Vagantes 2013 Program

Thursday, March 21:
Registration Opens 11:00 am
Union South Industry (3rd Floor), 1308 W Dayton St.

Welcome and Introductory Remarks: Mark H. Summers, University of Wisconsin
Union South Industry (3rd Floor), 12:15-12:30 pm

Panel I: Hybrid-Identities: Texts-Politics-Sexes-Saints-Monsters
Union South Industry (3rd Floor), 12:30-1:50 pm
Moderator: Matthew J. Westerby, University of Wisconsin
1. "(Un)holy Unions and Bloody Rebirths: Bodily Entanglement in The Old English Lives of St. Margaret"
- Meg Gregory, Illinois State University
2. "Saintly Sex Change in Tristan de Nanteuil"
- Karen Adams, Pittsburgh
3. "Filling vernacular gaps: a case for the Anglo-Norman Haveloc"
- Raúl Ariza-Barile, University of Texas

Break: 1:50-2:10 pm

Panel II: Voicing Gender: Poetic and Devotional Formations of Femininity
Union South Industry (3rd Floor), 2:10-3:30 pm
Moderator: Diane Fruchtman, Indiana University
1. "Gendered Silence in the Romance Thereof"
- Leah Pope, University of Wisconsin
2. "Departures of the feminine poetic voice within the courtly lyrical space in Bietris de Romans' 'Na Maria pretz e fina valors'"
- Michael Weinberg, UCLA
3. "Characterization of the Virgin Mary as an impossible ideal and a model for other female characters in Gonzalo de Berceo's Milagros de Nuestra Señora"
- Jillian Striker, University of Texas

Break: 3:30-5:00 pm

Tours of the Chazen Museum

Keynote: Romanesque Sculpture, The Senses and Religious Experience
Thomas E.A. Dale, University of Wisconsin
Chazen Museum of Art Auditorium (750 University Ave.), 5:00-6:00 pm

Reception:
Chazen Museum of Art Lobby, 6:00-7:00 pm

Friday, March 22:
Registration Opens (Breakfast), 8:15 am
Union South Industry (3rd Floor)

Panel III: Scholars, Sovereigns, and Patrons: Ideas and Spaces in Cross-Cultural Translation
Union South Industry (3rd Floor), 9:00-10:20 am
Moderator: Lindsey Hansen, Indiana University
1. "Arabic Masters: Exploring the Arabic Education of Latin Scholars in the Twelfth Century"
- Nicholas Jacobson & James Barnes, University of Wisconsin
2. "Alfred's Tools: The Instruments of Kingship in the Consolation of Philosophy"
- Dmitri Sandbeck, University of Wisconsin
3. "A Sepulchre for Byzantium: Hagios Polyeuktos, Anicia Juliana, and Female Patronage in Sixth-Century Constantinople
- Daniel Cochran, University of Wisconsin

Break: 10:20-10:40 am

Panel IV: Sovereignty in Stone: Structuring and Sculpting Political Identities
Union South Industry (3rd Floor), 10:40-12:00 pm
Moderator: Daniel Cochran, University of Wisconsin
1. "Crusading Ethic as a Divine Inheritance: Philip IV and the Sculptural Program of Saint-Louis at Poissy"
- Sarah Celentano, University of Texas
2. "The Angevin Kings of Naples and Mendicant Architecture"
- Alexander Harper, University of Toronto
3. "Between the City and the Cathedral: A New Look at the Bas-Reliefs of Notre-Dame's South Transept"
- Allison Myers, University of Texas

Lunch Break: 12:00-1:30 pm

Panel V: Constructing Kingship: The Good, the Bad, and the Royalty
Union South Industry (3rd Floor), 1:30-2:50 pm
Moderator: Jillian Striker, University of Texas
1. "Alfonso Villainized: The King as Antagonist in the Legend of Bernardo del Carpio"
- Katie Oswald, University of Wisconsin
2. "The Noble Bastard: Enrique II, López de Ayala, and the Ethics of Kingship"
- Bretton Rodriguez, Notre Dame
3. "The Development of Sacral Kingship in Ottonian Ruler Images"
- Laura Wangerin, University of Wisconsin

