MAA 2021 Program

Program Overview

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Thursday

15 April 2021

1: Opening Address and Plenary

Thursday, 15 April 2021, 17:00 UTC / 13:00 EDT / 10:00 PDT

Chair
Diane Reilly, Co-Chair of the Medieval Academy of America 2021 Annual Meeting Program Committee and Professor and Chair of Art History, Indiana University--Bloomington
MAA Welcome
Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, President of the Medieval Academy of America and Distinguished Professor Emerita of French & Italian, University of Pittsburgh
University Welcome
Michael McRobbie, 18th president of Indiana University
Plenary: The Landscape of al-Andalus: Trees, Metaphors, and Materiality
D. Fairchild Ruggles, Professor of Landscape Architecture, The Illinois School of Architecture, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Concurrent Sessions 2

Thursday, 15 April 2021, 18:45 UTC / 14:45 EDT / 11:45 PDT

2A: Race and Translation

We regret to inform MAA attendees that this session has been cancelled

Session Track: Identity, Race, and Ethnicity

Chair
Afrodesia McCannon, New York University and Chair of the MAA Inclusivity and Diversity Committee
Race, Cosmopolitan, Vernacular, and Translation
Dorothy Kim, Brandeis University
Translating the “Ethiopian” in Medieval European Art
Pamela Patton, Princeton University
“Païen unt tort, e chrestien unt dreit”: Translating Difference in the Chanson de Roland, Fierabras, and El Cantar de mio Cid
Alani Hicks-Bartlett, Brown University
Translation, Language Politics, and Imperial Ambitions in Medieval Arthuriana
Nahir I. Otaño Gracia, University of New Mexico

2B: The Manuscripts of Jean Gerson: A Collaboration between French and American Researchers

Session Track: Manuscripts and Book History

Chair
Daniel Hobbins, University of Notre Dame
Jean the Celestine and the Contemporary Lists of Gerson's Works
Daniel Hobbins, University of Notre Dame
Towards a new edition of Jean Gerson's French works: a preliminary assessment
Isabelle Fabre, University of Paris-Nanterre
Gerson's Ecclesiological Works: Reception and Audience
Bénédicte Sère, University of Paris-Nanterre

2C: Bishops, Bodies and Inscriptions in Early Byzantium

Session Track: General Session

Chair
Daniel Caner, Indiana University Bloomington
Integral Imaginaries: Spirituality, Liminality, and the Abject Body in Byzantium
Leyla Pavao Chisamore, Queen's University
Selective Erasure: Reconciling Inscriptions and Imagery at mid-sixth century S. Apollinare Nuovo in Ravenna
Hallie Meredith, Washington State University
Justin II and the African Bishops Exiled by Justinian
Benjamin Wheaton, Independent Scholar

2D: Biography: The Challenges and Possibilities of Writing Medieval Lives

Session Track: General Session

Chair
Miri Rubin, Queen Mary University of London
Searching for Ermengarde: Writing a “Biography” of a Medieval Countess
Amy Livingstone, Ball State University
The Quest for El Cid: Biography between History and Fiction
Lucy Pick, Independent Scholar
Spiritual Biography’s Quarrel with Time
Paul Strohm, Columbia University
The Life and the Poet: Writing a Biography of Chaucer
Marion Turner, University of Oxford

2E: Lyric Translations: Proverb, Pastoral, and Psalm

Session Track: Form and Genre

Chair
Shannon Gayk, Indiana University Bloomington
Reviving the Eclogue in 14th century France: Jean Gerson’s Pastorium Carmen
Daisy Delogu, University of Chicago
“When men tell me things, I listen”: Citing Proverbs in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Melibee (1386-90) and Leila Chatti’s “Awrah” (2020)
Wendy Matlock, Kansas State University
The Uses of Poetry: Penitential Psalms in Late Medieval Translation
Joanna Murdoch, Duke University

2F: The Materialities and Corporealities of French and Occitan Lyric

Session Track: Objects and Material Culture

Chair
Jennifer Saltzstein, University of Oklahoma
Sound(ing) Bodies: The Material and the Artificial in Troubadour Song
Anne Levitsky, Dixie State University
A great tumult in my heart: Music and the Body in Old French Song
Joseph Mason, University College Dublin
The Wounds, the Spitting, the Thorns: Materialities of the Female Body & Mary's Lament in Planctus ante nescia
Rachel Golden, University of Tennessee

