51st International Congress on Medieval Studies (2016)

Presented here is the schedule of numbered 90-minute sessions of the 51st International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 12-15, 2016), as well as unnumbered sessions occurring on Friday and Saturday evenings. Excluded are a variety of scheduled activities, including plenary lectures, the dance, a concert, 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 6, 2016).The complete printed program, including the Corrigenda, is available elsewhere in ScholarWorks at WMU in PDF format.

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Schedule
2016
Thursday, May 12th
10:00 AM

1016: Year of Three Kings

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 158

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

A Queen Is Born: Celebrating the Five-Hundredth Birthday of Queen Mary I of England

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Ackley 105

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Addressing Career Diversity for Medievalists (A Panel Discussion)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Hadley 102

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Affect and Emotion in Medieval Iberia I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2020

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Archaeology of the Medieval Iberian Peninsula: Another Way of Approching Its History

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2016

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Ballad of the Lone Medievalist, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Job (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1360

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Beyond the Diocese of Orléans: In Memory of Thomas Head

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 205

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Chris Given-Wilson's New Yale Biography of Henry IV of England (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II LeFevre Lounge

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Chronicles and Grimoires: The Occult as Political Commentary

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1350

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Cornering the Snarket (Return of the Sting)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1280

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Crusading and the Byzantine Legacy in the Northwestern Black Sea Region

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1060

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Dante I: Genre and Medium

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1275

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Ingenium and Memoria

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

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

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1145

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Speculatio, Medieval and Modern

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1140

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Emblem Studies

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1045

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Enforcement and Application: Building a Case for Early Medieval Legal Texts as Law and Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1005

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Fathering, Fostering, Translating, and Creating in the Works of J. R. R. Tolkien

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1040

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Feminist Readings of Obscenity

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1120

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

French Romance

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 211

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

From Physics to Metaphysics: Change and Causation in Medieval Philosophy

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Shilling Lounge

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

"Hit iseie aboc iwrite": Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Vernacular Devotional Manuscripts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1335

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

In Memory of John H. Fisher, Scholar and Editor

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 209

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

In Search of Virginity (A Roundtable Discussion)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1010

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Looking Back at the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2335

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Mappings I: The Roman Heritage of Medieval Maps

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1235

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Medicine and Manuscripts, 900–1150

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1345

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Medieval Ecocriticisms: Why the Middle Ages Matter (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 106

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Medieval German Trojan War Stories of Herbort von Fritzlar, Konrad von Würzburg, and Others: Interpretations, Translations, Interpolations, Adaptations

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1340

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Medieval Iberia

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2040

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Medieval Military History I: Using Non-traditional Sources

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1220

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Medieval Settlement and Landscape in Modern Ireland

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1265

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Merlin and the Round Table

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 213

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Motet-adata: A Workshop to Explore Controlled Vocabulary for Motet Studies in a Linked Open Data Environment

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 212

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Music and Writing

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1330

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Networks and Connections in Medieval Central Europe: Archaeological and Historical Approaches

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2345

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

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

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1325

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Old English Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson 303

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Research Resources

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1355

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Rhineland Partners in Twelfth-Century Discourses

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Garneau Lounge

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Surrounding Medieval Women: Female Occupation of Secular Architecture and Landscape

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1245

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Exeter Book Riddles and Poems

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 204

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Medieval Tradition of Natural Law I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Ackley 106

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Multi-lingual Fifteenth Century: Alain Chartier, Christine de Pizan, Charles d’Orléans, et autres . . . (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 208

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Playful Reader

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 210

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Twenty Years of the Malory Companion (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson Lounge

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Unexpected Learning: The Variety of Educational Practices in Medieval Monastic Communities (Eighth- to Twelfth-Century)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2030

10:00 AM

1:30 PM

A Successor Is Born: Contested Births and Unexpected Heirs

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Ackley 105

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Affect and Emotion in Medieval Iberia II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1120

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Animal Languages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 210

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Apocalypticism in the Age of Cusanus: In Memory of Louis B. Pascoe, S.J.

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1245

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Art and Material Culture in Medieval Ireland: Papers in Memory of John Bradley I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Sangren 1710

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Dante II: Philosophical Questions

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2020

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Disparate Gowers

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 106

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Early Medieval Europe I: Politics and Identities

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 213

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Faerie Queene

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II LeFevre Lounge

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Enclosure, Transgression, and Scandal in Medieval Nunneries

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1045

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Fools on the Premodern Page and Stage

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Sangren 1740

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

"Great Settings" in Medieval History and Literature: Performing and Reception

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1060

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Holy Celebrity: Saints and/as Social and Economic Capital

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1360

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Interlingual Exchange, Interlinguistic Comprehensions, and Multilinguism in Occitan Spaces

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 204

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Intersections of the Sacred and Secular in Medieval Romance

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2016

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Koineization and Standardization in Medieval Ibero-Romance Languages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2335

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Lacunae: Noticing What Is Not There

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Ackley 106

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Manuscripts and Marginalia: Traversing Textual Boundaries

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1280

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Mappings II: Mapping Space and Time

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1235

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Medieval Military History II: Food, Fortifications, Resolution

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1220

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Medieval Peasant World I: Culture and Religion

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 209

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Method and the Middle English Text (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Hadley 102

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Music and Liturgy: In Memory of Clyde Brockett I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1335

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

New Voices in Anglo-Saxon Studies I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1265

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Old Norse-Icelandic Studies

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2040

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

Picturing the Present: Structuring the Medieval Beholder's Relation toward Time

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1140

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Prosopography and the World of Late Medieval England

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1275

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Reading Chaucer Today: What's Love Got to Do with It?

