Exploring Space in the Middle Ages 2018 Medieval Association of the Midwest Conference, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN October 4 to 6, 2018
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Exploring Space in the Middle Ages
2018 Medieval Association of the Midwest Conference,
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
October 4 to 6, 2018
Sponsored by Sorin Adam Matei, Associate Dean for Research – Liberal Arts Jennifer William, School of Languages and Cultures Frederick R. Davis, Department of History Beate Allert, Comparative Literature Ashley Purpura, Religious Studies Shaun Hughes, Medieval and Renaissance Studies Marcia Stephenson, Spanish and Portuguese Department Conference Hosted by: Paula Laverage and Yonsoo Kim, School of Languages and Cultures, Purdue University Announcement: All presenters and participants must register by conference time and carry badges at all time. Participants, please be aware of the following norms: a) Normally each panel consists of 3 presentations and 1 moderator. b) Each participant will have 15 to 20 minutes maximum for the presentation of his/her work. Even if a presentation paper is co-authored, still it must be presented within 20 minutes. c) 15-minute discussion after all three or four presentations of each panel. d) Each session will be strictly 1 hour and 15 minutes.
Thursday October 4
4 pm - 5:30 pm
Location Purdue Memorial Union Anniversary Drawing Room
On-site Registration Starts
4 pm - 5 pm
Pick Up Location Purdue Memorial Union, Grant Street entrance
Boilermaker Special Purdue Campus Tour (Every 15 minutes)
5:30 pm - 9 pm
Purdue Memorial Union Anniversary Drawing Room
Reception with Welcome Remarks from
Sorin Adam Matei, Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Education
College of Liberal Arts
Followed by Film and Discussion
The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey (Dir. Vincent Ward, 1988)
(Introduced by Paula Leverage, Purdue University)Friday October 5
8:30 am – 11 am
Stewart Center Room 202
Breakfast Service
Facsimile Display
9 am to 10:15 am
Opening Ceremony
Stewart Center Room 279
Welcome from Purdue University Administration
and
MAM President, Abraham Quintanar, Dickinson College
Keynote Speaker
“Wandering Women: Gender, Antisemitism, and the English City”
Professor Kathy Lavezzo
University of Iowa
Introduced by Paula Leverage, Purdue University
Kathy Lavezzo is Professor of English at the University of Iowa. She is the editor of Imagining
a Medieval English Nation and the author of both Angels on the Edge of the World:
Geography, Literature and English Community, 1000-1534 and The Accommodated Jew:
English Antisemitism from Bede to Milton. Her current book project examines racial thinking
in medieval Europe.10:30 am to 11:45 am
Session I
Place: Stewart Center Room 279
Topic: Violence, Identities and Love
Presider: Carlos Hawley, North Dakota State University
● Min Ji Kang. Intoxicated Bodies and Violence in the Libro de buen amor
● Mickey Sweeney. Solace, Space, & identity
● Elizabeth Maffetone. The Death of the Silent Wife: Violence, Masculine Identity, and
Narrative Space in Chaucer's the Manciple's Tale
Session II
Place: Stewart Center Room 206
Topic: Body Space
Presider: Riham Ismail, Purdue University
● Vajra Regan. Medicine and the Occult Sciences in the Late Middle Ages
● Aidan M. Holtan. Þæt was tacen sweotol: Displaying Dismemberment in Beowulf
● Jess McCullough. Bodies in Space, Bodies in Time: Intersections of Place and Time in
Swordle Bay, Ardnamurchan
12 pm to 1 pm: LUNCH
Location Stewart Center 202
1:30 pm to 2:45 pm
Session III
Place: Stewart Center Room 279
Topic: Arthurian Space I
Presider: Alexander L. Kaufman, Ball State University
● David King. The Hero and Severed Heads: Moral Display in the Prose Lancelot
● Arielle McKee. Immanence Front: Cosmic Structure, Fairy Movers, and Divine Grace in Sir
Gawain and the Green KnightSession IV
Place: Stewart Center Room 206
Topic: Time and Space
Presider: Thomas F. Broden, Purdue University
● Bill Hodapp. “Imprisonment and Freedom, Time and Space in James I of Scotland’s The
Kingis Quair”
● Edward Risden. Expandable, Contractible Space in the Canterbury Tales: Some
Theoretical Measures from the French Fringe"
● Nickolas Haydock. The Metamorphosis of Time and Space: Digital Worlds in The Vikings
TV Series
3 pm to 4:15 pm
Session V
Place: Stewart Center Room 204
Topic: The Politics and Power of Place and Space
Presider: Charlie Ross, Purdue University
● Carlos Hawley. Pregoneros and Power: From King to Crier to Community
● Vanessa Iacocca. Legendary Landscapes and National Consciousness: Fostering
Nationalism Through Saga-Sites in Icelandic Revivalist Poetry
● Nahir I. Otano Gracia. "Making Space for Catalonia: Language politics in Guillem de
Torroella’s La Faula.