2G: Underneath: Investigating the Unseen in Medieval Texts, Maps, and Objects

Session Track: General Session

Chair
Sarah Luginbill, University of Colorado Boulder
The Tournai Maps and their Maker
Lauralee Brott, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Flipping the Font: Turning Early Medieval Baptismal Sculpture Upside Down
Carolyn Twomey, St. Lawrence University
Less Precious, Less Important? The Ornament on the Underside of Early Medieval Objects
Kristin Böse, Kunstgeschichtliches Institut

Concurrent Sessions 3

Thursday, 15 April 2021, 20:30 UTC / 16:30 EDT / 13:30 PDT

3A: Crossing Religious Boundaries in the Medieval World: Categorization, Translation, Figuration, Mysticism

Session Track: Identity, Race, and Ethnicity

Chair
Mairaj Syed, University of California, Davis
Uncovering the Palace of Shaddad ibn ‘Ad: Historical Contexts on an Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Tale about Solomon
David Calabro, Hill Museum and Manuscript Library
Peter the Venerable on Islam as “Mixed Heresy”
Breanna Nickel, University of Notre Dame
The Sensorial Experience in the Mystic Poetry of Saint John of the Cross and Ibn al-'Arabí of Murcia: Semitic Poetry and European Neoplatonic Philosophy
Roxanna Colon-Cosme, UCLA
Troping Texts and Changing Sex: Figuring of Desire in Hadīth Bayāḍ wa Riyāḍ and Le Roman de Silence
Denise O'Malley, Fine Arts Library, Harvard University

3B: The Late Medieval Codex: Margins, Contents, and Contexts

Session Track: Manuscripts and Book History

Chair
Maureen C Miller, University of California, Berkeley
“In these pages you should examine well and diligently the points which you will see I made throughout”: Spiritual Direction in the Margins of Fifteenth-Century Italian Manuscripts
Austin Powell, University of California, Davis
“A Gift that Conquers”: The Fourteenth-Century Greek Manuscript Moscow State Historical Museum Synodal Gr 429
Olga Yunak, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley
An Investigation of a Printer's Block (Manchester, John Rylands Library, 17252): The Earliest Extant Woodblock Printing Apparatus or an Eighteenth-Century Creation
Emerson Storm Fillman Richards, John Rylands Library, Manchester

3C: Entombing the Precious: Value and the Invaluable in Medieval Burials

Session Track: Objects and Material Culture

Chair
Nick Vogt, Indiana University Bloomington
Laywomen and the Burial of Infants in the Italian Middle Ages
Nancy Wicker, University of Mississippi
Glittering Garnets from the East: 21st Century Science Sheds New Light on the First Merovingian Age
Bailey K Young, Eastern Illinois University

3D: Literary Relationships: Devotion, Anachronism, and Objectification in Old English and Middle English Texts

Session Track: Form and Genre

Chair
Emily Thornbury, Yale University
Blended Voices: The Ambiguous Lament of Advent Lyric VII
Jennifer Lorden, College of William and Mary
Exchangeable Women: Trojan Ekphrasis in Floris and Blancheflour
Lydia Kertz, SUNY Geneseo
Marriage and Institutional Time in Chaucer’s Merchant’s and Manciple’s Tales
Lynn Shutters, Colorado State University

3E: Royalty and Sanctity in the High Middle Ages: Interactions of the Political and Sacred

Session Track: General Session

Chair
Miri Rubin, Queen Mary University of London
Edward and the Eleanors – Royal Piety and the Expulsion of the Jews from England (1290)
E.M. Rose, Harvard University
The Cross, The Capetians, and Paris
Cecilia Gaposchkin, Dartmouth College
Sacrum imperium: The Sanctity of the State and the Emperor in the Twelfth-Century Holy Roman Empire
Vedran Sulovsky, University Cambridge

3F: Charles d'Orléans, Plural

Session Track: Form and Genre

Chair
Marisa Galvez, Stanford University
Erotic Self-Replication and Mise-en-abyme on Charles d’Orléans’s Pages
Holly Barbaccia, Georgetown College (paper withdrawn)
Charles d’Orléans’s Auto-Allegoresis
R. D. Perry, University of Denver
Old Eyes and Senescent Verse: Charles d’Orléans Goes Grey
Lucas Wood, Texas Tech University
Refashioning Charles d’Orléans’s “I”: The Case of Antonio d’Astesano’s Grenoble Manuscript
Elizaveta Strakhov, Marquette University
Plural Languages: The Use of Proverbs in Charles d'Orléans and François Villon—A New Hypothesis
Mathias Sieffert, Université Paul Valéry Montpellier III