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1355

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Reassessing Kantorowicz's The King's Two Bodies: Representations of Secular Power in Word and Image

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1345

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Remembering the Crusades: Image, Norms, and Representations

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1010

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Revisiting Daventry or King’s Quest for Teaching Guests: A Pedagogical Video Game Workshop

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 208

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Rhetoric and Voice across the Fifteenth Century (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 158

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Sacred Spaces and Political Places: Fostering Regional Identities through Historical and Literary Medieval Pilgrimage I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2030

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Studies in Medieval Monasticism

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1325

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Studies on the Hêliand

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Shilling Lounge

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Teaching Arabic Sources in Translation (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Sangren 1730

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Lunatic, the Scholar, and the Poet: Translating Old English Verse for the Twenty-First Century

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 205

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Medieval Balkans as Mirror: Byzantine Perceptions of the Balkans and the World Beyond

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2345

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Medieval Tradition of Natural Law II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 212

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Scientific Works of Robert Grosseteste

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Sangren 1750

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Theological Aesthetics in Old English Religious Verse

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson 303

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Time at Court (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 211

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Tolkien and Beowulf

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1040

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Topics in Byzantine Sigillography

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Using Open Manuscript Data (A Workshop)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Waldo Library Classroom A

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

War, Diplomacy, and Material Culture in the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1005

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Wild and Tamed Spaces in Middle English Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Garneau Lounge

1:30 PM

3:30 PM

Alfredian Texts and Contexts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2345

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Animals and Power: Human-Animal Interactions and the Representation of Social Order in Medieval Research and in Teaching the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2016

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Art and Material Culture in Medieval Ireland: Papers in Memory of John Bradley II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Sangren 1710

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Beauty and the Beast: The Influence of the Medieval Bestiary in Text and Image

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 158

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Birthdays, Anniversaries, and Saints' Days

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1360

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Concepts of Camelot

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson Lounge

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Constructing the Other, Defining the Self: Re-evaluating Religious Identity in the Later Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1060

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Crossing the Hanseatic Threshold and Beyond: Making Connections in Medieval Art, ca. 1200-1500

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1225

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Crusading Conversations: New Work in Crusade Studies from Both Sides of the Atlantic

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1005

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Dante III: Female Figures

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2020

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Digitally Teaching the Middle Ages: Case Studies (A Poster Session)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 208

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Early Medieval Europe II: Church and State in the Carolingian Kingdoms

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 213

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Embodiment: Senses, Body, and Space in Medieval Art and Architecture

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1010

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Ending

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1320

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Franciscan Theology: The Implications of a Good Creation

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1160

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Gaylord Workshop on Reading Chaucer Aloud

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Ackley 106

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Gower's Material World

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 106

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Holy Landscapes and Sacred Space

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1355

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

In Honor of Verlyn Flieger (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1040

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Into and out of Latin

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Lawman's Brut and Translation: Text and Context

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Garneau Lounge

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

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

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2355

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

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

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 212

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Mappings III: Medieval Maps, Their Makers and Uses

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1235

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Matthew A. Tapie, Aquinas on Israel and the Church (A Panel Discussion)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Shilling Lounge

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medieval Chronicles

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1155

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medieval Iberian Languages: Linguistic Perspectives

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2335

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medieval Peasant World II: Economy and Society

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 209

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medieval Prosopography

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2040

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Middle English Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson 303

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Minor Figures in Courtly Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 211

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Music and Liturgy: In Memory of Clyde Brockett II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1335

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

New Perspectives on Caxton

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1135

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

New Voices in Anglo-Saxon Studies II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1265

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Nicholas of Cusa's Theology of the Word

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1245

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Performing Piety and Poetry: Dance, Gender, and Poetic Form

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1140

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Picturing a Magical Cosmos

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1220

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Problems of Identity and Definition in the Various Disciplines of Celtic Studies

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1345

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Problems of Narration in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century Literature I: "Incompetent" Narrators?

