 | Wednesday Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 70s. South winds 5 to 15 mph. |
 | Wednesday Night Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 50s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph. |
| Thursday Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 60s. |
| Thursday Night Partly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of rain showers. Lows in the mid 40s. |
| Friday Partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 60s. |
| Friday Night Partly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of rain showers. Lows in the mid 40s. |
| Saturday Partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of rain showers. Highs in the lower 60s. |
 | Saturday Night Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s. |
 | Sunday Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s. |
| Sunday Night Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s. |
Our sessions were posted to the blog in February, but I re-list them here for the convenience of our virtual community. I will append biographical sketches of all presenters as these become available.
THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2009
SESSION 109 (1:30 PM; 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 [CORRECTED]
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.
THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2009
SESSION 165 (3:30 PM; 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
THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2009
SESSION 188 (7:30 PM; 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.
SATURDAY, 10 MAY 2009
BUSINESS MEETING (12:30 PM; VALLEY II 203)
The complete program (plus corrigenda) is online and a list of medievalism-themed sessions has been previously posted to the blog and divided by day: Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
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