EIGHTEENTH
ANNUAL CONFERENCE
TEXAS
TECH UNIVERSITY
Thursday, October 2
Arrivals
7:00-10:00 Opening Reception
TEMA President John Howe's
house, 3109 25th Street, near the corner of 25th and Gary (south of the TTU
campus, on the south side of Tech Terrace Park)
Friday, October 3
8:00-9:30 On Site Registration
/ Coffee Service
International Cultural Center (ICC), 601 Indiana Avenue (NW corner, TTU campus)
Enjoy "Turrets and Troubadours: Medieval Celebrations in a West Texas City,"
an exhibit of photographic impressions of "medieval Lubbock" by Philip
Marshall (Political Science Department, Texas Tech University)
8:45-9:05 WELCOME AND INFORMATION
ICC Auditorium
9:15-10:45 BREAK OUT SESSION 1
ADMINISTRATIVE ELEMENTS
OF GOVERNMENTS AT WAR
Distance Education, room 103A
Chair: James R.
King (Department of History, Midwestern State University)
- Christopher A. Candy (Department
of History, TTU), "Counting the Costs: Weighing the Siege of Kenilworth
Castle, 1267"
- Andrew Villalon (Department
of History, University of Texas at Austin), "1346: It was a Very Good Year-For
English Military Pardons"
- Edward Tabri (Department
of History, University of Texas at Tyler), "The Personal Piety and Royal
Household of Louis IX"
NECESSITIES OF LIFE AND
SPIRIT
ICC, room 105A
Chair: Jeremy Adams
(Department of History, Southern Methodist University)
- Max Nelson (Languages,
Literatures, and Cultures, University of Windsor), "Medieval Beer: Necessity
or Luxury"
- Kim McCarty (Department
of History, University of North Texas), "Sites of Water in Medieval Iberia:
The Production of Space after Reconquest"
- Gabrielle Sutherland (History
Department, Baylor University), "Clare of Assisi at the Crossroads of History:
Out of the Shadow of Francis"
"MEDIEVAL" THEMES ON SCREEN
ICC Auditorium
Chair: Jane Chance
(Andrew W. Mellon Professor of English, Rice University)
- Victor I. Scherb (Department
of Literature and Language, University of Texas at Tyler), "Wiglaf as Prufrock
in Gaiman and Avary's Beowulf"
- Leah Larson (Department
of English, Our Lady of the Lake University), "BBC's Sherwood Forest Time
Warp: How Anachronism Shapes Contemporary Portrayals of the Robin Hood Myth"
- Jake Schornick (Department
of English, Rice University), "Daddy Issues: How Shrek the Third Interacts
with the Arthurian Legend"
PILGRIMAGE IN SPAIN
Distance Education 103B
Chair: Paul Larson (Modern Foreign Languages, Baylor University)
- Paul Larson (Modern Foreign Languages, Baylor University), “The Foolish Pilgrim: A Cautionary Tale on the Road to Santiago”
- Rosalie Barrera (Modern Foreign Languages, Baylor University), “The Passion of the Archpriest—the Pilgrimage and Sacrifice of Juan Ruiz”
- Sarah Appfel (Modern Foreign Languages, Baylor University), “Testing the Advisor—the Case of the False Pilgrim”
11:00-12:30 BREAK OUT SESSION 2
THE SIXTH CENTURY: ROME
AFTER ROME
ICC, room 105A
Chair: Thomas F.