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 210

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Reflections on the Medieval Mediterranean NEH Summer Institutes (A Panel Discussion)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1280

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Sacred Spaces and Political Places: Fostering Regional Identities through Historical and Literary Medieval Pilgrimage II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2030

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Shakespeare at 400: Present and Future

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II LeFevre Lounge

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Teaching the Low Countries in Translation: Medieval Multilingualism and the Modern Classroom (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Sangren 1750

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Text and Images in Medieval Manuscripts: Towards a Typology

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1275

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Annual Journal of Medieval Military History Lecture

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Hadley 102

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Medieval Occitan Romance Flamenca (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 204

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Modern Grail: Insider Tips from Search Committees to Land That Academic Job (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Hadley 101

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Past as a Thing: History, Memory, and Objects in the Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman World

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1325

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Using the Collation Modeler (A Workshop)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Waldo Library Classroom A

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Where Else? (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Sangren 1740

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Wisdom Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Ackley 105

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Women Religious in the Atlantic World: New Historiographical and Methodological Perspectives

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1045

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Writing to Know: Medieval Literature and the Production of Knowledge

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Sangren 1730

3:30 PM

7:30 PM

Attending to Manuscript Realities

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 209

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Busy Tenants? Land Transfer and Commercialization: Late Medieval England and Austria in a Comparative Perspective

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2020

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

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

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 212

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Classical Philosophy in the Lands of Islam and Its Influence (A Workshop)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Shilling Lounge

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Comparative Perspectives in Hagiology

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 211

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Considering (An)Other: Core Elements and Future Directions in the Interdisciplinary Study of Otherness in the Medieval Period (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2016

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Beatus: The Spanish Apocalypse (A Film Screening and Discussion)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1005

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Gothic Architecture: New Approaches and Methods

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1360

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Medieval America: Traditions, Folklore, Identity

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1060

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Medieval Performance as Appropriation

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1140

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

More Middle Ages on Screen? Reconsidering The Reel Middle Ages (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 158

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Original Medievalistic Poetry Reading and Open Mic (A Performance)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 213

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Re-thinking the Wearable in the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1120

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Reading Aloud Old French and Middle French (A Workshop)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II LeFevre Lounge

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Shakespeare at Kalamazoo Lecture

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 210

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Struggles and Political Games in the Ninth- to Fourteenth-Century Monastic World of Brittany

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1040

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Teaching Medieval Languages Today: Strategies and Innovations (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 204

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

The Exeter Book's Digital Decade

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1280

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

The Interlingual Poetics of Chaucer's Book of the Duchess: English, French, or Franglais?

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 106

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Theorizing Iberian Borders: Reimagining Natural, Political, and Social Frontiers

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1010

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Writing Song in the European Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1335

7:30 PM

Friday, May 13th
10:00 AM

A Rediscovered Life: Thomas of Celano's The Life of Our Blessed Father Francis

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II LeFevre Lounge

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Anglo-Saxon Books and Libraries: In Memoriam Lewis Nicholson (A Panel Discussion)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 205

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Best Practices, Worst Mistakes: Insider Advice on Editing Collected Essays (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson Lounge

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

"Can These Bones Come to Life?": Insights from Re-construction, Re-enactment, and Re-creation

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 106

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Charlemagne in Spain (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1235

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Chaucer Studies

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1060

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Cistercian Writers

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1040

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Connections between Western Chant Traditions

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1320

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

De lingua Latina vivente in studiis mediaevalibus huius temporis (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1275

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Digital Skin: Sensory Experiences of Digital Manuscripts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1130

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Discursive Bodies: Representations of Heroic Women in Medieval Spanish Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2020

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Easter 1916: Revolutionary Medievalists, the Celtic Revival, and the Cultural War for Irish Independence (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1220

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Editing for the Classroom, Translating for the Stage: Making Medieval Drama Accessible to Modern Audiences

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1120

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Le Morte Darthur

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson 303

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Gender, Affect, and Lyric Voice (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1045

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Gendered Spaces

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 211

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Hell Studies: Presenting and Representing Hell

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1280

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Hermaphroditus in Medieval Art, Literature, and Thought

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1145

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

How We Read I: Medieval Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 158

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Hylomorphism and Mereology

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 212

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

In Memory of Larry Syndergaard: The Ballad, Medieval and Modern I (Anglophone)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Ackley 105

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

In Memory of Thomas Head (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Shilling Lounge

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Instructional Writing in the History of English

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1265

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Jewish Women in Medieval England (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 210

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Local Sanctity in the Global Middle Ages: The Material Promotion of New Saints I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1160

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Marginal Bodies, Corporeal Communities in Anglo-Saxon England

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 204

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Metaphors of the Body Political: Research Inspired by Takashi Shogimen

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1350

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Models and Copies, Masters and Pupils: New Work on Spanish Illuminated Manuscripts in Memory of John Williams

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1010

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Modern Approaches to Teaching the Middle Ages: Challenges of the Present as Catalysts for the Rediscovery of the Past

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2335

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Musical Analysis

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1125

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

New Research in Germanic Medieval Studies I: History, Narrative, and Authority

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 208

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Papers in Honor of R. D. Fulk I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1140

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Parchment or Paper? Choosing the Writing Medium in the Era before Printing

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1360

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Power and the Court in the Medieval Mediterranean

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2040

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Re-documenting Joan of Arc

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Hadley 102

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Romance Ecologies I: Tame Beasts/Wild Men

