Autumn 2009 Ohio Medieval Colloquium

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Saturday October 24th, 2009
10:30 - 5:00 p.m.

 Bowling Green State University
    Bowen-Thompson Student Union Room 315
Bowling Green, Ohio

10:45 – 11:00am      Welcome and Introduction

Session I (11:00am - 12:30pm)

“Intersections of Politics and Literature: Propaganda in the Wars of the Roses and Malory’s Le Morte D’Arthur,”
Lisa G. Robeson (Department of English, Ohio Northern University)

 “Prologomenon to a Darwinian Defense of Poetry: The Case of Chrétien de Troyes' Le Chevalier de la Charette,”
Michael A. Winkelman (Department of English, Bowling Green State University)

"The Fourth Lateran Council, Penance, and Launcelot's Journey to Forgiveness in Le Morte D'Arthur,”
Peter C. Schwartz (Department of English, Elmira College)

12:30 – 1:20pm  Lunch (Room 208, BTSU)
&
OMC Business Meeting (1:20-1:30pm)

Session II (1:30 – 3:00pm)

“In Praise of Ostrea Edulis: Colchester Oysters and The Medieval Essex Economy,”
Keith Pepperell (Professor of Humanities at Columbus State Community College, Otterbein College, and Columbus College of Art and Design)

“Anglo-Saxon Knowledge of the Functions of the Brain,"
Leslie Lockett (Department of English, The Ohio State University)

“Scotus, Ockham and the Rise of Voluntarism,”
Anthony Lisska (Maria Theresa Barney Professor of Philosophy, Denison University)

Break  3:00-3:30pm

Session III (3:30 – 5:00pm)

 “What, When, and Where is the Croxton Play of the Sacrament and to Whom Does it Belong?”
Christina M. Fitzgerald (Department of English, The University of Toledo)

“The "Furies" in the Earliest Legends of St. Swithun,”
Drew Jones (Department of English, The Ohio State University)

“Networks of Urban Secrecy: Anonymous Drop-Boxes and the Transmission of Shame in Florence,”
Allie Terry (Art History, Bowling Green State University)

6:00pm - Dinner at San-B's in Bowling Green, Ohio