TEMA-Sponsored Sessions at Kalamazoo 2009

Every year the Texas Medieval Association sponsors a number of sessions at the International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan. These sessions are open-submission, and you do not have to be a TEMA member to participate in one. The nine TEMA-sponsored sessions scheduled for the 44th International Congress, May 7-10, 2009, are listed below.

[Note: The TEMA Business Meeting will be at 6:00 p.m. on Friday, May 8, in Valley II 201. Don Kagay will be there to accept your session proposals for Kalamazoo 2010.]

Thursday, May 7 • 10:00-11:30 • Valley II 205
Session7

Historiography of the Crusades

Organizer: Paul E. Chevedden, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Univ. of California–Los Angeles
Presider: James R. King, Midwestern State Univ.

• A Pluralist Society: Jonathan Riley-Smith and Crusades Studies in the Twenty-First Century
  Sam Zeno Conedera, SJ, Univ. of California–Los Angeles
• Distinguishing between Holy War and Crusade: Jonathan Riley-Smith versus John Gilchrist
  Andrew P. Holt, Univ. of Florida
• Carl Erdmann and the Copernican Revolution in Crusade Studies
  Paul E. Chevedden

Thursday, May 7 • 1:30-3:00 • Valley II 203
Session 58

Medieval Popular Culture I: Law, Sport, and Monastery Towns

Organizer: Sally N. Vaughn, Univ. of Houston
Presider: Jean Truax, Independent Scholar

• Legal Procedure in Berceo’s Miracle VIII
  Michael P. McGlynn, Wichita State Univ.
• “The Madnes of Tenys” and the Regulation of Pastimes in Late Medieval London
  David Kathman, Independent Scholar
• Popular Culture at Caen during the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
  Priscilla Watkins, Houston Community College

Thursday, May 7 • 3:30-5:00 • Valley II 203
Session 114

Medieval Popular Culture II: Literature as Popular Culture

Organizer: Sally N. Vaughn, Univ. of Houston
Presider: Edwin Duncan, Towson Univ.

• Beowulf’s Wyrd: Singular or Circular?
  Mary K. Ramsey, Southeastern Louisiana Univ.
• King Arthur’s Twelfth-Century Popularity: Connections to Geoffrey of Monmouth’s History of the Kings of Britain
  Diana Sanders, Univ. of Houston
• Losing a Hand: Is the Maiden without Hands Tale of Popular Origin?
  Thomas Leek, St. Cloud State Univ.

Friday, May 8 • 1:30-3:00 • Valley II 203
Session 257

Medieval Domestic Violence

Organizer: Wendy J. Turner, Augusta State Univ.
Presider: Jean N. Goodrich, Univ. of Arizona

• Intimate Disasters: Infanticide in Late Medieval France
  Aleksandra Pfau, Hendrix College
• Angry Wives of Madmen
  Wendy J. Turner
  

Saturday, May 9 • 10:00-11:30 • Bernhard 105
Session 423

Women of Power Revisited
Sponsors: Texas Medieval Association (TEMA) and the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML)

Organizer: Theresa M. Vann, Hill Museum & Manuscript Library
Presider: Priscilla Watkins, Houston Community College

• Portraits of Pallas Athena: Christine de Pizan’s City of Ladies and British Library Additional MS 10304
  Hope Johnston, Baylor Univ.
• Leonor de la Vega and the Exercise of Female Power in Late Medieval Castile
  L. J. Andrew Villalon, Univ. of Texas–Austin
• William of Tyre and the Gender of Power
  Deborah Gerish, Emporia State Univ.
• Countesses and Power in Flanders, 1071–1280
  Karen S. Nicholas, Oswego State Univ.
  
  Commentary: Miriam Shadis, Ohio Univ.

Saturday, May 9 • 1:30-3:00 • Bernhard 284
Session 483

Border Dwellers: Identity, Language, and Culture I

Organizer: Yasmine Beale-Rivaya, Texas State Univ.–San Marcos
Presider: Misty Schieberle, Univ. of Kansas

• Marketplace on the Margins and the Exchange of Literary Forms
  Alexander Elinson, Hunter College, CUNY
• Giovanni Boccaccio, Leone Ebreo, and the Appropriation of Allegory
  Damian Bacich, San José State Univ.
• The Mozarab Dweller and the Origins of the Romance Languages in León
  Yasmine Beale-Rivaya
  

Saturday, May 9 • 3:30-5:00 - Bernhard 212
Session 545

Border Dwellers: Identity, Language, and Culture II

Organizer: Yasmine Beale-Rivaya, Texas State Univ.–San Marcos
Presider: Yasmine Beale-Rivaya

• Violence on the Edge: Fantasies of Cultural Exchange in Gower’s Tale of Constance
  Kristi Castleberry, Univ. of Rochester
• Anglo-Scottish Relations and Judas Iscariot’s Political Tropology in Cursor mundi
  Britt Mize, Texas A&M Univ.
• Propaganda, Politics, and the Anglo-Scottish Border
  Katherine H. Terrell, Hamilton College
• “Disgusted with His Foreign Speech”: Shifting Situational Identity in the Early Middle Ages
  Deanna Forsman, North Hennepin Community College

Sunday, May 10 • 8:30-10:00 - Valley I 109
Session 558

The Confluence of Storytelling: Spain, Italy, and England

Organizer: Paul E. Larson, Baylor Univ.
Presider: Carlos Hawley-Colón, North Dakota State Univ.

• Joseph of Arimathea: The Unofficial Disciple in Robert de Boron’s Joseph d’Arimathie and the Spanish El Libro de Josep de Abarimathia
  Josefa Conde de Lindquist, Univ. of North Carolina–Chapel Hill
• Who’s Zoomin’ Who? Boccaccio and the French Fabliau
  Deborah Hovland, Buffalo State College
• The Shipman’s Tale, Redux
  Paul E. Larson
  

Sunday, May 10 • 10:30-12:00 - Valley II 204
Session 584

The Dynamics of Medieval Pilgrimage

Organizer: Wendy J. Turner, Augusta State Univ.
Presider: Sally N. Vaughn, Univ. of Houston

• Passing the Time with Words: The Canterbury Frame and Literary Pilgrimage
  Timothy M. Asay, Univ. of Oregon
• The Pilgrim as Tourist on the Camino de Santiago
  Michael Hammer, San Francisco State Univ.
• Christiana: The Reincarnation of Margery or Bridget?
  Susan Rauch, Texas State Univ.–San Marcos

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