52nd International Congress on Medieval Studies (2017)

Presented here is the schedule of numbered 90-minute sessions of the 52nd International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 11-14, 2017), as well as unnumbered sessions occurring on Friday and Saturday mornings and evenings. Excluded are a variety of scheduled activities, including theatrical performances, 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 5, 2017).The complete printed program, including the Corrigenda, is available elsewhere in ScholarWorks at WMU in PDF format.

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Schedule
2017
Thursday, May 11th
10:00 AM

A Century without Chaucer

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Anglo-Saxon Affect and Spirituality

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 213

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Archaeology of Medieval Europe I: History and Politics in Medieval Archaeology

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1335

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Archaeology of the Countryside

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2030

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Authoring the Self: Autobiography and Auctoritas

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1220

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Bastard Heroes in Medieval Romance Epic

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Sangren 1320

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Building (Draw)bridges: How to Keep Medieval Studies Alive in the K-8 Classroom: A Hands-On Workshop (A Poster Session)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Harvey 204

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Central European Medieval Networks

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Sangren 1920

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

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

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1060

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Deep Mapping and the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1360

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Dwelling in the Anglo-Saxon Landscape I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Sangren 1730

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Elite Identities and the Birth of Europe: Germanic Coins and Barbarian Medallions and Bracteates

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1010

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Ihesu Dulcis: Devotion to the Holy Name in Medieval Europe

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 158

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Natura in the Twelfth Century

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Shilling Lounge

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Winter's Tale: Pretexts, Texts, and Aftertexts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1320

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Exploring Power: Saint Cuthbert, Durham Cathedral, and the Prince Bishops

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2020

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Hermeneutics through a Glass Darkly: Occlusion and Interpretation in the Age of Gerson

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson 306

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Hope and Despair in Malory's Morte Darthur

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson Lounge

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

How Global Were the Middle Ages? (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II LeFevre 201

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Inside the Collector's Mind: Exploring Carolingian Cultures of Collecting

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 211

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Introduction to vHMML Reading Room: Manuscript Cataloging and Images in One Online Resource (A Workshop)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1005

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Kinship, Families, and Genealogy in the Various Disciplines of Celtic Studies

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Sangren 1720

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Language Anxiety in the Iberian Peninsula

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2016

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

"Liturgical Drama" and Representational Liturgy

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1325

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Localism, Regionalism, and Centralism in Early Medieval Iberia

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1345

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Matters of Literary Genre

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 208

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Medicine and Medieval Italian Lyric

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1040

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Medieval Architecture

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1340

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Medieval Franciscan Theology and the Implications of the Trinitarian Mission

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 212

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Medieval Lives and Afterlives of the Classical Poets

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1350

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Medieval Mediterranean Cities

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1120

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Medieval Race and the Modern Scholar: Fear, Theory, and the Way Forward (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 209

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Medieval Sermon Studies I: Preaching to Women

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 205

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Medieval Tools (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Sangren 1710

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Medievalism and Don Quixote

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2040

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Middle English Devotional Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1355

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Mind the Gaps: Spaces in Manuscripts and Printed Books

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 210

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Nature versus Ecology (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 106

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

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

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Sangren 1740

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

New Models of Presentation of Medieval Texts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1330

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Penguin Medieval Editions: Scholarship, Pedagogy, and the "Academic Book"

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Sangren 1910

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Philosophy of Saint Thomas Aquinas I: Philosophy, Logic, and Consolation

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Garneau Lounge

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Relics and Reliquaries: Forms, Functions, Meanings (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Sangren 1750

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Sara Lipton, Dark Mirror: Medieval Origins of Anti-Jewish Iconography (A Panel Discussion)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 204

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Textual Scholarship of Medieval Iberian Literature (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1280

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Government of England and the Continent in the Later Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1045

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Griselda Story: Feminist Perspectives

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Eldridge 309

10:00 AM

1:30 PM

A Place at the Table: Material and Spatial Aspects of the Medieval Meal

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Harvey 204

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Academic Publishing in Crisis? Routes to Survival

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 212

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Aesthetics of Form

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 209

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Archaeology of Medieval Europe II: Bioarchaeological Research on Eastern Europe

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1335

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Arthurian Books and Readers

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1040

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Bede and Alfred

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 208

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Buildings, Planning, and Networks of Medieval Cities I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 158

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

C. S. Lewis and the Middle Ages I: Lewis and Mysticism

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II LeFevre 201

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Constructing the Wycliffite Bible

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 210

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Cusanus's Legacy in Number, Image, Text, and Sound

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1225

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Dead Poet Flyting Karaoke (Performances)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1120

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Early Medieval Monasticisms, New Questions, New Approaches I: Monastic Landscapes

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 211

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Encounters with the Paranormal in Medieval Iceland I: Definitions and Categories

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Sangren 1920

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Franciscan Women and Material Culture

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 213

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Gender and Species: Ecofeminist Intersections (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1280

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Gower's Afterlives

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1330

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Hiding in the Chanson de Geste

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Sangren 1320

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

In Honor of Richard K. Emmerson: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Medieval Literature, Drama, and Art I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Inscriptions

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Sangren 1750

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Late Medieval Perspectives on Tolerance

