Presented here is the schedule of numbered sessions of the 53rd International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 10-13, 2018). 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 4, 2018).The complete printed program, including the Corrigenda, is available elsewhere in ScholarWorks at WMU in PDF format.

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Schedule
2018
Thursday, May 10th
10:00 AM

Affect and Identity in MS Ashmole 61

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1325

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

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

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley 3 Stinson Lounge

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Arthurian Translation (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 106

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Changing Landscapes and Images: New Collaborative Projects in Ecclesiastical History: Monasticon Aquitaniae, Mont Saint-Michel, MILBRETEUR (l'an MIL en BRETagne et en EURope), Beauport Abbey (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2020

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

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

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 212

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Commemorating Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians (d. 918)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Sangren 1910

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Community Approaches to the Plague

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Sangren 1730

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Creative Pedagogies: Approaches to the Commonplace Book (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1005

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Critical Bibliography and Medieval Materiality (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1280

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Crusading and Crusading Ideology on the Frontier

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1045

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

De Musica Vulgari Eloquentia

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1245

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Divine and Natural Causality

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley 3 Stinson 306

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Early Medieval History

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1040

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Ecopoetics in Celtic Literatures

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1330

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Beowulf

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1060

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

King John: Pre-texts, Texts, and After-Texts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley 2 LeFevre Lounge

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Exemplary Women: Writers, Readers, Makers

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley 3 Eldridge 309

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Fake News: A Medieval Phenomenon (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1345

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

From Heresy to Orthodoxy: The Riddle of Iberian Christian Mysticism

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Iconography and Its Discontents I: Iconography and/as Methodology

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1235

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Jewishness and Animals

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1355

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Joan of Arc and the Law

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 209

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Manuscript Aesthetics

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1350

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Medicine and Magic I: Healing Bodies

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 204

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Medieval Chronicles

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 213

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Medieval History and Marxist Thought

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1120

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Medieval Liturgy: Text and Performance

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1340

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Multi-faceted Margarets: Textual and Visual Hagiographies of Saint Margaret of Antioch

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1360

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Networks of Knowledge in Late Medieval Iberia

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2016

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Old French Literature I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 205

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Public and Private in Kantorowicz: Studies in Spenser and Other Premodern Writers

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley 2 Harvey 204

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Queer Ecologies and the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1225

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

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

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Sangren 1720

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Sexual Acts in the Romance Epic Genre (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1220

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Studies in the Hêliand

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1135

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Syndergaard Ballad Session: Hags and Monsters

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1335

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Teaching Piers Plowman: Bringing Langland into the Classroom

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2030

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Teaching and Research: Encouraging Creative Cross-Pollination in the Classroom (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Sangren 1750

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Fifteenth Century: A Pivotal Period? (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1010

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Scripturesque Middle Ages: Uses/Reception of Apocrypha along the Medieval North Sea

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Sangren 1320

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 208

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Thinking Long Term about Digital Editions (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Sangren 1740

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Tolkien and the Celtic Tradition

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1255

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Troubadour Crossover (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 211

10:00 AM

1:30 PM

Alfredian Texts and Contexts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1155

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Aquinas and Being

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley 3 Stinson 306

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Augustine's Mystical Legacy: Eckhart, Cusanus, and Women Mystics

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 205

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Bodies, Bones, and Burial: Death in Early Medieval Texts and Culture I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Sangren 1730

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Central Europe across and without Borders (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1120

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

De-centering the Romanesque I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1005

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

"Eald Enta Geweorc": Tolkien and the Classical Tradition

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley 3 Stinson Lounge

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Ecocritical Responses to Anchoritism

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1335

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Fairie Queene

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1060

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Error and Correction

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1160

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Feeding the Classes: Food, Scholarly Reconstruction, and Experiential Learning in Teaching the Medieval World (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley 2 Harvey 204

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Franciscan Women and Visual Imagination

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Sangren 1720

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Gower's Dark Materials

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1135

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Hnefatafl: A Viking Board Game (A Workshop)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Sangren 1320

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Immigration and Migration

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2020

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

In Her Own Words: Twelfth-Century French Women's Voices in Performance (A Performance Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley 2 Garneau Lounge

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

In Memory of Anne Middleton I: Life the Margins

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1040

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Intoxicating Bodies I: Alcohol, Femininity, and Sex(uality)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1345

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Law as Culture: Inquisition, Landholding, and Murder

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2040

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Leaders and Followers in Malory's Morte Darthur

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1360

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Living in the Carolingian World I: Everyday Conditions

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Medicine and Magic II: Healing Souls

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 204

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Medieval Sensory Experience

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1330

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Medievalism and the Rediscovery of Medieval Art

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2030

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Medievalists Read Moby Dick (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1045

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Multicultural, Multimedia Outlaws

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1235

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Music Facsimiles and Editions, Digital and Analogue (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1245

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Old English Poetic Form

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1350

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Passion, Procession, and the People: An Interdisciplinary Panel

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1255

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Plural/Corporate Monarchy in Theory and Practice I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Sangren 1740

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Postcards from the Edge: Boundaries and Liminality in the Pearl-Poet