X. Noble (Former Director of the Medieval Institute and Department Chair of
History, University of Notre Dame)
- Sarah Davis-Secord (Department
of History, University of Texas at Arlington), "Travel between Sicily and
Constantinople: Real and Imaginary"
- Katie Miller (Department
of History, Rice University). "Cassiodorus and Vivarium: A Reflection of
Transition in the Sixth-Century Mediterranean World"
- Antonio Donato (Queens
College SUNY), "An 'Existential' Interpretation of Boethius' Consolation
of Philosophy"
MINORITIES AND STRATEGIES
Distance Education, room 103A
Chair: Saad Abi-Hamad
(Department of History, TTU)
- Yasmine Beale-Rivaya (Department
of Spanish, Texas State University-San Marcos), "The Mozárabes and
the Tejanos"
- James C. Cagle (Department
of History, University of Texas at Arlington), "A History of Heresy: Opinions
of Heresy and Their Influence on Islam in the Medieval Imagination"
- David McDaniel (Department
of History, TTU), "Toleration and Repression of the 'Other' in Medieval
Spain: Status, Conferred and Perceived, among Muslims, Christians, and Jews"
MEDIEVAL FRENCH ROMANCE
ICC, room 105B
Chair: Diane Wood (CMLL French, Texas Tech University)
- Lorna Wolcott Cooper (Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures, Texas
Tech University), "The Quest for Identity in Chrétien de Troyes'
Conte du Graal"
- Georgeta Georgescu (Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures, Christopher
Newport University), "Medieval Imagination or Brutal Reality? The Tournaments
in Chrétien de Troyes' Romances"
- Lesley Shelton (Department
of English, Texas Tech University), "Silence: I Can Read Her (Silently)
Like an Open Book"
NEW MEDIA TEACHING TOOLS
ICC Auditorium
Chair: Bonnie Wheeler
(Department of English, Southern Methodist University)
- Jeff Hamilton (Chairman
of History, Baylor), "Pilgrimage in the History Classroom: Using the Pilgrimage
CD ROM"
- Karen Bollerman (Department
of English, Arizona State University, Polytechnic Campus), "Beowulf, King
Arthur, and Frodo in Cyberspace"
12:30-1:45 LUNCH Texas
Barbeque
at the Ranching Heritage Center, which will be open for exploration
2:00 PLENARY SESSION I ICC Auditorium
Thomas F. X. Noble
Former Director of the Medieval Institute and Chair of History,
University of Notre Dame
"'Charlemania': Writing Charlemagne 828-2008"
3:15-4:45 BREAK OUT SESSION 3
LATE ANTIQUITY: "CHRISTIANIZING"
THE ROMAN WORLD
ICC, room 105A
Chair: Jason L.
Banta (CMLL, Latin, TTU)
- Gary Forsythe (Department
of History, TTU), "The Non-Christian Origins of Christmas"
- Patrick Maille (Department
of History, Oklahoma Panhandle State University), "Lactantius and Magic:
The Role of the Supernatural in the Creation of Christian Rome"
- Peder D. Christiansen (Department
of Philosophy, TTU) "The Last Great Pagan Poet"
NEGOTIATING THE LAW
ICC, room 105B
Chair: Jeffrey S.
Hamilton (Department of History, Baylor)
- Bruce Brasington (Department
of History, West Texas A & M), "The Distinctiones Cantabrigenses (Cambridge,
UL Add. 3321.1): Authority, Power, and Jurisdiction in a Twelfth-Century Commentary
on Gratian's Decretum"
- Linsey Hunter (Department
of History, St. Andrews), "Defying the Stereotype: Charters, Landholding
and the Medieval Imagination"
- Dale Streeter (Department
of History, Eastern New Mexico University), "The Brief Episcopate of Durand
de St.-Pourçain at Limoux: Conflict or Convenience?"
MIDDLE ENGLISH AND EARLY MODERN ALLITERATIVE POETRY
Distance Education, room 103A
Chair: Lara Crowley (Department of English, Texas Tech University)
- Karen Brown (Department
of English, TTU), "Sleep as Transitional Narrative Space in Piers Plowman
B"
- Larry Bonds (Department
of English, McMurry State University), "Is the Parliament of the Three
Ages a Source for Love's Labour's Lost?"
- Lisa Magnusson (Department
of English, Texas State University San Marcos), "Amoret: Elizabeth's "True
Feminitee" Revealed?"
CRUSADE AND CONQUEST
Distance Education, room 103B
Chair: Andrew Villalon
(Department of History, University of Texas at Austin)
- Paul Chevedden (Center
for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, UCLA), "'A Crusade from the First':
The Norman Conquest of Islamic Sicily, 1060-1091"
- Donald Kagay (Department
of History, Albany State University), "Jaime I 'the Conqueror': Manager
and Practitioner of the Reconquest."
5:00-6:00 PLENARY SESSION II ICC Auditorium
Jane Chance
Andrew W. Mellon Professor of English, Rice University
"Tough
Love: Teaching the New Medievalisms"
6:00 on FIRST FRIDAY ART TRAIL. Visit downtown Lubbock--more civilized
than you thought! Cattle drives down Broadway and Main were halted back in 1930
by a civic campaign led by the Women's Garden Society. Now the Depot District
is home to multiple restaurants, art galleries, even to on-site brewers and
vintners. Up until 8:00 pm, it is possible to visit for free the Buddy Holly
Center, located at 1801 Crickets Avenue (formerly Avenue G) in the renovated
Fort Worth & Denver Railroad Depot. Many other gallery venues will also be open, part of Lubbock's "First
Friday Art Trail."