Session VI
Place: Stewart Center Room 279
Topic: Nature and the Animal Kingdom
Presider: Catharine Scott-Moncrieff, Purdue University
● Alison Langdon. Fit for a Dog? Food Sharing and the Medieval / Human Animal Divide
● Shaun Hughes. Seeing through Animal Eyes: Imagining Non-Human Alterity in Old Norse
● Catherine Brassell. Forest, Cliffs, and Caves: Ecotonal Landscape in Sir Gawain and the
Green Knight
Session VII
Place: Stewart Center Room 206
Topic: The Spaces of Writing Conventions in Narrative and Prosody
Presider: Minji Kang, Purdue University● David O'Neill. The Space in the Middle: An Argument for Continuity in the English
Alliterative Tradition
● Harriet Hudson. Narrative Space in Blanchardyn and Eglantine
● Ryan Dennis Giles. Space and Place in the Libro de buen amor
4:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Place: Stewart Center Room 202
Facsimile Workshop: Reading the Spaces of the Manuscript
By Matthew Heintzelman, College of Saint Benedict/St. John's University
*Envision Center Visit: By George Takahashi [TBD]
6:30 pm to 8:30 pm
PMU Anniversary Drawing Room
Welcome Banquet
Saturday October 6
8:30 am – 11 am
Place: Stewart Center Room 202
Breakfast Service
9 am to 10:15 am
Session VIII
Place: Stewart Center Room 279
Topic: Spaces in Medieval Manuscripts
Presider: Ana Valero-Pena, Purdue University
● John Sundquist. Filling the Empty Spaces: The Use of the Punctus in the Hêliand C and M
Manuscripts
● Sara Petrosillo. Manuscript Space: Narrative Diminishment in Yonec and the Harley 978
Hawking Treatise
● Steven Stofferahn. Books, Bookends, and Bookworms: Exploring Medieval Manuscripts
with Students in and out of the Classroom
Session IX
Place: Stewart Center Room 204
Topic: Recovering the Past: Writing, Memory and Dreams in Chaucer
Presider: Mary Maxine Browne, Purdue University● Suzanne Valentine. On the Oneiric Plane: Spatiality in the dream visions of 'The Nun's
Priest's Tale
● Jonathan Correa. “Navigating the Memory Palace in Chaucer’s House of Fame”
● Joshua Daniel. Golden Days of Old: The Use of Nostalgia in Medieval and Medievalist
Texts
Session XIII
Place: Stewart Center Room 206
Topic: Designing Space
Presider: Megi Papiashvili, Purdue University
● Ivana Lemcool. Designating Superlunary Regions: The Zodiac in the Visual Culture of the
Middle Ages
● Chung Ha Kim. Relation Balance Theory’ for the interpretation of Mediterranean Medieval
History
10:30 am to 11:45 am
Session X
Place: Stewart Center Room 206
Topic: Travel in Real and Imagined Space
Presider: John Sundquist, Purdue University
● Logan Quigley. Considering Pilgrimage: Spatial Orientation in Imaginative Travel
● Matthew Heintzelman. Maps as History: Medieval and Early Modern Maps at the Hill
Museum and Manuscript Library
● Amanda Leary. Imaginative Geography and Narratives of the Past in Chaucer's House of
Fame
Session XI
Place: Stewart Center Room 279
Topic: Arthurian Space II
Presider: Dorsey Armstrong, Purdue University
● Molly Martin. Centering the Margins: Trystram and the Spaces of the Round Table in
Malory’s Morte Darthur
● Olivia Nammack. “The Stone that Had Split at the Foot of the Cross”: Investigating Stone
and Enclosure in Robert de Boron’s Merlin and the Grail
● Matthew O'Donnell. A Morte Within a Morte: Parodic Space as Patriarchal Melodrama
in the Books of Sir Tristram de LyonesSession XII
Place: Stewart Center Room 204
Topic: Space in Non-narrative Texts: Dictionaries, Manuals and Bibliographies
Presider: Hernan Matzkevich Rodrigues, Purdue University
● Abraham Quintanar. When the Research is in the Data: Encoding Lexicographical
Intellectual Content in the Dictionary of Old Aragonese Language (DOAL)
● Eve Wolynes. S pace and Outerspace in Merchant Manuals: The Study of Astrology by
Fourteenth-Century Merchant Diasporas
● Timothy Jordan. J ohn Lydgate, the Bibliographia Poetica, and Joseph Ritson’s Psyche
12:30 pm to 2 pm: LUNCH
MAM Council Meeting
Town and Gown Bistro
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