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Eldridge 309

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Manuscript Studies

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1350

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Material (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Sangren 1730

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Medieval Boundaries and Borders I: Intersecting Identities

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1340

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Medieval Sermon Studies II: Educating the Laity

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 205

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Medieval(ist) Bodies and Boundaries (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1360

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Middle English Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson 306

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

New Directions in Medieval Rural History

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1345

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

New Voices in Anglo-Saxon Studies I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 204

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

New Voices in Medieval History I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Sangren 1740

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

New Work by Young Celtic Studies Scholars

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Sangren 1720

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Ovid's Medieval Metamorphoses I: Shaping Pygmalion, Reflecting Narcissus

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2030

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Papers by Undergraduates I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1325

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Peril and Possibility: Political Writing in Late Medieval England

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1045

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Philosophical Themes and Issues in Malory's Morte Darthur

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1060

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Philosophy of Saint Thomas Aquinas II: Deliberation and Choice

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Garneau Lounge

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Reading Aloud Old French and Middle French (A Workshop)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Shilling Lounge

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Repudiated (Hi)Stories I: Literary Studies

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2016

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Sessions in Honor of Maureen Boulton I: Vernacular Religious Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1010

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Shakespeare and Transmedia

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1320

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Deaf Everyman and Deaf Snow White Theatre Projects (Documentary Film)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1005

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Future of the Profession: The Adjunctification of the Academy and the Fate of Medieval Studies (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 106

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Music of the Beneventan Rite I (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2020

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Theology of Catherine of Siena

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1355

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Theorizing Orientalism in the Middle Ages (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Sangren 1910

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Trobar! (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Sangren 1710

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Using Open Manuscript Data I: Introduction (A Workshop)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Waldo Library Classroom A

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

When Medievalists Fictionalize the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson Lounge

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Women in the Age of Bede I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2040

1:30 PM

3:30 PM

Affective Politics: Kinship in Medieval Communities (East and West)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 208

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Augustine's Correspondence: Networking from North Africa

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 158

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Buildings, Planning, and Networks of Medieval Cities II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Sangren 1910

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

C. S. Lewis and the Middle Ages II: Lewis and Eros (In Memory of Joy Davidman)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II LeFevre 201

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

"Can These Bones Come To Life?": Politics and Diversity in Re-construction, Re-enactment, and Re-creation

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 210

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Church Reform on the Eve of Luther

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1225

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Collective (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Sangren 1730

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Constructing Race in Arthurian Romances

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 209

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Despair in the Middle Ages (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1040

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Early Medieval Monasticisms, New Questions, New Approaches II: Monasticisms before and after Benedict of Nursia

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 211

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Richard Coeur de Lion: Then and Now

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 106

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Encounters with the Paranormal in Medieval Iceland II: Social Concerns

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Sangren 1920

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Feminism with/out Gender (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1045

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Flyting Poetry across Medieval Cultures (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2016

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Fresh Perspectives on Medieval Pilgrimage: Canterbury Cathedral, Durham Cathedral, and York Minster

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1350

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Gender and Sanctity in Medieval Ireland: Papers in Honor of the 1500th Anniversary of Saint Darerca's Death

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Shilling Lounge

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Gower's Animals

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1330

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

In Honor of Richard K. Emmerson: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Medieval Literature, Drama, and Art II (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Malory's Morte Darthur I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1335

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Manuscripts and Books Unbound: Identification and Recovery of Fragments

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Sangren 1750

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medieval Boundaries and Borders II: Thresholds of Agency

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1340

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medieval Ecocriticisms: Intersections (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Sangren 1710

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medieval Framed Narratives and the Single-Author Collection

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1355

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medieval Sermon Studies III: Preaching in England

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 205

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medievalists Writing Provocative and Edgy Short-Form Publications: The Past Imperfect Series (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Eldridge 309

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

New Voices in Anglo-Saxon Studies II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Sangren 1320

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

New Voices in Medieval History II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Sangren 1740

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Ovid's Medieval Metamorphoses II: Touching the Ovide moralisé

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2030

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Papers by Undergraduates II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1325

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Personal Politics? Character, Personalities, and Relationships in Late Medieval England

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1345

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Philosophy of Saint Thomas Aquinas III: Natural Law and Natural Love

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Garneau Lounge

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Place, Space, and/or Travel in Courtly Context

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1060

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

"Renewed in Each Sex": Women and Men in the Rediscovered Life of Saint Francis of Assisi

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 213

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Repudiated (Hi)Stories II: History and Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1005

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Saintly Bodies: Materiality, Manuscripts, Movement (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1360

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Sessions in Honor of Maureen Boulton II: Anglo-Norman Literatures

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1010

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Sex Magic: Past and Present, Imagined and Real

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 212

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Soundscapes in Medieval Occitania

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 204

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Stages of Power: Shakespeare and Marlowe, 1592: A Reacting to the Past Game and Teaching Workshop

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1320

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Studies on the Hêliand

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson 306

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Craft (Beer) of Medievalism: Popular Culture, the Middle Ages, and Contemporary Brewing (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1120

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Music of the Beneventan Rite II (A Workshop)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2020