Attendees with their own cars may just want to drive downtown, where no-charge
parking is usually easy to find (drive east on 4th Street from the Friday TEMA
venues, turn right on Buddy Holley Avenue). A trolley runs a route through the
First Friday Art Trail reception sites, each of which can provide a map locating
the evening's festivities.
The Conference will provide bus and van transportation to the downtown from
the ICC Conference venue at 6:00. Art tour visitors and diners will want to
return on their own schedules. Taxis are available. The Conference can provide
limited van service (call 831-236-1474, prior to 10:00pm).
Saturday,
October 4
8:00-10:00 Coffee in
the Southwest Collection (SWC), near 15th and Detroit)
Wander through "The Medieval Southwest: Connections between the Old World
and the New," an extensive exhibit funded by the Spanish Government, Humanities
Texas, and the Helen Jones Foundation
8:30-9:40am PLENARY
III SWC Library Reading Room
W. Michael Mathes
Professor Emeritus of History, University of San Francisco;
Library Director, El Colegio de Jalisco
"Medieval Castile on the Llano
Estacado: The Vázquez de Coronado Expedition, 1540-1541"
10 - 11:30 BREAK OUT SESSION 4
NEW INSIGHTS REGARDING
THE CORONADO EXPEDITION
English Building, room 106
Chair: W. Michael
Mathes (Professor Emeritus of History, University of San Francisco; Library
Director, El Colegio de Jalisco)
- Félix Almaráz
(Peter T. Flawn Professor of Borderlands History, University of Texas San Antonio),
"The Spiritual Formation of Fray Juan Padilla"
- Deni Seymour (Research Associate, The Southwest Center, University of Arizona), "The Location of
Chichilticale, a Critical Point on the Coronado Route to Zuni"
- Donald Blakeslee (Department
of Anthropology, Wichita State University), "The Routes of Coronado's Entrada
onto the Great Plains"
MEDIEVAL IMAGES IN POPULAR SPACES: MEDIEVAL VIOLENCE IN CONTEMPORARY IMAGINATION
Art Building, room 102
Chair: Brian McFadden
(Department of English, Texas Tech University)
- Joseph Howe (Department
of English, TTU), "Medieval Gaming as Community"
- Ana Krahmer (Department
of English, TTU), "Teaching with Medieval Gaming"
- Emily Headley (Department
of History, TTU), "A Modern Perspective on Medieval Torture: The Popularity
of 'Getting Medieval'"
MEDIEVAL MORALITY AND ITS AFTERLIFE
English Building, room 350
Chair: Leah Larson (Department of English, Our Lady of the Lake University)
- Melissa Harbin (Department
of English, Texas State University) "Fetters and Freedoms of Language:
Negotiating Religious Disparities in St. Agatha's Hagiography, Juliana, and
Beowulf"
- Maria O'Connell (Department
of English, TTU), "Fatal Attraction: The Deconstruction of Courtly Love
and Knighthood in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy"
- Vicki Ronn (Department
of English, TTU), "The Manuscript and the Body—the Reader and the Audience:
Medieval Tropes in the Fantasy of Catherynne Valente's The Orphan's Tales"
DRESSED TO KILL
Art Building, room B01
Chair: Don Kagay
(Department of History, Albany State University)
- Ruel Macaraeg (Independent
Scholar), "Arms"
- April Jehan Morris (College
of Fine Arts, University of Texas at Austin) "And the dragon fought":
Muslims, Malecide, and St. George's Dragon"
- Jonathan Deen and Florencio
Aranda (CMLL, Spanish, TTU), "Arms and Armor in Spanish Medieval and Golden
Age Literature"
11:45-1:15 LUNCH (Southwestern Theme) Croslin Room of the University
Library
TEMA Business Meeting / Entertainment by the Collegium Musicum
1:30-3:00 BREAK OUT
SESSION 5
MEDIEVAL TO MODERN: FOURTEENTH-CENTURY MIDDLE ENGLISH POETRY
English Building, room 350
Chair: Edwin Duncan
(Department of English, Towson University)
- Bryan Hyde (Department
of English, University of Houston Clear Lake), "The Commodification of
Gawain in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"
- Natasha Monique Dailey
(English Department, Lamar University), "Sand, Ice, and a Wicker Labyrinth:
Chaucer's Mental Blueprints for The House of Fame"
- Carrie Jerrell (Department
of English, TTU), "Don't Take Me Too Literally: Bakhtinian Heteroglossia
and Dialogics in Two Texts of The Canterbury Tales"
TRANSMISSION OF MANUSCRIPTS
Art Building, Room B01
Chair: Bruce Brasington
(Department of History, West Texas A & M)
- Jonathan Davis-Secord (Department
of English, University of Texas at Arlington), "Disrupting Discourse: Genres
and Manuscript Decoration in the Old English Boethius"
- Cary J. Nederman (Political
Science, Texas A&M University) and Karen Bollerman (Department of English,
Arizona State University, Polytechnic Campus), "John of Salisbury's Second
Letter Collection in Later Medieval England: Unexamined Fragments from Huntington
Library HM 128."
