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 The paper by Alfred Thomas has been withdrawn.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 The paper by Giuseppina Giordano has been withdrawn.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 The paper by Carol L. Robinson and Angela J. Weisl has been withdrawn.
• 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 The paper by Ana Sáez-Hidalgo has been withdrawn.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 The paper by Jayashree Chakrabarty has been withdrawn.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 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 

• 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 The paper by Elena Lichmanova has been withdrawn.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.

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 The paper by Ben Tilghman has been withdrawn.

• 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 The paper by Alejandro Pombo-Rial has been withdrawn.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 The paper by R. F. Yeager has been withdrawn.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 The paper by Yosi Yisraeli has been withdrawn.

• 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 The paper by Natalie Hopwood has been withdrawn.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 The paper by Minela Muminovic has been withdrawn.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.

• 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 paper by Meron M. Piotrkowski has 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.

10:00 a.m.–11:30 a.m. EDT

• 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.

• 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.

• 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 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).

1:30 p.m.–3:00 p.m. EDT

• 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.

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 The paper by Peter Michael Michelli has been withdrawn.

• 223  Cistercian Mysticism (1). The session has been withdrawn. The paper by Marie V. Schrampfer has been moved to session 273, Cistercian Mysticism (2).

• 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.

3:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m. EDT

• 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.

• 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.

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

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

• 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).

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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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.

• 409  Temporalities (2): Story Time. The papers by Lainie A. Pomerleau and Rae Gillibrand 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.

• 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.

• 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.

7:00 p.m.–8:30 p.m. EDT

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