50th International Congress on Medieval Studies (2015)

Presented here is the schedule of numbered 90-minute sessions of the 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 14-17, 2015), 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 8, 2015).The complete printed program, including the Corrigenda, is available elsewhere in ScholarWorks at WMU in PDF format.

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Schedule
2015
Thursday, May 14th
10:00 AM

Anonymous Anglo-Saxon Prose Saints' Lives

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1245

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Arts, Architecture, and Devotional Interaction: Results of the 2014 NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers in York (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1360

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Aspects and Events of Medieval Military History, 452-1346

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 158

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Bede's Royalty

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 209

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Bodies that Matter I: Miracles, Manuscripts, and Medicine

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 205

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Carolyn Dinshaw's Chaucer's Sexual Poetics, 1990-2015

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1005

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Choices in Malory's Morte Darthur

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson Lounge

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Clairvaux's First Abbot

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1040

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Commentaries on Plato in the Middle Ages: Texts, Editions, Influences

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1345

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Devotion, Theodicy, Prayer, and Crusade in Sixteenth-Century Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2355

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Digital Humanities Resources for the Study of Central Europe in the Middle Ages (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Waldo Library Classroom A

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Disability in Medieval Saints' Lives

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1140

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Early Medieval Europe I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 211

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Labor, Lingua, et Ludi: Papers in Memory of Lawrence M. Clopper

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1275

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Finding Sources: Play Texts and Archives

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 106

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Hoccleve Less Studied

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2030

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

In Honor of Annemarie Weyl Carr I: Women as Artists and Patrons

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2016

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Limen and Locus: Medicine in the Medieval West, 1200-1500

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Sangren 1740

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Looking Back at the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1265

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Low German Medieval Literature and Tristan: Reception

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 212

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Magna Carta in Context

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Sangren 1710

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Medieval Art: From Romanesque to Gothic (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Medieval Canon Law and Social Issues

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 208

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Medieval Emotions: Affect and the Medieval Experience I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 159

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Medieval Prosopography I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1060

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Medieval Texts in Digital Environments: New Directions, Old Problems

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2040

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Music and Polyphonic Practice

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2345

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Passing as the Monster

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1045

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Polysemy in Old English and Old Norse

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II LeFevre Lounge

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Reading Aloud Old French and Middle French (A Workshop)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Garneau 205

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Riddles, Puns, and Play: Poetic and Literary Games in the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Sangren 1730

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Romance Materiality I: The (Im)materiality of the Book

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1335

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Saint Teresa of Avila's Sisters: Writing Women in Medieval Iberia

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Eicher 202

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Impact of Scotus, Ockham, and Auriol in Iberia and Latin America I: Physics, Metaphysics, and Knowledge

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Hadley 101

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Middle Ages in the Classroom

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1355

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Other Side of Translation

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson 303

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Seven-Hundredth Anniversary of the Great European Famine, 1315-2015

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1010

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The State and Its Loyal Constituencies in Late Antiquity

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Sangren 1750

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Understanding of the Jew as "Other" in Medieval Europe

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 210

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Thomas Aquinas I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Garneau Lounge

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Tolkien as Translator and Translated

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 204

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Transforming Women: Gender and the Creation of the Early Franciscan Tradition

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Shilling Lounge

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Transnationalism before the Nation?

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1235

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Travel, Maps, and Itineraries in Medieval Ireland and Britain

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1225

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

What Was the Bible in the Middle Ages?

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 213

10:00 AM

1:30 PM

Aging Gower

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1235

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Approaching Portraiture across Medieval Art

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1360

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Bodies that Matter II: Impact and Outreach in Medieval Studies (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 205

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Building Hagiographies I: Saintly Imagery in Episcopal Monumental Contexts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1005

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

CANTUS Antique Fragments Roadshow, or, "What's My Fragment?" (A Panel Discussion and Workshop)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 210

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Celebrating Occitania Then and Now: Responses across Disciplines

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1350

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Celebrations at Court

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II LeFevre Lounge

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Celebrations in the Heroic Age

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2020

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Christine de Pizan and the Visual Arts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard East Ballroom

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Christopher Tolkien as Medieval Scholar (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Eicher 202

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Comparative Perspectives on the Figure of the Poet

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Sangren 1740

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Coptic Stitch Binding I (A Workshop)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Dining Hall

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Cusanus and the Hussites

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 213

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

De/Coupling Monstrosity and Disability

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1045

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Envisioning the Afterlife in the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 208

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Food and Feast in Medieval Outlaw Texts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1275

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

HMML at Fifty: Preserving Manuscripts and Providing Access for Five Decades

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2345

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

In Honor of John M. Hill I: The Cultural World of Beowulf

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 106

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

In Honor of William R. Cook: Franciscan Themes in Medieval Artistic Representations

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 204

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

In Memory of John H. Munro: Countryside, Peasants, and Agriculture

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2355

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

In the Zone: Reconsidering the Beneventan Zone I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1265

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Interiority in Old English Prose and Poetry

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2030

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Jewish-Christian Studies

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 211

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Leadership Profiles in the Tenth- and Eleventh-Century Church

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 159

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Lectio Divina and Its Echoes

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1040

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

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

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1225

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Medieval Emotions: Affect and the Medieval Experience II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Hadley 101