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

To "Gladly Teche": Becoming Great Teachers in Graduate School (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1280

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Using Open Manuscript Data II: Advanced (A Workshop)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Waldo Library Classroom A

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Women in the Age of Bede II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2040

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Would You Write More, or What? The Quest to Publish Historically-Based Creative Writing in the Contemporary Literary Marketplace (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson Lounge

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Ælfrician Texts and Contexts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Sangren 1720

3:30 PM

7:30 PM

Archaeology and Experiment: Moving beyond the Artifacts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 106

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Community Outreach: Medieval Studies outside of the Academy

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 205

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Digital Humanities and Medieval Italy (A Panel Discussion)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1010

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

(Dis)Played and (Dis)Covered: Constructing Gender in Persianate Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1045

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Fanfiction in Medieval Studies: What Do We Mean When We Say "Fanfiction"?

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 208

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Gawain at Play: Ambiguous Reading and Performance in the Pearl Manuscript (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 158

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Gaylord Workshop on Reading Chaucer Aloud

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Harvey 204

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Hiberno-Latin Studies

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 213

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Legitimacy, Imagery, and Imagination: Creating and Sustaining Identities in the High Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 212

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Medieval Art and Failure (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2020

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Medievalist Poets' Reading (Performances)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson Lounge

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

New Books Roundtable

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2030

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Performance in and of Courtly Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1060

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Performing Medievalisms (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 204

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Post-Medieval Anchorites (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2016

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Reflecting on Gender and Medieval Studies

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1040

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Romance Friends and (Fr)Enemies

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 211

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

The Kind Leading the Blind: Best Practices in Graduate Advising (A Panel Discussion)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Garneau Lounge

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

The Teaching of Old English (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 210

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

The Virgin as Bridge: Cultural Exchange and Connection through Images of the Virgin Mary

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2040

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

The White Hart Lecture

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1005

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Why We Read (Medieval) Fiction (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 209

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Wolves Outside, Inside, and at the Medieval Door

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

7:30 PM

Friday, May 12th
8:30 AM

Plenary Lecture I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard East Ballroom

8:30 AM

10:00 AM

A Feminist Renaissance in Anglo-Saxon Studies I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2020

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Acquired Cardinal Virtues in the Christian? Revisiting the Question

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1155

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Anglo-Norman Texts and Manuscripts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 106

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Animating the Medieval: Research on Animated Representations of the Middle Ages in Memory of Michael N. Salda

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1275

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Casting an International Congress on Medieval Studies Pilgrim's Badge (A Workshop)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Goldsworth Valley Pond

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Chaucer's Voices I: Frame versus Core

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1220

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

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

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Garneau Lounge

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Cognition and Emotion in Medieval Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Sangren 1710

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Conflict and Liturgy: Bridging Divides

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1010

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Continuity and Change in Arthurian Literature (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Eldridge 309

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Cultural and Literary Transmission in the Global Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1345

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Dress and Textiles I: Details from Documents

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1040

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Early Medieval Europe I: Monasticism and Memory

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2040

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

La corónica International Book Award: Laura Ackerman Smoller, The Saint and the Chopped-Up Baby: The Cult of Vincent Ferrer in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (A Panel Discussion)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II LeFevre 201

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Piers Plowman and Langland Studies: Where Are We Now? (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Shilling Lounge

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Rolandslied, Willehalm, Stricker's Karl, Karlmeinet, and Other Medieval German Chansons de Geste: Interpretations, Reception, Adaptations, Sources

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1265

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

eManuscripts: Digital Humanities and Medieval Studies (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1160

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Fancy Pincushions Part Two (A Demonstration)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1360

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Gender and Voice in Medieval French Literature and Lyric

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1130

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Green Spenser

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 212

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Growing Up Medieval: The Middle Ages in Children's and Young Adult Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1225

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Hoards

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2016

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Landscape Approaches to the Plague

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 210

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Law as Culture: Legislation, Statutory Interpretation, and Parliamentary Procedure

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Sangren 1720

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Lydgate and Literary Technologies (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1340

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Manuscripts in Motion

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1325

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Mappings I: Maps as/and Narratives

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Sangren 1730

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Medieval Art of Germany and Austria

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1135

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Monastic Ethics in the Long Twelfth Century

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 211

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Movement and Meaning in Early Medieval Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Hadley 102

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Musical Sources

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1125

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Navigating Seas of Faith: Authority and Religious Identity in the Mediterranean

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 213

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

New Research on the Disticha Catonis I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2345

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Peace, Piety, and Vendetta in Medieval Italy

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1255

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Pedagogical Approaches to Medieval Irish Studies (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 209

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Power and Society in Late Antique Italy I: Conflict and Resolution

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson 306

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Ranging across Time, Space, and Topic: Papers in Honor of Dr. Tom Renna

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson Lounge

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Reconsidering the Boundaries of Late Medieval Political Literature I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1060

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Reformation Discourse I: Crossing Cultural Boundaries

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1335

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Remembering the Crusades: A Representation of Otherness

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 204

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Saints and Slavery in the Early Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 205

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Scandinavian Studies

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Sangren 1750

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Secular Clergy and the Laity I: Clerical and Lay Initiative

