MMSM: Kalamazoo 2010 Sessions 2 of 4 (Friday)

The following represent the medieval-popular-culture and medievalism-themed sessions for this year's International Congress on Medieval Studies currently in progress (from Wednesday, 12 May, through Sunday, 16 May) at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The complete program and corrigenda can be accessed at http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/sessions.html.

Society sponsored events are colored red in the list below.


FRIDAY, 14 MAY 2010

10:00-11:30 AM

SESSION 200: VALLEY I 105
John Heywood: Influences and Influence
Organizer: Maura Giles-Watson, Univ. of Nebraska–Lincoln
Presider: Derek A. Pearsall, Harvard Univ.
John Heywood as Poet: Chaucer’s Influence
Mary C. E. Shaner, Univ. of Massachusetts–Boston
Talking about the Weather in John Heywood’s Play of the Weather
Ginger Jurecka Blake, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison
Text and Antitext: Script and Improvisation in Heywood’s Comedies
Maura Giles-Watson


SESSION 206: FETZER 1005
The Young(er) King Arthur
Sponsor: International Arthurian Society, North American Branch (IAS/NAB)
Organizer: Roberta Davidson, Whitman College
Presider: Kevin J. Harty, La Salle Univ.
Knight Terror: King Arthur and America’s “Boy Problem”
Laurie A. Finke, Kenyon College, and Martin B. Shichtman, Eastern Michigan Univ.
When Good King Arthur Ruled This High School: Meg Cabot’s Avalon High
Ann F. Howey, Brock Univ.
Arthur and Galahad as Models for Youth
Alan Lupack, Univ. of Rochester
Not Your Boys’ King Arthur
Janina P. Traxler, Manchester College


SESSION 213: FETZER 2020
Teaching and Touching the Heart: What Draws Us to the Pearl-Poet? (A Roundtable)
Sponsor: Pearl-Poet Society
Organizer: Adrienne J. Odasso, Univ. of York
Presider: Adrienne J. Odasso
PAPER 3 OF 3: Piecing Together the Puzzle: Teaching Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Lisa Lettau, Hood College


SESSION 218: SCHNEIDER 1160
Medieval Board Games: A Workshop on Board Games as a Medium in the Medieval Studies Classroom
Organizer: Valerie Dawn Hampton, Univ. of Florida/Western Michigan Univ.
Presider: Valerie Dawn Hampton
The purpose of this interactive workshop is to introduce (or reintroduce) medievalists to the use of board games as a medium to the culture of the past and to illustrate the wealth of material for incorporation into classroom teaching. Pre-registration is preferred, but not required: contact valerie.d.hampton@wmich.edu.


SESSION 219: SCHNEIDER 1220
The Online Froissart: Encoding the Chronicles (Project Launch) (A Roundtable)
Sponsor: Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN)
Organizer: Peter F. Ainsworth, Humanities Research Institute, Univ. of Sheffield
Presider: Anne D. Hedeman, Univ. of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign
A roundtable discussion with Peter F. Ainsworth; Godfried Croenon, Univ. of Liverpool; and Andrew Taylor, Univ. of Ottawa


SESSION 225: SCHNEIDER 1330
Dante II: Dante’s Works: Editorial and Visual Contexts
Sponsor: Dante Society of America
Organizer: Christopher Kleinhenz, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison
Presider: Christopher Kleinhenz
An Electronic Edition of Dante’s Commedia
Prue Shaw, Univ. College, Univ. of London
Dante’s Vita nova in Its First Printed Edition
Jelena Todorovic, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison
Dante’s Words in Commedia Miniatures: Pictorial Textuality as Commentary on the Poet’s Authority
Karl William Fugelso, Towson Univ.


SESSION 227: SCHNEIDER 1350
Medieval (Mis)conduct Literature
Organizer: Laura Dull, Delta College
Presider: Laura Dull
PAPER 3 OF 3: The Wildly Hilarious Tale of the Shoemaker, His Wife, the Monk, and the Doorman: A Medieval French Farce in Translation
Michelle M. Volz, Boston College


SESSION 240: BERNHARD BROWN AND GOLD ROOM
The History of Medieval Art: Where Do We Go from Here?
Organizer: Gerry Guest, John Carroll Univ.
Presider: Nina A. Rowe, Fordham Univ.
“The Historiographical Turn”: Trends in the Historiography of Medieval Art History
Matthew M. Reeve, Queen’s Univ. Kingston
In Praise of Idiosyncrasy: Originality in Art History Writing
Gerry Guest
The “New Formalism”: The Death of the Future of Medieval Art History
Domenic Leo, Youngstown State Univ.


