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UConn
Medieval
Studies Conference
Participation
The
following is a list of conferences in which UConn students and
professors are participating,
as
presenters, session organizers, and/or session presiders as well as
lectures given by UConn professors.
International Congress on Medieval Studies
Western Michigan University;
Kalamazoo, MI; May 7–10,
2009
SESSION ORGANIZERS
Erin Heidkamp
"Cistercians
on the Land: Farmers, Foresters, Vintners, Stewards"
American Society for Environmental History: Annual Meeting 2009 -
"Paradise Lost, Found, and Constructed: Conceptualizing and
Transforming Landscapes through History"
Florida State University; Tallahassee, FL; February
25-March 1, 2009
PRESENTER
Erin Heidkamp
Title:
"Riding the Fish Bandwagon:
Altenberg Abbey's Fifteenth Century Piecemeal Consolidation of
Fisheries in Riehl"
SHARP - "Published Words: Public Pages"
Danish Royal School of Library and Information Science; Copenhagen,
Denmark; September10-12, 2008
PRESENTER
Jean Givens
Morning Session I
(Thursday 8:30)
Title: "Old
Knowledge, New Readers:
Medieval Medicine
in Print"
Sixteenth International Congress of the New Chaucer Society
University of Wales; Swansea, Wales, UK; July 18–22,
2008
PRESENTER
Joel Nebres
Session 65 (Monday 2-3:30): "Chaucer's Pardoner"
Title:
"When
a Kiss is Not Just a Kiss: The Pardoner’s Kiss and the Technics of
Peace"
International Congress on Medieval Studies
Western Michigan University;
Kalamazoo, MI;
May 8-11, 2008
University of Connecticut Medieval
Studies Program Open Bar: Friday, 5:30PM, Bernhard 105
PRESENTERS
(Listed
in order of session numbers)
Wendy Goldberg
Session 19 (Thursday 10:00
AM, Valley I 110): "Lives
and Lives
of Holy Women"
Title: "The
Mother of the Virgin: Virgin Martyrs in the South English Legendary"
Frank Napolitano
Session 34 (Thursday 10:00
AM, Schneider 1280): "Rhetoric
and Language in Medieval English Drama"
Title: "After
the Miracles Are Over: The Audience’s Rhetorical Awareness in the
York Entry into Jerusalem"
Erin Heidkamp
Session 93 (Thursday 1:30
PM, Bernhard 212): "Environmental History of the Middle
Ages II: Monastic Resources and Monastic
Cultures"
Title: "Monks,
Merchants, Farmers: The Cistercians at Altenberg Abbey ca.
1400–1539"
Will Eggers
Session 175 (Thursday
7:30 PM, Bernhard 157): "Anglo-Dutch
Economic Debt and Literary Borrowing"
Title: "Literary
Responses to the Fleming Economic Invasion of England"
Andrew Pfrenger
Session 183 (Thursday
7:30 PM, Bernhard 213): "New Voices in Anglo-Saxon
Studies" - Sponsor:
International Society of Anglo-Saxonists
Title: "The
Sublime Avenger: Divine Vengeance in Anglo-Saxon Literature"
Britt Rothauser
Session 222 (Friday
10:00AM, Schneider 1320): "Ironic
Sin: Unexpected Characterizations of Spiritual Offenses"
Title: "Lecherous
Old Age"
Jean Givens
Session 275 (Friday
10:00 AM, Schneider 1320): "Villard de Honnecourt II:
Artistic Matters"
- Sponsor: AVISTA: Association Villard de
Honnecourt for the Interdisciplinary Study of Medieval Technology,
Science, and Art
Title: "Taking
Villard’s Lion at Face Value"
Kisha Tracy
Session 338 (Friday
3:30 PM, Schneider 2145): "Piers Plowman: Papers in
Memory of David C. Fowler"
- Sponsor: Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Research Group, Univ. of Washington–Seattle,
Yearbook of Langland Studies, and the Lollard Society
Title: "Translation
and Manipulation: Understanding the Latin in Piers Plowman"
Laura Shafer
Session 353 (Saturday
10:00 AM, Valley III 304): "Law and Literature’s
Transformations: Legal and Textual Production in Medieval England"
Title: "Des
Grantz Geanz and the Princesses’ Legal Competency"
Jeanette Zissell
Session 353 (Saturday
10:00 AM, Valley III 304): "Law and Literature’s
Transformations: Legal and Textual Production in Medieval England"
Title: "Patronage
Customs and the Instability of Friendship in Piers Plowman"
Frédéric Lardinois
Session 400 (Saturday
