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Friday (February 21, 2020)
Friday (February 21, 2020)
11:30am-5pm: Registration [Student Center, Rice Commons]
11:45am-12:45pm: Lunch [Student Center, Rice Commons]
12:30-3:00pm: Coffee [Spes Unica Hall, 1st Floor Atrium]
1:00-2:30pm: Concurrent Sessions 1 and 2
Session 1 [Spes Unica Hall, Room 339]
Chair: John Van Engen, University of Notre Dame
Aaron Canty (Saint Xavier University), “The Eschatology of Anselm of Canterbury and His Companions”
Magda Hayton (Missouri State University), “Future as Present: Religious Identities in Alexander Minorita’s Apocalypse Commentary”
Stephen Lahey (University of Nebraska), “The Abomination of Desolation in Pre-Hussite Bohemia”
Session 2 [Spes Unica Hall, Room 145]
Chair: Sr. Eva Hooker, CSC, Saint Mary’s College
Leonardo Francalanci (University of Notre Dame), “Medieval(ist) capitals of tomorrow: from the Plan Cerdà (1860) to V. Balaguer’s Las Calles de Barcelona (1865-66)”
Shea McCollough (Washington University in St. Louis), “Mystical Reading: Julian of Norwich, Jacques Derrida, and a Hermeneutics of Care”
Gabriel Haley (Concordia University), “Petrarch, Contemplation, Modernity”
John Shin (Independent Scholar), “The St. Bartholomew’s Icon of the Virgin Hodegetria”
3:00-4:00pm: Optional Seminars [Participants must have pre-registered for these seminars during the registration process.]
Option 1: “Time in Manuscripts,” David T. Gura, Curator and Associate Professor, the University of Notre Dame (The Special Collections Reading Room, Hesburgh Library)
[Note: A shuttle is available for this session. It will pick up participants on the north side of Spes Unica Hall at 2:40; at the end of the seminar, the shuttle will pick up participants at 3:10 from Hesburgh Library circle and return them to the Student Center].
Option 2: “Manuscript and Early Printed Treasures of Saint Mary’s Rare Books Room,” Sarah Noonan, Assistant Professor, Saint Mary’s College (The President’s Conference Room, Cushwa-Leighton Library)
4:00-5:00pm: Wine and Cheese Reception [Student Center, Rice Commons]
5:00-6:00pm: Plenary Lecture [Student Center, Rice Commons]: "The Ordering of Time in Augustine and Joachim of Fiore," Bernard McGinn, Naomi Shenstone Donnelley Professor Emeritus of Historical Theology, the University of Chicago
Saturday (February 22, 2020)
Saturday (February 22, 2020)
8:30am-3:30pm: Registration [Student Center, Rice Commons]
8:30-9:30am: Coffee and light continental breakfast [Spes Unica Hall, 1st Floor Atrium]
9:00-10:30am: Concurrent Sessions 3 and 4
Session 3 [Spes Unica Hall, Room 134]
Chair: Sarah Noonan, Saint Mary’s College
Jennifer Lopatin (Indiana University), “Merlin, Prophecy, and Death in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Vita Merlini”
Elizabeth Maffetone (Indiana University), “The Double Silencing of Criseyde: Futurity and Violence in Troilus and Criseyde”
Kortney Stern (Indiana University), “Signs of the Past: Gendered Bodies and Teachings in ‘A Disputacioun Betwyx þe Body and Wormes’ and Pearl”
Session 4 [Spes Unica Hall, Room 145]
Chair: Jessalynn Bird, Saint Mary’s College
Andrew Bolinger (Independent Scholar), “Competing Visions: Reexamining the conflicts between Antioch and Edessa in the early 12th century"
Melanie Panse-Buchwalter (University of Kassel, Germany), “To prepare for the worst? – Crusades and future planning”
Louis Haas (Middle Tennessee State University), “‘Their God Fights for them Every Day': God's Active Role on the Battle Field During the First Crusade”
10:30-11:00am: Coffee Break [Spes Unica Hall, 1st Floor Atrium]
11:00am-12:30pm: Concurrent Sessions 5 and 6
Session 5 [Spes Unica Hall, Room 134]
Chair: Molly Gower, Saint Mary’s College
Christopher Fletcher (Newberry Library), "Preparing for Life Outside the Academy: The Future of Medieval Studies at the Center for Renaissance Studies”
David Snyder (University of California, Merced), “Expectations of the Past: Comparative Study of Medieval and Modern Student Expectations and Assessments at the University”
Michael W. Hollis-George (Millikin University), “Can Opposing White Supremacy Save the Humanities (and by Extension Medieval Studies)?”
