FIFTEENTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE

UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON

All meetings and receptions in splendid new UH Library
Maps of campus and library will be provided
Judith Steinhoff, UH Art History, has arranged a special exhibit of Medieval Manuscripts in Texas in UH Library, near our meeting rooms


Thursday, October 13, 2005

8:00 - 10:00 p.m.

Pre-conference Gathering

(UH Hilton Hotel, Waldorf Room)


Friday, October 14

8:30 a.m.- 5:00 p.m. Registration - Dean's Conference Room (Look for signs)


9:00 - 10:00 a.m. Session I

SESSION I a MALORY: NARRATIVES AND NARRATORS
Chair: Edwin Duncan, Towson University

10:00 -10:30 a.m. Coffee Break, Dean’s Conference Room, Library

10:30-12:00 Session II

SESSION II a PROPAGANDA AND PLANS  IN MEDIEVAL SPAIN
Chair: Jay Rubenstein, University of New Mexico 

12:00 - 1:00 p.m.

Lunch on your own

University Center (moderate) or Hilton Hotel (deluxe)

1:00 - 1:15 p.m. Judith Steinhoff:  Invitation to View Medieval Manuscript Exhibit, Rockwell Pavillion

1:15-2:15 p.m.

First Plenary Address, Rockwell Pavillion

John Friedman

“The Humor and Folly of the World in Odd Places: A Fifteenth Century Manuscript Herbal”

2:15-3:15 pm Viewing the Medieval Manuscript Display

Coffee and Tea available in Coffee Break Room

3:15-4:45 p.m. Session III

SESSION III a ADMINISTRATION AND POLITICS
Chair: James King, Midwestern State University

5:00 p.m.

Official UH Welcome, Rockwell Pavillion,

 John Antel, Dean of College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

5:15 - 6:00 p.m. 

2nd Plenary Address, Rockwell Pavillion

Charles M. Radding, University of Michigan

“How Many Middle Ages? Periodization, the Problem of Transition, and the Disappearing Eleventh Century”

6:00 - 7:30 p.m.

Wine and Beer Reception, Rockwell Pavillion


Saturday, October 14

8:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon Registration, Dean’s Conference Room


9:00 - 10 a.m. Session IV

SESSION IV a THE MEDIEVAL BODY: SIN, CHRIST AND THE DEVIL
Organizer: Susan Morrison, Texas State University, San Marcos
Chair: Misty Schieberle, University of Notre Dame

10:00 - 10:30 a.m. Coffee Break

10:30 - 11: 45 a.m. Session V

SESSION V a CHURCH REFORM AND THE CRUSADES
Chair: Cary J. Nederman, Texas A & M University

12 noon - 2:00 p.m.

Luncheon

University of Houston Hilton Hotel, Shamrock Room

Business Meeting, Presidential Address

Sally N. Vaughn, University of Houston

“Envisioning the Past in the Eleventh Century: Recollection, Restoration, Recapitulation and Reenactment”

2:15 - 3:30 p.m. Session VI

SESSION VI a MEDIEVAL WOMEN: PERFORMING GENDER, PERFORMING AUTHORITY
Organizer: Susan Morrison, Texas State University, San Marcos
Chair: Edwin Duncan, Towson University

3:30-4:00 pm Coffee Break, Dean’s Conference Room, Library

4:00-5:30 Session VII

SESSION VII a REFIGURING THE FEMININE: DISCOURSE, MOTHERHOOD AND THE BODY
Organizer: Susan Morrison, Texas State University, San Marcos
Chair:  Theresa Vann, Hill Museum and Manuscript Library

SESSION VII b TEXTS AND THEIR INTERPRETATION
Chair: Jeffrey Hamilton, Baylor University

SESSION VII c METAPHORS MAGICAL AND MILITARY
Chair:  Donald Kagay, Albany State University

5:30 - 6:00 p.m.

ARMA DEMONSTRATION

On the lawn in front of the Library Entrance

7:30 p.m. and on

POST-CONFERENCE GATHERING

Home of Sally Vaughn (Map provided at Conference)


With thanks to our generous sponsors and underwriters:

College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, University of Houston
Department of History, University of Houston
Department of English, University of Houston
Dean of the Libraries, University of Houston


Y'ALL COME!