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Medieval Game Cultures (A Panel Discussion)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 209

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Medieval Military Technology

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 158

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Medieval Prosopography II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson 303

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Medieval Slavic Manuscripts I: Practical Slavic Codicology and Paleography

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Waldo Library Meader Room

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Medieval Tradition of Natural Law I: In Honor of Cary J. Nederman's Contribution to the Study of Natural Law in Medieval Political Philosophy

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Shilling Lounge

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Medieval Translation Theory and Practice I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Garneau 205

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Modernizing the Medieval for a New Generation: Medievalism in Children's and Young Adult Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Sangren 1750

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Moving More Online: Strategies and Challenges for Using Technology in the "Classroom" (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Sangren 1730

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Philosophical Themes and Issues in Malory's Morte Darthur

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson Lounge

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Preparing for the Academic Job Market (A Workshop)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Sangren 1710

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Rape, Violence, and Consent: The Medieval Pastourelle

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Sangren 1720

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Religious Boundaries and Their Maintenance in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1345

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Religious Life in High Medieval Liège

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1010

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Romance Materiality II: Romancing the Material

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1335

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Shakespeare and Sex

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1245

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Spaces of Poetry, Poetry of Spaces in Medieval Iberia

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1060

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Archaeology of Early Medieval Europe: New Advances in Avar Archaeology I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 212

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Cross in Medieval Art

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2016

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Impact of Scotus, Ockham, and Auriol in Iberia and Latin America II The Iberian Scholastic Tradition in Interaction with Non-Christians

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1355

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Production of the Medieval Play (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Welsh Arthur and His Afterlives in Medieval England, Scotland, and Wales

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1140

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Thomas Aquinas II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Garneau Lounge

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Unanswered Questions about Joan of Arc

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2040

1:30 PM

3:30 PM

Alfredian Texts and Contexts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2030

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

All Medieval Manuscripts Online: Strategic Plans in Europe

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2040

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Anchorites, Hermits, and the Nobility

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2016

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Animal Languages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 205

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Bede's Library

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 209

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Building Hagiographies II: Saintly Imagery in Non-Episcopal Monumental Contexts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1005

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Commentaries as Conduits: Christian, Islamic, and Sectarian Influences in Medieval Jewish Exegesis

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Hadley 101

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Coptic Stitch Binding II (A Workshop)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Dining Hall

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Critical Imperative: The Future of Feminism

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Sangren 1710

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Dead Language Karaoke (A Performance and Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Sangren 1730

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Much Ado about Nothing: Pre-Texts, Texts, and After-Texts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1245

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Expressing Emotions in Medieval Latin Letters

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson Lounge

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Form across Discipline (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Sangren 1720

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Gottfried von Strassburg's Tristan

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson 303

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Gower and Memory

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1225

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Iberian Borders and Beyond: Medieval Liminalities in Conversation

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1060

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

In Honor of Annemarie Weyl Carr II: Visualizations of Mary, East and West

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1360

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

In Honor of John M. Hill II: Early Medieval Aesthetics

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 106

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

In the Zone: Reconsidering the Beneventan Zone II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1265

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Late Antiquity I: Documents and Language

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 211

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Manuscript Studies

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1275

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Mary in the Medieval Franciscan Tradition

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 204

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medieval Inspiration for Modern Art: An Exhibit of Collages by Marsha Pippenger Inspired by Christine de Pizan's City of Ladies and Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard East Ballroom

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medieval Landscapes of Disease

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Sangren 1740

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medieval London

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1010

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medieval Music: The Secular Side (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medieval Slavic Manuscripts II: Challenges and Trends in Preservation and Access (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Waldo Library Meader Room

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medieval Tradition of Natural Law II: Natural Law and Moral Philosophy

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Shilling Lounge

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medieval Translation Theory and Practice II (A Practicum)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Garneau 205

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

"Most Evident"? or "Most Tricky"? Toward a Methodology for the Paremiological Study of Medieval Literature and Culture (A Panel Discussion)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II LeFevre Lounge

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Names: At the Crossroads of Onomastics and Medieval Studies

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Sangren 1750

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Occitania across the University Campus (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1345

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Predicting the Past: Dream Symbology in the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1235

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Records of Early English Drama North East

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1045

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Romance Materiality III: Materialize or Material Lies?

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1335

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Selfhood in Nicholas of Cusa's De visione dei

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 213

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Slavery and Slave Trade in Medieval Mediterranean Society

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2345

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Annual Journal of Medieval Military History Lecture

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 158

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Archaeology of Early Medieval Europe: New Advances in Avar Archaeology II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 212

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Cultures of Food in the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1350

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Impact of Scotus, Ockham, and Auriol in Iberia and Latin America III: Dominion, Resistance, and Freedom to Choose

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1355

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Public Medievalist: A Roundtable on Engaging the Public with the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1140

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Robert T. Farrell Lecture

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2020

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Theologians and Hagiographers

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1040

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Thomas Aquinas III

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Garneau Lounge

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Tolkien and Victorian Medievalism

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2355

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Trauma in Arthurian Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 159

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Women and Power to 1100 (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Eicher 202

3:30 PM

7:30 PM

A Roundtable on the Round Table

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1280

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Ambiguous Women in Medieval Art