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1245

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Scandinavian Studies

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1225

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Soaring across Culture: Eagles in Medieval Art, Literature, Coins, and Seals

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1335

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Space, "Race," and Ethnicity

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1135

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Spenserian Cornerstones

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1340

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Bloody Stylus, the Mangled Doormat, and the Blossoming Rose: Perspectives on Henry Suso's Work on the 650th Anniversary of his Death

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1325

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Cultures of Armenia and Georgia

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2030

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Holy Grail (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1005

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 Recontextualization of Christian Doctrine at the End of Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2016

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Thomas Aquinas I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Ackley 106

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Tolkien and Invented Languages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 209

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Touching Hoccleve

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Hadley 101

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Translations and Transmissions: Women's Book Culture in France and the Low Countries

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 213

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Urban Space and Urban Resources in Medieval Central Europe

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1345

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Visual Cultures of Death in the Medieval Islamic World

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1155

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Voices from the Past: Historiographical Narrative versus Individual Points of View

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1330

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

With Emily Thornbury: Dark Age Classicisms

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Women Healing Body and Soul

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1355

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Wulfstan of York, Legislator and Advisor to Kings

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Garneau Lounge

10:00 AM

1:30 PM

A.D. 716: Bede, Wearmouth Jarrow, and Beyond I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1145

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Christian Muslim Contacts on the Fringes of the Mediterranean

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 205

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Comparing Bilingualism in the Anglo-Saxon and Frankish Worlds I: Literacy and Languages in Charters

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1265

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Elemental Approaches I: Earth

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1360

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Beowulf

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1245

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Chaucer Review at Fifty I: Relationships

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1280

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Epidemic Diseases: Medieval Witnesses

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1130

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Franciscan Virtue? Minorite Morality and Beyond

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II LeFevre Lounge

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Graduate Student Experiences: Training for the Current Job Market (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Hadley 102

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

How We Read II: Medieval Scholarship, Translation, Historiography

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 158

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Impure Language(s)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2016

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

In Honor of Anne Lake Prescott

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1335

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

In Honor of E. Jane Burns I: Gender and Society

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1220

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

In Memory of Larry Syndergaard: The Ballad, Medieval and Modern II (Scandinavian)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1325

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Law and Ideal Justice in Medieval Contexts and Beyond

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1275

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Lollardy and Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1060

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Love, Religion, and Vengeance: Aesthetic and Social Contexts in Medieval Iberian Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2020

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Medieval Landscapes of Disease

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2335

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Medievalism and Labor (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Middle English Verse

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2040

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Musical Soundscapes and Symbols

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1125

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

New Approaches to Old English Biblical Poetry

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2030

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

New Perspectives on Medieval Rome I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1010

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

New Research in Germanic Medieval Studies II: Words and Transmission

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 208

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Origins and Practices of Religious Houses in Brittany, Normandy, and Anjou

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 213

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Papers by Undergraduates I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1160

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Papers in Honor of R. D. Fulk II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson Lounge

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Play (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 209

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

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

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 212

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

(Re)configuring the Parish in Late Medieval England

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 210

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Reformation I: Controversy and Interpretation in the Reformation

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1320

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Religion in the Hundred Years War

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1155

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Research Resources in Paris: The A.N., B.N., and Beyond (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 106

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Romance Ecologies II: Alien Terrain

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1340

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Scale I: Microspaces

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1135

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Technologies of Reading: Theorizing Manuscript Study after the Digital Turn (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1045

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The (False) Construct of "Chivalry" and the Brutal Reality of Explicitly Knightly Virtues, 1160-1475

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1330

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Consolations of Philology

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson 303

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Magician's Patrons and Clients

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1140

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Secular Clergy and Education

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 211

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The State of the Art in Multispectral Imaging (A Workshop)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Welborn Upjohn Center

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Teachings of Bernard of Clairvaux

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1040

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

"Things" in Medieval Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 204

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century Europe

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1345

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Thomas Aquinas II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Shilling Lounge

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Topics in Manuscript Studies

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1350

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Unhappy Happy Endings in Arthurian Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1005

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Unlocking Anglo-Saxon Textual and Material Culture

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1120

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Warfare and Conflict Landscapes in Britain and Ireland, 1100-1250: New Approaches

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1225

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Wisdom Carried Over: Translating Early Proverbs, Sayings, and Sentential Material

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Garneau Lounge

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Women and the Manuscript

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1355

1:30 PM

3:30 PM

A.D. 716: Bede, Wearmouth Jarrow, and Beyond II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1145

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Abelard and Heloise: In Memory of Steven Cartwright

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Hadley 102

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

An Introduction to Image Processing for Multispectral Projects

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Welborn Upjohn Center

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Anglo-Norman Texts and Manuscripts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1135

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

"Antitheta quae sententiae pulchritudinem faciunt" (Isidore): Contrasts in Medieval Texts and Images

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1330

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Archaeology and Experiment: Moving beyond the Artifacts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1350