3G: Representing Nature in the North Atlantic

Session Track: Humans and the Natural Environment

Chair
Joey McMullen, Indiana University Bloomington
Orchards of Abundance: Representing Paradise in Henry VI's Triumphal Entry into London
Danielle Allor, Rutgers University
Land, Animals, and the Persistence of the Other's Discourse in Gerald of Wales's The History and Topography of Ireland
Joshua Foley, University of Iowa PhD student
The Mountain and the Fiery Bower: Nature in the Shield-maiden Sagas
Maj-Britt Frenze, Independent Scholar
Borderland Environments and Lancastrian Sympathies in the Popular Romances of Northeastern England
Andrew Richmond, Southern Connecticut State University

Transcribathon + Transcription Workshop

Workshop: Thursday, 15 April 2021, 22:00 UTC / 18:00 EDT / 15:00 PDT

Transcribathon: Ongoing

Sponsored by the IUB Medieval Studies Institute, the IUB Medieval Studies Graduate Student Advisory Committee, and Stanford Libraries

Chair
Liz Hebbard, Indiana University Bloomington
The Transcription Workshop and 3-day Transcribathon are a paired set of events that address transcription tips and resources, as well as common questions and concerns for transcribers.
Get information on the workshop and Transcribathon

Graduate Student Social Hour

Friday, 16 April 2021 0:00 UTC / Thursday, 15 April 20:00 EDT / 17:00 PDT

Sponsored by the MAA Graduate Student Committee and IU's Medieval Studies Institute Graduate Student Advisory Committee

2A

Friday

16 April 2021

Graduate Student Mentoring and Morning coffee

Friday, 16 April 2021, 14:00 UTC / 10:00 EDT / 07:00 PDT

Sponsored by the MAA Inclusivity & Diversity and Graduate Student Committees

Concurrent Sessions 4

Friday, 16 April 2021, 15:00 UTC / 11:00 EDT / 08:00 PDT

4A: Who Were the Tatars? Constructing an Identity in the Global Middle Ages

Session Track: Identity, Race, and Ethnicity

Chair
Sierra Lomuto, Macalester College
Dressing the Part: Constructing Tatar/Mongol Identity at the Yuan Court
Eiren Shea, Grinnell College
Mongol Mamluks – Friend or Foe
Josephine van den Bent, University of Amsterdam
Recognizing Tatars, Recognizing Chebechzi: Tatar Identity in the Memoirs of Giosafat Barbaro
Hannah Barker, Arizona State University
Comments
Sharon Kinoshita, University of California, Santa Cruz

4B: The Arts in/of Manuscripts

Session Track: Manuscripts and Book History

Chair
Nahyan Fancy, DePauw University
Music in Motion: John of Affligem’s Treatise De musica
Barbara Haggh-huglo, University of Maryland, College Park (paper withdrawn)
The Worcester Compilations: The Origins and Purpose of Wulfstan’s “Commonplace Book”
Tristan Major, Qatar University
“The Art of Anatomy in Medical Manuscript Illumination, c.1250-1350”
Taylor McCall, Medieval Academy of America
A Fourteenth-Century Food Network: Social Reinforcement in the Recipes of Le Ménagier de Paris
Katie L Peebles, Marymount University

4C: Creation and Procreation: Early Medieval Kinship and the Meanings of Family

Session Track: General Session

Chair
Sara McDougall, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the CUNY Graduate Center
From Constantine to the Quinotaur: The Rise of Blood Kinship
Conrad Leyser, Oxford University
The Generation and Regeneration of Medieval Kinship
Hans Hummer, Wayne State University
The Puzzle of Paternal Authority over Kin, Household, and Community, ca. 800-1000
Abigail Firey, University of Kentucky

4D: Women and Networks in Medieval Social Life

Session Track: Connections and Networks in Medieval Social Life

Chair
Morten Oxenboell, Indiana University Bloomington
Wives at Men’s Parties: Female Bodies and Expressions of Closeness
Debby Chih-Yen Huang, University of Pennsylvania
Countess and Queen: Teresa Fernández de Traba and the Sinews of Power in the 12th century Iberia
Miriam Shadis, Ohio University
The Footprints of Female Friendship in Early Medieval English Wills
Nicole Songstad, University of Missouri

4E: ROUNDTABLE: Medieval Collections and Their Display in the 21st Century: Toward an Inclusive Approach

Session Track: Objects and Material Culture

Roundtable Participants
Marietta Cambareri, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Meredith Fluke, College of the Holy Cross
Shirin Fozi, University of Pittsburgh
Risham Majeed, Ithaca College
Griffith Mann, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Christine Sciacca, The Walters Art Museum

4F: Mathematics and Species in Roger Bacon's Natural Philosophy

Session sponsored by the Roger Bacon Research Society
Session Track: Natural Philosophy and its Applications