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 212

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Preservation and Destruction of Medieval Cultural Heritage: Europe, the Middle East, and Contemporary Iconoclasm (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 158

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Revolutions and Forms of Resistance in the Iberian Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2016

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Abbey of Saint-Victor: Life and Thought

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley 2 LeFevre Lounge

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Animal in Medieval Romance I: The Animal as Friend

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 213

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Continuity of the Middle Ages: Hans Sachs and His Contemporaries

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1325

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Invisible Curriculum: Minority and/or First-Generation Success in the Academy (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 106

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Other's Chivalry: Alternative Chivalric Codes and Practices

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1225

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Problem of Medieval Refugees

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 210

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Shaping of Medieval Pilgrim Experience

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Sangren 1910

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Twenty-First-Century Medievalist: Digital Methods, Career Diversity, and Beyond (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley 3 Eldridge 309

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Topics in Pedagogy

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Sangren 1750

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Transformations of the Seventh Century I: Connected Cultures

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1340

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Translating the Ars amatoria into French and Other Romance Languages in the Middle Ages I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1145

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Troubadours across the Pyrenees

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 211

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Using the New Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts (A Workshop)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1010

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

War and Chivalry

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 209

1:30 PM

3:30 PM

A Science of the Human: Medical Discourse as a Way of Knowing

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1255

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Anonymous Anglo-Saxon Saints' Lives

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1060

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Approaches to Teaching Medieval Drama, Revisited

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1045

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Architectural Medievalism

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2030

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Bede and Material Culture

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1010

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Bodies, Bones, and Burial: Death in Early Medieval Texts and Culture II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Sangren 1730

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Catherine Mooney's Clare of Assisi and the Thirteenth-Century Church (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017) (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Sangren 1720

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Celtic Magic Texts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 204

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Creating Digital Editions (A Workshop)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Sangren 1750

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

De-centering the Romanesque II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1005

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Early Modern Texts and Textiles: In Honor of Carole Levin

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 210

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

eManuscripts: Digital Humanities and Medieval Studies (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 106

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Fifteenth-Century England

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley 3 Stinson Lounge

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Gaylord Workshop on Reading Chaucer Aloud

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley 2 Harvey 204

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Getting Down with Anglo-Saxons: Depression and Related Conditions before the Conquest

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2040

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

In Memory of Anne Middleton II: The Idea of Public Poetry (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1040

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Intoxicating Bodies II: Alcohol, Gender, and Sex(uality)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1345

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Learning in Action: Geometry and Cathedral Design (A Demonstration)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Intramural Field near Valley Apartments

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

"Lesser" English Arthuriana

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1350

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Living and Dying in Viking-Age Ireland

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Sangren 1910

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Living in the Carolingian World II: Sermons, Saints, and Suffering

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Manifesting the Divine in Word and Deed: Augustine of Hippo as Exegete and Preacher

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley 2 Garneau Lounge

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medieval Badges

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1325

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medieval Military History

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 209

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medieval Song

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1155

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

New Directions in Anchoritic Studies (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1335

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Oral Tactics of Medieval Outlaw Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1235

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Philosophical Themes and Issues in Malory's Morte Darthur

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1360

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Play and Performance in the Pearl-Poet

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 212

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Plural/Corporate Monarchy in Theory and Practice II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Sangren 1320

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Politics, Society, and Liturgy in the High Middle Ages: Forging Identity

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1245

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Publishing: A Love Match or an Arranged Marriage? (A Panel Discussion)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley 3 Eldridge 309

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Puppets and Puppetry before 1500

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 158

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Ramon Llull and Lullism: Challenges and Directions for Research in the Twenty-First Century (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2016

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Reading through Form: A Session in Memory of Kurt Olsson

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1135

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Reexamining Digby 86

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1160

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Reflecting on York and the Medieval City

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Sangren 1740

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Seeing Red, Wearing Green: Cultures of Vengeance and the Code of Chivalry

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 211

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Shakespeare and Law/Shakespeare and Justice

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 208

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Ten Years of Teratology: A MEARCSTAPA Retrospective (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2020

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The "Medieval" in Popular Culture

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1330

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Animal in Medieval Romance II: The Animal as Prey

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 213

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Papacy in the Time of Cusanus

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 205

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Twelfth Century

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley 2 LeFevre Lounge

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Transformations of the Seventh Century II: Disciplines in Dialogue

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1340

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Translating the Ars amatoria into French and Other Romance Languages in the Middle Ages II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1145

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Travels, Contacts, and Changes in Worldviews and Diplomacy in Eurasia during the Pax Mongolica

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1225

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Truth and Sin

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley 3 Stinson 306

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Vernacular Bible in Central Europe

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1120

3:30 PM

7:30 PM

A Readers' Theatre Performance of the Pearl-Poet (A Performance)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley 2 LeFevre Lounge

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Alimentation and Accommodation during (Literary) Journeys in the Middle Ages and in Early Modern Times

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 210

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Crusading Culture and the Holy Land in Medieval Britain

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Fear of Domestic Abuse in Medieval Texts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 212

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Good Eats: The Culture, Politics and Materiality of Food in the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 204

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Lecture on the Reception of the Classics in the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1005

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Methods and Tools for Reuniting Manuscript Fragments (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1040

