60th Congress Program

5:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m. EDT

• The Arthuriana Editorial Board Meeting will take place in Student Center 3222.

10:00 a.m.–11:30 a.m. EDT

• 3  Between Hope and Despair: Forms of Consolation in the Greater/Global Fifteenth Century. The session has been moved to Student Center 1024. The paper by Alfred Thomas has been withdrawn. Kandace Brill Lombart is an independent scholar.
• 5  Kings and Queens in the Later Middle Ages. The paper by Giuseppina Giordano has been withdrawn.
• 12  Medievalism on the Small Screen. The paper by Carol L. Robinson and Angela J. Weisl has been withdrawn.
• 14  Ugly Feelings in Medieval English Literature (1): Transformation and Stasis. The paper by Stephanie J. Trigg has been withdrawn.
• 19  Vikings on the Periphery of Society (A Roundtable). This session will take place online.
• 31  Lost Manuscripts and Printed Books. The paper by Ana Sáez-Hidalgo has been withdrawn. The presider is Martha W. Driver.
• 41  Gender in Medieval and Early Modern India. The paper by Jayashree Chakrabarty has been withdrawn.

12:00 p.m.–1:00 p.m. EDT

• The International Alain Chartier Society and Jean Gerson Society Business Meeting will take place in Student Center 1024.

• The International Society for the Study of Early Medieval England Gathering will take place in Student Center 1135.

• The Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society Executive Luncheon will take place in the Student Center 3203 (Fireplace Lounge).

1:30 p.m.–3:00 p.m. EDT 

• 47  John of Salisbury in Context. The session has been withdrawn.

• 49  Can This World Be Reformed? Seeking Connection, Constructing Communities, and Imagining a Polity in the Greater/Global Fifteenth Century. The session has been moved to Student Center 1024.

• 50  Medieval Sermon Studies. The paper by Elena Lichmanova has been withdrawn.

• 51  The "Human" in Digital Humanities (A Roundtable). The presider is Emily C. Francomano.

• 57  Law as Culture XXV (1): Rumor, Sex, Marriage, and Divorce. The paper by Thomas J. M. Haslam has been withdrawn.

• 61  Medieval Ecocriticisms (1): Animals. The paper by Ben Tilghman has been withdrawn.

• 63  Women and Manuscripts: Questions of Authorship. The paper by Fatemeh Shahnavaz has been withdrawn.

• 70  Musical Theory. The presider is Melanie Batoff.

• 72  The Church in Medieval Iberia (1): Reform. The paper by Alejandro Pombo-Rial has been withdrawn.

• 76  On Gowerian Style. The paper by R. F. Yeager has been withdrawn.

• 78  Jewish-Christian Interaction in the Middle Ages (1): Anti-Jewish Polemics. The paper by Yosi Yisraeli has been withdrawn.

• 80  No Stranger in Medieval Society: A Roundtable in Honor of Stephanie Cain Van D'Elden. The session has been moved to Student Center 1135.

• 82  Dress and Textiles (2): Textiles and Nature—Environment and Ecocriticism. This session will take place in Sangren 3110 at 10:00 a.m. Friday, taking the place of session 164, Dress and Textiles (4): The Functional and the Figurative. This will be a hybrid session.

• 86  Medieval Monsters as Modern Monsters (2): Adapting Medieval Monsters Today. The paper by Natalie Hopwood has been withdrawn.

3:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m. EDT

• 93  Teaching the Divide: Methods for Teaching Works between Chaucer and Shakespeare (A Roundtable). This session will take place online.

• 97  Dante and Ovid (2). The paper by Paola M. Rodriguez has been moved to session 55, Dante and Ovid (1).

• 98  Women, Objects, and Space (2). The paper by Minela Muminovic has been withdrawn.

• 99  New Research on the Art and Architecture of Medieval Parish Churches. The paper by Jacqueline E. Jung has been withdrawn.

• 101  Law as Culture XXV (2): Conquest, Castles, and Prisoners. The paper by Isaac Amon has been withdrawn.

• 106  Intersections between Art, Science, and Cistercian Theology. The paper by Daniele Sabaino has been withdrawn.

• 110  Medieval Ecocriticisms (2): Human and Non-Human. The paper by Charlotte Goddu has been withdrawn.

• 114  Medieval Music and the Modern Imagination (1). The paper by Klayton Tietjen has been withdrawn.

• 121  Manuscripts Before the Year 1000. This session will take place online.

• 122  Papers by Undergraduates (2): Literature. The paper by Erik Stepanenko has been moved to session 78, Jewish-Christian Interaction in the Middle Ages (1): Anti-Jewish Polemics.

• 127  Judeo-Greek across the Centuries: Tracing Greek-Speaking Jews and Their Literatures. The papers by Meron M. Piotrkowski and by Yulia Makkaveeva and Nikolay Makkaveev have been withdrawn.