10:00 AM, Bernhard 211): "Saints
and Crusades"
Title: "Saint
Leonard and the English Crusaders"
Andrew Grubb
Session 406 (Saturday
1:30 PM, Valley III Stinson Lounge): "Papers
from Dr. Kim’s Seminar: The Other Texts of the Beowulf Manuscript"
Title: "'And
especially that they did not have the head for the body':
Transformation and Group Dynamics in the Old English Passion of
Saint Christopher and
Passion of Saint Edmund"
Wendy Hoofnagle
Session 429 (Saturday
1:30 PM, Fetzer 2030): "Anglo-Saxon
Space I: The Material World"
Title: "Reuse,
Recycle and Renew: Creating Landscapes of Power in Pre- and Post-Conquest
England"
Matthew Simpson
Session 516 (Sunday
8:30 AM, Valley II 205): "Spenser: Sources and Contexts"
Title: "Richard
Bostocke’s Binarius: A Satanic and Divisive Precursor to Edmund
Spenser’s Duessa"
Pamela Longo
Session 519 (Sunday
8:30 AM, Valley I 101): "Hoccleve
Studies"
Title: "'To
make al seme golde': Counterfeiting Fiction in Hoccleve’s Series"
Kate O'Sullivan
Session 573 (Sunday
10:30 AM, Valley I Shilling Lounge): "Religious Themes
in Middle English Texts"
Title: "Rethinking
the Confession of the Seven Deadly Sins in Piers Plowman"
Laurence Cousteix
Session 581 (Sunday
10:30 AM, Fetzer 2020): "Modern and Postmodern Merlins"
- Sponsor: Société Internationale des Amis de
Merlin (SIAM)
Title: "Rewriting
the Arthurian Legend but Changing Merlin: How Michel Rio Managed to
Create a Philosopher and a Writer"
Florence Marsal
Session 581 (Sunday
10:30 AM, Fetzer 2020): "Modern and Postmodern Merlins"
- Sponsor: Société Internationale des Amis de
Merlin (SIAM)
Title: "The
Ambiguous Legacy of Merlin in the Harry Potter Book and Film Series"
ORGANIZERS
(Listed
in order of session numbers)
Kisha Tracy
Session 155 (Thursday
7:30
PM, Valley I 101): "Traces of Recollection: Memory in Medieval
Literary Texts"
Session 222 (Friday 10:00
AM, Schneider 1320): "Ironic
Sin: Unexpected Characterizations of Spiritual Offenses"
Will Eggers
Session 175 (Thursday
7:30 PM, Bernhard 157): "Anglo-Dutch
Economic Debt and Literary Borrowing"
Britt Rothauser
Session 222 (Friday 10:00
AM, Schneider 1320): "Ironic
Sin: Unexpected Characterizations of Spiritual Offenses"
Bob Hasenfratz
Session 244 (Friday 1:30
PM, Valley II 201): "The Mysticism of Julian of Norwich and
Margery Kempe" - Sponsor: Mystics Quarterly
Session 302 (Friday 3:30
PM, Valley II 201): "Writing Carthusian Spirituality" - Sponsor:
Mystics Quarterly
Anne Berthelot
Session 581 (Sunday
10:30 AM, Fetzer 2020): "Modern and Postmodern Merlins"
- Sponsor: Société Internationale des Amis de Merlin (SIAM)
PRESIDERS
(Listed
in order of session numbers)
Jean Givens
Session 81 (Thursday
1:30 PM, Schneider 1280): "Charms, Chants, and Cookery:
Recipes in Medieval Manuscripts and Printed Books" - Sponsor: Early
Book Society
Jeanette Zissell
Session 222 (Friday 10:00
AM, Schneider 1320): "Ironic
Sin: Unexpected Characterizations of Spiritual Offenses"
Bob Hasenfratz
Session 244 (Friday 1:30
PM, Valley II 201): "The Mysticism of Julian of Norwich and
Margery Kempe" - Sponsor: Mystics Quarterly
Will Eggers
Session 353 (Saturday
10:00 AM, Valley III 304): "Law and Literature’s
Transformations: Legal and Textual Production in Medieval England"
ROUNDTABLES
(Listed
in order of session numbers)
Wendy Hoofnagle
Session 164 (Thursday
7:30 PM, Fetzer 1055): "History,
Patriarchy, Feminism: Responses to Judith Bennett’s History Matters"
- Sponsor: Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship (SMFS)
(Participant)
Andrew Pfrenger
Session 513 (Sunday
8:30 AM, Valley III Stinson Lounge): "Saga
Studies on the Job Market" - Sponsor:
New England Saga Society
(Organizer/Participant)
Session 557 (Sunday
10:30 AM, Valley III Stinson Lounge): "The
State of Saga Studies in North American Universities" -
Sponsor: New England Saga
Society (Organizer/Presider)
FRIENDS OF MEDIEVAL STUDIES
(Listed
in alphabetical order)
Josh Eyler: Columbus
State University
Session 253 (Friday
