Please find below a hand list to medievalism-related sessions for Thursday, 7 May, at this year's International Medieval Congress on Medieval Studies. The remainder are available on the blog beginning with postings dated March 15 and beyond.
Society sponsored events are in red.
MEDIEVALISM-THEMED SESSIONS AND/OR PANELS
44TH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON MEDIEVAL STUDIES (7-10 MAY 2009)
WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY
THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2009 EVENTS
10:00-11:30 AM: Session 8: Valley II 207
J. K. Rowling’s Medievalism
Organizer: Carol R. Dover, Georgetown Univ.
Presider: Gail Orgelfinger, Univ. of Maryland–Baltimore County
Harry Potter’s Alchemical Transformation: J. K. Rowling’s Alchemical and Esoteric Symbolism
Jon Porter, Butler Univ.
Ghosts, Zombies, and Voldemort’s Puppets: Inferi and Medieval Necromancers
Vanessa R. Taylor, Catholic Univ. of America
Imagining the White Stag
Carol R. Dover
10:00-11:30 AM: Session 12: Valley I 101
Tudor Literature I: Plays
Presider: William Kamowski, Montana State Univ.–Billings
From Chester to the Globe: Sixteenth-Century Narratives of Early English Drama
Kurt A. Schreyer, Univ. of Missouri–St. Louis
“What ys a man wythowte mercy?”: Mankind and Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus
Cameron Hunt, Univ. of South Florida–Tampa
Marlowe, the Crusades, and Modernity
Mathew Martin, Brock Univ.
The Kingly Bastard: Royalty, Blood, and Performance in Shakespeare’s King John
Kristin M. Smith, Boston Univ.
10:00-11:30 AM: Session 18: Valley I 110
The Pleasures of the Medieval Text I: Medieval and Post-Medieval Romance
Sponsor: Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Organizer: Tison Pugh, Univ. of Central Florida
Presider: Mark Miller, Univ. of Chicago
Childe Horn and Other Female Children: Pleasurable Transgression and Its Limits
Julie Nelson Couch, Texas Tech Univ.
The Pleasure of Medieval Romance: Sacrificing Chivalry and Courtly Love in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Anne McKendry, Univ. of Melbourne
Middling Pleasures: Mass-Market Medieval Romance and the Modern Medievalist
Nicola McDonald, Centre for Medieval Studies, Univ. of York
10:00-11:30 AM: Session 28: Fetzer 2030
Teaching the Middle Ages Using Film
Sponsor: TEAMS (The Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages)
Organizer: Anita Obermeier, Univ. of New Mexico
Presider: Karolyn Kinane, Plymouth State Univ.
History, Myth, and Movies: Teaching the Middle Ages Using Film
Mary Lynn Rampolla, Trinity Univ.
Luc Bessen’s The Messenger and the Knights of the Hundred Years War
Matthieu ChanTsin, Coastal Carolina Univ.
10:00-11:30 AM: Session 39: Bernhard 208
Static and Shifting Landscapes in Medieval Literature, Art, and Thought
Sponsor: Medieval Association of the Midwest (MAM)
Organizer: Susann Samples, Mount St. Mary’s Univ.; Robert A. Benson, Ball
State Univ.; and Cynthia Z. Valk, Vincennes Univ.
Presider: Dominique Battles, Hanover College
PAPER 2:It Was All a Dream: The Rise and Fall of Tennyson’s Camelot
Thomas J. Hoberg, Northeastern Illinois Univ.
PAPER 3: In the Shadow of the Vampire: Making the First Film
Robert A. Benson and Cynthia Z. Valk
10:00-11:30 AM: Session 52: Sangren 2304
The Medievally Monstrous and Frighteningly Familiar: Draugrs, Dragons, and Devil-Dogs
Organizer: Frances Auld, Albany State Univ.
Presider: Frances Auld
The Mummers’ Play Saint George and the Fiery Dragon and Book I of Spenser’s Fairy Queene
Jennifer C. Vaught, Univ. of Louisiana–Lafayette
Man or Monster: From Medieval Literature to the Buffyverse
Leila Werthschulte, Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ. München
Bewitching Food: Medieval Love Rituals in Aura by Carola Fuentes
Carmen Serrano, Bates College
From Classical Monsters to Present Time Creatures: Fears and Hopes
Aimeric Vacher, International School of Geneva
1:30-3:00 PM: Session 58: Valley II 203
Medieval Popular Culture I: Law, Sport, and Monastery Towns
Sponsor: Texas Medieval Association (TEMA)
Organizer: Sally N. Vaughn, Univ. of Houston
Presider: Jean Truax, Independent Scholar
Legal Procedure in Berceo’s Miracle VIII
Michael P. McGlynn, Wichita State Univ.