Chair
Meagan Allen, Indiana University Bloomington/Science History Institute
Where will the drop make the vase overflow? Roger Bacon vs. John Peckham on the liquid capacity.
Francesca Galli, Università della Svizzera Italiana
Speculum rubiginosum: the soul as geometrical and material mirror
José Higuera Rubio, Instituto de Filosofia, Faculdade de Letras-Universidade do Porto
Is vision the paradigmatic sense? Roger Bacon's doubts on the analogy between sight and hearing
Yael Kedar, Tel-Hai College

4G: ROUNDTABLE: Graduate Medievalists and the Institutions We Work In: Community and Activism

Session sponsored by the MAA Graduate Student Committee

Chair
Lauren Van Nest, University of Virginia
Roundtable Participants
Abby Ang, Indiana University Bloomington
Christine Bachman, University of Delaware
Henry Gruber, Harvard University
Marian Homans-Turnbull, UC Berkeley
Nahir I. Otaño Gracia, University of New Mexico
Alexa Sand, Utah State University
Lauren Van Nest, University of Virginia

5: MAA Business Meeting and Awards Ceremony

Friday, 16 April 2021, 16:45 UTC / 12:45 EDT / 09:45 PDT

Welcome
Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, President of the Medieval Academy of America
Executive Director's Report
Lisa Fagin Davis
Speculum Editor's Report
Katherine L. Jansen
Treasurer's Report
Aden Kumler
CARA Chair's report
Anne Lester
CARA Prize Ceremony
CARA Teaching Awards: Christina Carlson (Iona College) & Geraldine Heng (Univ. of Texas at Austin)
Kindrick-CARA Award for Service to Medieval Studies: Axel Muller (International Medieval Congress, Univ. of Leeds)
Graduate Student Committee report
Christine Bachman
ASLC Delegate's report
Patrick Geary

Concurrent Sessions 6

Friday, 16 April 2021, 18:30 UTC / 14:30 EDT / 11:30 PDT

6A: Discerning identities in women's religious narratives

Session Track: Identity, Race, and Ethnicity

Chair
Jennifer Lee, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)
Repairing Temptation in the Book of Margery Kempe
Anna Kelner, Harvard University
Gender, Class, and Confessional Identity at Commemorative Sites in Medieval Egypt
Tara Stephan, Hampden-Sydney College
Reading Christian Identity in the Prophecies of Christina the Astonishing
Briana Wipf, University of Pittsburgh

6B: Textual Criticism and Book History, East and West

Session Track: Manuscripts and Book History

Chair
Elizabeth Hebbard, Indiana University Bloomington
Connections, Commentary, and Creativity in the Decorative Frontispiece of Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS Lat. 12190
Christine Bachman, University of Delaware
Ambrose Autpert and the Neglected Bologna Witness of the Pseudo-Isidorian Liber de numeris
Darcy Ireland, Independent Scholar
Ghost Hunting on the Silk Roads: Finding Bindings via MicroCT
J. D. Sargan, University of Toronto
The Secret Life of Eastern Christian Manuscripts. The Case of the Syriac Book of Secrets
Nicolò Sassi, Indiana University Bloomington

6C: Lay Piety and the Late Carolingians

Session Track: General Session

Chair
Lynda Coon, University of Arkansas
Lay Piety and Noble Counsel in Dhuoda’s Liber Manualis (841–43 CE)
Dana M. Polanichka, Wheaton College, MA
Children as Means of Encouraging Adult Lay Piety in the Late Carolingian World
Valerie Garver, Northern Illinois University
Franks, Northmen, and Noble Identity in late Carolingian Francia
Eric Goldberg, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

6D: Women and Truth-Telling

Session Track: General Session

Chair
Fiona Griffiths, Stanford University
Telling the Truth About Illicit Pregnancy in Medieval France
Sara McDougall, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the CUNY Graduate Center
Problems of 'True' Autobiography in The Book of Margery Kempe
Anthony Bale, Birkbeck College, University of London
Silent and Speaking Bodies: The Challenge of Sex Difference in the Middle Ages
Leah DeVun, Rutgers University

6E: The Poetics of Medieval Anachronism

Session Track: Appropriation of the Middle Ages

Chair
Bissera Pentcheva, Stanford University
Literary History and Anachronism: Poetic Engagements and the Production of Creative Life Forms
Marisa Galvez, Stanford University
Anachronism and Exemplarity
Rachel Smith, Villanova University
Anachronism and the Poetics of Monastic Experience
Kris Trujillo, University of Chicago
Comments
Niklaus Largier, University of California, Berkeley