1:30 PM, Valley I 105): "Disability
in the Middle Ages"
(Roundtable Organizer/Presider)
M. Wendy Hennequin:
Tennessee State University
Session 495 (Saturday
3:30 PM, Schneider 1330): "Gendering
Conflict and Lordship" - Sponsor: Seigneurie: Group for the Study of
Nobility, Lordship, and Chivalry; Title: "Her Own Hall: Grendel’s
Mother as King" (Session Presenter)
Session 541 (Sunday
8:30 AM, Schneider 1320): "Women
Warriors and Women in War in the Middle Ages" (Session Presider)
Betsy Passmore:
University of Southern Indiana
Session 349 (Friday
3:30PM, Bernhard 213): "Death and Desire in Middle
English"; Title: "Rotting Corpses and Mourning Lovers: Death and
Socioeconomics in Late Medieval Romance" (Session Presenter)
Christine Cooper-Rompato:
Utah State University
Session 175 (Thursday
7:30 PM, Bernhard 157): "Anglo-Dutch
Economic Debt and Literary Borrowing" (Session Presider)
Session 567 (Sunday
10:30 AM, Valley I 102): "Rethinking the South English
Legendary II" -
Sponsor: Hagiography Society and the Centre for Medieval Studies,
University of York; Title: "'Who’s
Your Daddy?': Paternal Outings and the South Simon and Jude"
(Session Presenter)
John Sexton:
Bridgewater State College
Session 353 (Saturday
10:00 AM, Valley III 304): "Law and Literature’s
Transformations: Legal and Textual Production in Medieval England";
Title: "The Law of the Land in Anglo-Norman Vitae of
Saint Cuthbert" (Session Organizer/Presenter)
Session 428 (Saturday
1:30 PM, Fetzer 2020): "Will the 'Reel' Beowulf Please Stand Up?
Representations of the Beowulf Story on Electronic Multimedia" -
Sponsor:
Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages
(Session Presider)
Session 513 (Sunday
8:30 AM, Valley III Stinson Lounge): "Saga
Studies on the Job Market" - Sponsor:
New England Saga Society
(Roundtable Organizer/Presider)
Session 557 (Sunday
10:30 AM, Valley III Stinson Lounge): "The
State of Saga Studies in North American Universities" -
Sponsor: New England Saga
Society (Roundtable Organizer)
Michael Torregrossa:
Independent Scholar
Session 95 (Thursday
1:30 PM, Bernhard Brown & Gold Room): "The Grail in Popular
Culture" - Sponsor: International Arthurian Society, North American
Branch; Title: "Holy Grail, Batman! The Use (and Abuse) of the Grail
Legend in the DC Comics Universe" (Presenter)
Session 428 (Saturday
1:30 PM, Fetzer 2020): "Will the 'Reel' Beowulf Please Stand Up?
Representations of the Beowulf Story on Electronic Multimedia" -
Sponsor:
Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages
(Session Organizer)
Session 492 (Saturday
3:30 PM, Schneider 128): "The Comics Get Medieval at Kalamazoo:
A Workshop on the Comics Medium in the Medieval Studies Classroom
and Medievalist Research" - Sponsor: Society for the Study of
Popular Culture and the Middle Ages (Organizer)
Session 574 (Sunday
10:30 AM, Fetzer 1005): "Mass Media Arthuriana: The Matter of
Britain in Modern Popular Culture" - Sponsor: Society for the Study
of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages (Organizer)
International Symposium: "Urban Space: The Experience of Urban
Life in the Middle Ages
and the Early Modern Age"
University of Arizona; Tucson, AZ; May 1-4, 2008
PRESENTERS
Britt Rothauser
Friday
9:40 AM
Title:
"Urban Waters: the Use of Water in the Depiction of Medieval
Celestial and Earthly Cities"
Kisha
Tracy
Friday
1:00 PM
Title: "Defining
the Medieval City through Death"
Jeanette Zissell
Friday 3:15 PM
Title: "Universal
Salvation in the Earthly City: The Significance of the Hazelnut in
the Showings of Julian of Norwich"
David
Benson
Saturday
9:00 AM
Title:
"The Dead and the Living: Medieval English
Guides to the Marvels and Martyrs of Rome"
Magdalene Society of Medievalists Inaugural Conference
Cripps Court, Magdalene College;
Cambridge, UK;
April 26, 2008
PRESENTER
Laura Shafer
Session 2 (12:30 PM)
Title:
"Legal Competency in Des Granz Geanz"
Cultural Agency Workshop
University of Connecticut; Storrs, CT; April 17, 2008