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 208

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Service Learning, Civic Engagement, and the Medieval Studies Classroom

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1330

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Staging the Undead

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1280

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Sustaining Vivid Medieval Studies Programs in a Time of Diminished Fiscal and Faculty Resources (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Sangren 1920

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Teaching a Diverse and Inclusive Middle Ages (A Panel Discussion)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1120

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Liber Nemrod, an Arabic Library, and the First French Royal Psalters

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1245

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Child in Medieval Romance I: The Theorized Child

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1320

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Materiality of Scholasticism: Urban Life and Forms of Learning

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2355

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Second Shepherds' Play: An Adaptation (A Film Screening)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1005

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Stones Cry Out: Modes of Citation in Medieval Architecture

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 158

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Textual Foundations of Late Medieval History

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1350

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Truthful Lie: Fiction and Fictionality in Medieval Persian Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1355

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The United States of Medievalism

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Topics in Medieval Numismatics

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2335

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Tricksters in Medieval and Early Modern Culture

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1145

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Unfinished/Infini: Incomplete, Ongoing, and Never-Ending Works of Art

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2030

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Workshop on Ibero-Romance Paleography

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1045

10:00 AM

1:30 PM

Alfredian Texts and Contexts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1145

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Authorities: Bible, Rule, Customary, and Tradition in Medieval Benedictine Monasteries

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson Lounge

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Cantus Hackathon: Create an Inventory with the Cantus Database in Real Time (A Workshop)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Waldo Library Classroom A

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Catastrophe and Periodization (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1010

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Changing Representations of the Different Forms of Lordship over Noble Persons in All Contemporary Media, ca. 1270-ca. 1520

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2335

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Chaucer's Voices II: Truth versus Trumpery

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2020

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Context of the Codex

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1355

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Cross-Cultural Images and Crafts: Transcultural Objects and Artisanal Migration

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Cross-Cultural Studies of the Book in the Global Middle Ages I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1330

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Dress and Textiles II: Real and Unreal

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1040

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Early Medieval Europe II: Strategies of Power

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1225

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Early Middle English, the Idea of the Vernacular, and Multilingual Manuscripts (1100-1350)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1325

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Mirror of Simple Souls: Read Aloud, in Manuscripts, and in Printed Books

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Shilling Lounge

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Emblem Studies

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Sangren 1920

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Games and Visual Culture I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1345

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Honoring Joel Rosenthal I: Those Who Fight

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Sangren 1730

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

In Honor of Adelaide Bennett Hagens I: Text-Image Dynamics in Medieval Manuscripts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Sangren 1750

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

In Honor of Caroline Palmer I: Publishing the Medieval Now: Open Access and Other Futures (A Panel Discussion)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2016

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Julian, Margery, and Their Reception

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 212

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Justice

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1005

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Loneliness and Solitude in Medieval England

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2355

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Mappings II: Medieval Maps, Their Makers and Users

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 158

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Material Histories of Exchange I: Representations of Cross-Cultural Dress in Byzantium and Beyond

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1160

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Materiality and Place in the Northern World I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1120

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Medieval Arabic Scholarship I: Transmission of Knowledge and Translation

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1265

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Medieval Games and Gender

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1220

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Medieval Literature as Children's Literature: Studies in Adaptation I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2345

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Medieval Theories of the Atonement

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Eldridge 309

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Medieval Translation Theory and Practice I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II LeFevre 201

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Medieval Women

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1255

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Medievalism and Immigration I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 208

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Negativity and Emptiness in the Intellectual Culture of the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1130

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Networks of Books and Readers in the Medieval Mediterranean I: Books

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 205

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

New Research in Parish Church Art and Architecture in England and on the Continent, 1100-1600 I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2040

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

New Voices in Early Drama Studies

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1280

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Othering Texts in Medieval Literature and Historiography

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Sangren 1710

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Passionate and Penitential Instruction

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson 306

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

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

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1340

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Power and Society in Late Antique Italy II: Transformation of Leadership

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 211

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Queer Temporalities

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 204

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Reconsidering the Boundaries of Late Medieval Political Literature II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1135

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Reformation Discourse II: Reformation(s) across the Disciplines

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1335

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Rulership in Medieval Central Europe (Bohemia, Hungary, and Poland): Ideal and Practice

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1360

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Secular Clergy and the Laity II: Becoming a Bishop

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1275

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Sense and Sensibility in Anglo-Saxon England

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1155

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Sounding Sentiment: Emotion in Late Medieval Song (A Workshop)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1125

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Stigmata: Bloody Wounds That Matter I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Sangren 1720

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Child in Medieval Romance II: The Curious Child

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1320

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

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

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2030

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Cultures of Georgia and Armenia

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 106

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Great Transition: Climate, Disease, and Society in the Late Medieval World (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 210

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Life Course in Medieval Ireland

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 209

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Medieval Tradition of Natural Law I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Garneau Lounge

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Pilgrim's Library: Books and Reading on the Medieval Routes to Jerusalem and Rome

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 213

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Transformative Pearl-Poet: Translation and Adaptation

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1045

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Western Iberian Kingdoms after 1143 I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1245

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Who Made That? Misattribution and Anonymity