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Negotiating Orthodoxy in Iberia and across the Mediterranean

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2016

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Preach It, Sister! A Roundtable about Women and Homiletics

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1010

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Sensory Experiences of Thomas Aquinas's Saintly Presence in Dominican Liturgy I (A Performance)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley 3 Stinson Lounge

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Shakespeare at Kalamazoo Lecture

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 208

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Theorizing the Problematic Medievalisms of Dungeons & Dragons and Popular Fantasy Narrative (A Panel Discussion)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 106

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Wandering Minds: Medieval Distraction, Daydreaming, and Noonday Demons

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2040

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

We Teach People, Not Content: Understanding How Our Students' Lives and Backgrounds Affect Our Teaching of the Middle Ages (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 158

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

What's in a Name? A Roundtable on Names, Nicknames and Identity in the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2020

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Women on the Global Medieval Stage: Performers, Producers, and Artists (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1045

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Writing the Human/Animal Continuum in the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1060

7:30 PM

Friday, May 11th
8:30 AM

Plenary Lecture I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard East Ballroom

8:30 AM

10:00 AM

A Lone, but Not Alone: Building Collaborations across Medieval Studies (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 106

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

A Man's Mary: Male Devotion to the Virgin Mary in the Later Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2345

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Alternative Aspects of Medieval Pilgrimage (A Panel Discussion)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 209

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Anglo-Norman Texts and Manuscripts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1330

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Anglo-Saxons, Anglo-Saxonists, and the Southwest: In Anticipation of ISAS 2019

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 204

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Arthurian Sidekicks (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1005

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Charles d’Orléans: Forms and Genres

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley 3 Stinson 306

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Chaucer Studies

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 208

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Church in the City: Ecclesiastical Power and Urban Government in Medieval Italy (Tenth-Thirteenth Centuries)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 158

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Comparative Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2030

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Dress and Textiles I: Representing Textiles and Dress

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1040

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Early Medieval Europe I: Interpreting Conflict

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 213

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Beowulf Camp in Kalamazoo: Specific Results from the 2016 NEH Institute "Teaching Beowulf in the Context of Old Norse-Icelandic Literature"

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1140

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Shepheardes Calender and Apocalypse

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1060

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Experiential Pedagogy (A Panel Discussion)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2016

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Fifteenth-Century Christianity

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1155

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Form, Text, and the Medieval Manuscript Roll

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Sangren 1730

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Hoccleve, Lydgate, and Their Patrons

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2020

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Holy Women Breaking Bonds: Roles, Gender, Authority

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1335

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Iconography and Its Discontents II: Iconography and Technology

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Sangren 1750

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Identity in Late Antiquity

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 210

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

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

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1275

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Interactions between Celtic and Non-Celtic Societies: Juxtapositions, Connections, Confrontations, and Cross-Influences

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley 2 Harvey 204

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Medieval Infectious Disease

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1010

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Late Medieval History

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1160

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Makers with Many Faces: Multiple Styles of Scribes and Printers

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 211

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Manuscript (Trans)formations: Transmission and Reception

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1125

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Manuscripts and Editing

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1135

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Mappings I: Mappa Memoriae: Medieval Maps and Memory

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1145

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Marie and Ovid (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley 2 Garneau Lounge

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Medical Texts in Manuscript Culture

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Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Medieval Collections (A Roundtable)

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Schneider 2335

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Medieval Conduct Literature and Vernacular Devotional Literature

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Schneider 1325

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Medieval Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, and Logic

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Schneider 1255

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Medieval Franciscan Preaching on Penance, Conversion, and the Sacramental Life

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Valley 3 Stinson Lounge

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Medieval Waterways

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Sangren 1720

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Medievalists Writing Fiction about the Middle Ages: Perspectives from Authors and Scholars

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Schneider 1360

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Meet the Editors: Tips and Techniques on Article Submission for Graduate Students (A Roundtable)

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Schneider 1220

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Merlin and Time: The Time of Merlin

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Schneider 1320

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Middle Eastern Magic, Iconography, and the Written Word

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Fetzer 2040

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Monasticism

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Schneider 1350

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Monstrosity

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Schneider 1355

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Music, Space, and Place

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Schneider 1245

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Networks of Religious Exchange in Central and Eastern Europe during the Middle Ages

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Schneider 1340

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Premodern Plants (A Roundtable)

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Fetzer 1045

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Resistant Networks

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Sangren 1710

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Rethinking the Coverage Model in the History of English Language Course (A Roundtable)

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Sangren 1740

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Sensory Experiences of Thomas Aquinas's Saintly Presence in Dominican Liturgy II

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Schneider 1130

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Social Justice in the Piers Plowman Tradition

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Schneider 1235

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Teaching Chaucer Out Loud: Rethinking Approaches, Methods, Ideologies (A Roundtable)

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Bernhard 212

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Self-Image of Iberian Kings Drawn from Warfare and the Landholding Reality of Their Vassals

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Bernhard 205

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Topics in Archaeology

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Schneider 1345

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Vulnerability in the Middle Ages

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Sangren 1320

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Workshop on Ibero-Romance Paleography