PRESENTER
Brandon W. Hawk
2:20 PM
Title:
"Four Textual Exemplars of Wulfstan's Reform in MS Cotton Nero A.i"
Indiana University-Bloomington Department of French and Italian
Indiana University; Bloomington, IN; April 10-11, 2008
LECTURER
Anne Berthelot
Thursday, April 10,
4PM: "The Return of Merlin"
(co-sponsored by Medieval Studies Institute)
Friday, April 11, 3:30PM: "Semblances
et muances de Merlin"
39th Annual Northeast Modern
Language Association Conference
Buffalo, NY; April 10-13, 2008
PRESENTER
Pamela Longo
Session 5 (Friday 1:30
PM, Buffalo Room): "Medieval Space"
Title:
"Closing in on Criseyde:Reinterpreting Woman and Text in Enclosed
Spaces in Troilus and Criseyde"
Colloquium on Early Literature and Culture in English Graduate
Student Conference: "Crossing Borders"
New
York University; New York, NY;
March 13-14, 2008
PRESENTER
Pamela Longo
Title:
"Writing Civic Community: The Construction of Urban Ideals and the
Crossing of Documentary and Literary Cultures in
the Liber Custumarum and Piers Plowman"
Vagantes Graduate
Medieval Conferences
Ohio
State University; Columbus, OH; February 28-March 2
PRESENTER
Andrew Grubb
Friday 2:50 PM: "Crossing Cultures and Times"
Title:
"Authenticity, Authority, and the 'Author Function' in Medieval
Architecture: Reconsidering the Round Churches of Anglo-Norman
England"
Jeremy DeAngelo
Saturday 11:30 AM: "Nations
and Nation Building"
Title:
"The Matter
with the North: the Finnar in the Medieval Sagas"
Pilgrimage in
the Medieval World: The 25th Annual Illinois Medieval Association
Conference
Saint Xavier University;
Chicago, IL;
February 22-23, 2008
PRESENTER
Kate O'Sullivan
Title:
"From Tears to Truth: Rethinking Pilgrimage in Piers Plowman"
MYTH: A
Graduate Conference in German and Scandinavian Studies
University of Massachusetts; Amherst,
MA; February 15-17, 2008
PRESENTER
Jeremy DeAngelo
Sunday 9:00 AM: "Panel
IV: Cross-Currents: Myth and Religion in Medieval Germanic
Literature"
Title:
"The Finnar
of the Sagas and the Giants of the Eddas"
6th Annual Conference for Medieval Studies: Comitatus, Medieval
Studies Student Organization
Purdue University; West Lafayette, IN; February 15-16, 2008
PRESENTER
Andrew Grubb
Session 4 (Saturday,
February 16, 10:30-11:30 AM)
Title: "Buildings
as Authors? The Case of English Round Churches"
2007
NEPCA Conference
Clark University;
Worcester, MA; October 27, 2007
PRESENTER
Brandon W. Hawk
Title:
"Prevailing Poetry: The (Re)Presentations
of Beowulf and His Monsters in Popular Culture"
Fifth Medieval History Seminar
Washington, D.C.;
October 11-14, 2007
PRESENTER
Erin Heidkamp
Title:
“Cistercian ‘Localism’: a Regional
History of Altenberg Abbey, c. 1400-1550”
International Medieval Congress:
"Medieval Cities"
Leeds, England; July 9-12, 2007
PRESENTER
Wendy Hoofnagle
Session 101
(Monday 11:15 AM): The Production
& Use of English Manuscripts, 1060 to 1220, "Vernaculars
in 12th-Century England"
Title: "Conversion
Politics in 12th-Century England: Anglo-Norman Hybridity and the
Chanson de Roland"
"Writing England: Books 1100-1200"
University of Leicester; Leicester, England; July 6-8, 2007
PRESENTER
Wendy Hoofnagle
Title:
“’From One End to the
Other’: The Via Regia and Charlemagne’s Imperial Legacy”
Questioning Renaissance Pieties
Princeton University; Princeton, New Jersey; May
4-5, 2007
PRESENTER
Jeremy DeAngelo
"Our Neighbors the
Barbarians: Gerald of Wales, Cannibalism and Expressing Cultural
Difference"
3rd London Chaucer
Conference: "Chaucer and Time"
University of London; London, England; April 19-20, 2007
PRESENTER
Kisha Tracy
Title:
“Sins of the
Past: Chaucer and the Temporality of Confession”
PCA/ACA 2007 National
Conference
Boston, Massachusetts; April 4-7, 2007
PRESENTER
John Sexton
Session 094 (Thursday 8 AM):
"Medieval Popular Culture I: Persistence and Visual Imagery"
Title:
"Taking True Counsel from False Friends: Can Bad Films Teach
Good Lessons about Medieval Literature?"
