TEMA-Sponsored Sessions at Kalamazoo '98

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 TEMA-sponsored sessions scheduled for the 33rd International Congress, May 6-10, 1998, are listed below.

Session 305 - Saturday, May 9, 10:00-11:30 - Valley III - Room 301

Sir Thomas Malory: Unity in Difference

Organizer: Donald J. Kagay, Albany State Univ.
Presider: D. Thomas Hanks, Baylor Univ.
"Dialogue in Le Morte Darthur: Differences in Sameness"
Felicia Ackerman, Brown Univ.
"Question of Coherence in Malory's Works"
Fiona Tolhurst, Alfred Univ.
"The Exile Motif in Middle English Romance: Sir Orfeo and Malory's Book of Sir Tristrum"
Richard Garrett, Baylor Univ.

Session 357 - Saturday, May 9, 1:30-3:00 - Valley III - Room 301

The Female Voice in the Iberian Middle Ages

Organizer: Paula Luteran, Austin State Univ.
Presider: Paula Luteran
"Will You Hear Me if I Speake? Women's Voices in the Iberian Peninsula"
Nydia Rivera-Gloeckner, Rider Univ.
"Con la sangre de su lengua: Filomena's Liquified Text"
Elizabeth Boretz, Eastern Oregon Univ.
Respondent: Beatriz Gómez Acuña, Univ. of Texas-Austin

Session 411- Saturday, May 9, 3:30-5:00 - Valley III - Room 301

Vox Patris

Organizer: Paul Larson, Baylor Univ.
Presider: Paul Larson
"Wishful Thinking: The Image of Women in Middle High German Epic"
Rasma Lazda Cazers, Baylor Univ.
"Repairing the Broken Bonds: The Spanish Inquisition and the Pursuit of Permanent Marriage"
Allyson M. Poska, Mary Washington College
"Shouting the Vox Patris in Early French Prose"
Deborah Hovland, SUNY-Buffalo
Respondent: Beatriz Gómez Acuña, Univ. of Texas-Austin

Session 465 - Sunday, May 10, 8:30-10:00 - Valley III - Room 301

Truly, Madly, Deeply Ælfric

Organizer: Melinda Menzer, Furman Univ.
Presider: Andrew Troup, California State Univ.-Bakersfield
"A Preliminary Reexamination of Words and Their Contexts in Ælfric's Prose"
Glenn Davis, Univ. of Texas-Austin
"Ælfric and Verbal Ambiguity"
Felicia J. Steele, Univ. of Texas-Austin

Session 492 - Sunday, May 10, 10:30-12:00 - Valley III - Room 301

Military and Monastic Orders in the Crusader States

Organizer: Theresa M. Vann, Hill Monastic Manuscript Library
Presider: Donald J. Kagay, Albany State Univ.
"Inter Arma Caritas: The Early Trinitarian Story"
Joseph J. Gross, Trinitarian History Studies
"Religious Rituals of the Reconquest"
Joseph F. O'Callaghan, Fordham Univ.
"Fourteenth-Century Spirituality and Confraternity in the Order of St. John"
Mark Du Puy, Louisiana State Univ.