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Schneider 1280

10:00 AM

1:30 PM

Animal Studies I

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Fetzer 2030

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Aquinas and His Reception

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Schneider 1125

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Art and Aftermath

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Sangren 1750

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Arthurian Sanctuaries

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Fetzer 1005

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Chaucer and the Senses I: Sight

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Bernhard 210

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Constructing the Wycliffite Bible

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Schneider 1235

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Contemporary Medieval Poetry I: Remaking Genre

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Schneider 1355

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Dangerous Distractions: The Perils of Sin in Medieval Monastic Communities

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Schneider 1340

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Digital Editing / Digital Archiving I: (Mostly) Theories and Methods

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Sangren 1730

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Dress and Textiles II: Metaphor and Materiality

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Fetzer 1040

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Early Medieval Europe II: Reading Meaning

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Bernhard 213

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Encountering Muhammad in the Medieval West

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Schneider 1135

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Gower and Temporalities

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Fetzer 2040

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Illuminated Manuscripts

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Schneider 1140

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Inclusion and Exclusion in the Middle Ages I

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Schneider 1220

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Insular/Continental Interface before 1100: Culture, Literature, History

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Schneider 1120

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Jahānsāzi: Text, Space, and Place in Medieval Islamicate Literary Worlds

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Schneider 1345

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Jewish-Christian Studies

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Bernhard 208

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Justice Gone Awry in Medieval Art and Culture

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Sangren 1720

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Mappings II: Text and Image and/on Medieval Maps

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Schneider 1145

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Medicine in Cities: Public Health and Medical Professions

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Bernhard 212

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Medieval Franciscans and the History of Emotions

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Bernhard 205

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Medieval Philosophical Theology in the Abrahamic Traditions

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Valley 3 Stinson Lounge

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Medieval Translation Theory and Practice

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley 3 Stinson 306

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Medieval Voyages: Into the Unknown

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Schneider 1255

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Medievalism and Environmentalism in Tolkien's Works

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Bernhard 209

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Mesteres and Margins: Peripheries and Centers of/in Clerical Literature

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Schneider 1320

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Middle English Literature I

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Schneider 1155

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Migration, Disease, and Diet: Bioarchaeological Approaches to Medieval Studies Using Biomolecular and Biogeochemical Analyses

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Bernhard 158

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Monstrous Medievalism: Toxic Appropriations of the Middle Ages in Modern Popular Culture and Thought

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Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Narrative Geographies of Medieval Architecture I: Movement in Space

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Schneider 2335

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Nature and the Unnatural in the Middle Ages: New Perspectives

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Schneider 1360

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

New Research in Medieval Germanic Studies

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Schneider 1275

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

New Voices in Anglo-Saxon Studies I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1010

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

New Voices in Early Drama Studies

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Fetzer 2016

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

New Work by Young Celtic Studies Scholars

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Schneider 1330

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Old Books, New Technologies: Reconstructing Lost Texts

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Bernhard 211

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Papers by Undergraduates I

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Schneider 1130

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Political Culture in Late Medieval England

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Schneider 1160

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Pragmatics and Proverbs of the Medieval North: Understanding Speech Acts in Medieval Literature

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Valley 2 Harvey 204

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Queering Marie

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Valley 2 Garneau Lounge

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Reading Aloud the French of England (A Workshop)

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Valley 2 LeFevre Lounge

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Real and Imagined Histories: Medieval, Early Modern, and Modern Appeals to the Iberian Past I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1280

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Shake Up the Canon I: Remaking the Canon

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2345

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Sounding Exempla: The Curious World of Musical Examples

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Schneider 1245

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Start Ups and Flops I: Episcopal Start Ups

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Schneider 1225

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Structures of Order in Medieval Science I: Experience and Authorities

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Schneider 1350

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Tenth Anniversary Roundtable: Medieval Disability Studies, Then and Now (A Roundtable)

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Sangren 1740

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Roman de la rose: The Evolution of Digital Research

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Bernhard 204

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Ethics of Pleasure

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Fetzer 1060

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Language of Race in Medieval English Literature

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Sangren 1710

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Late Antique and Early Medieval Economy

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Schneider 1335

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Problematic Structure of Juan Ruiz's Libro de buen amor: Anthology, Collage, or Plot I

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Bernhard 106

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Robert T. Farrell Lecture

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Fetzer 1045

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Trans-gressive Bodies: A Queer Perspective on Ovid in the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1325

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Translations of Power: Social Class in the Middle Ages I

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Sangren 1320

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Women and Anger

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Valley 3 Eldridge 309

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Women in Tenth-Century England

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2020

1:30 PM

3:30 PM

1418, Springtime in Paris: Violence, Memory, Meaning

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Bernhard 208

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

A Performance of the York Feast of Saint Cecilia

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Kanley Chapel

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Alfonso X's Libro de los juegos: Big Results from Small Data

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Bernhard 204

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Animal Studies II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2030

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Benedictine Exegesis of the Bible in the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley 2 LeFevre Lounge

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Beyond Bannatyne: Celebrating Four Hundred and Fifty Years of the Bannatyne Manuscript

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Schneider 1125

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

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

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Goldsworth Pond Gazebo

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Chaucer and the Senses II: Taste, Touch, Smell

