Program for the Medieval Association of the
Pacific
March 3-4, 2006
Westminster College, Salt Lake City
Notes on Accommodations, Location of Sessions,
and
Transportation
All conference sessions and registration will take place in
the Bill and Vieve Gore School of Business on the Westminster College
campus,
1840 S. 1300 East, Salt Lake City, Utah 84105.
Luncheons, business meeting and farewell reception will be in
the Jewett
Center. (See the enclosed campus map.)
The conference hotel is Little America, 500 S. Main Street, Salt Lake City, Utah, 84101; phone (801) 363-6781; Web site www.littleamerica.com. The hotel offers a courtesy van directly from the Salt Lake International Airport.
Little America is located downtown, near to some of the area’s best restaurants and to stations for the public light rail system, TRAX. The special conference rate is $119 single or double. Be sure to mention MAP and make your reservation by February 2 to ensure the conference discount. The banquet on Friday night will take place at Little America.
Unfortunately, no public transportation line runs directly from downtown to Westminster’s campus over two miles away. Therefore, a shuttle will be available at selected times to transport conference participants from the hotel to the events at the college. The shuttle bus schedule will be posted in the Little America lobby. For hours when the shuttle does not run or transportation to sites other than Westminster or the hotel, several cab companies serve the area. Ute Cab (801-359-7788) and Yellow Cab (801-521-2100) are especially reliable.
For questions about local arrangements email Georgiana Donavin: gdonavin@westminstercollege.edu.
Program for the Medieval Association of the
Pacific
Friday, March 3
Registration on the Westminster College campus,
Gore
Foyer, 9:30AM-4:00 PM
Coffee Hour:
9:30-10:30
Gore Foyer
Concurrent Sessions 10:30-11:30:
Saints and Sermons
Chair: Henry Ansgar Kelly, University of California, Los Angeles
Gore 133
Jenny Rebecca Rytting, Arizona State University: “Saints and Sermons: Julian of Norwich in the Context of Medieval Preaching”
Tim Asay, Independent Scholar: “Articulating the Ineffable”
Materials of Identity
Chair: Victoria Sweet, University of California, San Francisco
Gore 134
Scott Kleinman, California State University, Northridge: “Sanctifying Space: The Location of England’s Heritage in the South English Legendary”
David Tinsley, University of Puget Sound: “ ‘Blood Mysticism’ in Catherine of Siena and Elsbeth von Oye”
Curious and Curiouser
Chair: Bill Bonds, San Francisco State University
Gore 227
Kevin Roddy, University of California, Davis: “Irish Abbots, Irish Hermits: The Curious Leadership Style of Abbots in the First Centuries of Irish Monasticism”
Glenn Olsen, University of Utah: “What Did Hubert do to Theutberga? Sodomy in the Ninth Century”
Looking East
Chair: John Ott,
Portland State University
Gore 228
Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona: “Reading and Deciphering in Apollonius of Tyre and the Historia von den sieben weisen Meistern: Medieval Epistemology within a Literary Context”
Theresa Tinkle, University of Michigan: “The Historical Other: Said’s
Orientalism and Mandeville’s
Travels”
Lunch
Jewett Center, Tanner Atrium: 11:30-12:45
Plenary Speech
Gore Auditorium: 1:00-2:00
Introduction: Georgiana Donavin, Westminster College
Martin Camargo, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
“Medieval Rhetoric Delivers: Pedagogy and Performance in and beyond the Medieval Classroom”
Coffee Service:
2:00-3:00
Gore Foyer
Concurrent Sessions: 2:15-3:45
Chaucer and Recreations of the Past
Chair: Louise Bishop, University of Oregon
Gore 133
Elizabeth Walsh, University of San Diego: “Chaucer’s Pilgrims: A Mexican Analogue”
Laurel Amtower, San Diego State University: “Morpheus and The Book of the Duchess”
Jason Herman, University of Arizona: “The Authors of Chaucer’s Retraction”
Reading Medieval Iberia
Chair: Glenn Olsen, University of Utah
Gore 134
Claudio Da Soller, Western Oregon University: “Cosmetic Ideals in Medieval Iberia”
Michael Hammer, San Francisco State University: “Begin with a Beguine: Reading from the Margins of the Conde Lucanor”
Brenda Deen Schildgen, University of California, Davis: “La Mesquita de Córdoba”
Narrative, Incantation, Law
Chair: George Hardin Brown, Stanford University
Gore 227
Michael P. McGlynn, Wichita State University: “Orality in the Old Icelandic Grágás”
Paul E. Szarmach, Western Michigan University: “Ælfric’s Judith”
Leslie Arnovick, University of British Columbia: “Magic Writing in Anglo-Saxon Charms”
Love and Literature
Chair: Sîan Echard, University of British Columbia
Gore 228
Kanita Lipjankic, University of Utah: “In Pursuit of Genuine Love in Konrad von Würzburg’s Herzmaere”
Disa Gambera, University of Utah: “Love and the Wounded Body: Violent Romance in Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale”
William Gonzalez, University of Utah: “The New Mexican Alabado: A Continuation of Spanish Medieval Poetry in Southern Utah”
Fortieth Anniversary Session:
4:00-5:00
Gore Auditorium
Memories of MAP, Chair: Phyllis Brown, Santa Clara University
In this panel past presidents of MAP will reflect upon the history of the association.
