Program

Vagantes 2006
University of California, Berkeley
March 2-5, 2006

Thursday, March 2

7:00 pm - Welcome Reception at Beckett's Irish Pub

Friday, March 3

8:30am - Registration Begins, Geballe Room, Stephens Hall

9:00-9:15 - Welcome
Amelia Borrego, UC Berkeley

9:15-10:45 - Panel 1: Under the Influence: Medieval "Auctoritee"
Chair: Jennifer Miller, UC Berkeley

Two Men and their Monsters: (Dis)embodied Auctoritee, Literary Matricide, and the Chaucerian Recovery of the Female Creator
Khristina F. Gonzalez, University of Notre Dame

The Role of Ibn Sīnā’s Cosmology and Psychology in al-Ghazālī’s Mishkāt al-Anwār
Scott Girdner, Boston University

The Adoption and Erasure of Celestial Hierarchies from Bede to Ælfric
Kevin Caliendo, University of Oklahoma

10:45-11:00 - Coffee Break

11:00am - Keynote Presentation
Chair: Jamie DeAngelis, UC Berkeley

The Song of Roland and the Songs of Roland
Joseph Duggan, Professor of French and Comparative Literature, UC Berkeley

12:00-1:00 pm - Lunch off-campus

1:00-2:30 - Panel 2: Interpreted Communities: Political Networks, Editorial Politics
Chair: Thalia Anagnostopoulos, UC Berkeley

Local Politics and Social Networks in the Lordship of Picquigny, ca. 1220-1250
Ionuţ Epurescu-Pascovici, Cornell University

Political and Religious Correctness at the Turn of the Thirteenth Century: The Limits of Human Knowledge in Alexander Neckam’s Encyclopedias
Tomas Zahora, Fordham University

The Logic of Social Violence in Late Medieval England: St. Albans and Bury St. Edmunds in the Early Fourteenth Century
James T. Bennett, Ohio State University

2:30-2:45 - Coffee Break

2:45-4:15 - Panel 3: Models of Female Piety
Chair: Misty Schieberle, University of Notre Dame

The Cruciform Womb: Process, Symbol, and Salvation in Bodleian MS Ashmole 399
Karl Whittington, UC Berkeley

Subversive Sub-texts: Implications of Julian of Norwich’s Models of Female Piety in A Revelation of Divine Love
Jonathan Juilfs, University of Notre Dame

Margaret of York in Paradise: Genealogies of Piety and Patronage in Brussels MS 9296
Vanessa Lyon, UC Berkeley

4:15-4:30 - Coffee Break/Go to Tours and Presentations

4:30-5:30 - Tours and Presentations

5:30-7:00 - Faculty Reception with Manuscript Display, Morrison Room, Doe Library

Saturday, March 4

8:30am - Registration Begins, Geballe Room, Stephens Hall

9:00-10:30 - Panel 4: The Author and the Other: On Medieval Poetics
Chair: Maura Nolan, UC Berkeley

“For y am sorwe, and sorwe ys y”: Medieval Representations of Blackness
Abigail Elizabeth Comber, Ball State University

“A wonder strange ymage”: Nebuchadnezzar’s Idol, Gower’s Poetics
Kim Zarins, Cornell University

“Herkneth to me”: Rhyme, Repetition, and Authorial Personae in the Auchinleck Manuscript
Tanya Brolaski, UC Berkeley

10:30-10:45 - Coffee Break

10:45-12:15pm - Panel 5: Marketing Devotion: The Holy Spirit and the Spirit of Commerce
Chair: Stephen Katz, UC Berkeley

Power in the Blood: Origins and Explanations of the Becket Blood Relic
Terri Jenkins-Suggs, University of Western Michigan

Marketing Devotion: Alanus de Rupe and the Rosary
Daniel Perett, University of Notre Dame

Enhancing Edmund: Growth and Mutation of an Anglo-Saxon Cult in the Twelfth Century
Daniel O’Gorman, Loyola University of Chicago

12:15-1:30 - Lunch (provided) and General Meeting/Election of new Board members, 371 Dwinelle Hall/Ishi Court

1:30-3:00 - Panel 6: The Text at Work: Practices of Reading and Writing
Chair: Carin Ruff, UC Berkeley

The Carmen Paschale and the Latinity of Caelius Sedulius
Patrick McBrine, University of Toronto

What Did Crusaders Read? Book Production in Outremer
Andreea Marculescu, Johns Hopkins University

"Pray for us; we will pray for you": The Evidence from Medieval Mortuary Rolls
Laura Michele Diener, Ohio State University

3:00-3:15 - Coffee Break/Go to Tours and Presentations

3:15-4:15 - Tours and Presentations

4:15-5:00 - Afternoon Break. (Board of Directors Meeting, English Department Lounge, 330 Wheeler Hall)

5:00-6:00 - Keynote Presentation, Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall
Chair: Thomas Greene, Loyola University Chicago

Fast and Feast: Food, Consumption, and Production in Anglo-Saxon Handbooks of Penance
Allen Frantzen, Professor of English, Loyola University of Chicago

6:00-7:00 - Keynote Reception, English Department Lounge

7:30+ - Banquet: Pomegranate

Sunday, March 5

8:30 am - Registration, Geballe Room, Stephens Hall

9:00-10:30 - Panel 7: Piers Plowman via Georgetown
Chair: Amelia Borrego, UC Berkeley

Performing Identity: An Analysis of the Individual-in-Action in William Langland’s Piers Plowman
Julie Jones, Georgetown University

“Thus rede men in bokes”: Ethical Readings in and of Piers Plowman
Clara Pascual-Argente, Georgetown University

Patience’s Riddle in Piers Plowman
Allison Lee Adair, Georgetown University

10:30-10:45 - Coffee Break

10:45-12:15 pm - Panel 8: Contingencies of Value: Commodities, Consumption, and Cultural Capital
Chair: Jonathan Combs-Schilling, UC Berkeley

Silk and the Single Beguine: The Role of Beguines in the Textile Industry of Medieval Paris
Tanya Stabler, UC Santa Barbara

“Empress” Eudoxia Komnene, Troubadours, and the Prestige of Byzantium in El libre dels feyts of James I of Aragon (1213-1276)
Sebastián Salvadó, Stanford University

Denizens and Demons of Italian Afterlives
Carey Fee, UC Davis

12:15pm – Closing Remarks
Amelia Borrego, UC Berkeley and Andrew J. Donnelly, Loyola University Chicago