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2020

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Anchorites, Hermits, and Medieval Popular Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 106

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Cistercian Influences

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1040

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Piers Plowman as Never Heard Before: A Dramatic Reading from Piers Plowman: A Modern Verse Translation (A Performance)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Hadley 101

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Food, Feast, and Famine: Core Elements and Future Directions in the Interdisciplinary Study of Medieval Food and Famine (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2016

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Good Love for All: Opening the Libro de buen amor

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Garneau Lounge

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Hell Studies

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1145

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Illustration, Complication, Contradiction: Dialogue between Word and Image

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1130

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Lais and Virelais: Music by Machaut (A Performance)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Eicher 202

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Legend, Narrative, and Place in Medieval England

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1275

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Lydgate and London

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1140

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Material Engagements with the Friends of God in Post-Roman Europe

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II LeFevre Lounge

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Medicine and Magic I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 159

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Medieval Data: Prospects and Practices

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1010

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Medieval French Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Shilling Lounge

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Medieval Poetry/Modern Poets (Open Mic) (Performances)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 213

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

On the "Mouve": Medieval Literary Adaptations

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1060

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Playing Medieval (A Festive Video Game Workshop and Poster Session)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 208

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Reimagining the Middle Ages (ca. 500-1500)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1135

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Retrieval of Meaning in Digital Humanities

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1005

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Revisiting Remediation

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 205

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Staged Reading of Much Ado about Nothing (A Performance)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 210

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

The Bayeux Tapestry: The Stitches Speak (A Workshop)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Britton 103

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

The Crusades

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 158

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

The Impact of Scotus, Ockham, and Auriol in Iberia and Latin America IV: Justice in the Franciscan Tradition and Beyond

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 204

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Theory and Practice in Medieval Contexts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Therese Scarpelli Cory's Aquinas on Human Self-Knowledge: Author Meets Critics

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson Lounge

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Tolkien's Beowulf (A Readers' Theater Performance) and Maidens of Middle-earth V, "Turin's Women"

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1045

7:30 PM

Friday, May 15th
10:00 AM

All the World's a Stage: Performance and Performativity in Medieval England

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 212

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Approaches to Teaching Pearl

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1125

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Breaching Religious Order: Towards New and Productive Uses of "Order" as a Category of Analysis in Monastic and Mendicant Scholarship

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1320

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Chant and Liturgy

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1160

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Childhood and Adolescence in Early Germanic Culture

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1135

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 Garneau 205

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Civic Foundation Legends in Italian Art I: Rome and the City-Republics

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 210

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Classical Philosophy in the Lands of Islam and Its Influence I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson Lounge

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Dark Age Deity

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 213

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Digital Humanities: The Franco-Italian Huon d'Auvergne, an NEH-Supported Digital Edition and Translation Project (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1060

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Dress and Textiles I: Creature Comforts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2016

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Early Medieval Europe II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1245

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Catalogus Verborum: Catalog, List, and the Spilling-Over of Learning

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2040

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Cerevisia Sancta: Monastic Brewing Revisited

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1120

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

England's Immigrants, 1350-1550 (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1045

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Experience and Innocence

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson 303

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

False Friends: "Translation," "Adaptation," or "Creative Interpretation" of the Medieval Text?

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2355

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Future Directions for Research in Medieval Medicine (A Roundtable)

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Valley I Hadley 101

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Genre Bending in Lawman's Brut

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Valley II Garneau Lounge

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Imagination

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Fetzer 1010

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

In Memory of Richard Britnell: Peasants, Markets and Trade

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Schneider 1235

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

In the Penumbra of the Peninsula: Projections of Iberian Power and Culture across the Medieval Mediterranean

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Schneider 1155

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Late European Merlins

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Schneider 1335

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Making It or Faking It? The Strange Truths of "False Witnesses" to Medieval Forms

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Schneider 1130

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Medicine and Magic II

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Schneider 1325

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Medieval Paris

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Fetzer 2020

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Medieval Sermon Studies I: Cistercian Preaching

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Valley II LeFevre Lounge

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Medingen Manuscripts in America

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Fetzer 1040

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Memory and Community in Anglo-Saxon England

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Fetzer 2030

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Middle English Literature

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Schneider 1350

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Minstrels and Players

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Schneider 2335

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Mis-imaging the Text in Illuminated Manuscripts of Medieval Narratives

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Schneider 2345

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

New Directions in Jewish Art History

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Schneider 1340

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

New Research Directions: Medieval Iberia (A Roundtable in Memoriam of Olivia Remie Constable)

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Schneider 1220

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

New Work by Young Celtic Studies Scholars

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Schneider 1225

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Perspectives on Libro del caballero Zifar

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Schneider 1345

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Philosophical Questions in the Sentences Commentary of Saint Bonaventure (A Roundtable)

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Valley II Eicher 202

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Quantum Medievalisms (A Roundtable)

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Bernhard 158

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Reconsidering Form and the Literary (A Roundtable)

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Bernhard 204

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Reformation I: Dissonance, Resistance, and Controversy

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Bernhard 211

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Science, Nature, and Geography in the British Isles and Scandinavia in the Middle Ages

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Schneider 1355

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Super Medieval! Visual Representations of "Medieval Superheroes"