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Bernhard 210

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Claire Sponsler: In Memoriam I

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Fetzer 2016

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Contemporary Medieval Poetry II: Forms and Histories

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1355

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Corruption and Authority in the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1005

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Digital Editing / Digital Archiving II: (By and Large) Projects and Experiences

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Sangren 1730

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Dress and Textiles III: New Analyses of Old Evidence

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1040

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Early Ireland in a Roman Context

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1045

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Early Medieval Europe III: Real and Rhetorical Bodies

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Bernhard 213

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Le Fresne Again! Ten Years of Performing Marie de France (A Performance)

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Valley 2 Garneau Lounge

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Gender and Religious Identity in the Old English Judith

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Valley 3 Stinson 306

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Gender, Materiality, and Movement in Medieval French Literature and Lyric

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Schneider 1325

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Gower and Sound

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Fetzer 2040

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Inclusion and Exclusion in the Middle Ages II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1220

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Invisible Disabilities

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Sangren 1740

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Jinn, Dragons, and Divs: Supernatural Beings in Medieval Islamicate Literatures

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Schneider 1345

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

King Arthur and the Church

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Schneider 1120

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Legal History

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Schneider 1140

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Mappings III: Shaping the Medieval World

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1145

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medieval Diversity in the Core Curriculum (A Roundtable)

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Sangren 1910

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medieval Political Philosophy

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley 3 Stinson Lounge

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medieval(ist) Librarians and Archivists (A Roundtable)

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Bernhard 158

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Middle English Literature II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1155

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Military Medicine: Wounds and Disease in Warfare

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 212

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Modern Perspectives on Medieval Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1245

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Moving People, Shifting Frontiers: Re-contextualising the Thirteenth Century in the Wider Mediterranean

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Sangren 1750

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Narrative Geographies of Medieval Architecture II: Sacred Topography

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2335

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

New Book Roundtable

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1275

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

New Voices in Anglo-Saxon Studies II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1010

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

New Voices in Medieval History

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Sangren 1720

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Old Norse-Icelandic Studies

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1320

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Papers by Undergraduates II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1130

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Personalization in Manuscripts and Printed Books: Ownership Marks, Annotations, Emendations

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 211

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Peter of John Olivi

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 205

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Real and Imagined Histories: Medieval, Early Modern, and Modern Appeals to the Iberian Past II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1280

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Saints as Therapy

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Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Sanctity in the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1255

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Shake Up the Canon II: The Outlaw(ed) Canon

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2345

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Simulating the Black Death: A Workshop on Using Reacting to the Past in Medieval Courses

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1330

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Start Ups and Flops II: Pastors and Disasters

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1225

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Structures of Order in Medieval Science II: Visualization and Diagrammatic Expression

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1350

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Teaching with Translations

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Schneider 1135

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Crusades and the Crusader States

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley 2 Harvey 204

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Cultures of Armenia and Georgia

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Schneider 1340

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Kathleen Williams Lecture

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Fetzer 1060

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Politics of War in Late Medieval England

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1160

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Problematic Structure of Juan Ruiz's Libro de buen amor: Anthology, Collage, or Plot II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 106

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Theologies of Medieval Monastic Life

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Lee Honors College

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Tolkien's Re-envisioning of the Medieval Lay: The Lay of Beren and Luthien and the Lay of Aotrou and Itroun

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Bernhard 209

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Topics in the History of Nobility, Knighthood, and Heraldica: A Session in Honor of D'Arcy Jonathan Dacre Boulton

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Schneider 1360

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Translations of Power: Social Class in the Middle Ages II

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Sangren 1320

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Twenty-First Century Piers: Reading Piers Plowman with Contemporary Theory (A Roundtable)

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Valley 3 Eldridge 309

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Æthelflæd in Post-Medieval Literature

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Fetzer 2020

3:30 PM

5:30 PM

Coptic Stitch Binding (A Hands-On Workshop)

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Valley 2 Harvey Classroom

5:30 PM

5:30 PM

Latinitas Viva I: Carmina Karaoke: Latin Sing-a-Long (A Workshop)

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Fetzer 1010

5:30 PM

7:30 PM

Juggling the Middle Ages (A Screening and Roundtable Discussion)

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Fetzer 1005

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Performing Malory: Magic and Miracles (A Performance)

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Valley 3 Stinson Lounge

7:30 PM

9:30 PM

A Hands-On Introduction to the Astrolabe and Chaucer’s Treatise (A Workshop)

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Valley 3 Eldridge 309

9:30 PM

Saturday, May 12th
8:30 AM

Plenary Lecture II

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Bernhard East Ballroom

8:30 AM

10:00 AM

Archaeology and Experiment: Moving beyond the Artifacts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2016

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Complaining in the Middle Ages: The Genre of Complaint

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley 2 Garneau Lounge

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Cultural Continuities Despite Institutional Transformations Affecting Noble Persons and Dignitaries since ca. 1250

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Schneider 1340

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Dante Studies I: Dante's Appeals to Classical Sources

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1125

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Digital Projects: Medieval Manuscripts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1060

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Diplomacy in Medieval Iberia: Language, Men and Texts in Diplomatic Exchanges (Twelfth-Fourteenth Centuries)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1155

