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Registration and Breakfast
10:00
Student Activity Center 2.120
Welcome and Opening Remarks 11:15-11:30
Student Activity Center 2.120
Raúl Ariza-Barile & Sarah Celentano
The University of Texas at Austin
Session 1: 11:30-12:30
The Other, Within
Student Activity Center 2.120
Moderator: Lindsey Hansen, Indiana University
Óvættir Slíkar (Monsters of This Kind): Draugar in Medieval Icelandic Sagas and Their Connections to the Slavic Vampire
Collin Brown, The University of Texas at Austin
The Revenant Narratives of Medieval Britain
K. Schofield Klos, University of Florida
Break: 12:30-1:10
Session 2: 1:10-2:30
The Other, Without
Student Activity Center 2.120
Moderator: Zach Hines, The University of Texas at Austin
A Discourse Analysis Approach to the Idealization and Inferiorization of the Moor in El Poema de Mio Cid
Brendan Regan, The University of Texas at Austin
Land, Water, Woman: Place, Identity, and Coudrette’s Mélusine in Late Medieval Poitou
Shana Thompson, University of North Texas
Debating Ethiopia in the Iberian Age of Discovery: Appropriating Myths
Chloe Ireton, The University of Texas at Austin
Break & HRC Manuscripts Exhibition: 2:30-4:30
Conference attendees are invited to a private viewing of medieval objects in the HRC collection. Kendra Grimmett, an MA student from the Dept. of Art & Art History, will give a brief overview of the exhibition. Micah Erwin, HRC archivist and manuscripts specialist, will discuss his work on binding waste. Dr. Elon Lang, lecturer and HRC archivist, and Dr. Luisa Nardini, Associate Professor of Musicology, Butler School of Music, will be present to answers questions and facilitate discussion.
Opening Keynote Address:
5:00-6:00
Student Activity Center 2.302
“Thinking Through Byzantine Things”
Dr. Glenn Peers
Department of Art and of Art History
The University of Texas at Austin
Reception to follow immediately in Student Activity Center 2.120. Students from the Butler School of Music will perform a short program of choral works.
Registration and Breakfast 8:30
Student Activity Center 2.120
Session 1: 9:00-10:20
Struggles of the Spirit
Student Activity Center 2.120
Moderator: Brianna Jewell, The University of Texas at Austin
Secular Violence as a Parallel to Cluniac Monastic Spiritual Combat
Roland Black, Western Michigan University
The Demons of The Book of Hours of Catherine of Cleves and the Getty Tondal
Layla Seale, Rice University
Reading Between the Lions: A Surviving Capital at Maillezais Abbey
LauraLee Brott, University of North Texas
Break & Vagantes Board Member Vote: 10:20-10:40
Student Activity Center 2.120
Session 2: 10:40-12:00
Gender and Sexuality
Student Activity Center 2.120
Moderator: Kendra Grimmett, The University of Texas at Austin
Dude Looks Like a Lady: Masculinity and Disguise in Þrymskviðr
Pax Gutiérrez-Neal, The University of Texas at Austin
Genitive Genitalia: The Representation of Possession of Sexual Organs in the French Fabliaux as a Reflection of Patriarchal Society
Nicholas Holterman, The University of Texas at Austin
Bisclavret the Maiden? Sexed Performance in the Lais of Marie de France
Sarah Sprouse, George Mason University
Lunch: 12:00-1:30
We invite you to try one of the university-area restaurants on the list included in your registration packet.