6F: Communities of Cult: Saints, Monasteries, and Crusades

Session Track: Connections and Networks in Medieval Social Life

Chair
Leah Shopkow, Indiana University Bloomington
Saint George as Devotional Network
Heather Badamo, University of California, Santa Barbara
Studenica Monastery and St. Demetrios Church in Vladimir – Distant Twins?
Ozlem Eren, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Monastic Technologies of Authority: Cistercian Diplomatic Praxis, Crusade, and the Colonization of the Midi
Leland Grigoli, Brown University

6G: Franciscan Alchemy in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries

Session sponsored by the Roger Bacon Research Society
Session Track: Natural Philosophy and its Applications

Chair
Jennifer Rampling, Princeton University
Paul of Taranto, Experiment, and Scholastic Natural Philosophy
William Newman, Indiana University Bloomington
John of Rupescissa's Liber lucis: Alchemical Practices in Both Laboratory and Text
Lawrence Principe, Johns Hopkins University
Roger Bacon as author of the Epistola de secretis operibus artis et naturae
Meagan Allen, Indiana University Bloomington/Science History Institute

6H: The Spread of Jewish and Muslim Literatures: The Mediterranean and Beyond

Session Track: Moments of Intercultural Interaction

Chair
Ryan Giles, Indiana University Bloomington
The Heresiarch
Casey K Brown, University of New Mexico
Appropriating the medieval Iberian romancero in postcolonial and diasporic contexts
Rebecca De Souza, University of Oxford
Alexander the Great: A Medieval Hebrew Hero of Ashkenaz
Caroline Gruenbaum, Yale University

7: Presidential Address and Publication Prizes

Friday, 16 April 2021, 20:30 UTC / 16:30 EDT / 13:30 PDT

Chair
Thomas Dale, First Vice President of the Medieval Academy of America and Professor of Medieval Art and Architecture, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Presentation of Publication Prizes
Haskins Medal: Robert G. Ousterhout, Eastern Medieval Architecture: The Building Traditions of Byzantium and Neighboring Lands (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2019). Presented by Ruth Evans.
Karen Gould Prize in Art History: Margaret Graves, Arts of Allusion: Object, Ornament, and Architecture in Medieval Islam (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2018). Presented by Lezlie Knox.
Digital Humanities and Multimedia Studies Prize: Virtual Angkor (https://www.virtualangkor.com) (Principal Investigators: Adam Clulow and Tom Chandler). Presented by Thomas Dale.
John Nicholas Brown Prize: David Shyovitz, A Remembrance of His Wonders: Nature and the Supernatural in Medieval Ashkenaz (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017). Presented by Gail Gibson.
INAUGURAL Article Prize in Critical Race Studies: Shokoofeh Rajabzadeh, “The Depoliticized Saracen and Muslim Erasure” in Literature Compass, Special Issue: Critical Race and the Middle Ages, September-October 2019 (https://doi.org/10.1111/lic3.12548). Presented by Nahir Otaño-Gracia.
Van Courtlandt Elliott Prize: Esther Liberman Cuenca, “Town clerks and the authorship of custumals in medieval England,” Urban History 46:2 (2019): 180-201; and Noah Blan, “Charlemagne’s peaches: a case of early medieval European ecological adaptation,” Early Medieval Europe 27:4 (2019): 521-545. Presented by Thomas Dale.
Plenary: Medieval Holy Women and Politics: Wars, Schisms, and Crusades
Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, President of the Medieval Academy of America and Distinguished Professor Emerita of French & Italian, University of Pittsburgh

Saturday

17 April 2021

Concurrent Sessions 8

Saturday, 17 April 2021, 15:00 UTC / 11:00 EDT / 08:00 PDT

8A: Monstrous Forms and Porous Bodies in Language and Legend

Session Track: Identity, Race, and Ethnicity

Chair
Patty Ingham, Indiana University Bloomington
Contesting the Human in the Middle English Melusine Romances
Bonnie Erwin, Wilmington College
Balancing Beauty, Blackness, and Monstrosity: The Phenomenon of the Queen of Sheba in Twelfth-Century Europe
Jacqueline Lombard, University of Pittsburgh
The Monstrous Script: Instances of Pseudo-Hebrew in Fifteenth-Century German Prints
Reed O'Mara, Case Western Reserve University

8B: ROUNDTABLE: What was medieval monarchy?