SESSION 247: SANGREN 2301
What Do We Mean by “Engaging Undergraduates in Research”? (A Roundtable)
Sponsor: CARA (Committee on Centers and Regional Associations, Medieval Academy of America)
Organizer: Thomas Goodmann, Univ. of Miami
Presider: Pamela Clements, Siena College
Undergraduate Research and the Undergraduate Conference
Mary L. Dudy Bjork, Arizona State Univ.–West Campus
Creating a Supportive Environment for Undergraduate Research
Christopher Corley, Minnesota State Univ.–Mankato
Teaching Medieval Archaeology in the Field: The Experience of an Archaeological Summer School Program
Florin Curta, Univ. of Florida


SESSION 248: SANGREN 2302
Medieval Fantasy, Alchemy, and Modern Science in Tolkien’s Legendarium
Sponsor: Tolkien at Kalamazoo
Organizer: Robin Anne Reid, Texas A&M Univ.–Commerce
Presider: Robin Anne Reid
Elvencentrism: “Elven Nature Preserves” in the Works of J. R. R. Tolkien
Ann Martinez, Univ. of Kansas
“Worlds on Worlds”: Tolkien, Lewis, and the Medieval and Modern Theological Implications of Extraterrestrial Life
Kristine Larsen, Central Connecticut State Univ.
Inside Literature: Tolkien’s Explorations of Medieval Genres
John D. Rateliff, Independent Scholar
J. R. R. Tolkien and The Battle of Maldon: An Example of “Freer” Verse?
Stuart D. Lee, Univ. of Oxford


SESSION 249: SANGREN 2303
Medieval Translation Theory and Practice I
Organizer: Jeanette Beer, St. Hilda’s College, Univ. of Oxford
Presider: Jeanette Beer
Translating Chronicle Poetry in Twelfth-Century Latin Histories
Kenneth J. Tiller, Univ. of Virginia’s College at Wise
Translating Pilgrimages for Nuns: The Latin and German Travel Accounts of Friar Felix Fabri
Kathryne Beebe, St. Hilda’s College, Univ. of Oxford
“My position has been struck by lightning”: William Wey’s Itineraries, Wynkyn de Worde’s Information for Pilgrims unto the Holy Land, and the “Tourist” Phrase List
Christine F. Cooper-Rompato, Utah State Univ.


SESSION 250: SANGREN 2304
New Directions in European Castle Research
Sponsor: Society for Medieval Archaeology
Organizer: Oliver Creighton, Univ. of Exeter
Presider: Terry Barry, Trinity College, Univ. of Dublin
Castles as “Top Predators” Re-visited: The Ecological Impact of Constructing and Maintaining Castles in Medieval Prussia and Livonia
Aleks Pluskowski, Univ. of Reading
Norman Imposition: The Medieval Castle and the Urban Space, 1050–1150
Michael Fradley, Univ. of Exeter
Debating Lordly Landscapes: The Deerpark of Earlspark, Loughrea, Co. Galway
Kieran D. O’Conor, National Univ. of Ireland–Galway, and Fiona Beglane, National Univ. of Ireland–Galway


1:30-3:00 PM

SESSION 262: VALLEY I 105
Medieval Translation Theory and Practice II: Translations (Good and Bad!) of Masterworks (A Practicum)
Organizer: Jeanette Beer, St. Hilda’s College, Univ. of Oxford
Presider: Jeanette Beer
Chrétien de Troyes
Katherine A. Brown, Colgate Univ.
The Modern Translations of Andreas Capellanus’s De amore
Don A. Monson, College of William and Mary/Kenyon College
Textual Inadequacy: Modernization as Rectification in Heaney and Henryson
Anna McHugh, Harris Manchester College, Univ. of Oxford
Divina Commedia: Teaching in Translation
Robert M. Stein, Purchase College/Columbia Univ.