Banquet at Little America
Wine Bar:
6:00-7:00
Dinner: 7:00
Saturday, March 4
Registration on the Westminster College campus,
Gore
Foyer, 8:30-12:00
Coffee Service:
8:30-10:45
Gore Foyer
Concurrent Sessions: 9:00-10:30
Gender and Authority
Chair: Kathleen Maxwell, Santa Clara University
Gore 133
Kriszta Kotsis, University of Puget Sound: “Power Vacuum or Genuine Authority? Empresses on Byzantine Coins (780-1081)”
Arlene Sindelar, University of British Columbia: “Other than Her Rightful Death: Women ‘Uncovered’ at the Coroner’s Inquest”
Brikena Ribaj, University of Utah: “Gendered Desire in Dietrich von der Glezze’s Der Borte”
Modes of Performance
Chair: Nancy van Deusen, Claremont Graduate School
Gore 134
Maria Dobozy, University of Utah: “Singing of Poverty: From the Archpoet to Johann von Nürnberg”
Karen A. Grossweiner, University of Alaska, Fairbanks: The Importance of Genre in Orally Performed Medieval Literature and Modern Film”
Blair Sullivan, University of California, Los Angeles: “Reading Music: Music as text in Carolingian Treatises”
Monuments and Memories
Chair: Elizabeth Peterson, University of Utah
Gore 227
Corliss Slack, Whitworth College: “British Crusade Shrines”
Georgia Wright, Independent Scholar: “Some French Gothic Heads and Nuclear Technology”
Sandy Carpenter, San Diego State University: “Remembering the Middle Ages: Past, Present and Future”
Reading Chaucer Aloud
Gore 228
Introduction: Thomas Stillinger, University of Utah
A workshop by Paul Thomas, Brigham Young University
Concurrent Sessions: 10:45-12:15
Sacred Symbols and Spaces
Chair: Mary-Lyon Dolezal, University of Oregon
Gore 133
William Folkestad, Central Washington University: “Gendering Religious Space: The Example of the Fifteenth-Century Paired Oratory”
Gunar Freiberg, Los Angeles Valley College: “Tai-ji Tu: Exploring the Origins of a Chinese Cosmological Symbol”
Communities in Conflict
Chair: Arlene Sindelar, University of British
Columbia
Gore 134
Andre Schmidt, CSU East Bay: “Sheep Struck by the Shepherd: Secular Clergy on the Battlefield”
Keizo Asaji, Kansai University: “The Community of the Realm and the Baronial Reform Movement, 1258-60”
Peter Diehl, Western Washington University: “The Alleluia of 1233 and the Repression of Heresy in Northern Italy”
Legend and Romance
Chair: Dhira Mahoney, Arizona State University
Gore 227
Anita Obermeier, University of New Mexico: “Fertility and Sterility in Middle English Arthurian Legends”
Ryan Muckerheide, Arizona State University: “Andreas’s Arthur: Arthurian Romance in the De Amore”
John Thompson, California Polytechnic State U: The Creation of the Knight Saint in the First French Prose”
Literature, Purification and Sanctification
Chair: Hester Gelber, Stanford University
Gore 228
Isabel Moreira, University of Utah: “Politics or Theology? Some Uses of Purgatory in the Eighth Century”
Mariesa Whitaker, University of Utah: “The Economy of Purgatory and Parole: Marie de France’s Eliduc and Purgatorial Space”
Karen Gross, Lewis and Clark: “Boccaccio’s Trattatello in laude di Dante and the Scholar-Saint”
Lunch and Business Meeting: 12:30-2:00
Jewett Center, Tanner Atrium
Plenary Speech: 2:15-3:15
Gore Auditiorium
Introduction: Maria Dobozy, University of Utah
Peter von Sivers, University of Utah: “Getting Along: The Afterglow of Convivencia in the Cantigas de Santa Maria”
Concurrent Sessions: 3:30-5:00
Sin and Salvation, Sex and Violence
Chair: Paul Dietrich, University of Montana
Gore 133
Jay L. Rogers, University of Utah: “Origen’s Views on Violence and Warfare in the Contra Celsum”
Christine F. Cooper, Utah State University: “The Hidden Head of Holofernes: Unconfessed and Undisclosed Sin in The Book of Margery Kempe and Medieval Saints’ Lives”
Margaret M. Toscano, University of Utah: “Down and Dirty with God: Margery Kempe’s Bodily Theology of Grace”
Ideas of Britain
Chair: Peter Goldman, Westminster College
Gore 134
Kristen Lee Over, Northeastern Illinois University: “English Heroism: Romancing
the Border in Fouke le Fitz Waryn”
Michael J. Curley, University of Puget Sound: “Politics and the Miracles of St. David”
Siân Echard, University of British Columbia: “The Art of the Artefact”
Chretien, Dante, Langland
Chair: Disa Gambera, University of Utah
Gore 227
Gregory Huber, UCLA: “’The New Pilate’: The Capetian Dynasty in Dante’s Commedia”
Jeanne Provost, UC Santa Barbara: “How the Loathly Lady Reminds Perceval That It Hurts to Be Dead”
Miceál Vaughn, University of Washington: “A Fourth Manuscript with the ‘John But’ Passus at the End of the A Version of Piers Plowman?”
Farewell Reception:
5:00-6:00
Jewett Center, Tanner Atrium