“The Madnes of Tenys” and the Regulation of Pastimes in Late Medieval London
David Kathman, Independent Scholar
Popular Culture at Caen during the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
Priscilla Watkins, Houston Community College
1:30-3:00 PM: Session 66: Valley I 105
Renaissance Medievalisms in Performance
Sponsor: Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society (MRDS)
Organizer: Jill Stevenson, Marymount Manhattan College
Presider: Jill Stevenson
“‘Tis not so sweet now as it was before”: Medieval Direct Address Techniques in Renaissance Drama
Michelle M. Butler, Univ. of Pittsburgh
Shakespeare’s Queen Katherine: Chaucer’s Griselde on Stage
Kathryn Jacobs, Texas A&M Univ.–Commerce
The Persistent Voice of Hegemony: Conquest and Reconquest on the Early Spanish Stage
Bruce R. Burningham, Illinois State Univ
1:30-3:00 PM: Session 80: Fetzer 2030
Studies in Old English Literature and the Medievalism of J. R. R. Tolkien
Sponsor: Medieval and Early Modern English Studies Association of Korea
(MEMESAK)
Organizer: Minwoo Yoon, Yonsei Univ.
Presider: Noel Harold Kaylor, Jr., Troy Univ.
Not All That the Authorities Have Said Is True: Questioning Some Notes Made by Bruce Mitchell and Fred C. Robinson on Beowulf and The Wife’s Lament
Sung-Il Lee, Yonsei Univ.
The Presentation of Female Characters in Beowulf
Dong-Il Lee, Hankuk Univ. of Foreign Studies
Loss and Lateness in The Lord of the Rings
Minwoo Yoon
1:30-3:00 PM: Session 95: Bernhard 208
Teaching Dante I: Literary Perspectives
Sponsor: TEAMS (The Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages)
Organizer: Anita Obermeier, Univ. of New Mexico
Presider: Anita Obermeier
Dante Criticism in Performance: A Research Exercise for Undergraduates
Natalie Grinnell, Wofford College
Dante from Western to World Literature
Charles Ross, Purdue Univ.
1:30-3:00 PM: Session 98: Bernhard 211
Foreignness and Evil in King Lear
Sponsor: Shakespeare at Kalamazoo
Organizer: Martine van Elk, California State Univ.–Long Beach
Presider: Carole Levin, Univ. of Nebraska–Lincoln
The Geopolitics of Burgundy in Shakespeare’s King Lear
Joseph F. Stephenson, Abilene Christian Univ.
Lear’s Witches and Edgar’s Demons: Contextualizing Evil in King Lear
Verena Theile, North Dakota State Univ.
1:30-3:00 PM: Session 101: Bernhard Brown & Gold Room
Exemplary Research Applications Using Digital Methods
Sponsor: Digital Medievalist
Organizer: Peter Robinson, Univ. of Birmingham
Presider: Peter Robinson
PAPER 3: Modern Media and the Medieval Musicologist
Kate Helsen, Independent Scholar
1:30-3:00 PM: Session 104: Sangren 2212
Medieval Themes from the End of the Nineteenth Century to the End of the Twentieth
Presider: Christine M. Havens, Univ. of Northern Iowa
Inventing a Medieval Romania: Dracula and the Western Look
Alexandra Vranceanu, Univ. of Bucharest
First Knight, Idealism, and Medievalism
Amy Rowan Kaplan, Univ. of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign
Quantum Miracle or Quantum Curse? The Identity of the Medieval Scholar in Michael Crichton’s Timeline
Robin Blanchard, Medieval Institute, Western Michigan Univ
1:30-3:00 PM: Session 109: Sangren 2502
Medievalisms at War I
Sponsor: Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages
Organizer: Michael A. Torregrossa, Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages
Presider: Carl James Grindley, Hostos Community College, CUNY
Richard the Lionheart in Films and Television about the Third Crusade
Lorraine Kochanske Stock, Univ. of Houston
Contextualizing King Arthur Was a Gentleman (1942): The Matter of Britain as World War II Propaganda
Michael A. Torregrossa
“A Sport and an End”: Militarism in Tolkien’s and Jackson’s Versions of The Lord of the Rings
Mary R. Bowman, Univ. of Wisconsin–Stevens Point
Patterns of Violence, Decay, and Redemption in Filmic Beowulfs and Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund’s Cidade de Deus (2002)
Aaron Mercier, Ohio State Univ.
3:30-5:00 PM: Session 111: Valley II 200
Beowulf after the Middle Ages
Presider: M. Wendy Hennequin, Tennessee State Univ.