• 128  Medieval Monsters as Modern Monsters (3): Recovering the Medieval Legacy of Modern Monsters. The paper by Shweta Gupta has been withdrawn.

6:00 p.m.–7:00 p.m. EDT 

• The Different Visions Reception will take place in Student Center 2207.

• The John Gower Society Business Meeting will take place in Student Center 3222.

• The Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society Business Meeting will take place in Sangren 1710.

7:00 p.m.–8:30 p.m. EDT

• 142  Deconstructing Viking Bodies. The paper by Jacquelyn Truitt has been withdrawn.

• 144  Apocalyptic Arthuriana (A Roundtable). Matthew S. Dentice will not participate in this roundtable.

10:00 a.m.–11:30 a.m. EDT

• 147  Cities in the Medieval Imaginary. The paper by Nesya Nelkin has been withdrawn.

• 149  Body and Mind in Medieval Iberia. The session has been moved to Student Center 1024.

• 154  Dante (1). The paper by Beatrice Arduini has been withdrawn.

• 164  Dress and Textiles (4): The Functional and the Figurative. This session will take place online at 1:30 p.m. Thursday, taking the place of session 82, Dress and Textiles (2): Textiles and Nature—Environment and Ecocriticism. This will be a virtual session.

• 165  Grimoires of the Greater West (2): From Arabic and Persian to Hebrew and Latin. The paper by Rosario Cornejo has been withdrawn.

• 166  The Care and Keeping of Medieval Documents (1): Description. The paper by Jaime Groetsema Saifi and Charissa Pincock has been withdrawn.

• 167  Arthurian Kingship (1): King Arthur. The presider is Benjamin Bertrand.

• 170  Abbey of Saint-Victor, Paris (1): The Victorines and Jewish Interpreters of Scripture. The paper by Charles Hughes-Huff has been withdrawn.

• 172  "But is it historically accurate?": Media and the Middle Ages. The paper by Jacob Goldbeck has been withdrawn.

• 174  Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy. The paper by Francesco Bossoletti has been withdrawn.

• 176  Podcasting the Past (1): Pedagogy. This session will take place in Sangren 3110 at 1:30 p.m., taking the place of session 211, Podcasting the Past (2): Public Outreach. This will be a hybrid session.

• 182  Glimmer, Shine, and the Evocative Nature of Gold in Old English (A Roundtable). Pablo Crovetto and Jessica Troy will not participate in this roundtable.

• 183  Teaching Medieval Gender and Sexuality: Strategies, Methods, and Joys. The session has been withdrawn.

12:00 p.m.–1:00 p.m. EDT

• The Hagiography Society Luncheon will take place in the Student Center 3203 (Fireplace Lounge).

• The International Christine de Pizan Society, North American Branch Business Meeting will take place in Student Center 1125.

1:30 p.m.–3:00 p.m. EDT

• 196  Love Shacks and Lonely Crossroads: Locating Emotions in Medieval Iberia. The session has been moved to Student Center 1024.

• 200  Engendering the Monstrous: Gender and Monstrosity in Medieval Contexts (A Roundtable). Zoey Kambour will not participate in this roundtable.

• 201  Dante (2). The paper by Giovanna de Campos Mauro has been withdrawn.

• 208  The Medieval Tradition of Natural Law (1). The paper by Toy-Fung Tung has been moved to session 272, The Medieval Tradition of Natural Law (2). The presider is Paul Joseph Cornish.

• 211  Podcasting the Past (2): Public Outreach. This session will take place in Sangren 4540 at 10:00 a.m., taking the place of session 176, Podcasting the Past (2): Pedagogy. This will be an in-person session.

• 212  Magic Mirrors (1): Fairy Tales, Folklore, and the Esoteric. The paper by Samuel P. Gillis Hogan has been withdrawn.

• 217  Abbey of Saint-Victor, Paris (2): Victorine Theology, Philosophy, and Anthropology. The paper by Marie Ritva Palmén has been moved to session 170, Abbey of Saint-Victor, Paris (1): Andrew of Saint-Victor and Godfrey of Saint-Victor.

• 218  Law and Legal Culture in Early Medieval Britain (1). The session has been withdrawn. The paper by Andrew Rabin has been transferred to session 299, The Future of Legal History: Papers from the Johnson First Book Mentorship Program in Early Medieval Law.

• 221  Bishops and Secular Clergy of Medieval Italy (1). The paper by Peter Michael Michelli has been withdrawn.

• 223  Cistercian Mysticism (1). The papers by Aage Rydstrom-Poulsen and Mark Heffley have been withdrawn.

• 225  Chaucer's Barely-There-But-Essential Characters (2): Creators and Controllers. The paper by Alicia Haniford has been withdrawn.

• 226  Early Medieval Europe (2). The paper by Sean R. T. Karnani-Stewart has been withdrawn.