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Schneider 1145

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Ballad of the Lone Medievalist: Succeeding at Smaller Colleges and Universities (A Roundtable)

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Fetzer 1005

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Crusades and the Levant

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Bernhard 208

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Exeter Book: Riddles and Poems

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Bernhard 205

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Fancy Pincushions: An Analysis of the Lethality of English Warbows and Wararrows against Armored and Unarmored Individuals through Experimental Archeology (A Demonstration)

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Schneider 1275

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Matter of Faerieland

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Valley I Shilling Lounge

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

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

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Waldo Library Classroom A

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Nature of the Middle Ages: A Problem for Historians? (A Roundtable)

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Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Neomedieval Image

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Bernhard 209

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Secret Life of Medieval Plants

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Bernhard 106

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Visualizing Ovid in the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1330

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

When Is a Scribe Not a Scribe?

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Schneider 1265

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Women at "Pley": Magic, Seduction, and Ingenuity in Medieval English Romance

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Bernhard 159

10:00 AM

1:30 PM

Anglo-Saxon England

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Schneider 1120

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Archaeology and Experiment: Moving beyond the Artifacts

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Schneider 1125

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Beasts and Birds

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Fetzer 1010

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Bishops and Their Towns: Aspects of Episcopal Influence within Urban Environments

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Bernhard 106

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Bonaventure and the Sacraments

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Valley II Eicher 202

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Carolingian Monasticism I: Benedict of Aniane Reconsidered

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Schneider 1345

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Celebrating the Fortieth Anniversary of the Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies

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Fetzer 1005

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Civic Foundation Legends in Italian Art II: The Southern Kingdom

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Bernhard 210

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Classical Philosophy in the Lands of Islam and Its Influence II

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Bernhard 204

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Courtly Elements in Epic

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Valley II Garneau Lounge

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Critical Mediations (A Roundtable)

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Schneider 1280

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Crossing Borders: Cross Influences in the Writings of Wales and Scotland and Their Bordering Neighbors

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Schneider 1140

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Crusade and Literary Genre

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Valley II Garneau 205

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Debatable Queens: (Re)assessing Medieval Stateswomanship, Power, and Authority

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Valley III Stinson Lounge

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Discourses of Memory: Medieval Perspectives on the Past

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Bernhard 159

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Dress and Textiles II: Rules and Roles

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Fetzer 2016

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Early Medieval Art and Architecture

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Fetzer 2040

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Ecology, Animals, and Culture in the Middle Ages

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Schneider 1325

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Feeling Medieval: Teaching Emotion in the Middle Ages

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Fetzer 2030

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Fragmentation and Method: Reading the Divided in Text, Song, and Image

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Schneider 1335

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

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

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Schneider 1330

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

In Honor of Antonette diPaolo Healey I: Wordcraft: Anglo-Saxon Studies after the Dictionary of Old English

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Bernhard 158

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

In Honor of Evelyn Birge Vitz I: Performed and Read: The Critical Challenges of the Amphibian Text (A Roundtable)

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Schneider 1220

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

In Honor of Linda Ehrsam Voigts: Theory and Practice in Latin and Vernacular Medieval Medical Texts I

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Fetzer 2020

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Liturgical Drama: In Memory of Clifford Flanigan

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Schneider 1145

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Love Thy Neighbor?

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Schneider 1160

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Magical Agency: Prayers, Ritual, Prophecy, and Prognostication

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Schneider 1320

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Malory and Causality

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Valley III Stinson 303

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Material Iberia I: Devotional Objects, Devoted Bodies in Christianity

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Schneider 1360

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Medieval Chronicles

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Schneider 1225

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Medieval Latin: Fusion of the Classic Form with the Medieval Style (A Roundtable)

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Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Medieval Sermon Studies II: Preaching and the Fourth Lateran Council

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Schneider 1155

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Mother and Other Tongues: Choices, Conflicts, Resistances

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Bernhard 212

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Multidisciplinary Saint Bridget: In Honor of Syon Abbey’s Six-Hundredth Anniversary

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Bernhard 209

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Music and Text

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Schneider 1130

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Papers by Undergraduates I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1340

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Petrarch Studies

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Valley I Hadley 101

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Political Power and Influence in Late Medieval England

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Fetzer 1045

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Post-Conquest Religiosity

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Schneider 1275

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Reformation II: Reformation Texts and Contexts

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Bernhard 211

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Sacred and Secular Road Trips in Middle English Romance

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Valley I Shilling Lounge

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Seminar on Using Fragmentary Books of Hours in College and University Teaching I (A Workshop)

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Waldo Library Meader Room

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Sing Arms and the Author

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Schneider 1350

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Source Study: A Retrospective

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Bernhard 213

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Teaching History of a Language and/or Medieval Languages (A Multidisciplinary Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1235

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Decadent Fifteenth Century

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Bernhard 208

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Devotional Culture of Cistercian Nuns

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Fetzer 1040

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Sounds of Silence

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Bernhard 205

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Venerable Bede: Issues and Controversies I

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Schneider 1135

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Violent Ends of Sensation

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1265

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Toleration of the Religious "Other"

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Valley II LeFevre Lounge

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Transgressive Materiality

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1355

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Traveling Selves: Creating the Pilgrim Persona