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Betwixt and Between: The Effect of Cultural Transition in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Peninsula

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2016

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Byrhtferth of Ramsey (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2030

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Charity and Poverty, and Bishops and the Secular Clergy

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 211

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Cistercians on Bernard of Clairvaux

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1040

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Comparing Bilingualism in the Anglo-Saxon and Frankish Worlds II: The Languages of Anglo-Saxon Poetry and Historiography

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1265

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Early English Bits and Pieces

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 106

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Elemental Approaches II: Fire

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1360

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Chaucer Review at Fifty II: Seeing and Interpreting

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1280

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Epidemic Diseases in the Middle Ages: Twenty-First-Century Understandings

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1130

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Female Tricksters

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 158

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

From Hildegard to Mother Courage: Celebrating the Life and Work of Robert Potter (1934–2010)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 205

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Hagiography in Anglo-Saxon England

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II LeFevre Lounge

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Hermaphrodites: Genitalia, Gender, and Being Human in the Middle Ages (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1005

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Hiberno-Latin Studies

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1060

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

In Honor of E. Jane Burns II: Feminists and Feminisms in the Academy (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1220

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Magic on the Page: Transmission and Representation of Magic

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1225

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Material Processes and Making in Medieval Art and Architecture

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1235

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medieval Pilgrimage: Gender, Geography, and Transformation

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1275

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medieval Studies and Medievalism, Past and Present

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1120

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medievalism and Anti-Semitism

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Mission and Crusade in the Life and Works of Ramon Llull (1232-1316): Papers in Honor of the Seven-Hundredth Anniversary of His Death

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1245

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

New Perspectives on Medieval Rome II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2020

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

New Research in Germanic Medieval Studies III: Myth, Monsters, and Pagans

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 208

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Papers by Undergraduates II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1160

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

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

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 212

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Premodern Rulers and Postmodern Viewers: Gender and Sex in Medieval Film and Television

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1335

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Problems of Narration in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century Literature II: Bad Narration?

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 210

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Reconstructing Medieval Libraries

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 213

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Reflecting on the Early Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1010

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Reformation II: Historical, Political, Personal Conflict in the Long Reformation

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1320

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Romance Ecologies III: Decay

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson Lounge

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Scale II: Macrospaces

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1140

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Symbolic Language as the Key to Understanding the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1125

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Teaching the Humanities in the Current Climate of Higher Education (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 209

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Technical Communication in the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1345

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Abbey of Saint-Victor: Theology in Summae, Sequences, and Sermons

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Ackley 106

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Culture of Port Cities in the Fourteenth Century

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson 303

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Kathleen Williams Lecture

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1340

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Medieval Franciscans and the Virgin Mary

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 204

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Secret Lives of Proverbs: Considering the Intersection of Sentential Material and Meta-Sentential Contexts (A Panel Discussion)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Garneau Lounge

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Translation of Saint Osmund (Performance)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Kanley Chapel

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Thomas Aquinas III

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Shilling Lounge

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Topics in Medieval Numismatics

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1325

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Unhappy Families: Literary Inheritance in the Fifteenth Century (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Ackley 105

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Virtuous Violence: The Persistence of the Warrior Tradition in the Effective Value Systems of Crusaders and Noblemen to 1500

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2040

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

What Can the Lilly Library Do for You? Current and Future Medieval Projects at the Lilly Library (A Panel Discussion)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1155

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

What Do We Mean by Devotion?

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1045

3:30 PM

5:30 PM

Coptic Stitch Binding (A Hands-On Workshop)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Ackley 104

5:30 PM

7:30 PM

Performing Malory: The Tale of Sir Gareth (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 204

8:00 PM

8:00 PM

Performance as Research: Medieval Text, Modern Performance, Contested Ground (A Performance)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Eicher 202

8:00 PM

9:30 PM

A Hands-On Introduction to Islamic Astrolabes

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson Lounge

9:30 PM

Saturday, May 14th
10:00 AM

Anglo-Saxon Elements in Middle English Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Hadley 101

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Asterisk Tolkien: Filling Medieval Lacunae

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1060

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Before/After Constantinus Africanus: Medicine in the Beneventan Zone and Beyond I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1225

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Beginning Well: Pedagogical Approaches and Resources for Early Career Medievalists (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1035

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

C. S. Lewis and the Middle Ages I: The Lewis Bestiary

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II LeFevre Lounge

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Cistercian Words and Meaning

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1040

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Connections in the North Atlantic World

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1045

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Conservation, Reconstruction, and Interpretation in a Digital Age (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1010

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Cultures of Play/Cultures at Play in Medieval Italy

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2030

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Early Modern English Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 211

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Ecocritical Outlaws

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 158

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Economies of the Fourteenth Century: Macro and Micro Issues

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1155

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Transi Tombs and Middle English Alliterative Poetry

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1340

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

English Books Abroad: Their Reception in Late Medieval France

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1275

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Ethically A’twitter, or A-twitter? Attending, Attention, and Access with or without the Live-Tweet (A Panel Discussion)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1140

