265

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Reading Chaucer in Context

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1010

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Reconstruction and Reenactment and Their Role in Recovering History (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 210

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Remaking the Empire: Socioeconomic Connectivity and Imperial Architecture under Justinian

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 106

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Saint Louis 800 II: Patronage

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1255

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Staging Disability in Medieval Drama

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 158

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Strange Letters: Alphabets in Medieval Manuscripts and Beyond II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 209

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Technologically Assisted Research in Medieval Germanic Languages/Literatures

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 213

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

The Composite City

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1280

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

The Venerable Bede II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2016

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

To and From the Holy Land: Pursuing the Sacramental Vision in Malory’s Morte Darthur

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 212

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Viking Age Archaeology

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1235

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Women and Authority in the Global Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1220

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Word-Play: The Roles of Proverbs in Medieval Vernacular Texts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1345

10:30 AM