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1060

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Western Europe in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1245

1:30 PM

3:30 PM

Archaeological and Artistic Intervention in the Medieval Heritage of the Iberian Peninsula

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Bernhard 205

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Arthurian Landscapes

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Bernhard 209

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Building the Auctores: Assessing the Use of Authorities in the Construction of Medieval Texts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2016

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Carolingian Monasticism II: Smaragdus, Hildemar, and Monastic Reform

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Schneider 1345

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Celebrating Ten Years of the Marco Manuscript Workshop: Mind the Gaps

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Bernhard 212

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Charles d'Orléans and His Books (A Roundtable)

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Valley I Hadley 101

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Chaucer Studies

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Schneider 1225

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Christine de Pizan's Political Voice

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Schneider 1335

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Cistercians in a Changing World

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Fetzer 1040

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Civic Foundation Legends in Italian Art III (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 210

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Debatable Rule:(Re)assessing Medieval Statecraft, Power, Authority, and Gender (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1005

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Dress and Textiles III: Texts and Techniques

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1120

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Hyle, Materia, Sylva, Subject Matter, Prime Matter, Woods

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Bernhard 159

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Fluctuating Networks: The Constructive Role of Broken Bonds in the Medieval Mediterranean and Beyond

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Schneider 1320

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Grave Matters: Books Unknown and Disappearing

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Schneider 1350

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

How to Be a Heretic: Teaching Heterodoxies and Non-Christian Practices (A Roundtable)

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Fetzer 2030

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Ibero-Romance Philology: In Honor of David Mackenzie

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2040

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

In Honor of Antonette diPaolo Healey II: Old English Language and Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 158

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

In Honor of Evelyn Birge Vitz II: Performance in Progress: The Dynamics of Storytelling (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1220

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

In Honor of Linda Ehrsam Voigts: Theory and Practice in Latin and Vernacular Medieval Medical Texts II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2020

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Jews and Saracens in Early Middle English

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1060

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Justice and Law in Medieval Contexts and Beyond

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1330

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Late Antiquity II: Barbarian Europe

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1245

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Lateran IV and the English Secular Clergy

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Bernhard 106

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Latin Writing in Ireland and Wales

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1145

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Literary and Rhetorical Characteristics of Medieval Historiography

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Valley II Eicher 202

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Literature and Science in the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1010

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Lost (A Roundtable)

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Schneider 1140

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Material Iberia II: Shaping Bodies in Literature and Art across the Abrahamic Traditions

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1360

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medieval Christian Hebraism

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Bernhard 208

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medieval Contributions to the Theory of Knowledge (A Roundtable Discussion)

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Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medieval Sermon Studies III: Preaching from the Carolingian Period to the Fifteenth Century

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1160

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

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

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Schneider 1355

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Movement in Medieval Literature

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Schneider 1275

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Music and Context

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Schneider 1130

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Narratives of Power and Sacrality in the Long Twelfth Century

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Valley II Garneau 205

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

New Frontiers in Old Norse

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1125

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

New Perspectives on Liturgical Drama

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1235

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Papers by Undergraduates II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1340

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Performing Christ and Satan: A Readers' Theater Performance of the York Smiths' Play ("The Temptation") and the York Saddlers' Play ("Harrowing of Hell") from the York Mystery Cycle

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Ackley 106

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Political Medievalisms

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1280

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Political/Social Action: Negotiating Complicated Work Spaces (A Roundtable)

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Valley III Stinson Lounge

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Queering Eden

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Valley II Garneau Lounge

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Reformation III: Problematic Figures: Self, Persona, and Audience

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Bernhard 211

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Representations of Friendship in Medieval Italian Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Shilling Lounge

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Seminar on Using Fragmentary Books of Hours in College and University Teaching II (A Workshop)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Waldo Library Meader Room

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Sources of Anglo-Saxon Culture

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 213

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Space: Time

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1155

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Stories about Books: Evidence and the Making of Narrative

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1265

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Textual and Manuscript Studies in Online Environments

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1325

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Biblical Feminine in Medieval Franciscan Writings

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Bernhard 204

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Currency of Proverbs

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Valley III Stinson 303

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Venerable Bede: Issues and Controversies II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1135

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The White Hart Lecture

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1045

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Toleration and Council

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Valley II LeFevre Lounge

3:30 PM

5:15 PM

2015 Morimichi Watanabe Lecture

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Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

5:15 PM

5:30 PM

Medieval Originality: Looking Back, Looking Forward (A Panel Discussion)

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Bernhard East Ballroom

5:30 PM

7:30 PM

Performing Malory: The Tale of Arthur and Lucius, Emperor of Rome (A Readers' Theater Performance)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson Lounge

7:30 PM

8:00 PM

New Books Roundtable

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 211

8:00 PM

9:30 PM

A Hands-On Introduction to Astrolabes (A Workshop)

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Valley III Stinson Lounge

9:30 PM

Saturday, May 16th
10:00 AM

A Library, a Saint, a Rose

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Schneider 1235

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Actual and Virtual Reconstructions of the Past

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Schneider 1220

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Art and Technology in the Cloister and Castle I

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Schneider 1140

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Astrology and Medieval Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1325