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1060

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Women and/as Objects: Foreign Brides and Cultural Transmission I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1350

1:30 PM

3:30 PM

Access and the Academy (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Sangren 1920

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Asceticism and Philosophy in Medieval Asia Minor and Central and South Eastern Europe

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 209

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Beyond the Portraits: Chaucer and the Visual

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1220

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Celtic Arthurian Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Hadley 102

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Criminals, Kings, and Colors: The Study and Reception of Medieval Scandinavian Culture (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Shilling Lounge

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Cross-Cultural Studies of the Book in the Global Middle Ages II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1330

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Death and Rebirth in the Pearl-Poet

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1155

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Dress and Textiles III: Interpreting Artifacts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1040

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Early Medieval Europe III: Intellectuals and the Wider World

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1225

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Beowulf

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2040

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

For the Love of Linguistics and Literature: Papers on the Medieval Period

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Sangren 1710

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Fragmentology: The Life and Afterlives of Otto F. Ege

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1010

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

French Romance

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1145

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Games and Visual Culture II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1345

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Geoinformatics: Challenges of Medieval Geodata and Digital Maps

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1135

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Good for What Ales You: Alcohol in Medieval Medical Texts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1045

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Hell Studies: Hellish Remixes

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Sangren 1720

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Hildegard von Bingen: Bridges to Infinity

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Sangren 1730

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Honoring Joel Rosenthal II: Those Who Work

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 158

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

In Honor of Adelaide Bennett Hagens II: Signs of Patronage in Medieval Manuscripts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 106

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

In Honor of Caroline Palmer II: Romancing Material Culture: Falling in Love with and in Medieval Manuscripts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2016

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Intellect and Cognition in Medieval Philosophy

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Eldridge 309

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Interpersonal Affairs

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 212

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Knights, Squires, and (Mere) Gentlemen: Changing Relationships between Knighthood and Nobility in Western Europe, ca. 1100-ca. 1400

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2335

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Law, Loopholes, and Justice in Medieval Contexts and Beyond

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson Lounge

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Material Histories of Exchange II: Transmission of Dress and Ornament in Byzantium and Beyond

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1160

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Materiality and Place in the Northern World II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1120

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medieval Arabic Scholarship II: Medieval Arab(ic) Feminisms

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1265

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medieval Games and Pedagogy (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1005

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medieval Literature as Children's Literature: Studies in Adaptation II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2345

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medieval Song

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1125

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medieval Translation Theory and Practice II (A Practicum)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II LeFevre 201

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medievalism and Immigration II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 208

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Military Orders and Crusades in Comparative Perspective: The Levant, Spain, and the Baltic Region

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1360

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Networks of Books and Readers in the Medieval Mediterranean II: Readers

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 205

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

New Approaches to Drama Records: East Anglian Play Texts and Nearby Archives

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1280

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

New Research in Parish Church Art and Architecture in England and on the Continent, 1100-1600 II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2020

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Older Scots: Texts and Transmission

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 210

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Order out of Chaos: Conflict and Resolution in Medieval Culture

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1255

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

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

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1340

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Posthuman Piers

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 204

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Reformation Discourse III: Recording and Strategizing the Reformation: History, Biography, Polemic

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1335

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Revisiting and Redefining Rome and Its Influences: A Session in Honor of Judson Emerick

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1130

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Secular Clergy and the Laity III: Episcopal Roles

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1275

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Sex Makes a Difference: A Panel Discussion on the Work of Joan Cadden

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson 306

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Stigmata: Bloody Wounds That Matter II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 211

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Teaching Early Middle English (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1325

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Teaching Monasticism (A Panel Discussion)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Lee Honors College

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Child in Medieval Romance III: The Abused Child

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1320

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Faith in One's Food: Food as an Aspect of Religious Proselytization and Polemic

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 213

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Legacy of The Cult of Saint Swithun: In Honor of Michael Lapidge

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2355

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Medieval Tradition of Natural Law II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Garneau Lounge

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Western Iberian Kingdoms after 1143 II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1245

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Thirty Years of Feasting and Fasting: A Roundtable on Caroline Bynum's Holy Feast and Holy Fast, 1987-2017 (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1355

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Topics in the Economic History of the Late Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Sangren 1750

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Trading with Infidels: Legal Approaches to Interfaith Commerce

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

"Ungelic is us": Queer Old English Elegies

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2030

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Women and/as Objects: Foreign Brides and Cultural Transmission II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1350

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Writing Trouble: Emotional French Literary Reaction to the Reigns of Charles VI and Charles VII

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1060

3:30 PM

5:15 PM

The Manly Priest: A Discussion of Jennifer Thibodeaux's Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship Prize Winning Book (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Garneau Lounge

5:15 PM

5:30 PM

Coptic Stitch Binding (A Hands-On Workshop)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Ackley 104

5:30 PM

6:30 PM

Manuscripts to Materials

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 208

6:30 PM

7:30 PM

Performing Malory: Palomydes the Sarasyn

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson Lounge

7:30 PM

9:30 PM

A Hands-On Introduction to Astrolabes: Calculating Traditional Prayer Times in the Christian Monastery (A Workshop)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Eldridge 309