SESSION 263: VALLEY I 106
Ec(h)o Chambers
Sponsor: Spenser at Kalamazoo
Organizer: Beth Quitslund, Ohio Univ.; Theodore L. Steinberg, SUNY–Fredonia; and David Scott Wilson-Okamura, East Carolina Univ.
Presider: Dan Mills, Georgia State Univ.
Guyon as a Response to Launcelot
Kenneth Hodges, Univ. of Oklahoma
“Wise wordes taught in numbers for to runne”: Sir Philip Sidney and Christological Numerology in Spenser’s Astrophel and Complaints
Thomas Herron, East Carolina Univ.
Annoying Noises in the Faerie Queene
Charles Ross, Purdue Univ.


SESSION 264: VALLEY I 107
Tolkien and the Bible
Sponsor: Tolkien at Kalamazoo
Organizer: Robin Anne Reid, Texas A&M Univ.–Commerce
Presider: Christopher T. Vaccaro, Univ. of Vermont
Neues Testament und Märchen: Tolkien, Fairy Stories, and the Gospels
John William Houghton, Hill School
“Justice is not healing”: J. R. R. Tolkien’s Pauline Constructs in “Finwë and
Míriel”
Amelia A. Rutledge, George Mason Univ.
Tolkien on the Old English Pater Noster: Digging Niggling Calligraphy
John R. Holmes, Franciscan Univ. of Steubenville
The Lord of the Fish: Tolkien and the Book of Jonah
Michael Foster, Independent Scholar


SESSION 274: FETZER 2020
The Post-medieval Pearl-Poet: Contexts and Continuities of Cleanness, Patience, Pearl, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Sponsor: Pearl-Poet Society
Organizer: Adrienne J. Odasso, Univ. of York
Presider: Jane Beal, Independent Scholar
From Low Tech to Big Budget: Stephen Weeks’s Films Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Twice)
Lorraine Kochanske Stock, Univ. of Houston
“Me lyste to se þe broke byȝonde”: A Cognitive Approach to Water Imagery
Hoyt S. Greeson, Laurentian Univ.
Consolation and the Common Man: Reading Pearl in The Shack
Lesley Allen, Greenville College
Sir Gawain, the Green Knight: An Ecocritical Reading of a Medieval Poem
Aaron M. Long, American Univ.


SESSION 287: SCHNEIDER 1330
Dante III: Dante and Nationalism
Sponsor: Dante Society of America
Organizer: Aida Audeh, Hamline Univ.
Presider: Aida Audeh
The Italian National Icon: Dante between Catholicism, Laicism, and Communism
Stefano Jossa, Royal Holloway, Univ. of London
The Reception and Function of Dante in Occitan Literature, 1800–1860
James Thomas, Independent Scholar
Emerson, Dante, and American Nationalism
Kathleen Verduin, Hope College
“Altissimo Poeta” and “Pacifica Oriafiamma”: The 1911 Milano Films Inferno and Italian Nationalism
Nick Havely, Univ. of York


SESSION 289: SCHNEIDER 1340
Chant and Liturgy
Sponsor: Musicology at Kalamazoo
Organizer: Cathy Ann Elias, DePaul Univ.; Julia Wingo Shinnick, Univ. of Louisville, and Mary E. Wolinski, Western Kentucky Univ.
Presider: Daniel J. DiCenso, College of the Holy Cross
PAPER 2 OF 3: New Perspectives on Restoring Tenth-Century Chant Melodies
Geert Maessen, Univ. van Tilburg
PAPER 3 OF 3: The Global Chant Database Project (www.globalchant.org)
Jan Kolacek, Univ. Karlova v Praze


SESSION 292: SCHNEIDER 1355
Sensuous Performance: How Did Medieval Plays Engage the Five Senses?
Sponsor: Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society (MRDS)
Organizer: Jill Stevenson, Marymount Manhattan College
Presider: Jill Stevenson
Resonance, Presence, Parlance: Reconstructing Aurality in the Chester Shepherds Play
Andrew Albin, Brandeis Univ.
Speaking Subtleties: Ephemeral Nourishment in Medieval Feast
Anne Brannen, Duquesne Univ.
Touching Royalty: How Touch Was Used in Early Tudor Revelry
Denise Cole, Central Michigan Univ.
The City out of Breath: Built Environment and the Odors of Restraint on the Jacobean Stage (1604–1607)
Hristomir A. Stanev, Washington Univ. in St. Louis


SESSION 299: BERNHARD 209
Medieval Lacan
Sponsor: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, St. Louis Univ.
Organizer: Antony J. Hasler, St. Louis Univ.
Presider: Antony J. Hasler
Love/Charity
Ruth Evans, St. Louis Univ.
Resistances of Courtly Love
Elizabeth B. Edwards, Univ. of King’s College, Halifax
Being Given and Recognition: Lacan’s Reading of Caravaggio and the Sacrificial Encounter
Erin Felicia Labbie, Bowling Green State Univ.