Session Track: Connections and Networks in Medieval Social Life

Chair
Simon Doubleday, Hofstra University
Material Culture and the Families of Frankish Monarchs
Valerie Garver, Northern Illinois University
The Salian Dynasty and Corporate Monarchy in the Late Eleventh Century
Alexandra Locking, University of Chicago
Rulership or Monarchy? Conceptions of Rule in the Arc of Medieval Europe
Christian Raffensperger, Wittenberg University
Theory in Practice: Gender, State Formation, and the role of the “monarch” in Medieval Portugal
Miriam Shadis, Ohio University
Comments
Lucy Pick, Independent Scholar

8C: Prosecution, Justice, and Peace: Law in Medieval Society

Session Track: Connections and Networks in Medieval Social Life

Chair
Amy Livingstone, Ball State University
Royal Law as an Element in Building a Network of Peace
Dillon Knackstedt, Nolan Catholic High School
The Nuclear Family, Urban Life, and Changing Patterns of Prosecution in Late Medieval Flanders
Mireille Pardon, Berea College
Gender, Justice, and Community in the Early Middle Ages: Women's Legal Networks in Pre-Norman England
Andrew Rabin, University of Louisville

8D: Migrants and Migration in the Middle Ages

Session Track: Migration, Immigration, and Exile

Chair
Andrea Achi, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Migration and Conversion in Medieval England’s Literary Imaginary
Sierra Lomuto, Macalester College
Andrea of Perugia: A Franciscan In Zayton
Nancy Wu, The Metropolitan Museum of Art/The Cloisters
Exile, Hospitality, and Redemption in 16th-Century Iran and India
Ali Anooshahr, University of California, Davis

8E: Form and Genre as Lenses on Artistic Discourse in Medieval Asia and Europe

Session Track: Form and Genre

Chair
Rosemarie McGerr, Indiana University Bloomington
Líf, Láf, Lof: Destabilizing the Heroic Memory in Beowulf
Sara Burdorff, UCLA
The Troubadours as Author-Composers
Elizabeth Hebbard, Indiana University Bloomington
Scholastic Influence upon European Art Music during the Late Medieval Era
Kevin N. Moll, East Carolina University
Dismantling Lǔ Xùn's Zhìguài--Chuánqí Binary
Josiah Stork, University of Wisconsin-Madison

8F: Finite and Infinite Games in Medieval Texts

Session Track: Playfulness

Chair
Arwen Taylor, Arkansas Tech University
Playful Polarities of Perfected Community in Dante’s Paradiso
Curtis Gruenler, Hope College
Mystical Play: The Cloud of Unknowing and Its Affiliated Texts
Kerilyn Harkaway-Krieger, Gordon College
Alchemy as Infinite Game in BL Harley MS 2407
Corey Sparks, CSU, Chico

8G: Culture and Power in Late Medieval Italy

Session Track: General Session

Chair
Akash Kumar, Indiana University Bloomington
50 shades of ‘color’: The ‘musica colorata’ of Giovanni da Firenze’s dream songs
Mikhail Lopatin, Villa I Tatti - The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies
Communal sergeants and social networks in late medieval Italy
Eric Nemarich, Harvard University
Cautions and Complaints: Medicine and Power in Late Medieval Bologna
Kira Robison, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga

8H: ROUNDTABLE: Bridging the Gap - Lesson Plans and OERs for K-12 Teachers

Session sponsored by the MAA K-12 Committee

Chair
Melissa Ridley Elmes, Lindenwood University
Roundtable Participants
Elizabeth Burbridge, Woodward Academy
Jessalynn Bird, Saint Mary's College
Christine Hitchcock, Indiana University High School
Thomas Lecaque, Grand View University

Concurrent Sessions 9

Saturday, 17 April 2021, 17:00 UTC / 13:00 EDT / 10:00 PDT

9A: Figuring Race

Session Track: Identity, Race, and Ethnicity

Chair
Karma Lochrie, Indiana University Bloomington
Towards a Reoriented Global North Atlantic: Race and Captivity in the Stories of Geirmundr Heljarskinn.
Jacob Bell, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Circulating Race in Medieval Europe: Global Peregrinations of the Sīrat Antar
Zainab Cheema, American University (paper withdrawn)
The Curse of Ham, the trope of the Magical Black man, and Medieval theories of Causation
Julie Loveland Swanstrom, Augustana University

9B: ROUNDTABLE: Teaching the Appropriation of the Middle Ages

Session Track: Appropriation of the Middle Ages

Chair
Kisha Tracy, Fitchburg State University
Roundtable Participants
Daniel Melleno, University of Denver
Kisha Tracy, Fitchburg State University
Wendy Vencel, Independent Scholar; High School Substitute Teacher

9C: Law and Sovereignty: Textual and Visual Representations

Session Track: General Session

Chair
John B Freed, Illinois State University
Law and Sovereignty in Late Roman and Early Byzantine Imperial Panegyrics
Sviatoslav Dmitriev, Ball State University
Pass the Duchy: 13th-century Petitions, Communication Network analysis, and the Struggle for Gascony
James B Harr III, North Carolina State University (paper withdrawn)
Emperors and the Law in Carolingian Italy: The Illustrations of Vercelli, Biblioteca Capitolare, CLXV
Celia Chazelle, The College of New Jersey