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Family and Dynasty in the Late Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2020

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Far Out! (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1005

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Finding the Medieval Library: Lambach Manuscripts at the Beinecke Library, the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library, and Elsewhere

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1245

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Gender Studies

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson 303

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Geoffrey of Monmouth and Wales

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 213

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

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

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1235

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Innovation in Identities, Innovation in Narratives: Literature in the Mediterranean Region in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1145

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Law as Culture: Felony, Insanity, and Vigilantism

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2040

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Liturgy and Politics in the Ottonian Empire

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1360

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Local Sanctity in the Global Middle Ages: The Material Promotion of New Saints II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1120

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Lydgate as Formal Innovator

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Garneau Lounge

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Making Sense of the Material

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1265

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Mapping

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1125

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Medieval Chess (A Workshop)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1350

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Medieval Franciscan Women as Theologians

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1160

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Medieval Sermon Studies I: Transmission and Circulation

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 205

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Musical Sources and Materiality

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1135

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Narratives of Forgetting and the Forgetting of Narratives: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Erasure, Revision, and the Loss of Memories

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

New Circles/New Voices

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1130

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

New Feminist Approaches to Chaucer (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Hadley 102

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Philosophy of Saint Thomas Aquinas I: Gifts, Councils, and Virtues

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Shilling Lounge

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Preaching Texts in Early England

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 204

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Pulling the Next Ones Up: Encouraging the Study of Medieval Spanish, Challenges and Projects (A Roundtable and Working Group Discussion)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2016

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Reading Aloud the French of England (A Workshop)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 212

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Sadism/Masochism in Medieval Europe

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 209

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Sensory Reflections: Traces of Experience in Medieval Artifacts I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2335

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Texts of the Multilingual British Isles: Contact and Contrast

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Ackley 106

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Business of Old English (A Panel Discussion)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 106

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Early Yiddish Romance: New Research with a Roundtable Discussion on the Problem of Authorship: Minstrels (Shpilmener) or Scribes?

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Ackley 105

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

"The Grail Is the Opposite of Poetry": The Medieval Coterie in Jack Spicer's The Holy Grail (A Performance and Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1280

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Lais of Marie de France

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1330

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Life of "I": Biography, Autobiography, and the Self in the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1345

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Long Lives of Medieval Objects, from Big to Small I: Restoration

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1220

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Urban Church

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1355

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Theology and Literature in Medieval Asia Minor, Central and South Eastern Europe

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1325

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Theory and Practice of Rhetoric in the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson Lounge

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

What Devils Say

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1320

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

With Nicholas Watson, Middle Time: Past, Present, and Future

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 210

10:00 AM

1:30 PM

A Session of Ice and Fire: Medievalism in the Game of Thrones Franchise

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1280

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Anglo-Norman Identity: Material and Memorial Culture

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Authority and Dissent in Medieval Art History Today: A Roundtable Discussion in Memory and Celebration of Barbara Abou-El-Haj

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1010

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Before/After Constantinus Africanus: Medicine in the Beneventan Zone and Beyond II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2030

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

C. S. Lewis and the Middle Ages II: Lewis and Medieval Philosophy/Theology

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1225

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Celebrations at Court in Medieval Iberia

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1140

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Childhood/Innocence in Victorian Medievalism

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson Lounge

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Christine and Moral Conduct

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 211

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Cistercian Exempla

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1040

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Crossing Boundaries: The Movement of Manuscripts and Printed Books

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1265

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Disability and the Medieval Romance

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2040

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Early Medieval Europe III: Systems of Knowledge

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1130

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Elemental Approaches III: Water I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 158

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

La corónica International Book Award: Dr. Ryan Szpiech, Conversion and Narrative: Reading and Religious Authority in Medieval Polemic (A Panel Discussion)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Ackley 105

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Riverside Chaucer: In Memory of Larry D. Benson (A Panel Discussion)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 210

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Emotions and Performativity in Early Drama, Art, and Music

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2016

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Fables and Other Works of Marie de France

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II LeFevre Lounge

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Five Hundred Years of Orlando Furioso

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1160

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Gower and the Globe

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1035

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Hagiography II: Asia

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 209

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Hildegard von Bingen: Bridges to Infinity

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1320

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Images on Edges I: Frames, Borders, Bodies

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1120

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Issues in Metaphysics, Logic, and Epistemology in Medieval Philosophy

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1335

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Law and Legal Culture in Anglo-Saxon England: Sessions in Memory of Lisi Oliver I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 106

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Loving and Hating Lydgate

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1245

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Machaut in the South

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1135

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Medieval Sculpture

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 212

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Medieval Sermon Studies II: Images, Exempla, Rhetoric: What Sermons Reveal

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 205

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Medieval Translation Theory and Practice I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson 303

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Medieval Women Authors as Collaborators: Negotiating Authority and Authorship for Writers and Readers

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1345

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

New Voices in Saga Studies

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1045

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Ordering Matter: Hierarchies of Material and Medium in Medieval Art