Classical Association of
New England (CANE): Annual Meeting
University of New Hampshire; Durham, New Hampshire; March 9-10, 2007
PRESENTER
Mark Pearsall
Title:
“Ancient Greek Anew! Developing a Standards-Based Curriculum”
24th
Annual New England Medieval Studies Consortium Graduate Student
Conference:
"The
Medieval World: From the Secular to the Spiritual"
University of Connecticut; Storrs, CT; February 24, 2007
PRESENTERS
(Listed
in alphabetical order)
Nathalie Ettzevoglou
Title: "The Holy
Pigs Who Were Sought to Put Out Flames: The Mystery of Ignis
Sacer"
Mark Foster
Title: "Chrétien's
Enide as 'fame et amie'"
Sarah Girard
Title: "The
Monstrous Representation of Kingship and Rule in Beowulf"
Wendy Goldberg
Title: "The
Saintly Queen or the Queenly Saint? John Capgrave's Middle English
Life of St Katherine"
Wendy Hoofnagle
Title: "Conversion
Politics in Twelfth-Century England: Anglo-Norman Hybridity and the
Chanson de Roland"
Joel Nebres
Title: "Penitence,
Pilgrimage, and Alchemy in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales"
Patricia Taylor
Title: "From Sight
to Understanding in Julian of Norwich"
Jeanette Zissell
Title: "The 'Unkynde,'
Kin, and the King: The Samaritan, Christ, and the Meaning of the
Unnatural in the Piers Plowman B-Text"
Medieval Worlds: 13th Annual Postgraduate Medieval Conference
University of Bristol; Bristol, England; February 16-17, 2007
PRESENTER
Jeremy DeAngelo
Title: "The
Barbarian's Friend"
College Art
Association 95th Annual Conference
New
York City, New York; February 14-17, 2007
PARTICIPANT
Jean Givens, Associate
Professor of Art History
Medieval Workshop at the University of British Columbia:
"The Performance of the Past: History and Histrionics in Late
Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages "
Vancouver, Canada; October 27-28, 2006
PRESENTER
Kisha Tracy Title:
“Memoria and Anima: The Personal History of the Soul
and the Performance of Confession”
International Medieval Congress:
"Emotion and Gesture"
Leeds, England; July 9-13, 2006
PRESENTERS
(Listed
in order of session numbers)
Bob Hasenfratz
Session 1223
(Wednesday 2:15 PM): International Anchoritic Society, "Intersections of Enclosure and Sanctity"
Title: "Roodscreens and Parlour Windows: Sacred and
Permeable Boundaries"
Kate O'Sullivan
Session 1611 (Thursday
11:15 AM): "Lamenting as a Cultural Practice"
Title: "Tears and Sorrow in Passus B.14 of Piers Plowman"
MODERATOR
Kate O'Sullivan
Session 816 (Tuesday
4:30 PM): "Late Medieval Spirituality: Texts and
Contexts"
International Symposium: "Old Age in the Middle Ages and the
Renaissance"
University of Arizona; Tucson, AZ; April 27-30, 2006
PRESENTERS
Britt Rothauser
Friday
9:40
Title:
"Winter in Heorot: Looking at Anglo-Saxon Perceptions of Age and
Kingship through the Character of Hrothgar"
Anne
Berthelot
Friday
1:30
Title:
"Merlin, Puer Senex Par Excellence"
Medieval Academy: Annual Meeting
Boston, MA; March 30-April 1,
2006
PRESENTER
John Sexton Session 20 (Friday 2 PM):
"Where the Secular Meets the Sacred II: Sanctuary and the Church,
Textual Perspectives"Title:
"Saint's Law: The Sanctuary Privilege
in Ælfric’s Lives of the Saints"
Classical Association
of New England: Annual Meeting
University of Massachusetts; Amherst, MA; March 16-18
PRESENTER
Mark Pearsall
Workshop 7 (Saturday 1:30 PM,
Campus Center 165):
"Identity
in Rome: A Thematic Approach"
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