9D: Gender and Power in Late Medieval Iberia: Occult Practices, Manifest Authority

Session Track: General Session

Chair
Edward Holt, Grambling State University
Return of the Queen: Juana, Castilian Queenship, and the County of Ponthieu
Edward Holt, Grambling State University
Scaling Sun Rays and Hermetic Polarity: Impact of Occult Arabic Treatises on the Sulfuric Lake Scene in the Iberian Libro del caballero Zifar
Veronica Menaldi, University of Mississippi
A Prophet Among the Princes: “Reconquest,” Intertextuality, and Royal Masculinity in Late Medieval Castilian Genealogies
David Cantor-Echols, University of Chicago

9E: Migration Myths

Session Track: Migration, Immigration, and Exile

Chair
Anita Obermeier, University of New Mexico
Wounds Before Milk: Gender and Steppe Ethnography in Post-Carolingian Europe
Christopher Halsted, University of Virginia
From Alexander the Great to Genghis Khan: Moving Mountains and Virtuous Pagans in Medieval Migration Myths
Patrick Naeve, Cornell University
Gens innoxia: Scotti, Picti, and Settler-Colonial Structure in Bede's Ecclesiastical History
Emily Thornbury, Yale University

9F: Texts Intoned: East and West

Session Track: Moments of Intercultural Interaction

Chair
Dana Marsh, Indiana University Bloomington
"Degenerate and Illegitimate" or "Sweetest and Finest"? On the Aesthetics of Modulation in Eastern and Western Chant
Charles Atkinson, Ohio State University / Universität Würzburg
Beneventan Nuns and the Prosulas for the Proper of the Mass. 
Luisa Nardini, The University of Texas, Austin

9G: Dante, Then and Now

Session Track: General Sessions

Chair
Barbara Vance, Indiana University Bloomington
The Canonization of Piccarda Donati
Laura Ingallinella, Wellesley College
Games and Cultural Identity in Dante's Commedia
Akash Kumar, Indiana University Bloomington
Speaking Vernacular in Late Medieval Italy. Gender and Language in Fourteenth-Century Bologna
Chloé Tardivel, University of Paris

9H: On Computing: Digital-Humanities Reckonings, Reconstructions, and Reimaginings of the Medieval World

Session Track: General Session

Chair
Kalani Craig, Indiana University Bloomington
Vr Sant'Agnese: reconstructing and reimagining medieval nunneries in Rome 
Angelica Federici, Università degli Studi di Roma Tre
Surviving the Black Death: The Digital Reconstruction of a Merchant’s Diary
Isabella Magni, Rutgers University
Guilt by Association?: A computational analysis of the social patterns of inquisition punishments in thirteenth-century Languedoc
Robert L. J. Shaw, Masaryk University - Centre for the Digital Research of Religion

Concurrent Sessions 10

Saturday, 17 April 2021, 18:45 UTC / 14:45 EDT / 11:45 PDT

10A: Intimate Exchanges: Reading Race and Ethnicity in Three Medieval Cases

Session Track: Identity, Race, and Ethnicity

Chair
Margaret Graves, Indiana University Bloomington
Diversity in the Reconquest Frontier of New Catalunya and Thaghr of Tarrakunah
Lawrence McCrank, Emeritus
"English" and "Irish" Welshmen: a comparative analysis of the Welsh ethnic nicknames 'Sais' and 'Gwyddel' in Wales, 1050 -1450
Frederick Suppe, Ball State University
From wolfish unions to beneficial bastards: sexual relations between Christians and Saracens in the chansons de geste
Victoria Turner, University of St Andrews

10B: Musical Hagiographies

Session Track: General Session

Chair
Margot Fassler, Notre Dame
Punishment and Sadomasochism in a Medieval Saint’s Office: Singing Saint Katherine in England
James Blasina, Swarthmore College
An Advent Saint: Seasonal and Saintly Music and Liturgy in Thirteenth-Century Paris
Mary Channen Caldwell, University of Pennsylvania
Giving Voice to Everlasting Life: Biblical and Apocryphal Narratives of Non-Death in the Liturgy of St John the Evangelist
Catherine Saucier, Arizona State University

10C: LIGHTNING TALKS: Ecologies of Things and Texts: Nature, Matter, and Material Culture in the Middle Ages