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 208

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Outsiders to the Anchorhold, or, Degrees of Enclosure

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1355

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Philosophy of Saint Thomas Aquinas II: Man in the Universe

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Shilling Lounge

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Politics, Diplomacy, and the Hundred Years War

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2020

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Pros(e) and Cons: Anti-Magic Polemic I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1145

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Recipe for a Better Peer Review (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1005

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Sculpture and Its Potency I: Patronage and Performance

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1155

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Sidneian Poetics: Making Sense

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1060

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Sound, Noise, Silence

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1350

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Speech, Sermons, and Silence in the Pearl-Poems

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Garneau Lounge

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Teaching Queens and Kings

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1340

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Textual Science: Digital Recovery of Manuscripts and of Cultural Heritage Objects

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2335

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Afterlives of Bede

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 204

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Crusades at Home: Roots, Impact, and Cultural Significance of the Crusades in France and Occitania I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 213

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Early Irish Saints, Their Lives, and Their Monasteries

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1235

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Functions and Dysfunctions of the Medieval and Renaissance Family I: Royal Families under Stress

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1325

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Gender-Free Being

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1360

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Long Lives of Medieval Objects, from Big to Small II: (Re)presentation

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1220

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Prince Bishops of Durham and the Balancing of Their Worlds: Politics, Diplomacy—and Faith?

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1330

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Virtuous Laity: The Piety of Non-Church Officials

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Ackley 106

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Visualizing Medieval Connections: Network Analysis and Digital Mapping I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1125

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Whose Life Is It Anyway? Rethinking Medieval and Modern Biographies (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Hadley 102

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Working with Manuscript Fragments

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1275

1:30 PM

3:30 PM

Alliterative Traditions: In Memory of Larry D. Benson (A Panel Discussion)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 210

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Anonymous Anglo-Saxon Prose Saints' Lives

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 204

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Augustine on the Body: Metaphysical, Biblical, and Empirical Approaches

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Hadley 102

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Benedictines and Victorines

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1145

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy through the Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 213

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Christine and Feminism: A Twenty-First-Century Reassessment

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 211

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Cistercians in Central Europe

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1040

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Classical Influences in Dante

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1245

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Compunction and Empathy in Anglo-Saxon England

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2030

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

"Cripping" the Middle Ages: What Disability Studies Can Do for Medieval Studies and Vice Versa (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson Lounge

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Crossroads of Medieval Languages and Literature: Results of the NEH Summer Seminar in the Irish Sea Cultural Province (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1235

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Dead Language Flyting Karaoke (A Performance and Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1280

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Debating Medieval Iberia: Competition, Argument, and Exchange of Ideas

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1140

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Digital Manuscripts: Engaging the Public(s)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1005

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Dress and Textiles I: Dress in Transition, Late Medieval to Early Modern

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1120

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Early Medieval Europe IV: Christianity and Historiography

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1340

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Eat, Pray, Love: Gluttony, Devotion, and Lust in Medieval Society and Culture

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1350

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Elemental Approaches IV: Water II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 158

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Ritus, Artes, Musica: A Session in Honor of Nils Holger Peterson

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1125

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

French Literature of the Twelfth Century

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Ackley 106

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Harassment in the Academy (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1360

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Illuminated Manuscripts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1275

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Images on Edges II: Portals and Passages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1010

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

In Fashions Reminiscent: The Overlapping Objects, Discourses, and Ideas of the Sixties and the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1225

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Interfaith Relations in the Fourteenth Century

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 205

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Is There a Text in This Field? Middle English Canonical Texts and the Edition of Record (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Law and Legal Culture in Anglo-Saxon England: Sessions in Memory of Lisi Oliver II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 106

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Linguistic Approaches to Medieval Languages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1035

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Lost in Transmission? Literary and Musical Forms in the Translation of Texts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1345

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Machaut on Page and Screen

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1135

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Making Time/Making Space: Temporality in Medieval and Renaissance Drama

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2016

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medieval Architecture

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1320

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medieval Translation Theory and Practice II (A Practicum)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson 303

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Networks of Reading in the Later Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1265

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

New Perspectives on Catherine of Siena and Her Female Contemporaries

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2040

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

News, Communication, and Current Events in the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 209

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Performances of Marie de France

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II LeFevre Lounge

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Perspectives on Reason, Revelation, Beatific Vision, and Apophatic Experience in Medieval Philosophy

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1335

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Philosophy of Saint Thomas Aquinas III: Love and the Good

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Shilling Lounge

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Places and Spaces in the Pearl-Poems

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Garneau Lounge

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Pros(e) and Cons: Anti-Magic Polemic II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1160

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Rolls and Scrolls after the Codex: New Approaches to an Old Technology

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1045

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Romance Geographies and Geographic Literacies: Theoretical and Practical Concerns in Mapping Medieval Texts (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1330

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Sculpture and Its Potency II: Speech, Song, Prayer

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1155

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Sidneian Networks: Medieval to Post-modern

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1060

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Technology, Digitalization, and Anchoritic Studies