• 227  The Care and Keeping of Medieval Documents (2): Case Studies. The papers by Lynley Anne Herbert and Samantha Ailwood have been withdrawn.

• 229  Identity and Otherness in the Medieval Mediterranean (1): Rome and Western Europe. The paper by Maria Jokela has been moved to session 279, Identity and Otherness in the Medieval Mediterranean (2): Italy, Byzantium, and the Levant. This will be a virtual session.

• 230  Violence, Trauma, and Alienation in Medieval and Early Modern Crusading Texts and Images (1). The paper by Craig Taylor has been withdrawn.

• 241  Records and Remains of the Dead. The presider is William A. Rogers.

3:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m. EDT

• 243  Reading Old English Aloud (A Workshop). The workshop leader is Ophelia Eryn Hostetter.

• 246  Scary Stories: Sites of Horror in Medieval Iberia. The session has been moved to Student Center 1024.

• 249  World-Building and Mapping the Lay Imaginary. The paper by Robert Rouse has been withdrawn.

• 257  Scandinavian Studies (2): Material Culture. The paper by Hannah S. Evans has been withdrawn.

• 263  The Medieval Receptions of the Josephan Tradition: The State of the Question (A Roundtable). Richard Matthew Pollard will not participate in this roundtable.

• 270  Teaching the Saints (A Roundtable). The presider is Claire E. Becker.

• 272  The Medieval Tradition of Natural Law (2). The paper by Bernie Koenig has been moved to session 208, The Medieval Tradition of Natural Law (1). The presider is David Conter.

• 273  Cistercian Mysticism (2). The paper by Jason Crow has been moved to session 223, Cistercian Mysticism (1).

• 274  Magic Mirrors (2): Post-Medieval Reflections of Medieval Magic. The paper by Marla Segol has been withdrawn.

• 275  Politics and the Psyche in the Piers Plowman Tradition (A Roundtable). The presider is R. D. Perry.

• 278  Authorship and Audience. The papers by Catherine R. Introcaso and Kathryn Mogk Wagner have been withdrawn.

• 279  Identity and Otherness in the Medieval Mediterranean (2): Italy, Byzantium, and the Levant. The presider is Thomas Devaney.

• 282  Religious Women and Community. The presider is Macie Sweet.

7:00 p.m.–8:30 p.m. EDT

• 298  On Church Surfaces. The paper by Mohamed Ahmed Enab has been withdrawn.

• 299  The Future of Legal History: Papers from the Johnson First Book Mentorship Program in Early Medieval Law. This session will take place in Sangren 4120 at 1:30 p.m. Friday, taking the place of session 218, Law and Legal Culture in Early Medieval Britain (1).

• 302  Cultural Approaches to Medieval Military History. The paper by Amanda Taylor and Emily E. Beck has been withdrawn.

• 303  New Approaches to Carolingian and Post-Carolingian Sources. The paper by Daniel F. Melleno has been withdrawn.

10:00 a.m.–11:30 a.m. EDT

• 309  Chant and Liturgy (2): Studies of Late Medieval Western Chant and Its Books in Memory of Michel Huglo (A Roundtable). The session has been moved to Student Center 1024.

• 314  Medieval Performance of Chastity and Gender. The session will take place in Sangren 3110, and it will run as a hybrid event.

• 321  Kzoo at 60 and the Lone Medievalist Conference Experience (A Roundtable). Kara Stone will not participate in this roundtable.

• 324  New Research on Apocrypha across Traditions. The session has been withdrawn.

• 330  The Enigmatic Beowulf. The paper by Emily Aguayo has been withdrawn. 

• 331  Daily Life and Lived Experience: Critical Approaches. The paper by Quinty Uitman has been withdrawn. Additionally, Kandace Brill Lombart is an independent scholar.

• 335  Cistercian Sermons. The presider is Marsha L. Dutton. The paper by Philip F. O’Mara has been withdrawn.

• 336  Rending the Veil: The Rupture of Image and Text in Medieval Apocalypse Commentaries. The paper by Zoey Kambour has been withdrawn.

• 337  Medieval Monsters and Monstrosity. The paper by Morgan Connor has been withdrawn.

• 346  Jinnitalia: Sex in the Spirit World. The session has been withdrawn.

12:00 p.m.–1:00 p.m. EDT 

• The International Arthurian Society Business Meeting will take place in Student Center 3203 (Fireplace Lounge).

• The Society for Queer and Trans Medieval Studies Business Meeting will take place in Student Center 1135.

1:30 p.m.–3:00 p.m. EDT 

• 354  Reconceptions of European Literary History (1): How Do We Study Historical Text Traditions?. This session will take place online.

• 356  Latin Iberia: A Literary Reappraisal of Latin Works in the Peninsula. The session has been moved to Student Center 1024.