SESSION 304: BERNHARD BROWN & GOLD ROOM
Key Concepts in Medieval Art History I (A Roundtable)
Organizer: Nina A. Rowe, Fordham Univ.
Presider: Nina A. Rowe
Feminism
Martha Easton, Bryn Mawr College
Gender
Sherry C. M. Lindquist, Knox College
Post-Colonial
Karen Eileen Overbey, Tufts Univ.
Theatrical/Theatricality
Laura Weigert, Rutgers Univ.
Reception
David S. Areford, Univ. of Massachusetts–Boston


SESSION 310: SANGREN 2301
When Not in Rome: Microform and Digital Manuscript Archives
Sponsor: CARA (Committee on Centers and Regional Associations, Medieval Academy of America)
Organizer: Thomas Goodmann, Univ. of Miami
Presider: Thomas Goodmann
“You want metadata with that?”: Bringing Medieval Manuscripts to Scholars through the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library
Wayne Torborg, Hill Museum & Manuscript Library
Hilandar Research Library: Preserving and Accessing the Slavic Cyrillic Past
Predrag Matejic, Ohio State Univ.
Vatican Manuscripts on Film at the Knights of Columbus Vatican Film Library
Gregory A. Pass, St. Louis Univ.
Finding Virtue among Scattered Leaves: How Digital Archiving Can Aid in Preserving and Understanding Fragmented Manuscripts
Greta Smith, Miami Univ. of Ohio


SESSION 314: SANGREN 2502
Santiago and the Holy Compostelan Years
Sponsor: S. A. de Xestión do Plan Xacobeo, Diputación de Pontevedra, Museo
de Pontevedra, Museo das Peregrinacións, and the Xunta de Galicia
(Santiago de Compostela)
Organizer: Xosé Suárez Otero, S.A. de Xestión do Plan Xacobeo
Presider: Xosé Suárez Otero
Pilgrimage and Holy Years in Santiago de Compostela
Fernando López Alsina, Univ. de Santiago de Compostela
Holy Years: “More romano”? Rome and Saint James in a Comparative View
Klaus Herbers, Univ. Erlangen-Nürnberg
About “suffragia pro defunctis” and “indulgentiarum bullae” from the Late Middle Ages to the Early Renaissance: A Problem Revisited
José Manuel Díaz de Bustamante, Univ. de Santiago de Compostela


SESSION 315: KANLEY CHAPEL
The Liturgical Office of Saint Thomas Becket I: Chant Selections (A Performance)
Sponsor: Gregorian Institute of Canada/L’Institut Grégorien du Canada
Organizer: William Oates, Gregorian Institute of Canada/L’Institut Grégorien du
Canada
Presider: William Oates
A performance with Robin Ehlert, Gregorian Institute of Canada/L’Institut Grégorien du Canada; Sarah Carleton Latta, Univ. of Toronto; Pascale Duhamel, Gregorian Institute of Canada/L’Institut Grégorien du Canada; Jennifer Bain, Gregorian Institute of Canada/L’Institut Grégorien du Canada; Martin Quesnel, Gregorian Institute of Canada/L’Institut Grégorien du Canada; William Renwick, McMaster Univ.; William Oates; and David Hall, Gregorian Institute of Canada/L’Institut Grégorien du Canada.



3:30-5:00 PM

SESSION 330: VALLEY I 106
The Kathleen Williams Lecture
Sponsor: Spenser at Kalamazoo
Organizer: Clare R. Kinney, Univ. of Virginia; Theodore L. Steinberg, SUNY–Fredonia; and Jennifer C. Vaught, Univ. of Louisiana–Lafayette
Presider: Anne Lake Prescott, Barnard College
Pluralism in Spenser and Malory: Taking Up Arms in a Wrongful Quarrel
Carol V. Kaske, Cornell Univ.
Closing Remarks: David Scott Wilson-Okamura, East Carolina Univ.