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1355

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Crusades at Home: Roots, Impact, and Cultural Significance of the Crusades in France and Occitania II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 208

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Forgotten Coast? North Africa and Its Place in the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2335

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Functions and Dysfunctions of the Medieval and Renaissance Family II: Bourgeois Families under Stress

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1325

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Long Lives of Medieval Objects, from Big to Small III: Reception

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1220

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The White Hart Lecture

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2020

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Trans-forming the Canon: Depicting "Trans" in the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 212

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Visualizing Medieval Connections: Network Analysis and Digital Mapping II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1130

3:30 PM

8:00 PM

Annus Horribilis

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1005

8:00 PM

Sunday, May 15th
8:30 AM

Blood, Sweat, and Tears: Violence and Emotion in Medieval England

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2040

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Contact Zones and Exchange in the Crown of Aragon and the Mediterranean

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1135

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Cultural Interactions in the Crusader States I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1060

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Dangerous Games: Proscription, Transgression, Control

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 210

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Digital Methods I: Paleography and Codicology

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1005

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Dress and Textiles II: Codes, Classification, Camouflage

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 158

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Eurasian Connections: The Late Antique World Reconsidered

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1280

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Exploring the Manuscripts and Textual Traditions of Geoffrey Chaucer

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1130

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

"First Things": Interpreting Genesis in the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1035

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Hidden and Revealed: New Research on the Art and Architecture of Parish Churches in Medieval England (1100-1600) I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1040

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Late Medieval Lyric

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 209

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Jetpack Cats and Penis Trees: An Oral-Traditional Approach to Humor in Medieval Texts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1045

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Knights Errant and Private Dicks: From Romance to Noir

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2016

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Medieval Genre Again: Redefining the Normative Hybridity of Medieval French Generic Conventions

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1220

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Melody Networking: Discovering, Comparing, and Understanding Medieval Chant

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1010

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Middle English Political Poetry

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 205

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Pardon our Dust: Reassessing Iconography at the Index of Christian Art I: Program

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1145

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Saints and Their Makers: (re)Writing Hagiography in the Long Twelfth Century I: (re)Negotiating the Past in Twelfth-Century Saints' Lives

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Science, Nature, and Scholarship in the Early Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 211

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

The Archaeology of Medieval Europe I: Non-monetary Uses of Coins

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1140

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

The Beast with Two Backs

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1160

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

The Latin Talmud and Its Influence on Christian-Jewish Polemic

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 106

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

The Medieval Reception of Augustine of Hippo I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II LeFevre Lounge

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

The Pleasure of the Unpredictable in Middle English Narrative

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2030

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

The Reception of Geoffrey of Monmouth in Medieval and Early Modern Britain

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2020

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Universal Saints Located in Anglo-Saxon England

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson Lounge

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Women's Words: Female Instruction in the Medieval British Isles

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1155

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Ælfrician Texts and Contexts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1120

8:30 AM

10:30 AM

Against Progess: Pastoral and Innovation in Medieval and Renaissance Poetry (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1120

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

APRICOT: A Pedagogical Hub for Medieval Studies (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2016

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Camelot on the Small Screen (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1280

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Cultural Interactions in the Crusader States II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1060

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Digital Methods II: Manuscript Studies

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1005

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Dress and Textiles III: Working with Textiles

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 158

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Erratic Letters (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 210

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Faith and Cults: Between Promotion, Proselytism, and Conflicts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 213

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Fanfiction in Medieval Studies

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1035

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Gender and Voice in Medieval French Literature and Lyric

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1220

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

"Get Ye Flask": Friars and Uroscopy in Medieval England

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2030

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Globalizing Your Medieval Studies Program: Institutional Perspectives, Problems, and Solutions (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 212

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Hidden and Revealed: New Research on the Art and Architecture of Parish Churches in Medieval England (1100-1600) II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1040

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Jews and Christian Materiality

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1045

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Late Old English Verse

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 205

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Medieval Necropolitics: Dead Bodies and Living Systems

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1135

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Medieval Transidentities

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1160

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Metaphor: Medieval and Modern

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1010

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Multilingual Practices in Middle English Texts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2020

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Non Sequitur: Reading across Gaps in Medieval Narrative

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 106

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Pardon our Dust: Reassessing Iconography at the Index of Christian Art II: Ornament

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1145

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Perceptions of Race in the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 209

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Saints and Their Makers: (re)Writing Hagiography in the Long Twelfth Century II: (re)Building the Future in Cult and Court

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Sensory Reflections: Traces of Experience in Medieval Artifacts II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 211

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

The Archaeology of Medieval Europe II: Medieval Colonization

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1140

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

The Formation and Reformation of Power Networks in the Late Antique West

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2040

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

The Languages of Anglo-Saxon England

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 204

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

The Medieval Reception of Augustine of Hippo II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II LeFevre Lounge

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Topics in Western European Liturgy

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1130

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Women and the Law in Britain and Ireland, 1300-1500

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1155

10:30 AM