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Golden Legend and the Standardization of Sanctity

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Schneider 1275

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Emotion, Affect, and Feeling in Late Medieval English Devotion

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Schneider 1225

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Futures in Early Medieval Archipelagic Studies (A Roundtable)

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Bernhard 210

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Hiberno-Latin Studies

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Bernhard 205

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Holy Women Making Bonds: Relationships, Networks, Interpretations

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Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Illuminating Jesus (A Roundtable)

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Valley 2 LeFevre Lounge

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Land and Language in Layamon's Brut

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1145

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Latinitas Viva II: Reading Proficiency in Medieval Latin: New-Old Methods and SLA Research (A Panel Discussion)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1320

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Learning, Exploring, and Developing Our Understanding and Use of the Digital Humanities, or, "Did you try turning it off and back on?" (A Workshop)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1280

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Magali Roques's L'essentialisme de Guillaume d'Ockham: Author Meets Critics

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1235

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Manuscript Studies

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1345

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Medieval Ethiopia

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1160

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Medieval Sermon Studies I: Preaching and the Arts

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Bernhard 212

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Medievalism, Racism, and the Academy (A Roundtable)

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Fetzer 1005

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Medievalisms and Marguerite Porete: The Mirror of Simple Souls in the Age of #Resistance

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Schneider 1330

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Medievalists without Borders: Cooperative Projects on Popular Culture in Islamic and Christian Lands (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1220

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Mediterranean Materiality and Consumption

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1255

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Memory and Imagination in the Narrative Works of Aelred of Rievaulx

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Fetzer 1040

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

National Medievalisms

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1350

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Networks for Old English: Mentorship, Collaboration, Collegiality (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1010

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Nonhuman Forms of Thought

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1325

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Old French Literature II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1355

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Old Norse and Middle English Romance

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2345

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Other Monasticisms I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2355

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Out of the Box, Out of the Bottle: Ambiguous Supernatural Entities in Medieval Magic

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 211

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Parker on the Web 2.0: Re-opening the Library

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1335

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Pictor/Miniator: Working across Media, 1250–1500

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2020

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Readers, Singers, and Hearers of the Word: Music of the Medieval Mass I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1245

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Regionalism in Medieval Art and Architecture

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2030

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Scandinavian Studies

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1360

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Sensational Words: Describing Sensory Engagement in the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2040

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Social Filth: An Interdisciplinary Roundtable on Medieval Obscenity (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 158

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Speakerly Communities in the Medieval Paremial Tradition (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley 2 Harvey 204

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Start Ups and (We Hope Not) Flops: Brevia: Scholar's Start Ups on Bishops and the Secular Clergy in the Middle Ages (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 106

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Teaching a Diverse and Inclusive Middle Ages (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 208

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Teaching Manuscript Harley 2253: New Approaches with the METS Edition

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley 3 Eldridge 309

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Teaching Middle English Literature Online: Criticisms and Discoveries (A Panel Discussion)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 213

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Teaching Violence and Trauma in the Premodern Classroom (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 209

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Long Twelfth Century

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Schneider 2335

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

The Role of Nature and the Body in the Byzantine Tradition of Prayer

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 204

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

"This Unpolished Embryo": New Ideas in Sidney Studies

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley 3 Stinson Lounge

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Thomas Aquinas I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley 3 Stinson 306

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Topics in Medieval Numismatics

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1130

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Towards a Medieval Transgender Studies

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1120

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

Unmystical Rolle

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1135

10:00 AM

10:00 AM

What Is Courtly Love? (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1045

10:00 AM

1:30 PM

Advocacy and Resistance (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1005

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Albertus Magnus as Reader of Scripture

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley 2 LeFevre Lounge

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Alexander's Revenge: Hellenism and Hellenistic Influences upon the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2335

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Behind the Bishop's Back: The Middle and the Lower Clergy in Late Antiquity I: Clerics, Women, and Problems

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1355

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Beyond Delooz: Sanctity Individual and Corporate

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1275

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Boundaries of Negotiations in Later Medieval Europe: Political, Cultural, Economic

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1225

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

"Can These Bones Come to Life?" I: Issues of Authenticity in Reconstructing, Reenacting, and Recreating the Past

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1120

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Carolingian Connections

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1145

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Chaucer and the Senses III: Feeling Sensorially

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 210

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Corruption of Manly Men in Late Medieval England

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley 2 Garneau Lounge

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Dante Studies II: Corporeality, Materiality, Sin, and Suppression in the Divine Comedy

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1125

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Digital Skin I: Beyond the Archive: Communicating Manuscript Materiality via Social Media (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1345

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Elections before Elections: Insular Political Prophecy

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

King Arthur 2017 (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1280

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Emblem Studies

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1320

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

From Thesis to Book: Advice for New Scholars (A Panel Discussion)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley 3 Eldridge 309

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Fun Facts about Formes Fixes (A Workshop)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1060

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Hispano-Romance Historical Linguistics and Lexicography: A Tribute to John J. Nitti I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2016

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

History and Poetics

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1360

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Imagining the Afterlife

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 106

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

In Memory of John Langdon I: Medieval Economy, Society, and Progress

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1255

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Lydgate's Geographies: Lydgate and East Anglia