Two Hundred Years of Beowulf Translations
Hans Sauer, Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ. München
John Mitchell Kemble: From Broadswords to Beowulf
Douglas Ryan VanBenthuysen, Univ. of New Mexico
(Univ. of New Mexico Graduate Student Prize Winner)
Beowulf and the Children of Heroes
Dean Easton, Choate Rosemary Hall School
Ælfthryth, Emma, and Angelina: The Historical Context of the Beowulf Manuscript and Robert Zemeckis’s Beowulf
Brian McFadden, Texas Tech Univ.
3:30-5:00 PM: Session 114: Valley II 203
Medieval Popular Culture II: Literature as Popular Culture
Sponsor: Texas Medieval Association (TEMA)
Organizer: Sally N. Vaughn, Univ. of Houston
Presider: Edwin Duncan, Towson Univ.
Beowulf’s Wyrd: Singular or Circular?
Mary K. Ramsey, Southeastern Louisiana Univ.
King Arthur’s Twelfth-Century Popularity: Connections to Geoffrey of Monmouth’s History of the Kings of Britain
Diana Sanders, Univ. of Houston
Losing a Hand: Is the Maiden without Hands Tale of Popular Origin?
Thomas Leek, St. Cloud State Univ.
3:30-5:00 PM: Session 137: Schneider 1140
Neomedievalist Communities
Sponsor: Medieval Electronic Multimedia Organization (MEMO)
Organizer: Carol L. Robinson, Kent State Univ.–Trumbull
Presider: Lesley A. Coote, Univ. of Hull
Guilds, Community, and Spectacle in Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Computer Games (MMORPGs)
Kevin A. Moberly, St. Cloud State Univ., and Brent Addison Moberly,
Indiana Univ.–Bloomington
Music and Culture(s) across Time: Understanding Sid Meier’s Civilization IV
Karen M. Cook, Duke Univ.
Joining Robin’s Gang: Forging a Neomedieval Community with BBC’s Robin Hood
Jennifer Culver, Univ. of Texas–Dallas
Beowulf: Prince of the Geats, Nazis, and Odinists
Richard Scott Nokes, Troy Univ.
3:30-5:00 PM: Session 146: Schneider 1360
Sir Thomas Malory: Text, Teaching, and Technology
Organizer: D. Thomas Hanks, Jr., Baylor Univ.
Presider: Dee Dyas, Centre for Medieval Studies, Univ. of York
Why Read Le Morte Darthur? 1485-1634
Kevin T. Grimm, Oakland Univ.
Text-Centered Teaching of Sir Thomas Malory’s Morte Darthur
D. Thomas Hanks, Jr.
Image and Text: Malory on the Web
Karen Grace Brown, Texas Tech Univ.
3:30-5:00 PM: Session 151; Bernhard 208
Music and the “-isms”: Medievalism, Nationalism, Catholicism
Sponsor: Musicology at Kalamazoo
Organizer: Cathy Ann Elias, DePaul Univ.; Julia Wingo Shinnick, Univ. of Louisville; and Mary E. Wolinski, Western Kentucky Univ.
Presider: Julia Wingo Shinnick
Hearing the Medieval in The Lion in Winter: Themes and Themae in John Barry’s Score
Lyndsey Woods, Florida State Univ.
Regionalism and Nationalism as Constructs for Interpreting Medieval Music
Bryan Gillingham, Carleton Univ.
Musicology as Catholicism and Nationalism in Fin-de-Siècle France: Revisiting Pierre Aubry and the Modal Theory
Peter Mondelli, Univ. of Pennsylvania
3:30-5:00 PM: Session 152: Bernhard 209
Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained: The Search for the Garden of Eden in Medieval and Post-medieval Literature
Sponsor: School of English, Adam Mickiewicz Univ.
Organizer: Jacek Fisiak, School of English, Adam Mickiewicz Univ.
Presider: Jacek Fisiak
The Anglo-Saxon Idea of Locus Ameonus and the Perception of the East:
Paradise in Genesis and The Phoenix
Jacek Olesiejko, School of English, Adam Mickiewicz Univ.
The Journey’s End: Wunderlust and the Search for Sacred Spaces in William Caxton’s Mirror of the World and Mandeville’s Travels
Liliana Sikorska, School of English, Adam Mickiewicz Univ.
Imaginary Wonderlands: The Quest for the Garden of Eden in Medieval and Victorian Fiction
Lukasz Hudomiet, School of English, Adam Mickiewicz Univ.
