The Columbia
University Medieval Guild is pleased to announce its 18th annual conference:
"Medieval Bodies: Traversing Sex and Gender in
the Middle Ages"
Saturday, October
13th, 2007
301 Philosophy Hall
Columbia University
Keynote Speaker:
Professor Karma Lochrie, Indiana University-Bloomington
Breakfast and
registration begin at 8:30 a.m. The registration fee is $10 general and
$5 for participants. Please see below
for a more detailed schedule.
Please direct all
inquiries to medievalbodies@gmail.com.
8.30 to 9.00 AM:
Registration and
Breakfast
9.00 to 9.15 AM:
Welcome
9.15 to 10.45 AM:
Methodology Panel
(Philosophy Hall, Room 301)
Moderator: Paul Strohm (Columbia University)
Glenn Burger (CUNY
and Queens College)
Joan Ferrante
(Columbia University)
Patricia Dailey
(Columbia University)
Stephen Kruger (CUNY
and Queens College)
Katherine Olson
(Columbia University)
11.00 to 12.15 PM:
Concurrent Sessions I
Panel 1: Fatherhood
(Philosophy Hall, Room 507)
Denis Ferhatovic
(Yale University) - “Father-Son-Bird of English Literature: Reading Chaucer’s House
of Fame Alongside Hélène Cixous”
Amanda Lepp
(University of Toronto) – “The King in his Birth Chamber: The Pregnant Man in
Medieval Literature”
Nathanial B. Smith
(Indiana University-Bloomington) - “The Melancholy Son: Embodied Reading and
Queer Textuality in Lydgate's Temple of Glass”
Panel 2: Performing
Women (Philosophy Hall, Room 612)
Alyssa Meyers
(Columbia University) – “ ‘All Women May Be Ware by Me’: The Treason of Eleanor
Cobham, Duchess of Gloucester”
Corey L. Wronski
(Cornell University) – “Transcendence of Identity in the
Body Performances of
Elisabeth of Spalbeek”
Sara Murphy (Columbia
University) – “Dames of Scotia: Women Signifying the State of the Nation in David
Lindsay’s Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis”
12.15 to 1.15 PM:
Lunch
1.30 to 2.45:
Keynote Address
(Philosophy Hall, Room 301)
Karma
Lochrie, Indiana University-Bloomington
“When
Heterosexuality Disappears:
Queer
Whereabouts in the Middle Ages”
Introduction of
Keynote Speaker: Paul Strohm (Columbia
University)
3.00 to 4.15 PM
Concurrent Sessions
II
Panel 3: Playing
with Gender at Court (Philosophy Hall, Room 507)
Isabelle Pinard
(University of Toronto)– “No room for two: The Female Tenso and the case of
Dame Lombarda”
Aaron Hostetter
(Princeton University) – “Demons, Dogs and Men in Sir Gowther”
Ariel Rubin (Columbia
University) – “Nude Figures in the Court: The Challenge of the Columbia Playing
Cards”
Panel 4: Embodied
Spiritualities (Philosophy Hall, Room 511)
Katherine Lindeman
(University of Toronto) - A “Female” Spirituality: Early Franciscan
Spirituality and Gender
Susan Valentine (New
York University) - “Take hold of His feet”:
The Song of Songs and the Bodies of Christ and Mary Magdalene
Lora Walsh
(Northwestern University) - "Resisting and Contesting the Gender of the
Church: Wycliffism and Ecclesia"
Panel 5: Gendered
Geographies, Gendered Texts (Philosophy
Hall, Room 612)
Lytton Smith
(Columbia University) – “Beyond Peace-Weaving: Gendered Travel in Beowulf”
Julian Brolaski
(University of California-Berkeley) – “Gender-Neutral Pronouns in Middle
English”
Thomas Ward
(University of Pennsylvania) – “The Secret Spaces of Birth and Death in The
Clerk’s Tale”
4.30 to 5.00 PM:
Music Program:
“Four Arms, Two Necks, One Wreathing: A Sampling of
Bawdy Tunes”
Directed and arranged by David Rentz
Performed by Guildsingers:
Frances Geller
Anna Levenstein
Sam McCoy
Ellen Rentz
Evan Wels
5.00 PM to 6.30 PM:
Wine and Cheese
Reception