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1155

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Manuscripts in the Curriculum: New Perspectives on Using Medieval Manuscripts in the Undergraduate Classroom from Special Collection Librarians, Faculty, and Booksellers (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1010

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Medieval Iberian Cultural Identity: The Manuscript Record I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 211

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Medieval Military Technology

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 209

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Medieval Sermon Studies II: Preaching across the Disciplines

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 212

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

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

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2345

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Occult Blockbusters of the Islamicate World I: The Picatrix (A Magical Bestseller)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 204

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Old English Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley 2 Harvey 204

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Order and Interpretation I: New Insights into Liturgy, Texts, and Law in Memory of Roger E. Reynolds (1936–2014)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1350

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Other Monasticisms II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2355

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Past, Present, Future: Medieval Monsters and Their Afterlives I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1160

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Performing Courtly Love

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley 3 Stinson Lounge

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Performing Medieval Proverbs

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1135

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Readers, Singers, and Hearers of the Word: Music of the Medieval Mass II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1245

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Redefining Nation and Nationalism: A Post-Nineteenth-Century Approach for a Modern Medieval Studies

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1335

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Reformation I: Problematic Figures and Issues in the Reformation

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1325

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Repudiating (Her)Stories in Iberia

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 208

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Secondary School as a Second Career (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1330

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Sessions in Honor of Kathryn Kerby-Fulton I: English Visionary Literatures

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1220

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Studies in Honor of Charles D. Wright I: Old English Poetry

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2020

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Early Transmission of Saint Gertude the Great's The Herald of God's Loving Kindness

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1040

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Extent, Sources, and Uses of Nobiliary Wealth, ca. 1237-ca. 1650

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1340

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Health of the Body Politic in Late Medieval Europe

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2040

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

The Sidneys and Their Circles I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2030

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Theology and Vernacular Literary Culture in the Age of Christine de Pizan and Jean Gerson

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 205

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Thomas Aquinas II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley 3 Stinson 306

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Topics in Byzantine Sigillography

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1130

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Translating Genres: From Arabic Prose to European Literatures

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 213

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Venice, Materiality, and the Byzantine World I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1140

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Werewolf? There, Wolf I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1235

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Whiteness in Medieval Studies 2.0 (A Workshop)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1045

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Working Mothers Medieval/Modern (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 158

1:30 PM

3:30 PM

Academic Medievalists after Conservative Religion (A Panel Discussion)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1010

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Archbishop Wulfstan of York

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2040

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Arthurian Ethics

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1340

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Behind the Bishop's Back: The Middle and the Lower Clergy in Late Antiquity II: Hierarchy, Clerics, and Monks

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1355

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

"Can These Bones Come to Life?" II: Issues of Authority in Reconstructing, Reenacting, and Recreating the Past (and in Medieval Studies)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1120

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Catherine of Siena: Responses to André Vauchez Vie et passions (A Panel Discussion)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley 2 Harvey 204

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Chaucer and the Senses IV: Sound

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 210

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Christine and the Arts: Aesthetics and Poetics in the Writings of Christine de Pizan

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 205

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Citing Authories in the Middle Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1135

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Claire Sponsler: In Memoriam II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1155

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Dante Studies III: Theological, Historical, and Pedagogical Contexts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1125

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Digital Skin II: "Franken-Manuscripts" and "Zombie Books": Digital Manuscript Interfaces and Sensory Engagement

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1345

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

La corónica International Book Award: Núria Silleras-Fernández, Chariots of Ladies: Francesc Eiximenis and the Court Culture of Medieval and Early Modern Iberia (A Panel Discussion)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley 3 Stinson Lounge

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Emblem Studies and Visual Culture

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1320

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Hispano-Romance Historical Linguistics and Lexicography: A Tribute to John J. Nitti II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2016

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Holy Marketing

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1275

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

In Memory of John Langdon II: Medieval Economy, Society, and Crisis

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1255

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Interpreting Unfinished Later Medieval Manuscripts : Interdisciplinary Approaches

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1225

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Known Unknowns: Expanding the Cantus Database

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1245

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Literary Personae, Translating Identity

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1360

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Machaut sans Notes

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1060

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Manuscript Witness to Power and Politics at Medieval Episcopal Centers

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2335

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medieval Ecocriticisms: Environmental Crisis and the Middle Ages (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medieval Iberian Cultural Identity: The Manuscript Record II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 211

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Medieval Sermon Studies III: Sermons as Biblical Education for the Laity

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 212

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

New Questions about Saint Gertrude the Great's The Herald of God’s Loving-Kindness Raised by the Discovery of Leipzig Ms. 827

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1040

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

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

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2345

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Occult Blockbusters of the Islamicate World II: Arabic and Persian

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 204

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Old English Poetry

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley 2 Garneau Lounge

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Old Wine in New Bottles: Contemporary Uses of Medieval Languages (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1045

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Order and Interpretation II: New Insights into Liturgy and Law in the Beneventan Zone in Memory of Roger E. Reynolds (1936-2014)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1350

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Other Monasticisms III

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 2355

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Past, Present, Future: Medieval Monsters and Their Afterlives II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1160

