Thursday 8 January 2009
Session 1: Textual Places and Spaces
- Lisa Weston (Fresno): “Text, Sex, and Place in Aldhelm’s Prosa de Virginitate.”
- Eileen Joy (SIU): “A Strangeness in Me: The Severalities and Conductible Affectivities of Guthlac’s Sex.”
- Luke Sunderland (Cambridge): “Sovereignty and Territory in the Chanson de geste.”
Roundtable discussion: Archaeologies of Medievalism
- John Arnold (Birkbeck)
- Ruth Evans (University of Stirling)
- Rosie Mills (Victoria and Albert Museum)
- Gillian Overing (Wake Forest University)
- Philippa Semper (University of Birmingham)
Friday 9 January 2009
Session 2A: Gendered Voices
- Laura Bailey & Vicki Blud (KCL): “Locating the Voice: Ælfric, Irigaray and the Word of God – Whose Voice is it Anyway?”
- Jennifer Borland (Oklahoma State University): “Negotiating the Boundaries of Space and Experience in Female Saints’ Lives.”
- Jennifer Cavalli (Indiana): “Consoling the Marchessa: Letters to Isabella d’Este from Ferrarese Nuns.”
Session 2B: Memorials
- Isabel Davis (Birkbeck): “Finding Female Agency: Lady Cobham’s Brasses and Families of Faith”
- Jitske Jasperses (Amsterdam): “The tomb of Brunswick. A Demonstration of Female Importance.”
- Sari Katajala-Peltomaa (University of Tampere): “Performative Space?: Gender and Votive Offerings in the Canonisation Process of Nicholas of Tolentino (AD 1325).”
Keynote 1 – James A. Schultz (UCLA), “Perfomance and Performativity in Minnesang”
Session 3: Locating Gender Through Archaeology
- Eleanor Standley: “The role of dress-accessories in later- and post-medieval border regions: attraction and sexuality.”
- Sally Smith: “Gendering power, resistance and identity in the medieval village: material and spatial contributions to the study of peasant women’s experience.”
- Rupert Goulding: “Navigating Masculinity: Henry VIII, growing old and the experience of Whitehall Palace.”
Session 4A: Clerical Identities
- Daisy Black (Manchester): “Secular Scepticism? Comic Performances of Male Chastity in Medieval Representations of the Knight and the Monk.”
- Michelle Armstrong-Partida (UCLA): “Marriage Defines the Parish Priest: The Importance of a ‘Wife’ and Children to the Gender Identity of Secular Clergy.”
- Jennifer Hammerschmidt (Santa Barbara): “Masculinity and Clerical Identity: The Social Function of Priestly Performance.”
Session 4B: Making and Remaking
- Emma Campbell (Warwick): “The Epistemology of the Cloister: Saints’ Lives, Knowledge and Identity.”
- Dominic Janes (Birkbeck): “Peter Brown and the Queer Boundary in Space, Time and Culture between Antiquity and the Middle Ages.”
- Suzanne Fatta (York): “Subversion, Suffering and Gender Fluidity in the Mystical Writings of Francis of Assisi and Angela of Foligno.”
Saturday 10 January 2009
Session 5A: In the Wilderness
- Jennifer N. Brown (Fordham University): “Women and Wilderness: Fleeing Man in the Middle English Lives of Women Saints.”
- Susannah Mary Chewning (Union County College): “Spirituality in the Wasteland: Intersections of Monasticism and the Anchoritic Tradition.”
- Paul Chandler (Institutum Carmelitanum, Roma): “Nature, the City, and the Eremitical Life in Nicholas Gallicus’ Ignea sagitta.”
Session 5B: Marital Space
- Hannah Priest (Manchester): “Is Guinevere a Woman?: Gender and Queenship in Sir Launfal.”
- Elizabeth Kinne (Pennsylvania State University): “Locating Folly: Eustache Deschamp’s Miroir de marriage and the Fate of a Nation.”
Keynote 2 – Diane Watt (Aberystwyth), “Locating Woman and Death in the Middle Ages”
Session 6A: Anchoritic Spaces
- Michelle M. Sauer (University of North Dakota): “(Re)Locating Gender within the Medieval English Anchorhold.”
- Liz Herbert McAvoy (Swansea): “. . . schrapien . . . þe eorðe up of hare put:’ Locating the Female Anchorite in the Welsh Marches.”
- Will Rogers (Cornell University): “Hanging by a Thread: Gender and Space in The Life of Christina of Markyate.”
Session 6B: Arthurian Literature
- Elizabeth Fisher: “Sex, Speech and Spirits: Liminality and the Female Body in The Awntyrs Off Arthure.”
- Arthur Lindley (University of Birmingham): “‘Noon oother incubus but [s]he’:The Wife of Bath’s Androgynous Hag and the Landscape of the Canterbury Tales.”
- Laura Jose (Durham): “Locating Gender in Malory’s Palomides: Madness, Masculinity and Otherness.”
Session 7: Presence and Absence
- Christopher Monk (Manchester): “Locating a ‘queer’ body in an early medieval context: notions of transgender or transsexual?”
- Carl Taylor (University of Leeds): “Locating Gender in Dialectic: Roscelin, Abelard, and the Dialectic of Principal Parts.”
- Susanne Hafner (Fordham University): “Private Puns and their Placement: On the Page, in Print, or Not.”