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Before and after Eriugena

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Schneider 1335

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Byzantium and the Middle Ages: Bosom Buddies or Uneasy Allies? (A Roundtable Discussion)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Hadley 101

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Cistercian Exempla Tradition

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1040

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Dante I: Hybridity

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1345

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

(Dis)Abilities in the Pearl-Poems

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Valley II Garneau Lounge

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Early Medieval Europe III

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1160

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Early Medieval Hagiography

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Schneider 1350

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Early Yiddish Literature

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Bernhard 158

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

East Norse Texts: From Runes to Reformation

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1155

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Eat, Play, Teach: Medieval Food and Foodways in the Classroom

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Valley III Stinson Lounge

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Editing the Future of the Middle Ages: Some Speculative Emendations (A Roundtable)

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Fetzer 1005

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Imperium sine Fine: Power and the Quest for Permanence from Antiquity to Pre-modernity

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Fetzer 2040

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

La corónica International Book Award: Nicola Clarke, The Muslim Conquest of Iberia: Medieval Arabic Narratives (A Panel Discussion)

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Valley II Garneau 205

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Ye Nexte Generacioun: Young Scholars Look to the Next Fifty Years (A Roundtable)

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Schneider 1245

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Expanding the Canon: Period, Performance, and Pedagogy

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Fetzer 2020

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Family Feud! Familial Strife and Medieval Communities, ca. 1000-1500

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1355

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Fifteenth-Century England

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Bernhard 211

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Foundation and Migration

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Valley II Eicher 202

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Franciscan Women in Iberia: Translation and Transformation

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Schneider 1145

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Gender and Materiality in the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2016

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Gendering Emotion in Medieval Thought

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1265

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Giving Birth to Christ in Later Medieval Mystical and Devotional Literature

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Fetzer 2030

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

God, Nation, Text: Religion and Identity in Seventh-Century Gaul and the Isles

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Bernhard 204

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

In Honor of Thomas D. Hill I: Cruxes Busted

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Schneider 1360

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Incarceration in the Fourteenth Century

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Fetzer 1045

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

"Is there a text in this Middle English?": Chaucer’s "Text" and the Oral-Aural Context of His Oeuvre

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson 303

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Late Medieval Art

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1330

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Literature and Music in Medieval Italy

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2355

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Lollards, Getting Formal

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1130

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Medieval Propaganda: Its Forms and Functions

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 159

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Memory, Text, and Image in Medieval German Literature

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Bernhard 213

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Metaphysical Medievalisms

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1280

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

New Approaches to Tenth- and Eleventh-Century European Reform

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Bernhard 210

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

New Theoretical Approaches to Medieval Women Writers

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Schneider 2335

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Performances of Marie de France: Guigemar

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Fetzer 1060

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Philosophy of Saint Thomas Aquinas I: Metaphysics

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Valley II LeFevre Lounge

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Pilgrimage, Travel, and Exploration

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1225

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Pleasure from Aesthetics to Ethics: An Interdisciplinary Exploration

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 205

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Reading Aloud the French of England (A Workshop)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 208

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Sadomasochism as a Premodern Practice?

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Sidney Circle Poetics

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Shilling Lounge

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Teaching Latin outside the Classics Department (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 212

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Textile, Text, Intertext: Papers in Honor of Gale R. Owen-Crocker

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1120

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The "Good," the "Bad," and the "Ugly" Ruler: Ideal Kingship in the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1125

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Factual and Symbolic Appearance of Animals in Medieval Literature and Imagination

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2345

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Line that Lies Within: Form and Poetics in the Pricke of Conscience

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1010

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Meanings of Erasure

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1035

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Medical Humanities in Medieval England

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 209

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Politics of Power and Theory in World Culture: Inspired by Cary J. Nederman

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 106

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Uses of Magic in Middle English Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1275

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Vercelli Book: Accessing Vernacularity in the Tenth Century

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1135

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Whole Page: Reintegrating Margins

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1055

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

What's New in Digital Humanities (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1340

10:00 AM

1:30 PM

Acculturation and Assimilation in al-Andalus

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2335

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Affect, Emotion, and the Senses in the Works of Alain Chartier and His Contemporaries

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2030

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Anglo-Norman England

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2355

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Art and Technology in the Cloister and Castle II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1140

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Authority and Control in Medieval German Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 213

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Ballads and Social History/Ballads outside Social History

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 205

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Benedictines and Victorines in the Twelfth Century

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 208

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Beyond Francis and Dominic: Saints and the New Religious Orders in Late Medieval Italian Art

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 212

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

"Can These Bones Come To Life?" I: Field Reports from Re-construction, Re-enactment, and Re-creation in the Classroom

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 210

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Cancionero and Performance

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1225

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Changing Scenes: Production Then and Production Now (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2020

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Chivalry and Violence in Medieval Society

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 211

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Cistercians as Landowners

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1040

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Collectivity and Exchange

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 209

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Comparison and Variation in Medieval Languages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 204

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Dante II: Other Discourses

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1345

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Early Arthuriana

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 106

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Economies of Salvation, 1100-1300

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1265

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Efficacious Words: Spoken and Inscribed

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1130

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Elegies and Epitaphs

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1125

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Emblem Studies

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1355

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Evidence of Bodies in Medieval and Renaissance England: Wombs, Wounds, and Words I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1280