Break: 2:50-3:10 pm

Panel VI: In-House Affairs: Domestic Spaces and the Politics of Intimacy
Union South Industry (3rd Floor), 3:10-4:30 pm
Moderator: Michael R. Weinberg, UCLA
1. "The Price of a Cup of Mead: An Exploration of the Bad Hostess in Beowulf and The Saga of the Volsungs"
- Rebecca Aylesworth, University of Minnesota
2. "Sexuality in Medieval Valencia: Authority and Intimacy in the Christian Home"
- Johan MacKechnie, Queens University
3. "A Guidebook for Mary de Bohun: Images of Old Testament Women as Agents in the Bohun Psalter-Hours"
- Kendra Grimmett, University of Texas

Saturday, March 23:
Registration Opens (Breakfast), 8:15 am
Union South Industry (3rd Floor)

Panel VII: Hands-On Devotion: Tactility and the Spiritual Encounter
Union South Industry (3rd Floor), 9:00-9:50 am
Moderator: Sarah Celentano, University of Texas
1. "Weaving the Wounds of Christ: Monastic Women's Devotion and Tapestry Production in the Middle Ages"
- Bevin Butler, Arizona State University
2. "Veiled Hands, Veiled Presence: The Donor Portrait of Otto I and Christocentric Touch in the Magdeburg Ivories"
- Nicole Pulichene, Bard Graduate Center

Board Member Voting:
Union South Industry (3rd Floor), 9:50-10:20 am

Panel VIII: Emotive Materials: Sensual Affect and the Embodied Response
Union South Industry (3rd Floor), 10:20-11:40 am
Moderator: Erin Sweany, Indiana University
1. "Monstrous Metalwork and Apotropaic Alloys: Framing the Fuller Brooch and Alfred Jewel"
- Ashley Lonsdale Cook, University of Wisconsin
2. "The Corpse and the Worm: the Prevalence of Decomposing Matter in Late Medieval Imagery"
- Alicia Cannizzo, University of Wisconsin
3. "Dynamic Stillness: Melancholia in Middle English Lyric"
- Sarah Kate Moore, University of Washington

Lunch:
Union South Northwoods (3rd Floor), 11:40-12:45 pm

Board Meeting:
Union South First Nations (3rd Floor), 11:40-12:45 pm

TEAMS Workshop: Pedagogy and the Middle Ages
Union South Industry (3rd Floor), 12:45-1:45 pm
A roundtable discussion with:
Professor Thomas Dale, Art History
Professor Leonora Neville, History
Professor Elizabeth Scala, English
Professor Mike Shank, History of Science
Professor Kirsten Wolf, Scandinavian Studies

Break: 1:45-2:00 pm

Panel IX: Staging the Medieval: Performing Piety and Replaying the Past
Union South Industry (3rd Floor), 2:00-3:20 pm
Moderator: Nicholas Jacobson, University of Wisconsin
1. "Meyer Schapiro and the Imaginative Archive"
- Luke Fidler, Northwestern
2. "A Holy Drama: The Cell in Aelred of Rievaulx's De Institutis Inclusarum"
- Jacob Doss, Boston College
3. "The Truly Divine Comedy: Reconciling Humor and Piety in Medieval Religious Theatre"
- Miriam Poole, Indiana University

Break: 3:20-3:40 pm

Panel X: Past, Present, and Apocalypse: Saints and the Production of Temporal Authority
Union South Industry (3rd Floor), 3:40-5:00 pm
Moderator: Ashley Lonsdale Cook
1. "The Vie de St. Denis Manuscript and Philip IV of France"
- LauraLee Brott, University of North Texas
2. "Apocalypse Nowish: Christian Apocalyptic Thinking and Reassessing "Decline and Fall" in Late Antique Roman Gaul"
- Madeleine St. Marie, Claremont Graduate University
3. "Martyrs 'Carried into Heavenly Honor without Blood': Paulinus of Nola and Fifth-century Martyr-Making"
- Diane Fruchtman, Indiana University

Break: 5:00-5:30 pm

Keynote: The Disfigurements of Desire in Chaucer's Religious Tales
Elizabeth Scala, University of Texas
Union South Landmark (3rd Floor), 5:30-6:30 pm

Final Banquet:
Union South Northwoods (3rd Floor)
6:30-9:00 pm