Session 6 [Spes Unica Hall, Room 145]
Chair: Leonardo Francalanci, University of Notre Dame
Mary Anne Gonzales (University of Guelph), “Planning for the Afterlife: Social Anxieties Concerning Death in Douaisien Wills, 1228-1350"
Jack W. McCart (University of Toronto), “John and Roesia Burford, merchants of London: Family strategies and future planning in the late-medieval city”
Jessalynn Bird (Saint Mary’s College), “Peter the Chanter's Circle and the Apocalypse: Biblical Exegesis, Preaching, and Moralized Bibles”
12:30-1:30pm: Lunch [Student Center, Rice Commons]
12:30-1:30pm: IMA Business Meeting and Lunch [Student Center, Conference Rooms A, B, and C]
1:30-3:00pm: Concurrent Sessions 7 and 8
Session 7 [Spes Unica Hall, Room 134]
Chair: Sarah Noonan, Saint Mary’s College
Ashley R. Ott (DePaul University), “The Future of Chaucer’s Retraction”
Peter Buchanan (University of Oxford), “Making Time for Chaucer: narrative contingency in Troilus and Criseyde”
Timothy S. Miller (Marquette University), “Futures of Days Past: Anarcho-Primitivism and Chaucer's Temporal Imagination”
Session 8 [Spes Unica Hall, Room 145]
Chair: Molly Gower, Saint Mary’s College
Laura Romaine (University of Michigan), “Anglo-Saxon Time as an Enclosure”
Breanna J. Nickel (Augustana College), “The Future of the Female Voice in Medieval Monasticism"
Paula E. Leverage (Purdue University), “Procrastination and Silence: Maladaptive Responses to Fear of the Future in Medieval French Narratives”
3:00-3:30pm: Coffee Break [Spes Unica Hall, 1st Floor Atrium]
3:30-5:00pm: Concurrent Session 9 and 10
Session 9 [Spes Unica Hall, Room 134]
Chair: Molly Gower, Saint Mary’s College
Elizabeth C. Teviotdale (Western Michigan University), "Time in the Stammheim Missal"
Eileen Morgan (University of Notre Dame), “Past Practices as Practical Prophecy: The Labors of the Months in a Fragmented Breton Book of Hours”
Rachel Hanks (University of Notre Dame), “Finding Words in the Future: Glosses to Medieval Grammar Textbooks as Finding Aids for Non-Sequential Teaching”
Session 10 [Spes Unica Hall, Room 145]
Chair: Jessalynn Bird, Saint Mary’s College
Jennifer Easler (University of Minnesota), “The futility of prophecy: Helenus, Calchas, and poetry in Lydgate’s Troy Book”
Katherine A. Brown (University of Notre Dame), "Language as Prophecy: The Trickster and Creating the Future"
Lauren Jean (University of Notre Dame), “‘I See Crimson, I See Red’: The Life of Red Hugh O’Donnell and the Prophecy of Yellow Ford”
5:15-6:15pm: Plenary Lecture [Student Center, Rice Commons]: "Bibliotheca Philadelphiensis: the medieval manuscripts of Philadelphia and what we're doing with them today," Dot Porter, Curator of Digital Research Services, the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, the University of Pennsylvania
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