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Schedule

Symposium Locations

  • Woodburn Hall 101

    http://www.indiana.edu/~iubmap/

April 1, 2011

12:30 PM - 01:00 PM

    Registration

    01:00 PM - 02:15 PM

      Panel I

      Panel I: Mapping the Self: Wandering and Representation

      Stational Liturgy and the Fermentum in Late Antique Rome
      Richard Barrett, Indiana University
      Department of History

      The Threshhold of Dignity: Performing the Human in Medieval Armenian and Persian Wandering
      Michael Pifer, University of Michigan
      Department of Comparative Literature

    • Michael Bedrosian Pifer, The Threshold of Dignity: Performing the Human in Medieval Armenian and Persian Wandering
    • Richard Barrett, Stational liturgy and the fermentum in Late Antique Rome
      • 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM

        Panel II

        Panel II: Reports from the Field: Wandering and Encounters with the Phenomenal World

        "The Worthless Stories of Pilgrims": the Art Historical Imagination of Medieval Travelers
        Erik Inglis, Oberlin College
        Department of Art

        "Why Not Stay Home?" Sindonius and Ennodius on the Inconveniences of Travel
        Jon Arnold, University of Tulsa
        Department of History

        Dangerous Migration in The Mabinogi                 
        Audrey Becker, Marygrove College                   
        Department of English

      • Erik Inglis, “The Worthless Stories of Pilgrims”: The Art Historical Imagination of Medieval Travelers
        • 05:00 PM - 05:45 PM

          "Via lata gradior"

           

          Early Music Institute      Beck Chapel 

          A concert of music from the 11-14th centuries that explores texts associated with students in the middle ages. Selections from the Carmina Burana will be performed along with the well-known chant on which they were based; Notre Dame polyphony from the early days of the University of Paris; and instrumental music improvised by the performers on instruments appropriate to the middle ages, including the medieval fiddle, lute, recorders, slide trumpet and percussion.

          April 2, 2011

          08:30 AM - 09:00 AM

            Registration

            09:00 AM - 10:30 AM

              Panel III

              Panel III: Diegetic Topographies: Wandering and Encounters with the Phenomenal World

              Le Chevalier au Lion and Monastic Exile in the Middle Ages    Tamara Carrell, Indiana University
              Department of English

              Green Screen: Illegible Signification in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
              Nathan Mertes, University of Wisconsin-Madison
              Department of English

              Piers Plowman in Wonderland                
              Stephanie Opfer, University Of Toldeo
              Department of English


               

            • Tamara Janelle Carrell, Le Chevalier au Lion and Monastic Exile in the Middle Ages
            • Stephanie Opfer, Piers Plowman in Wonderland
            • Nathan Mertes, Green Screen: Illegible Signification in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
              • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

                Plenary Address

                Dr. Bernard McGinn

                Divinity School, University of Chicago

                "Paul and Dante: Pilgrims to the Infinite"

                Woodburn 101

                12:15 PM - 01:15 PM

                  Lunch

                  Indiana Memorial Union, Federal Room
                  01:30 PM - 03:00 PM

                    Panel IV

                    Panel IV: Reception: Intertextual Wandering

                    The counter-Virgilian Narrative in St. Brendan's Navigatio
                    Donka Markus, University of Michigan                   
                    Department of Classical Studies

                    A  Medieval Oedipus: Gregorius, the Good Sinner
                    Fredericka Schmadel, Indiana University
                    Department of Folklore

                    Two Women of Wessex: Parallel Lives in the Twelfth Century       
                    Katherine Weikert, University of Winchester
                    Department of Archeology

                  • Donka D Markus, The counter-Virgilian narrative in St Brendan's Navigatio
                  • Fredericka Schmadel, A Medieval Oedipus: Gregorius, the Good Sinner
                    • 03:15 PM - 04:25 PM

                      Panel V

                      Panel V: Crossing Boundaries: Wandering & the Rhetoric of Encountering the Other

                      Rethinking Conversion: 'Faith,' Exchange and Baptism in the Chronicles of the First Crusade
                      Yanay Israeli, University of Michigan
                      Department of History

                      Crossing Over: Purgatory Narratives and Mandeville's Travel through the Vale Perilous
                      Michelle Kustarz, Wayne State University
                      Department of English

                    • Michelle Kustarz, “Crossing Over: Purgatory Narratives and Mandeville’s Travel through the Vale Perilous”
                    • Yanay Israeli, Rethinking Conversion: "Faith”, Exchange and Baptism in the Chronicles of the First Crusade
                      • 04:40 PM - 05:40 PM

                        Panel VI

                        Panel VI: Journeys into Digital Medieval Studies

                        Dot Porter, Indiana University
                        Digital Medievalist, Digital Librarian, Indiana University

                        Grant Simpson , Indiana University
                        Department of English

                        Medieval Studies Institute