2008 Program
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Thursday, February 28, 2008
12:00 Registration Begins
090 Science and Engineering Library
175 West Eighteenth Avenue
12:30-12:45 Welcome Remarks
Richard Firth Green, Director, Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies
Elizabeth Zimmerman, The Ohio State University
12:45-2:15 Cultivating Christian Identities through Art, Argument, and Exegesis
Chair: Jennifer M. Gianfalla, The Ohio State University
"From Reform to Heresy: The Whore of Babylon in the High Middle Ages"
David Morris, University of Notre Dame
"Pelagius vs. Augustine: Separate Understandings of the Empire"
Peninah Wolpo, University of New Mexico
"Designing Christ: A Look at how Early Christian Artists Utilized Imperial and Pagan Imagery to Represent Christ"
Ameera Elrasheedy, University of Minnesota
2:15-2:25 Coffee Break
2:25-3:25 (North)west and East: Holy Symbol, Holy Word
Chair: Ryan Judkins, The Ohio State University
"The Cross of the Emperor: From Logos to Body to Logos and Body"
Iga Zelazny, Stanford University
"Mariology and Monumental Sculpture on the West Façade of Notre-Dame Cathedral, Paris"
Courtney S. Long, University of Pittsburgh
3:25-3:35 Coffee Break
3:35-5:05 Words: From Orthography to Puns and Contextual Meanings
Chair: Bernadette Vankeerbergen, The Ohio State University
“Medieval Latin phonology and Old-Irish orthography—a possible solution to the problem of the aspirate /h/ in Old Irish”
Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh, University of Notre Dame
“The Self-referential Fabliau”
Melanie Hackney, Louisiana State University
“fah from feondum?: Christian coloring and the mark of Cain”
Adrienne Damiani, University of Minnesota
5:05-5:15 Coffee Break
5:15-6:15 Forging Identities
Chair: Brad Hostetler, Florida State University
“Cain and Abel in the Christian Context: Herzog Ernst and the acts of Fratricide and Penance”
Geoffrey Skousen, University of Utah
“Breaking the peace of the world: Western views of the 13th century Mongols”
Alexander Wolfe, University of Chicago
6:30-9:00 Welcome Reception
Surly Girl Saloon, 1126 N. High Street
Friday, February 29, 2008
8:15-8:35 Breakfast
8:35-8:45 Opening Announcements
8:45-9:45 Reality and Truth in Late Medieval Metaphysics
Chair: Joey Pigg, The Ohio State University
"The Mistaken Identity of Truth in Augustinian and Franciscan Thought: A Case Study in St. Bonaventure"
Lydia Schumacher, University of Edinburgh
"Suarecian Universals: Evidence of the ontic-epistemic connection of metaphysics according to Francisco Suárez"
Audrey L. Anton, The Ohio State University
9:45-9:55 Coffee Break
9:55-11:25 New Rome: Memory, Communication, and Identity
Chair: Andrew Donnelly, Loyola University Chicago
"The Birth of Medieval Italy: A View from Byzantium"
Dallas DeForest, The Ohio State University
"'The Emperor's Voice': the historical role of the diplomat in late antique East"
Stavroula Konstantopoulou, The Ohio State University
"Jordanes Redeemed: Some Notes on the Purpose and Literary Merit of the Getica"
Brian Swain, The Ohio State University
11:25-12:25 Lunch (provided), Vagantes Meeting for General Elections
Kuhn Honors and Scholars House
Proctor: James Bennett, The Ohio State University
12:25-1:00 Rare Books and Manuscripts Viewing
Sullivant Library
1:10-2:40 Encounters with Old English Religious Texts
Chair: Annett Krause, The Ohio State University
"Descending into Editing Hell: Editing the Exeter Book's 'The Descent into Hell'"
Mary Rambaran-Olm, University of Glasgow
"Building Belief: Medieval Ekphrasis and Monastic Meditation in Old English Gnomic Poetry"
Brian O'Camb, University of Wisconsin, Madison
"'The postal service...does not extend to heaven': The Sunday Letter from the Ninth to Fifteenth Centuries"
Jordan Zweck, Yale University
2:40-2:50 Coffee Break
2:50-3:50 Words and Stones: Social Constructions
Chair: Carey Fee, Florida State University
"Authenticity, Authority, and the 'Author Function' in Medieval Architecture: Reconsidering the Round Churches of Anglo-Norman England"
