Friday October 3, 3:30-5:30

Frank Coulson (Ohio State University): “FTMISOSSF4LTR: Ovid's Story of Iphis in the Middle Ages and Renaissance.”

Constance Brittain Bouchard (University of Akron): "The Divine King behind the Funny Stories in Notker the Stammerer"

Richard F. Green (Ohio State University):  “Some Medieval Urban Legends.”

Chair: Linda E. Mitchell (University of Missouri—Kansas City)

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Saturday October 4, 10:00-12:00

Madonna Hettinger (College of Wooster): "‘I feel happy’: Even in the Middle Ages(?): Situating Comedy in the Medieval Household and the Medieval Courts”

Karen Winstead (Ohio State University): "The Smiling Propagandist: Lydgate's Mumming at Windsor."

Alastair Minnis (Yale University): “Making humor of holiness: Suspicious Saints in Chaucer and Thomas More”

Chair: Valerie Emanoil (Oakland Community College)

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12:00-1:00 Lunch
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Saturday October 4, 1:00-3:00

Susan Noakes (University of Minnesota): "Mars's Laugh, Beatrice's Smile, and the Lady of Malehaut's Cough."

Graeme M. Boone (Ohio State University): “Dufay Smiles”

Katherine French (SUNY at New Paltz): "Some Brought Flesh, Some Brought Fish: Pot-Luck Dinners and Late-Medieval Household Order"

Chair: James Bennett (Ohio State University)

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3:00-3:30 Tea
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Saturday October 4, 3:30-5:30

Paul Strohm (Columbia University): “And every wight gan laughen”: What’s Funny about John the Carpenter’s  Broken Arm?

Ethan Knapp (Ohio State University): “Humor in Gower”

Larry Clopper (Indiana University): "Franciscans Playing."  

Chair: Laura Michele Diener (Marshall University)

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6:30— There will be a banquet for participants and others at the Blackwell Inn
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