SESSION 331: VALLEY I 107
Tolkien as Scholar, Translator, Academic
Sponsor: Tolkien at Kalamazoo
Organizer: Robin Anne Reid, Texas A&M Univ.–Commerce
Presider: Bradford Lee Eden, Univ. of California–Santa Barbara
Tolkien as Pearl Maiden: Exhortation as Parable
David Thomson, Baylor Univ.
Casting Away Treasures: Tolkien’s Use of The Pearl in The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings
Leigh Smith, East Stroudsburg Univ.
The Pearl and The Jewels: Beren and Luthien and The Pearl
Janice M. Bogstad, Univ. of Wisconsin–Eau Claire


SESSION 332: VALLEY I 109
In Honor of R. Allen and Judy Shoaf: Theories of Medieval Literature II
Sponsor: Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Organizer: Tison Pugh, Univ. of Central Florida
Presider: James J. Paxson, Univ. of Florida
PAPER 2 OF 2: Docta Spes: Hope for and in Medieval Utopian Studies
Jacob Lewis, Univ. of Arkansas–Fayetteville
PAPER 3 OF 3: The Handmaid’s Tale: Editing Women out of Medieval Scholarship
Elizabeth B. Scala, Univ. of Texas–Austin


SESSION 341: FETZER 2020
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the Arthurian Tradition
Sponsor: Pearl-Poet Society
Organizer: Adrienne J. Odasso, Univ. of York
Presider: Jamie Friedman, Cornell Univ.
PAPER 1 OF 4: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the Green World
Alan T. Gaylord, Dartmouth College/Princeton Univ.
PAPER 4 OF 4: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Problems within Mythological and Folkloric Criticism
Jeff Stoyanoff, Duquesne Univ.


SESSION 355: SCHNEIDER 1340
Medievalisms and Music: Yesterday and Today
Sponsor: Musicology at Kalamazoo
Organizer: Cathy Ann Elias, DePaul Univ.; Julia Wingo Shinnick, Univ. of Louisville; and Mary E. Wolinski, Western Kentucky Univ.
Presider: Cathy Ann Elias
PAPER 1 OF 3: Medieval Covers for the Twenty-First Century
Ronald W. Fisher, Independent Scholar
PAPER 2 OF 3: Complexity and Appeal of Codex Chantilly Six Hundred Years Hence
Aleksandra Vojcic, Univ. of Michigan–Ann Arbor


SESSION 361: BERNHARD 159
Scottish Readings of Chaucerian Poetry in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
Organizer: Nicola Royan, Univ. of Nottingham
Presider: Deanna Delmar Evans, Bemidji State Univ.
Fortune’s Quill: Tracing the Poet’s Development in The Kingis Quair
Benjamin S. W. Barootes, McGill Univ.
The Presentation of Women in Some Older Scots Poems: The Influence of Chaucer and Gower Reconsidered
Joanna Martin, Univ. of Nottingham
“Thy ryms ar resonles and ruid”: Self-Deprecation, Poetic License, Geoffrey Chaucer, and John Stewart of Baldynneis
Katherine McClune, Merton College, Univ. of Oxford
The Palice of Honoure: A Noble Response to the House of Fame
Nicola Royan


SESSION 364: BERNHARD 210
Medieval Myths in Modern Culture in (Central) Europe
Sponsor: Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Mittelalter-Studien (IZMS), Univ. Salzburg
Organizer: Ursula Bieber, Univ. Salzburg
Presider: Siegrid Schmidt, Univ. of Salzburg
Neue Lieder? Nibelungisches im Werk Helmut Kraussers
Ingrid Bennewitz, Otto-Friedrich-Univ. Bamberg
Von der Baba Jaga zu den “Hexen von Kiew”: Rezeptionsformen des Hexen-Mythos in der ostslawischen Folklore und Literatur
Ursula Bieber
Geographical Space and Corporeality: From Melusine to La Vouivre
Vilay Lyxuchouky, Univ. of Georgia


SESSION 368: BERNHARD BROWN & GOLD ROOM
Key Concepts in Medieval Art History II (A Roundtable)
Organizer: Nina A. Rowe, Fordham Univ.
Presider: Nina A. Rowe
Influence
Kirk Ambrose, Univ. of Colorado–Boulder
Space
Gerry Guest, John Carroll Univ.
Gothic
Matthew M. Reeve, Queen’s Univ. Kingston
Medievalism
William Diebold, Reed College


SESSION 370: SANGREN 2209
Asia in Medieval Europe and Europe in Medieval Asia II
Organizer: Sufen Sophia Lai, Grand Valley State Univ.
Presider: Sherry J. Mou, DePauw Univ.
PAPER 2 OF 3: Castles in the Sky: China in Robinet Testard’s Preservation Fantasy
Mark Bradshaw Busbee, Florida Gulf Coast Univ.