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Figurations of Male Beauty in Medieval Culture

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1120

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

From Frodo to Fidelma: Medievalisms in Popular Genres (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 158

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Gender and Law in Comparison

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2040

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Global Sanctity: Demons and the Demonic

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Garneau Lounge

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Gower and Performance (A Performance)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Eicher 202

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Hiberno-Latin Literature and Studies

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1235

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Homonationalisms (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Hadley 101

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

In Honor of Christina von Nolcken I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1220

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

In Honor of Thomas D. Hill II: Compare and Contrast! Anglo-Saxon Literature and Beyond

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson Lounge

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

"In how mich it is more openly taghte": Henry Daniel and the Early Vernacularization of English Medicine

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1325

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Inspired by Constance Brittain Bouchard: Family, Memory, and Identity I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1045

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Late Antiquity and the New Humanities (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Garneau 205

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Law and Legal Culture in Anglo-Saxon England I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1160

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Lay Uses of Antiquity in the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1035

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Markets, Fairs, and Merchant Travel in the Fourteenth Century

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1275

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Medieval Mind of C. S. Lewis: Sources, Influences, Revisions, Scholarship

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Shilling Lounge

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Medieval Reception of Augustine of Hippo

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson 303

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Medievalists in the Media (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1340

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Middle English Lyrics: Form, Focus, Function

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 159

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Money in the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1335

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Music and Courtly Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1360

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Mysticism and Materiality

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1060

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Networks of Transmission: Histories and Practices of Collecting Medieval Manuscripts and Documents

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1055

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

New Voices in Anglo-Saxon Studies I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1155

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Nunneries in Medieval Europe: New Historiographical and Methodological Approaches I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1010

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Philip Sidney's Poetics

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1350

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Philosophy of Saint Thomas Aquinas II: Ethics

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II LeFevre Lounge

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Post-War Scholarship and the Study of the Middle Ages I: Ernst Robert Curtius

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2345

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Religious Persecution and Heretical Identities in Medieval Europe

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1245

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Researching the Autobiographical Impulse: New Texts and Methods in Medieval Autobiography Studies

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Scandinavian Studies

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1330

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Students' Texts Are in Their Pockets: Does That Make a Difference?

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1005

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Pearl-Poet’s Poetics and Patterns

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1320

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Unsettled Marks: To #;()@?”:—*!… and Beyond! (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2016

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Urban and Sacred Topography of Prilep: A Byzantine Town in the Balkans

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1135

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Ēast Mēteþ West: Eastern Europe and Anglo-Saxon England

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1145

1:30 PM

3:30 PM

Archaeology Unearthed: Hands-On History Demonstrations

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Swan Pond

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Blurring the Boundaries in Medieval Literature: Bodies, Species, Texts, and Objects

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 106

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Broadening the Horizons of Theater: Geography and Theory

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2020

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

"Can These Bones Come To Life?" II: From Collector to Curator to Craftsperson (In Memory of the Higgins Armory Museum)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 210

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Chivalry, Honor, and Martial Skill: Visual Displays of Power in the Later Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 204

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Cistercian Property Management

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1040

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Comparative Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson 303

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Conflict and Continuity: Background and Reception of The Mirror of Simple Souls

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Garneau Lounge

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Dante III: Other Contexts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1340

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Discernment and Proof: Strategies of Authentication in the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2335

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Emblem Studies and Visual Culture

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2355

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Emotions and Nation in Late Medieval France

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 211

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Epigrams on Art in Byzantium

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1155

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Evidence of Bodies in Medieval and Renaissance England: Wombs, Wounds, and Words II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1280

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Gaylord Workshop on Reading Chaucer Aloud

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Hadley 101

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Gower and Medicine

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2016

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Guinevere at Amesbury: Monasticism and the Arthurian Tradition

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 212

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Hildegard von Bingen: Bridges to Infinity

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1235

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

In Honor of Christina von Nolcken II: Another Kind of Saint: Wycliffite Hagiographies

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1220

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Inspired by Constance Brittain Bouchard: Family, Memory, and Identity II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1045

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Langland's Library

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson Lounge

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Law and Legal Culture in Anglo-Saxon England II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1160

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Law as Culture: Statutes and Courts in Medieval England

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1055

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Magic Sung, Spoken, Inscribed, and Printed​

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1130

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Making Meaning: Context and Reception in the Early Medieval World

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1265

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Martin and More: Genre Medievalisms

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 158

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Materiality of Music

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1145

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medieval Ecocriticisms: What Can Medieval Studies Bring to Ecocriticism? (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1035

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medieval Iberian Studies in the Last Fifty Years

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1225

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medieval Money

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1330

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

New Approaches to Venantius Fortunatus

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2030

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

New Voices in Anglo-Saxon Studies II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1135

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Nunneries in Medieval Europe: New Historiographical and Methodological Approaches II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1010

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Object Iterations

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1140

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Old English Lexis and Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1335

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Phantom Limb: The Presence of the Problem of Pain in the Works of C. S. Lewis

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Shilling Lounge

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Philosophy of Saint Thomas Aquinas III: Human Nature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II LeFevre Lounge

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Piracy's Effect on Trade throughout the Medieval Mediterranean: In Memory of Olivia Remie Constable's Scholarship on Intercultural Contacts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1325