Session Track: Humans and the Natural Environment

Chairs
Vera-Simone Schulz, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut
Shirin A. Khanmohamadi, San Francisco State University
Embodying the Wind
Kellie Robertson, University of Maryland
Foodways and Bookways; or, What is a Byproduct?
Bruce Holsinger, University of Virginia
An Alchemy of Medieval Honduras: Flows of Clay, Becoming Marble, The Animacy of Obsidian, and Mercurial Copper
Rosemary Joyce, University of California, Berkeley
Ecologies of Place in Medieval India
Tamara Sears, Rutgers University
Carved Where It Stands: Buddha Tree-Icons in Japan
Gregory Levine, University of California, Berkeley
Ornament and Landscape: Textual Materialities and Object-Related Temporalities
Gerhard Wolf, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut
Crystal Desire: Seeking Love Through Crystal
Marisa Galvez, Stanford University

10D: Medievalism at Play, Then and Now

Session Track: Playfulness

Chair
Sonia Velazquez, Indiana University Bloomington
Chaucer on Hypocrisy: Earnest?
Sherif Abdelkarim, Grinnell College
Poetics, Pornography, and Play in Warner of Rouen’s Moriuht
Caitlin G. Watt, Clemson University, Department of English
Comic Companions: Teaching Medieval Texts Alongside Modern Graphic Narratives
Gina Brandolino, University of Michigan
Moira Fitzgibbons, Marist College

10E: After the Fire: Building and Rebuilding Notre-Dame in Paris

Session Track: General Session

Chair
Thomas Dale, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Before the Fire
Michael Davis, Mount Holyoke College
Computing to Create and re-Create the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris: A Brief Evaluation of Digital Surveying Technologies
Stefaan Van Liefferinge, Columbia University
The Medieval Roofs of Notre-Dame de Paris
Lynn Courtenay, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
Archéologie du bâti: Old and New Methods of Architectural Analysis
Caroline Bruzelius, Duke University

10F: Pregnancy, Virginity, and other Performative Virtues

Session Track: General Session

Chair
Manling Luo, Indiana University Bloomington
Signalling Virtue: Countenance and Seemliness in The Cloud of Unknowing
Yea Jung Park, Columbia University
Betres, Beatrice, Beatrijs: Monastic Borders and Miracle Stories in the 13th and 14th centuries
Timi Sgouros, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Binghamton University
Queer Pregnancy on the Medieval Sacred Stage
Andrea Whitacre, Indiana University Bloomington

10G: Reading Authority though Language: Brittonic-Speakers in a Multilingual Britain

Session Track: Moments of Intercultural Interaction

Chair
Jo Wolf, Virginia Tech
Bards, humanists, and grammar: the glossing and substitution of grammatical terminology in sixteenth-century copies of the medieval Welsh bardic grammars
Michaela Jacques, University of Toronto
Cultural Diglossia in Historia Peredur ab Efrawg: Negotiating Authority in 13th-century Wales
Joseph Shack, Harvard University
The Bodmin Manumissions: "Hearing" Cornish Slave Voices in English Communities
Jo Wolf, Virginia Tech

11: Fellows' Inductions and Plenary

Saturday, 17 April 2021, 20:30 UTC / 16:30 EDT / 13:30 PDT

Chair
Deborah Mauskopf Deliyannis, Co-Chair of the Medieval Academy of America 2021 Annual Meeting Program Committee and Professor and Associate Chair of History, Indiana University--Bloomington
Welcome and Induction of Fellows and Corresponding Fellows
Barbara Rosenwein, President of the Fellows
Fellows: Chris Baswell; Helen Evans; Geraldine Heng; Katherine L. Jansen; Walter Simons
Corresponding Fellows: Michael Clanchy (posthumous); Jean Dunbabin; Mercedes García-Arenal; Yitzhak Hen; Gabor Klaniczay; Gian Luca Potestà; Emilie Savage-Smith; Richard Sharpe (posthumous)
Plenary: Dante’s Limbo and Equity of Access: Non-Christians, Children, and Criteria of Inclusion and Exclusion, from Inferno 4 to Paradiso 32
Teodolinda Barolini, Lorenzo Da Ponte Professor of Italian, Columbia University

Early Music Concert: CONCENTUS, Presented by the Historical Performance Institute

Sunday, 17 April 2021, 0:00 UTC / Saturday, 17 April 20:00 EDT / 17:00 PDT

Indiana University Bloomington's Jacobs School of Music is home to the Historical Performance Institute. Their ensemble will offer Romance, Reverence, and Riddles: a program of chansons, motets, and dances featuring works by women troubadors and trouvères.
Get event details and a link to the IUMusicLive stream
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Sunday

18 April 2021