3:30-5:00 PM: Session 156: Bernhard 213
Teaching Dante II: Living History
Sponsor: TEAMS (The Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages)
Organizer: Anita Obermeier, Univ. of New Mexico
Presider: Anita Obermeier
New Ideas for Study Abroad: Following Dante through Italy
Dabney Park, Independent Scholar
With Dante in Hell on 9/11
Roy Rosenstein, American Univ. of Paris
A Historian Teaches Dante
Teresa P. Rupp, Mount St. Mary’s Univ
3:30-5:00 PM: Session 165: Sangren 2502
Medievalisms at War II
Sponsor: Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages
Organizer: Michael A. Torregrossa, Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages
Presider: Mikee Delony, Abilene Christian Univ.
“Let’s Get Ready to Rumble”: Arming the Knight in Contemporary Film
Carl James Grindley, Hostos Community College, CUNY
Medieval Culture in Japanese-Designed Video Games
Matthew Greenberg, Abilene Christian Univ.
The Red Baron and Medieval Chivalry
Joseph M. Sullivan, Univ. of Oklahoma
A New Chivalry for a More Civilized Age: T. H. White’s The Once and Future King
Caroline Womack, Washtenaw Community College
5:30 PM: Schneider 1140
Medieval Electronic Multimedia Organization (MEMO)
Business Meeting
7:30 PM: Fetzer 1005
Film Screening: King Arthur Was a Gentleman (1942)
(Popcorn will be served)
7:30-9:00 PM: Session 174: Valley I 106
Late Medieval Romance (Fourteenth to Sixteenth Centuries)
Sponsor: International Arthurian Society, North American Branch (IAS/NAB)
Organizer: Joan Tasker Grimbert, Catholic Univ. of America
Presider: Joan Tasker Grimbert
PAPER 3:Jean Maugin and His Tristan: Conservation or Renewal?
Jane H. M. Taylor, Univ. of Durham
7:30-9:00 PM: Session 177: Fetzer 1010
Origins of Firepower: European Warfare in Transition, 1450–1650 I (A Roundtable)
Sponsor: Institute for Medieval Studies, Univ. of Leeds
Organizer: Axel E. W. Müller, Institute for Medieval Studies, Univ. of Leeds
Presider: Richard K. Morris, Institute for Medieval Studies, Univ. of Leeds
A roundtable discussion with Kelly DeVries, Loyola College in Maryland; Glenn Foard, Institute for Medieval Studies, Univ. of Leeds; Charles Haecker, National Park Service, US Department of the Interior, Santa Fe; Clay Mathers, Coronado Institute; Alexzandra Hildred, Mary Rose Trust; Bo W. Knarrström, Riksantikvarieämbetet; and Steven A. Walton, Pennsylvania State Univ.
7:30-9:00 PM: Session 188: Bernhard 208
Getting Medieval on Popular Culture in the Classroom: Pedagogy and Medievalism
(A Roundtable)
Sponsor: Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages
Organizer: Michael A. Torregrossa, Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages
Presider: Laura Blunk, Cuyahoga Community College
American Medieval: Teaching Popular Medievalism as Modern National Narrative
Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Angelo State Univ.
Teaching the Medieval Monstrous: Cinematic Grendel and the Green Knight
Lorraine Kochanske Stock, Univ. of Houston
Hunting Alchemy: Using Anime in the Graduate Seminar
Candace Gregory-Abbott, California State Univ.–Sacramento
Breaking the Waves: Margery Kempe Goes South
Jenny Adams, Univ. of Massachusetts
Web 2.0 and the “Medieval” Classroom
Carl James Grindley, Hostos Community College, CUNY
Teaching the Middle Ages in the Twenty-First-Century “Smart” Classroom
Mikee Delony, Abilene Christian Univ.
7:30-9:00 PM: Session 190: Bernhard 211
Shakespeare at Kalamazoo Lecture
Sponsor: Shakespeare at Kalamazoo
Organizer: Martine van Elk, California State Univ.–Long Beach
Presider: Carole Levin, Univ. of Nebraska–Lincoln
Staging Shakespeare at the Folger
Michele Osherow, Univ. of Maryland–Baltimore County
7:30-9:00 PM: Session 191: Bernhard 212
The Ideological Use of the Middle Ages in Contemporary Iberia
Sponsor: Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies
Organizer: Pablo Pastrana-Pérez, Western Michigan Univ.
Presider: Gabriel Rei-Doval, Univ. of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
¿Por qué no te callas? Ira regia, 1275/2007
Simon R. Doubleday, Hofstra Univ.
Urraca: una reina democrática
Ana Adams, Gustavus Adolphus College
King Jaume I of Aragon: Warrior, Conqueror, and Founding Father of “Christian” and “Catalan” Realms
Isabel O’Connor, Indiana Univ.–South Bend
How Does the Manifiesto por una lengua común Affect the Study of Medieval Texts?
Vicente Lledó-Guillem, Hofstra Univ.
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