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

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

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2345

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Primary Sources in the Digital Middle Ages (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1120

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Reading and Writing Jews and Judaism in Medieval French Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Remembering Jacques LeGoff (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Eicher 202

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Rethinking Medieval Maps

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2040

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Routes of Translation in the Medieval Mediterranean

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 159

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Site and Insight: Visio Divina in Medieval Spirituality

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1060

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Teaching Medieval in a General Education Context (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1360

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Ballad: Traditions, Texts, Treatments

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 205

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Bayeux Tapestry: The Stitches Speak (A Performance)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Britton 103

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Early Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1125

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Icelandic Sagas as History

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1245

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Many Faces of Matilda: Commemorating the Ninth Centennial of Matilda of Tuscany / Mathilde di Canossa

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Garneau 205

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Progression of Mathematics in Medieval Western Europe

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1345

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Scottish Makars

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1355

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Structure of Romance (1150-1220)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1320

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Van Dorsten Lecture

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1350

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Translations and Adaptations of Boethius's De consolatione philosophiae

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 209

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Visual Messages to Influence Daily Life

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 208

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Women and Families in the Fourteenth Century

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1275

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Women of the Medieval World/Medieval Women of the World

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1005

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Words and Verses

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 213

3:30 PM

7:00 PM

In Honor of Alan T. Gaylord: A Readers' Theater Presentation: The Oral-Aural Chaucer (A Performance)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 210

7:00 PM

7:00 PM

Modern Chamber Music Inspired by the Music of Hildegard von Bingen

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1045

7:00 PM

8:00 PM

Once More Seasoned for Change

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1005

8:00 PM

Sunday, May 17th
8:30 AM

Abelard and Heloise

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Shilling Lounge

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Anglo-Saxon England and the Celtic World

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 158

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Bilingual England: Englishing Linguistic Others

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1155

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Chaucer, Saint Augustine, and Clerical Practice in the English Middle Ages: "Pronuntiatio and Its Effect on Chaucer's Audience" Once More

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1130

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Cistercian Textual Studies I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1040

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Cornering the Snarket: Sarcasm in Medieval and Renaissance Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1005

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Criminal Intent in English Literature and Law

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Garneau Lounge

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Digitally Enabled Scholarship of Medieval Manuscripts (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1010

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Imitatio Christi in Early Modern English Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1035

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Greatest Lancastrian Legacy? The Six-Hundredth Anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 210

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

(Im)materiality in English and Welsh Medieval Culture

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1045

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Interiority and Topographies of Self from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1140

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Late Medieval Iberia

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1060

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Locating the Early Irish Monks and Saints

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 204

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Machaut: New Directions for Analysis

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1135

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Marginal Bodies, Corporeal Communities in Anglo-Saxon England

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1145

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Moving Women, Moving Objects I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1220

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

New Comparative Approaches to Anglo-Saxon Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1225

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Pathways to Power in Early Medieval Northern Europe I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 209

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Petrarch in Dialogue

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 212

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Secular Piers Plowman

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2016

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Sin, Vice, and Bad Behavior in Early Spanish Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson Lounge

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

The Cultures of Georgia and Armenia

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1125

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

The Formation of Identity in Middle English Arthurian Romance

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II LeFevre Lounge

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

The Reception of Cicero in the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2030

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Tolkien as Linguist and Medievalist

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1120

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Topics in Medieval Numismatics

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 211

8:30 AM

10:30 AM

Anglo-Norman Literature and Manuscripts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 213

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Anglo-Saxon Studies Now (A Panel Discussion)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1005

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Augustine's Philosophical Interactions with Christianity

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Garneau Lounge

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Bastard Feudalism at Seventy: The Legacy of K. B. McFarlane on the Study of Politics

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 210

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Cistercian Textual Studies II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1040

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Disguise and Incognito: 1000-1500

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Shilling Lounge

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Ecotastrophes (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1010

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Copia Verborum: Synonymy, Amplification, Lists, and Logorrhea

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 211

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Episcopal Identity and Power: The Tale of the Prince-Bishops of Durham and Their Castle at Auckland

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2020

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Good Behavior/Bad Behavior: Asserting and Advocating Behavioral Norms in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 158

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Imagery in Medieval Herbals

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1060

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Inheriting the Grail: Genealogy, Textuality, History

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1140

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

King, Queens, and Allies in Late Medieval Warfare

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 106

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Langland's Words

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1155

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Machaut and His English Contemporaries

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1135

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Man of Law's Northumbria Revisited

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2016

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Manuscript "Fragmentology": Perspectives on the Scholarly and Pedagogical Value of Medieval Manuscript Fragments

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1035

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Materiality and Magic

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1045

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Medieval Celebrations

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2030

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Moving Women, Moving Objects II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1220

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Noble Conduct in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2040

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Pathways to Power in Early Medieval Northern Europe II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 209

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Peasants and Texts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson Lounge

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Reflections on Medieval Violence

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 212

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Richard FitzRalph: Fourteenth-Century Scholar, Bishop and Polemicist

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 204

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Technology in Medieval Studies: New Innovations and Recent Applications

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1225

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Tolkien's Beowulf

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1055

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Writing Medieval Women Mystics

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II LeFevre Lounge

10:30 AM