5:45 PM
FETZER 1010
Hildegard of Bingen and the Living Light (A One Woman Play)
Organizer: Linn Maxwell, Alto Productions
Presider: Erv Raible, Alto Productions
This play, written and performed by Linn Maxwell and directed by Erv Raible, is a portrayal of the twelfth-century German abbess. Hildegard returns to share her
message of hope, healing, and viriditas, along with anecdotes and intrigues from her life. Maxwell performs seven of Hildegard’s songs, accompanying herself on the
psaltery, medieval harp, and organistrum.


7:00 PM
FETZER 1045
Gaming Neomedievally: A Festive Video Game
Workshop and Poster Session
Sponsor: Medieval Electronic Multimedia
Organization (MEMO)
Organizer: N. M. Heckel, Univ. of Rochester
Presider: N. M. Heckel
Dungeon Siege and World of Warcraft: Apple-Friendly Neomedieval Video Games
Carol L. Robinson, Kent State Univ.–Trumbull
Vampire Wars: Networking Nobles and Bloodsucker Battles
Vanessa M. Bosley, Xavier Univ./Cincinnati State Technical and Community College
The World of Camelot after Arthur: The Presence and Absence of the Knights of the Round Table in Dark Age of Camelot
Keith Russo, Western Michigan Univ.
Fiscal Physics: Representations of Medieval Cavalry in Mount and Blade
Jason Pitruzzello, Univ. of Houston
Eruptions of History: Monsters and Ruins in the Landscapes of Lord of the Rings Online
Ryan T. Harper, Univ. of Rochester
A Festive Assortment of Neomedieval Video Games
Brent Addison Moberly, Indiana Univ.–Bloomington, and Kevin A. Moberly, Old Dominion Univ.
Bridging the Past and the Present: Medieval Anachronism in Vampire: The Masquerade—Redemption
Robin Michelle Blanchard, Medieval Institute, Western Michigan Univ.


7:30 PM
FETZER 1005
Film Screening: Ladyhawke (Wikipedia entry)


7:30 PM
FETZER 1010
Tolkien Unbound: Readers’ Theater Performance
Sponsor: Tolkien at Kalamazoo
Organizer: Robin Anne Reid, Texas A&M Univ.–Commerce
Presider: Merlin DeTardo, Independent Scholar
Readings from Sigurd and Gudrun
Yvette Kisor, Ramapo College: Jennifer Culver, Univ. of Texas–Dallas; and Bradford Lee Eden, Univ. of California–Santa Barbara
“The Road Goes Ever On” by Donald Swann
Eileen Marie Moore, Cleveland State Univ.
The Lord of the Ringos
Michael Foster, Independent Scholar, and Amy Amendt-Raduege, Whatcom Community College



7:30 PM
FETZER 2020
“But One True Art of the Sword”: Italian and German Longsword Techniques Compared (A Demonstration)
Sponsor: Higgins Armory Museum
Organizer: Amy West, Higgins Armory Museum
Presider: Annamaria Kovacs-Mitchell, Independent Scholar
A demonstration with Keith F. Alderson, Oakeshott Institute/Univ. of Chicago, and Gregory Mele, Chicago Swordplay Guild


7:30 PM
FETZER 2030
Travel in Choirstalls: Slide Show, Music, and Roundtable
Sponsor: Misericordia International
Organizer: Paul Hardwick, Leeds Trinity Univ. College
Presider: Frédéric Billiet, Univ. de Paris IV–Sorbonne
A roundtable discussion with Paul Hardwick and Luuk Houwen, Ruhr-Univ. Bochum.


8:00 PM
ST LUKE'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH 247 LOVELL ST
Chanterai pour mon courage: Spiritual Renewal in the Time of the Crusades
Anne Azéma and Shira Kammen
General admission tickets: $20.00
Buses leave Congress registration beginning at 7:15 p.m.