• 358  Early Medieval England and Its Neighbors. The paper by Amy W. Clark has been withdrawn.

• 361  Landscapes Lost and Found: Humans and Their Environments in Medieval Italy. The paper by Martina Franzini has been withdrawn.

• 362  Queer(ing) Medieval Art (1): New Horizons. The session will take place in Sangren 2720, and it will run as a hybrid event.

• 368  The Late Medieval: Discussing a Period of Changes and Its Impacts (1). The paper by Bruno Sousa Silva Godinho has been withdrawn.

• 369  Exploring Complaint in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period: Traditions and Transformations of Complaint. The session has been withdrawn. The paper by Courtney Barter-Colcord has been moved to session 406, Raptus, Rapture, and Ravishment.

• 370  Temporalities (1): Lived Time. The paper by Cecily Hughes has been moved to session 409, Temporalities (2): Story Time.

• 374  Malory's Healing of Sir Urry: New Insights and Fresh Approaches (1) (A Roundtable). Kathy Cawsey will not participate in this roundtable.

• 375  Worshiping the Ashes, Passing on the Fire: Greek Anatolia and Its Identities after 1204. The paper by Nathan D. C. Websdale has been withdrawn.

• 378  1381 After January 6th (A Roundtable). The presider is Paul Megna.

• 379  Chant and Liturgy (3): Studies of Early Medieval Western Chant and Its Books in Memory of Michel Huglo (A Roundtable). Cristina Alís Raurich will not participate in this roundtable.

• 388  Praying in the Vernacular: A Transnational View (2): Medieval Approaches to Prayer. The paper by Robin Koch has been moved to session 351, Praying in the Vernacular: A Transnational View (1): From Latin to the Vernacular.

• 389  Medieval Practices of Adaptation (1): Holy, Improved. The title of the paper by Britt Mize is “Rhizomic, Interjective, and Collage Adaptation: Modes of Remaking in Old and Middle English Verse.”

• 390  C. S. Lewis and the Middle Ages (1): The Problem of Grief. The paper by Jim D. Stockton has been withdrawn.

• 391  Slowly Engaging with the Indigenous Turn (A Roundtable). Robert Rouse will not participate in this roundtable.

• 395  Medieval Women Sing the Divine: Women Mystics and Poets of Non-Christian Faiths. The paper by Rituparna Das has been withdrawn.

• 399  Pearl's Gardens: Ecocritical and Environmental Humanities Approaches to Pearl. The paper by Dajana Memko has been withdrawn.

3:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m. EDT

• 402  Reconceptions of European Literary History 2): Methods, Tools, and New Foundations (A Roundtable). This session will take place online.

• 404  Queer Theorizing in Medieval Iberian Studies (A Roundtable). The session has been moved to Student Center 1024.

• 409  Temporalities (2): Story Time. The papers by Lainie A. Pomerleau, Rae Gillibrand, and Jodie Merritt have been withdrawn.

• 415  Global Medievalisms from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century. The papers by Andrew Hollinger and Dario Lucero have been withdrawn.

• 416  Crusade and Violence in the Fourteenth Century. The paper by Marcel Elias has been withdrawn.

• 419  Scanderbeg: Medieval Balkan Hero. This session will take place online.

• 420  Holy Objects and the Senses (2): Scent, Speech, and Context. The paper by Ferruccio Botto has been withdrawn.

• 422  Malory's Healing of Sir Urry: New Insights and Fresh Approaches (2) (A Roundtable). Maggie Myers will not participate in this roundtable.

• 423  Relational Approaches to the Indigenous Turn. The paper by Adrien Savard-Arseneault and Maxime Poirier-Lemelin has been withdrawn.

• 425  Bishops, Clerics, and Digital Medievalists (A Roundtable). The presider is Andrew Reeves.

• 436  Praying in the Vernacular: A Transnational View (3): Materiality of Medieval Prayer. The paper by Seán D. Vrieland has been moved to session 388, Praying in the Vernacular: A Transnational View (2): Medieval Approaches to Prayer.

• 439  Connecting Medieval Studies to Core Standards in Elementary and Secondary Classroom Instruction (A Roundtable). Tai French will not participate in this roundtable.

• 447  Social Commentary in Middle English Literature. The paper by Scott A. Russell has been withdrawn.

6:00 p.m.–7:00 p.m. EDT

• The Italian Studies@Kalamazoo Business Meeting will take place in Student Center 3205.

7:00 p.m.–8:30 p.m. EDT

• 450  Literary Adaptation and Translation. The presider is Alisa Heskin. The paper by Anne Marie Hutchinson has been withdrawn.

• 453  The Pseudo Society Session. The papers by Scott L. Randby and Carol L. Robinson and by Daniel O’Donnell have been withdrawn.

• 454  Embodied Emotions. The paper by Sofia Penny has been withdrawn.