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Reading Aloud in Old French and Middle French (A Workshop)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley 2 LeFevre Lounge

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Reformation II: Rethinking Texts and (Historical) Contexts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1325

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Repudiating Conversion in Iberia

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 208

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Sessions in Honor of Kathryn Kerby-Fulton II: Middle English Manuscripts and Their Professional Readers

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1220

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Studies in Honor of Charles D. Wright II: Old English Prose

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2020

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Teaching King of Tars: Addressing Race and Religion (A Panel Discussion)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1005

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Teaching Boethius (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 213

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Teaching the Middle Ages to All Ages

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1330

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Annual Journal of Medieval Military History Lecture

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 209

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Construction of "Cultural Landscapes" in Medieval Images and Texts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1335

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The New "Dark Ages"

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1280

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

The Sidneys and Their Circles II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2030

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Thomas Aquinas III

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley 3 Stinson 306

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Topics in Byzantine Numismatics

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1130

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Translating Sacred Bodies

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 106

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Venice, Materiality, and the Byzantine World II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1140

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Werewolf? There, Wolf II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1235

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Ælfrician Texts and Contexts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1145

3:30 PM

8:00 PM

Non Angli sed Angeli

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1005

8:00 PM

Sunday, May 13th
8:30 AM

A Feminist Renaissance in Anglo-Saxon Studies I: Interdisciplinary/Extramural

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1010

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Barbarians and Barbarian Kingdoms I: Italy and the Balkans

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1280

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

C. S. Lewis and the Middle Ages I: Lewis and the Problem of Allegory

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley 3 Stinson Lounge

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Case Studies of Medieval Crossover: Meetings of the Sacred and Secular in Medieval Romance

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2020

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Cultural Game Theory and Medieval Studies

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 204

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Diversifying Logres: Teaching Materials for the Continental Arthuriad (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1060

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Medievalism: A Manifesto (A Panel Discussion)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley 3 Eldridge 309

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Enchanted Environs: Architecture, Automata, and the Art of Mechanical Performance I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2016

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Encounters with the Paranormal in Medieval Iceland I: New Methodological Approaches

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 212

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

"Fancy Meeting You Here!": Medieval Texts and Traditions as Sources for Understanding Polytheism

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 213

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Female Bodies on the Threshold of Oblivion: Aging and Dying in the Medieval West

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2040

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

IIIF for Medievalists I: A Gentle Introduction (A Workshop)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 158

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Law and Legal Culture in Anglo-Saxon England I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 106

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Law and Legal Culture in the Fourteenth Century

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 211

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Logic, Love, and Truth in Aquinas

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley 3 Stinson 306

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Medieval Prosopography

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Memory: Public Display and Material Evidences I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 208

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Staging Knowledge in Early English Drama

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 205

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Teaching Medieval Studies with/without Objects and Collections (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1045

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

The Communication of the Incommunicable: Love as a Unifying Order in Medieval Theology and Poetry

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1275

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

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

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 209

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

The Medieval Tradition of Natural Law I

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1255

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

What Is an Archive? (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1005

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

What Is Medieval History? I: Digital History, Archaeological Science, and Alternative Approaches to Historical Argumentation (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2030

8:30 AM

10:30 AM

A Feminist Renaissance in Anglo-Saxon Studies II: Projects in Process (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1010

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Barbarians and Barbarian Kingdoms II: Barbarians and the Church

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1280

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

C. S. Lewis and the Middle Ages II: Lewis and Dead People

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley 3 Stinson Lounge

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Changing Perspectives on the Guidonian Hand, or, What Is at Stake in Reconstructing the Musical Space of the Middle Ages? (A Panel Discussion)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 210

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Comparative Monasticism: Method, Theory, and Concepts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1040

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Dancing with Death in Medieval Literature

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1060

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Enchanted Environs: Architecture, Automata, and the Art of Mechanical Performance II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2016

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Encounters with the Paranormal in Medieval Iceland II: Being and Becoming

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 212

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Games and Manuscripts

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 204

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

How to Engage Now: Medieval Studies and Public Discourse in 2018 (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1045

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

IIIF for Medievalists II: Beyond the Basics (A Workshop)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 158

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Law and Legal Culture in Anglo-Saxon England II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 106

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Medieval Settlement and Landscape: The Medieval in the Modern

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 213

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Memory: Public Display and Material Evidences II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 208

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Mood (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 1005

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Observing or Breaking the Rules: Material Culture and Heterodoxy among Low Medieval Southern European Religious Women

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2040

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Pauline Stafford's Queens, Concubines, and Dowagers Thirty-Five Years Later (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Records of Early English Drama North-East: Five Years In

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2020

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Teaching Chaucer in Secondary Schools (A Roundtable)

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Valley 3 Eldridge 309

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

The Holy Lance Revisited

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 209

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

The Matter of Alchemy: Deciphering Medieval Practices

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 205

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

The Medieval Tradition of Natural Law II

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1255

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

The Provincial Aristocratic Household in Late Medieval England

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Schneider 1275

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

What Is Medieval History? II: Travelers, Transmission, and Transport across Africa, Asia, and Europe

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Fetzer 2030

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Women and Crime in the Fourteenth Century

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Bernhard 211

10:30 AM