Session 3: 1:30-2:50
Propaganda
Student Activity Center 2.120
Moderator: Aaron Mercier, The University of Texas at Austin
How to Be a Good Knight: Propaganda in German Court Literature Through the Example of Heinrich von Veldeke’s Eneasroman
Katrin Fuchs, The University of Texas at Austin
Tales and Memories of Pagan Violence: The “Pagan Revolts” in Eleventh-Century Poland and Hungary Through the Eyes of Later Generations
Matthew Koval, University of Florida
The Triumphal Missionaries and Guardians of the Pilgrims: The Franciscan Order and the Legend of Helena in Piero della Francesca’s Legend of the True Cross
Natasha Mao, Rice University
Break: 2:50-3:10
Session 4: 3:10-4:30
Identity
Student Activity Center 2.120
Moderator: Andrew Welton, University of Florida
Back to the Future: Contemporary Premonstratensian Retrieval of Identity as Canons Regular
Matthew Dougherty, Catholic Theological Union
We Secađ; Ego Ælfricus : Shaping Scholarly Identity in Ælfric’s Latin and Old English Prefaces
Meg Gregory, Illinois State University
Revisiting Reims North: The Vita Sancti Remigii and the Formation of Episcopal Identity
Lindsey Hansen, Indiana University
Session 5: 4:30-5:30
Syncretism
Student Activity Center 2.120
Moderator: Mark H. Summers, University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Anicia Juliana Codex: A Product of Cultural Inheritance and Appropriation in Sixth-Century Byzantium
Katherine Baker, University of Oklahoma
The Persian Miniature in the Middle Ages
Elnaz Bokharhachi, Arizona State University
Flamboyant Fantasies: Architecture and Ornament in Late Gothic Normandy
Kyle Sweeney, Rice University
Happy Hour 6:00-8:00
All conference participants are invited to join University of Texas students for dinner and drinks at the Dog & Duck Pub, 407 W. 17th Street (between San Antonio and Guadalupe Streets).
Registration and Breakfast 10:00
Student Activity Center 2.120
Session 1: 10:30-11:50
Translation, Adaptation, Appropriation
Student Activity Center 2.120
Moderator: Chloe Ireton, The University of Texas at Austin
A Romantic Notion: Rustichello da Pisa Invents a New Chivalric Table in His Compilation
Elizabeth Florea, The University of Texas at Austin
Divided Will in the Old English Boethius
Melissa Mayus, Notre Dame University
Cicero’s Pro Lege Manilia and the Beginnings of Humanist Imperial Thought in Late Medieval Italy
Adam Mowl, UCLA
Session 2: 11:50-1:10
Materiality
Student Activity Center 2.120
Moderator: Sarah Celentano, The University of Texas at Austin
Faking Signification: The Semiotics of False Relics
Mark H. Summers, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Embroidering Memory: The Tactile Experience of Charles V’s Library at Vincennes
Emily Pietrowski, The University of Texas at Austin
Unchaining the Dead: Reconsidering the “Anglo-Saxon” Weapon Burial Rite
Andrew Welton, University of Florida
Lunch: 1:10-2:00
Student Activity Center 1.106
Vagantes Board Meeting 1:10-2:00
(Members of the Board will meet over lunch)
Student Activity Center 2.120
Session 3: 2:00-3:20
Performance and Performativity
Student Activity Center 2.120
Moderator: Raúl Ariza-Barile, The University of Texas at Austin
Becoming God in Prose and Verse : Exploration of the Creative Genius Within Hadewijch’s Corpus as Literary Worlds and Spiritual Realization
Adrienne Damiani, UC Berkeley
Musical Marginalia: Voicing the Passion Gospel in the Beneventan Zone
Bibiana Gatozzi, Princeton University
The Devil’s Plot or a Severed Social Contract: Two Views on the Fall in Medieval Plays
Miriam Poole, Indiana University
Blanton Museum Tour: 3:30-4:45
Conference attendees and participants are invited to a tour of the Renaissance and Baroque galleries of the Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art.
Closing Keynote Address: 5:00-6:00
Student Activity Center 1.106
“Why Medievalists Should Know Something about the Nineteenth Century: The Case of Merovingian Archaeology”
Dr. Bonnie Effros
Department of History
University of Florida
Final Reception: 7:00-9:00
The Texas Union 2.102 (Eastwoods Room)
Farewell and safe travels!
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