Andrew Grubb, University of Connecticut, Storrs
"The Venerable Bede, John Foxe, and the Creation of English Identity"
Susan Royal, University of Louisville
3:50-4:00 Coffee Break
4:00-5:15 Keynote Address I
"Expert Witnesses and the Detection of Fraud in Late Medieval London"
Barbara Hanawalt, King George III Chair of British History, The Ohio State University
Chair: Laura Michele Diener, The Ohio State University
5:30-8:00 Faculty Reception
The Faculty Club—181 South Oval Drive
5:30 Welcome Remarks
Jennifer M. Gianfalla & Elizabeth Zimmerman, The Ohio State University
5:40-6:30 Reception
6:30-7:30 Medieval Music Performance
The Early Interval Group, "A Medieval Entertainment"
Introduction: Laura Michele Diener, The Ohio State University
Saturday, March 1, 2008
8:00-8:30 Breakfast
8:30-8:40 Opening Announcements
8:40-9:40 Literary Conversations Regarding Body Humors
Chair: Joanna Spanos, The Ohio State University
"Galenism and the Rise of Black Bile"
Marco A. Viniegra, Harvard University
"Bleeding to Life: A New Theory On Blood as the Grail Saga's Unifying Element"
Kathleen M. Grode, South Dakota State University
9:40-9:50 Coffee Break
9:50-11:20 The Economics of Spiritual Labor
Chair: Valerie Emanoil, The Ohio State University
"Poor People Smell: The Possibilities and Improbabilities of Christ's Body among the Poor in Early Medieval Almsgiving"
Eric Shuler, University of Notre Dame
"The Cultural Currency of Milling in Late Medieval England"
James Bennett, The Ohio State University
"'For Haukyns love the Actif Man': Physical Labor and Spiritual Toil in Piers Plowman"
Kerilyn Harkaway-Krieger, Indiana University
11:20-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-12:30 ‘From the land of the ice and snow’: Northerly Peoples in Medieval Romance and Saga
Chair: Henry Griffy, The Ohio State University
"The Matter with the North: The Finnar in the Medieval Sagas"
Jeremy DeAngelo, University of Connecticut, Storrs
"Remembering the Conquest?: Imaginary Cataclysms in Havelok the Dane"
Daniel Wollenberg, University of Pittsburgh
12:30-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3:00 Constructions of Women
Chair: Elizabeth Zimmerman, The Ohio State University
"Engraved in the Hearts of Wise Women: Models of Memory in the Paris Manuscript of Les Évangiles des Quenouilles"
Valerie A. Gramling, University of Massachusetts
"'Tereus the spousebreche': The Role of Marriage in Gower's Tale of Tereus, Procne, and Philomela"
Jennifer M. Gianfalla, The Ohio State University
"Silence's Gender: Forging a New Identity in the Roman de Silence"
Caitlin McHugh, Kent State University
3:00-3:10 Coffee Break
3:10-4:40 Orthodox Imagery: Negotiating the Boundaries of Belief
Chair: Kerilyn Harkaway-Krieger, Indiana University
"Comparative Hagiography in the Celtic Lands: Brittany and Ireland in the Early Middle Ages"
Courtney Luckhardt, University of Notre Dame
"The Power of Prologues in Capgrave's Life of Saint Katherine"
Melissa Lalli, University of Connecticut, Storrs
"Saints of All Creatures, Great and Small: a Cross-Cultural Study of Animal-Related Miracles"
Daria Safronova, The Ohio State University
4:40-4:50 Coffee Break
4:50-5:50 Investigating the Body in Medieval Art and Literature
Chair: Misty Schieberle, University of Notre Dame
"Alisoun's Queynte and Griselda's Wombe: Chaucer's Investigations into Goddes Pryvetee"
Jessica Clancy, Illinois State University
"Monstrous Mirrors: Reading Monsters as Text in Beowulf"
Brianna MacLean, University of Toronto
6:30-7:30 Keynote Address II
"Architexts of the Future: Early English Books and their Readers"
Elaine Treharne, Professor of English, Florida State University
Blackwell Inn, 2110 Tuttle Park Place
Chair: Brad Hostetler, Florida State University
7:30-8:00 Keynote Reception
Blackwell Inn
8:00— Vagantes Banquet
Blackwell Inn
Welcome Remarks: Ryan Judkins, The Ohio State University
Closing Remarks
Elizabeth Zimmerman, The Ohio State University
Carey Fee, Florida State University