9:30 PM

Saturday, May 13th
8:30 AM

Plenary Lecture II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard East Ballroom

8:30 AM

10:00 AM

1402: A Roundtable

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 158

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

A Feminist Renaissance in Anglo-Saxon Studies II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2020

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Archaeology of the Medieval Iberian Peninsula: Another Way of Approaching

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1360

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Art and Liturgical Performance in Medieval and Early Modern Nunneries

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1330

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Atmospheric Medievalisms/Medieval Atmospheres (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 210

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Barbarians and Barbarian Kingdoms I: Defining Barbarians

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 204

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Beyond Machaut: Other Fourteenth-Century French Literary and Musical Voices

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1060

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Chaucer's Voices III: Anglocentric versus Eurocentric

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1120

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Christine and the Body

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1255

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Creating and Transforming the Image of Saints

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2355

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Dante in History

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1275

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Devotional Luxury, Literary Necessity

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2345

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

"Eald enta geweorc": Tolkien and the Classical Tradition

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Hadley 102

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Piers Plowman and Disability

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Eldridge 309

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Exile and Arcadia: Space and Sovereignty

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Shilling Lounge

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Fair Unknowns (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Gender at the Borders of Christendom

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1155

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Hagiography East and West

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1335

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Ibero-Romance Languages before the Eleventh Century

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1160

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

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

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 208

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

In Honor of Constance H. Berman I: Old Sources, New Histories (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson Lounge

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

In Memory of Jeremy duQuesnay Adams I: Community Building in the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1130

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Late Medieval Anticlericalism as the Staging Ground of the Protestant Reformation

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1325

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Making the English Book

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1320

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Malory's Morte Darthur II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2040

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Material Lydgate

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 106

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Material Religion in the Crusading World I: Communities of Devotion

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1345

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Medieval Bridesmaids: Wedding, Bedding, and Bad Behavior in Romance

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 211

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Medieval Drama: Beyond Genres: Alan Knight in Memoriam

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1125

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Memory and Memory Aids in Twelfth-Century Cistercian Writing

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1040

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Millennials and Medieval Studies (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 213

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Monsters I: Material Monsters

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1045

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Monumental Failures

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1220

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

New Research on the Disticha Catonis II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1350

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Painting in Dugento and Trecento Italy

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1135

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Reading Magic West to East

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2016

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Royal Ritual and Representation

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1245

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Sidneian Endings and Reinventions

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 212

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Teaching Marie de France (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1280

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Texts of the Exeter and Vercelli Books

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2030

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Eastern Mediterranean: History and Historical Texts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1340

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Medieval Past

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1225

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Poetics of Rage: Gender, Anger, Form (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1005

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Robert T. Farrell Lecture

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 209

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Syndergaard Sessions I: Ballads: Borders and Border-Crossings

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II LeFevre 201

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Theory and Practice of Medieval Rhetoric

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson 306

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Thomas Aquinas I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Garneau Lounge

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Twelve Angry Carolingians I: Anger Management

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1145

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Urban Economies in the Fourteenth Century

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1265

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Warfare in the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1010

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Women and the Bible in the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1355

10:00 AM

1:30 PM

Affective Transformations

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2345

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Anonymous Anglo-Saxon Saints' Lives

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1245

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Barbarians and Barbarian Kingdoms II: Spiritual and Ecclesiastical Matters

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Eldridge 309

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Career Diversity for Medievalists: Insights from outside the Academy (A Panel Discussion)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1045

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Central Europe before Luther

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II LeFevre 201

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Conversions: Transformations in the Vices and Virtues in Late Medieval England

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Shilling Lounge

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Digital Medieval and Medieval Studies: How to Write for the Web (A Workshop)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 211

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Digital Reconstructions: Italian Buildings and Their Decorations

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1280

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Dwelling in the Anglo-Saxon Landscape II: Life, Death, and Wellbeing

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1220

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Latinitas Viva I: Poetria et Paedagogia: Medieval Latin Teaching and Teaching Medieval Latin

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1135

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Emerging Approaches: New Research in Machaut Studies

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1060

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Exercising Authority and Exerting Influence I: "Seulete suy et seulete vueil estre" (Alone am I, and alone I wish to remain): The Perils and Promise of Medieval Widowhood

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 205

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Historiographical Perspectives on Christine de Pizan Scholarship

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1255

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

In Honor of Constance H. Berman II: Medieval Women's History: Past, Present, and Future

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 106

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

In Memory of Jeremy duQuesnay Adams II: History Itself (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2020

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

International Gower

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2016

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Jewish Identity in Medieval Passion Plays

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1345

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Know(en), Biknow(en), Knowelich(en): Piers Plowman and the Poetics of Epistemology

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Law and Legal Culture in Anglo-Saxon England I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1225

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Light and Darkness in Medieval Art, 1200-1450 I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1360

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Literary, Artistic, and Cultural Approaches to Friendship in Late Medieval Iberia

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2040

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Maternity and Paternity: Theories of Authorship

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1120

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Medieval Sidekicks I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1130

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Medievalism and Pedagogy

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 209

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Merovingians and Their Neighbors

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2030

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Monsters II: Immaterial Monsters

