TEMA-Sponsored Sessions at Kalamazoo 2011

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 46th International Congress, May 12-15, 2011, are listed below.

Note: The TEMA Business Meeting will be at 6:00 pm on Friday, May 13, in Valley II Garneau Lounge. Don Kagay and the usual suspects will be there with wine to accept your session proposals for Kalamazoo 2012.]

Thursday, May 12 • 10:00-11:30 • Valley II 207
Session 9

Chroniclers of the Hundred Years War

Organizer: Donald J. Kagay, Albany State Univ.
Presider: David McDaniel, Texas Tech Univ.

• Pedro de Ayala and the Battle of Najera: Defects of an Eyewitness Observer
  L. J. Andrew Villalon, Univ. of Texas–Austin
• Froissart: Poet, Historian—Sleuth?
  Richard Vernier, Wayne State Univ.
• Winning and Recalling Honor in Spain: Spanish Poetry in Celebration of theBattle of Najera (1367)
  Donald J. Kagay

Thursday, May 12 • 1:30-3:00 • Valley II 204
Session 54

Mediterranean Identities

Organizer: Theresa Vann, Hill Museum & Manuscript Library
Presider: Paul E. Chevedden, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Univ. of California–Los Angeles

• Mamluk Identities: Rulers in Egypt and Keepers of Jerusalem
  Cathleen A. Fleck, St. Louis Univ.
• The Role of Diplomacy and Compromise in Hospitaller Aggression against theMuslims in the Eastern Mediterranean
  Theresa Vann
• Commercial and Religious Identity in Medieval Sicily
  Timothy Smit, Robert D. Clark Honors College, Univ. of Oregon

Thursday, May 12 • 3:30-5:00 • Schneider 1255
Session 125

Consequences of the Black Death

Organizer: Wendy J. Turner, Augusta State Univ.
Presider: Susan L. Einbinder, Hebrew Union College

• Que Fuit Uxor: Dower Litigation in England after the Black Death
  Michael Phifer, Univ. of Houston
• The Effects of the Black Death upon the Land Market in Maurienne
  Michael H. Gelting, Rigsarkivet
• Looking at the Numbers: Royal Wards with Mental Disabilities during the Black Death, and What That Means Compared to the Overall Death Count
  Wendy J. Turner

Thursday, May 12 • 7:30-9:00 • Bernhard 105
Session 161

The Cid: National Hero of Spain

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

• Chaucer and El Cid: The Petrus Alfonsi Connection
  White d’Andra, Texas A&M Univ.–Commerce
• The Cid, Franco, and Charleton Heston: Using a Medieval Hero to Fight the Cold War
  Paul E. Larson
• La religiosidad: Tinte propagandista en el Poema de mio Cid
  Jaime Leanos, Univ. of Nevada–Reno
  

Friday, May 13 •10:00-11:30 • Valley II 204
Session 174

Muslims and Christians in Spanish and Mediterranean Chronicles of the High Middle Ages

Organizer: Donald J. Kagay, Albany State Univ.
Presider: Donald J. Kagay

• Stories of Fidelity: The Keeping and Breaking of Oaths in Albert of Aachen’s Historia lerosolimitana
  Yanay Israeli, Univ. of Michigan–Ann Arbor
• The Normans of Sicily from “the Other Side”: The Contemporary Muslim Sources
  Giovanni Palombo, Univ. of California–Berkeley
• The “Estoria de Espana”: Vernacular Historiography and Colonization in Thirteenth-Century Castile
  Bretton Rodriquez, Univ. of Notre Dame

Friday, May 13 • 3:30-5:00 • Schneider 1265
Session 320

Gendered Borders and Boundaries

Organizer: Wendy J. Turner, Augusta State Univ.
Presider: William H. York, Portland State Univ.

• Gendered Myth Making on the Pagan Frontier: Peter Dusburg and the Demise of the Galindians
  Arnold Lelis, Univ. of Wisconsin–Stevens Point
• Gender, Journeys, and Gammadia in the Mosaics at Ravenna
  Nancy Ross, Dixie State College of Utah
• Gendering the Moorish Invasion of Spain: The Legends of the Locked Palace and the Rape of Count Julian’s Daughter
  Rebeca Castellanos, Grand Valley State Univ.
• Telling Stories, Creating Memories: Narratives, Gender, and Customary Law in Late Medieval Colchester
  Esther Liberman-Cuenca, Fordham Univ.
  

Saturday, May 14 • 10:00-11:30 - Schneider 1145
Session 372

Discovering Themselves When Confronted with the Other: Threads in Medieval Iberian Manuscripts

Organizer: Yasmine Beale-Rivaya, Texas State Univ.–San Marcos
Presider: Kelly Watt, Univ. of Louisville

• The Vidal Mayor: Defining a Kingdom, Defining Self
  Abraham Quintanar, Dickinson College
• The Mozarabs of Aragon: Encountering “Translations” of Oneself
  Yasmine Beale-Rivaya
• Binaries and Hybridities: Problems in Reading the Mozarabic (and Latin) Liber denudationis sive ostensionis aut patefaciens of Post-(re)conquest Toledo
  Jason Busic, St. Michael’s College
  

Saturday, May 14 • 1:30-3:00 - Bernhard 210
Session 454

The Crusades and Visual Culture

Organizer: Paul E. Chevedden, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and April Jehan Morris, Univ. of California-Los Angeles, Univ. of Texas-Austin
Presider: Donald J. Kagay, Albany State Univ.

• Evidence of Reform and Crusading Ideology in the Romanesque Sculpture of Sovana, Italy
  Jill Vessely Greenwood, Willamette Univ.
• Crusading as an Act of Vengeance: The Motif of the Crucifixion
  Susanna A. Throop, Ursinus College
• Crusade and Mission: The Eleventh-Century Dream of Conversion
  Paul E. Chevedden
  

Sunday, May 15 • No Sunday Sessions • Stick with TEMA!

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