- Theresa M. Vann (Hill Museum
& Manuscript Library, Saint John's University), "Digital Access to
Medieval Manuscripts at the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library."
SPANISH ROMANCE LITERATURE
Art Building, room 102
Chair: Carmen Pereira-Muro
(CMLL, Spanish, TTU)
- Cheri Grissom (CMLL, Spanish,
TTU), "Counting the Divine: The Religion of Love in Amadis de Gaule"
- Timothy D. Crowley (Department
of Spanish, University of Maryland), "Early Castilian Romances of Chivalry
(c.1300-c.1350): Intellectual and Political Contexts for Production"
CONNECTIONS: OLD WORLD AND NEW
English Building, room 351
Chair: Scott Buchanan (Department of History, South Plains College)
- John T. Becker (University
Libraries, TTU), "Some Medieval Contributions to the American Southwest:
Animal, Environmental, and Vegetable."
- Judd Burton (Department
of History, TTU), "Residues of the Spanish Presence in Lampasas County,
Texas: 1721-1830"
- Edward George (Emeritus,
Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures, TTU), "The 1552 Badianus
Codex: The First European Survey of Indigenous New World Plants"
3:15-4:45 BREAK OUT
SESSION 6
LATE MEDIEVAL ART
Art Building, room B01
Chair: Brian Steele
(Art History, TTU)
- Janis Elliott (Art History,
TTU), "Giotto's Last Judgment: Innovation or Tradition?"
- Lori Witzel (Liberal Arts,
St. Edward's University), "Expanding the Frame of Reference: The Frame
Tale, Giotto, and Boccaccio"
- Brian Steele (Art History,
TTU), "Magnificent in Her Repentance: Donatello's Mary Magdalen"
THE DARK MADONNA: REFLECTIONS ON A "MEDIEVAL SOUTHWEST" EXHIBIT THEME
BY TEXAS TECH STUDENTS
English Building, room 350
Chair: John Beusterien
(CMLL, Spanish, TTU)
- Mario Morera (CMLL, Spanish, TTU), "The Medieval Spanish History of the
Dark Madonna"
- Geazual Hernandez (CMLL, Spanish, TTU), "Guadalupe in Colonial Mexico"
SOURCES FOR RECONSTRUCTING
MILITARY HISTORY, 1200-1650
Art Building, room 102
Panel discussion including
session chair Christopher A. Candy (Department of History, TTU), Donald Kagay
(Department of History, Albany State University); Teresa Vann (Hill Museum &
Manuscript Library, Saint John's University); James Brink (Honors College, Texas
Tech University); W. Michael Mathes (Professor Emeritus of History, University
of San Francisco; Library Director, El Colegio de Jalisco)
THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE: ONCE AND FUTURE CONTEXTS
Chair: Julie Nelson
Couch (Department of English, TTU)
English Building, Room 351
- Beverly Hoke (Department
of English, TTU), "Language as a Resistance Strategy in the MS Laud Misc.
108: Reassertion of English Influence and Identity in the Late Thirteenth Century"
- Molly Knox (Department
of English, Baylor University), "The Unique Style of the May Passage"
- Edwin Duncan (Department of English, Towson University), "Using the Past
to Project the Future"
5-6 RECEPTION held in the "Medieval Southwest Exhibit" in the
SWC Library
6:15-7:40 MEDIEVAL FEAST Education 001
Mini-Presidential Address:
John Howe
TEMA President, Department of History,
Texas Tech University
"Class Pictures: 'School Group' Images from the
Old World to the New"
8:00-9:30 ALTRAMAR CONCERT Hemmle Recital Hall, School of Music
The Internationally acclaimed singing group Altramar will present "Songs of Devotion." The program will feature both sacred
and secular songs, including Cantigas de Santa Maria, songs of the early troubadours,
and laude spirituali in observation of this concert's occurrence on the Feast
of Saint Francis
Sunday, October 5
8:00 Latin Mass
(modified form) at Old St. Elizabeth's Church (Main and W), celebrated by Bishop
Placido Rodriguez of the Diocese of Lubbock. Coffee and Commentary after Mass