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1155

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

New Research in Medieval Germanic Studies I: Love and Gender

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1320

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Occult Capitals of Islam

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 204

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Performances of Marie de France: Yonec

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson Lounge

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Persecution, Punishment, and Purgatory I: Historical Explorations

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1330

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Pseudo-Bernard: The Writers, Works, and Readers

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1040

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Reading Aloud the French of England (A Workshop)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Hadley 102

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Reconsidering The Second Nun's Tale

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 213

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Records of Early English Drama, North-East

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1125

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Shifting Shape and Changing Form I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1335

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Signs of Identity, Marks of Otherness: New Approaches to Visual Culture I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1340

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Space and Limits in Aljamiado Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1160

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Space, Place, and Disability (A Panel Discussion)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 158

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Space-Time Continuum and Medieval Manuscripts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1265

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Teaching Hoccleve (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1005

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Teaching the Edda and Sagas in the Undergraduate Classroom: Strategies and Approaches (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2355

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Annual Journal of Medieval Military History Lecture

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 210

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Medieval Reception of Augustine of Hippo I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson 306

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Sidneys and the Sister Arts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 212

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Syndergaard Sessions II: Ballads: Sources and Analogues

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1325

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Transmission and Reception of Medieval Commentaries and Sermons: In Memory of Steven Cartwright

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1355

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Theology and Philosophy

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1275

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Thomas Aquinas II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Garneau Lounge

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Tolkien and Language

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1010

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Twelve Angry Carolingians II: Not Angry, Just Disappointed

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1145

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Women and Manuscripts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1350

1:30 PM

3:30 PM

A Text by Any Other Name: Rewritings, Reworkings, and Manipulations of Medieval Iberian Texts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1160

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Academic Theft (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1005

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Asterisk Tolkien

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1010

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Barbarians and Barbarian Kingdoms III: Byzantines Perspectives

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1255

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Before and after 1348: Prelude and Consequences of the Black Death

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 208

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Boethius's De consolatione philosophiae: Reception, Translations, and Influence

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 213

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Borders of Learning: Frontiers of Clerical Poetry in Medieval Iberia

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2040

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Dwelling in the Anglo-Saxon Landscape III: Materiality and Image

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1330

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Imitatio Mariae in the Meditationes vitae Christi Traditions across Europe

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1355

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Latinitas Viva II: Ars Docendi Viva: Live Teaching Demonstrations of an Alive Medieval Latin (Performances)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1135

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Embedding Professional Skills in Medieval Graduate Programs (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Eldridge 309

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Everybody’s (Gender) Hurts: Gendered Experiences of Pain

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1120

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Exercising Authority and Exerting Influence II: Unleashing the Power Within: Reassessing Royal and Elite Domestic Spaces

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 205

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Exploring the Early Medieval Economy: From Macro to Micro

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1155

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Gender in Anonymous Anglo-Saxon Saints' Lives

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1245

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Gower and Games (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2016

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Greater than the Sum of Our Arts: The Multitasking Life of the Lone Medievalist (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1345

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Hoccleve at Play

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1265

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Illuminated Manuscripts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2030

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Interoperable Manuscripts for Research and Teaching (A Workshop)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2355

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Langland's Women

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Law and Legal Culture in Anglo-Saxon England II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1225

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Light and Darkness in Medieval Art, 1200-1450 II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1360

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Magic Circles: Material, Ritual, Social

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 204

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Male Virginity

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 158

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Material Religion in the Crusading World II: Creating the Sacred

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2345

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medieval Form and Medieval Knowledge

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2020

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medieval Medicine

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1325

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medieval Military Technology

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 210

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medieval Sidekicks II: Sidekicks in Medieval Romance

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1130

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Mediterraneanizing the North Atlantic: Transmission, Translation, and Textuality (A Panel Discussion)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Hadley 102

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Memories of Medieval Drama in Shakespeare's Plays

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1125

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Monsters III: Monstrous Acts of Heroism (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1045

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

New Research in Medieval Germanic Studies II: Philology and Text

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1320

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Obscured by the Alps: Medieval Italian Architecture and the European Canon

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1280

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Persecution, Punishment, and Purgatory II: Methodological Considerations

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1220

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Perspectives on Machaut's First Book (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1060

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Shifting Shape and Changing Form II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1335

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Signs of Identity, Marks of Otherness: New Approaches to Visual Culture II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1340

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Speaking of Holy Women: Narratives, Interpretations, Traditions

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1350

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Style, Tragedy, Irony, and Death

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1275

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Cistercian and Monastic Inspiration for the Reformation: On the Occasion of the Five-Hundredth Anniversary of Luther's Theses

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1040

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Gospels

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II LeFevre 201

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Idea of the Garden in Medieval Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley I Shilling Lounge

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Medieval Reception of Augustine of Hippo II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson 306

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Van Dorsten Lecture

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 212

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Versatile Marie de France

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson Lounge

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Thomas Aquinas III

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley II Garneau Lounge

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Topographies and Geographies of Anchoritism

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 106

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Translation and Comparative Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 211

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Twelve Angry Carolingians III: Being Angry

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1145

3:30 PM

8:00 PM

Annus Mirabilis

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1005

8:00 PM

Sunday, May 14th
8:30 AM

Alfonso al-Hakīm: Significance and Impact of Alfonso X of Castile's Exchanges with the Islamic World

