TEMA-Sponsored Sessions at Kalamazoo 2010

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 eight TEMA-sponsored sessions scheduled for the 45th International Congress, May 13-16, 2010, are listed below.

Note: The TEMA Business Meeting will be at 6:00 pm on Friday, May 14, in Valley II 204. Don Kagay and the usual suspects will be there with wine to accept your session proposals for Kalamazoo 2011.]

Thursday, May 13 • 10:00-11:30 • Fetzer 2016
Session 26

El Cid: The National Hero of Spain

Organizer: Paul E. Larson, Baylor Univ.
Presider: Paul E. Larson

• Law and Literature in the Poema de Mio Cid: Theoretical Underpinnings
  Michael P. McGlynn, Wichita State Univ.
• La religiosidad: Tinte propagandista en el Poema de Mio Cid
  Jaime Leaños, Univ. of Nevada–Reno
• El Cid and the Franco Regime
  Sarah Apffel, Baylor Univ.

Thursday, May 13 • 3:30-5:00 • Fetzer 1055
Session 133

The Crusades: New Directions

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

• A Maritime History of the Twelfth-Century Crusades
  Dana Cushing, United States Marine Corps
• Teaching Crusades Historiography to Senior High School Students: New Directions Down Under
  Anthony Dale, Inverell High School
• The Holy War Origins of the Crusades
  Paul E. Chevedden

Friday, May 14 • 10:00-11:30 • Bernhard 210
Session 236

Manuscript Threads in Medieval Iberia

Organizer: Yasmine Beale-Rivaya, Texas State Univ.–San Marcos
Presider: David Hadbawnik, Univ. at Buffalo

• The Conde Lucanor Manuscripts and the Tale of Alvar Fáñez
  Michael Hammer, San Francisco State Univ.
• Mozarabic Manuscript Traditions from Toledo to Aragón
  Yasmine Beale-Rivaya
• Manuscript, Translation, and Tradition in Yeduha Abravanel’s Dialogues of Love
  Damian Bacich, San Jose State Univ.
• Manuscript Rethreading: Reconsidering the Manuscript of Maria y Elena
  Abraham Quintanar, Dickinson College

Friday, May 14 • 1:30-3:00 • Fetzer 1005
Session 267

Sainthood and Kingship

Organizer: Wendy J. Turner, Augusta State Univ.
Presider: Cynthia Turner Camp, Univ. of Georgia

• Oswald’s Cross: The Dialect of Kingship and Sanctity in Bede’s Historia ecclesiastica
  Christina M. Heckman, Augusta State Univ.
• The Saintly Anglo-Saxon King as Propaganda in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 108: A Postcolonial Resistance to the English Aristocracy of Norman Descent
  Beverly Hoke, Texas Tech Univ.
• Clare of Assisi: Paths of the Saint and Paths of Sainthood
  Gabrielle Sutherland, Baylor Univ.
• Aspects of the Cult of Saint Edward in Fifteenth-Century England
  Jonathan Good, Reinhardt College
  

Friday, May 14 • 3:30-5:00 • Fetzer 1005
Session 334

Trespass across Legal, Territorial, Literary, and Personal Boundaries

Organizer: Wendy J. Turner, Augusta State Univ.
Presider: Aleksandra Pfau, Hendrix College

• Out Little Spear: Charms and the Power of Trespass
  Jennifer Culver, Univ. of Texas–Dallas
• Preventing Trespass: Controlling Grief in Late Medieval Tuscany
  Judith Steinhoff, Univ. of Houston
• Trespassing in the Field of Scripture: Women and the Lollardy Heresy
  David W. Lavinsky, Univ. of Michigan–Ann Arbor
• Trading Spaces: Negotiating Social Boundaries in the French Fabliaux
  Rachel D. Gibson, Univ. of Minnesota–Twin Cities

Saturday, May 15 • 10:00-11:30 • Fetzer 2020
Session 399

Mediterranean Identities

Organizer: Theresa M. Vann, Hill Museum & Manuscript Library
Presider: Paul F. Crawford, California Univ. of Pennsylvania

• The Templars on Ruad (1300–1302)
  Jochen Burgtorf, California State Univ.–Fullerton
• Knights of the Sea: The Naval Pursuits of Hospitallers and Templars
  David Kloster, California State Univ.–Fullerton
• Pirates of the Mediterranean: Fifteenth-Century Letters of Marque from the Hospitallers of Rhodes
  Theresa M. Vann
• Letters of Marque, Civic Privileges, and Urban Identity in Late Medieval Marseille
  Christopher Beck, Fordham Univ.
  

Saturday, May 15 • 1:30-3:00 - Fetzer 2020
Session 451

Out of Iberia: Convivencia as a Multicultural Paradigm

Organizer: April Jehan Morris, Univ. of Texas–Austin
Presider: April Jehan Morris

• The Failure of Convivencia as a Paradigm of Social Anxiety
  Laura Wangerin, Latin School of Chicago
• Race and Religion: Convivencia and Depictions of the Adoration of the Magi
  Jessica Weiss, Univ. of Texas–Austin

Saturday, May 15 • 3:30-5:00 - Fetzer 2020
Session 501

The Dynamics of the Castilian-Leonese Reconquest of the Twelfth and Early Thirteenth Centuries

Organizer: David C. McDaniel, Texas Tech Univ.
Presider: Theresa M. Vann, Hill Museum & Manuscript Library

• Hold the Lines? The Spanish Military and Their Castles
  Johnathan Edgeller, Texas Tech Univ.
• Las Navas de Tolosa through the Diplomatic Evidence
  Miguel Gomez, Univ. of Tennessee–Knoxville
• Did Castile-Leon Have a Grand Strategy in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries?
  David C. McDaniel
  

Sunday, May 16 • No Sunday Sessions • Stick with TEMA!

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