Special Events
- The Congress is sponsored by the WMU Medieval Institute
Special Events
Plenary Lectures
Conceptualizing Literary History:
Europe, 1348-1418
David Wallace
Univ. of Pennsylvania
sponsored by the Medieval Academy of America
Friday, May 11, 8:30 a.m.
The Heroic Age of Gothic:
Invention and Its Contexts, 1200-1400
Paul Binski
Univ. of Cambridge
sponsored by Boydell & Brewer
Saturday, May 12, 8:30 a.m.
Exhibition and Reception
Object of Devotion
Medieval English Alabaster Sculpture from the Victoria & Albert Museum
Help the Medieval Institute celebrate its fiftieth anniversary by joining us for a reception and viewing of the exhibition Object of Devotion: Medieval English Alabaster Sculpture from the Victoria & Albert Museum, presenting sixty beautifully-carved alabaster panels and free-standing figures that were displayed in the homes, chapels, and churches of both aristocratic and non-aristocratic Christians in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
Friday, May 11
5:00–7:00 p.m.
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts
314 S. Park Street
in downtown Kalamazoo
(shuttle transportation provided from Congress registration)
Tickets available exclusively through Congress pre-registration
$5.00 (includes admission to the exhibition and one drink)
You must present your ticket for shuttle service and for your drink.
Our thanks to Discover Kalamazoo
for its generous support of this event
Film Screening
Knightriders (1981)
directed by George A. Romero and starring Ed Harris, Gary Lahti, and Tom Savini
Thursday, May 10, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday Night Dance
Please join us at the 47th Congress for the traditional Saturday Night Dance
Saturday, May 12
East Ballroom, Bernhard Center
10:00 p.m. to 1:30 a.m.
As with other Congress activities, the Institute must observe Michigan law and campus regulations. In Michigan you must be 21 years of age to purchase alcohol or beer. You should be ready to prove that you are 21 or over before you approach the cash bar. You must have a photo ID with you. You may not bring your own drinks to the dance. All other beverages and snacks are free. Please note that there will be a smoking area outside the building.
The Dance is a social occasion for registered attendees of the Congress only. Please bring your registration badge to the Bernhard Center: it is your ticket of entry.
Worship Services
Daily Vespers
Thursday–Saturday, 5:15 p.m.
Fetzer 1040
Daily Mass
Friday–Saturday, 7:00 a.m.
Fetzer 1040
Sunday Roman Catholic Mass
Saturday, 7:00 p.m.
Fetzer 1040
Sunday, 7:00 a.m.
Fetzer 1005
Sunday, 7:00 a.m.
Fetzer 1040
Photographs
- A Congress plenary lecture (photo: Neil Rankin)
- Altarpiece (Victoria & Albert Museum, A.089.1919)
- The Dance (photo: Jim West for The Chronicle)