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1045

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Alfred and His Circle

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1255

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Approaching Methods on How to Read Science in Medieval Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1350

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Assembling Arthur (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Beguines and the Transformations of Urban Piety on the Eastern Periphery of Late Medieval Christendom

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 205

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Body and Soul in Medieval Visual Culture I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2016

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Boundaries and Borderlands

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 213

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Rex timore perterritus: The Early Irish Saints with and against the Secular Authorities

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1340

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

The Idea of Luxury and the Role of the Object

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1345

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Female Friendship in Medieval Literature I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 210

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Gendering Wisdom: Sex, Gender, and the Play of Proverbs in Early Wisdom Traditions (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 212

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Hagiography

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2030

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Islamic Magic: Texts and/as Objects

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1275

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Layered Meanings, Layered Functions: Metalwork and Gems in the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1060

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Lucan and Medieval England: Writing War, ca. 1100-ca. 1500

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1330

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

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

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1265

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Medieval Philosophy I: Scholastic Metaphysics and Epistemology

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 211

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Medieval Polytemporality: Pasts in the Present

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson Lounge

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Medievalism and Disability (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 158

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Medievalists in the Midwest: Promoting Resources, Collaboration, and Intercollegiality across Universities (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1220

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Murder, Translation, and Translator: Elisha Kent Kane and the Libro de buen amor

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 204

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Music and Liturgy I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1280

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

New Approaches to the Helfta Nuns and Their Contemporaries

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson 306

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Oathtaking and Oathbreaking in Middle and Early Modern English Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1335

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Old English Religious Texts after the Norman Conquest

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1005

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Purity: Early Medieval Perspectives I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1245

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Resplendent Pain

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1320

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Scottish History: New Approaches, New Questions

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2040

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Settlement and Landscape I: Technological Approaches to the Medieval in the Modern

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1225

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Spectatorship and Observation in the Medieval Arts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1325

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

The Five Senses in Premodern English Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1360

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

The Intersection of Material and Spiritual Culture in Medieval Monasticism

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1040

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

The Knightly Lifecycle

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 208

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

The Medieval History of Attention (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 106

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

The Practical Medicine of Medieval Surgeons and Physicians

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1010

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

The Schematization of Time

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1160

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Through a Medieval Looking Glass: Reading Eustache Deschamps's Miroir de mariage

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1355

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Transformations in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages I: Restructuring the World

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2020

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Voice, Song, and Silence in Medieval England (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 209

8:30 AM

10:30 AM

Across Boundaries: Traditions, Texts, Ideas

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2030

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Archaeology of Production and Power in the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1005

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

As Through a Proverb Darkly: Sentential Modes of Interpretation in Early Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 212

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Body and Soul in Medieval Visual Culture II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2016

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Cistercian Abbeys of Brittany

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1040

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Cities of Religion, Religions of the City: Religious Diversity and Urbanization in Medieval Europe

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Conflicting Forms: Europe 1300-1500

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1275

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Education and Society: Schools, Teachers, and Pupils in the Medieval World

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 208

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Materia Medica: Plants, Animals, and Minerals in Healing

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1010

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Female Friendship in Medieval Literature II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley III Stinson Lounge

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Gray Matter: Brains, Diseases, and Disorders

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1325

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Hunting for the Animal Subject in Anglo-Saxon England (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1255

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Ibero-Medieval Studies Tomorrow: Developing New Materials and Pedagogical Approaches to Introduce the Rich Variety of Medieval Iberian Cultures (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1045

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Lettered Bodies: Theorizing Epistolarity in the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1345

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Making History: Biographical Imperatives in Constructing "Robin Hood"

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1220

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Math in Medieval Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1330

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Medieval Philosophy II: Ethics and Political Thought

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 211

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Music and Liturgy II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1280

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Neighboring Languages and Cross-Cultural Exchange: Persian/Arabic, French/English

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1350

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

No Entry: Impenetrable Architecture in Medieval Art

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1060

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Premodern Futurities: Speculative Objects and Prognostication in the Medieval World

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 209

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Purity: Early Medieval Perspectives II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1245

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Rape and Education, Medieval and Modern (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 210

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

(Reformation in Faith and [Feeling) Like Saints]

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 205

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Revisiting Alphonsine Historiography and Legislation

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1340

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Settlement and Landscape II: Textual Approaches to the Medieval in the Modern

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1225

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Speaking of Soth and Slaughter: Pragmatic Meaning in the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1355

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Syon Abbey and Its Associates

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 213

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Technical Communication in the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1335

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

The Crusades through the Nexus of Text and Nonlinguistic Representations

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 204

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

The End of Merlin

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 106

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

The Matter of Ornament

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Fetzer 2040

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The Medieval University Today

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Schneider 1360

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The Second Sex: Women and Power in Old Norse-Icelandic Literature

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Schneider 1320

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Thinking with Medieval Thought

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Valley III Eldridge 309

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Transformations in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages II: New Methodologies and Approaches

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Fetzer 2020

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Victorian Medievalism: Translation and Adaptation

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Bernhard 158

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