Schedule
Opening night of the conference: Thursday, February 18, 2010
Registration 5:30pm-7:00pm Parmer Hall /Dominican University(Van will collect people from the Ginkgo Tree at 5:30pm, the Harvey House at 5:45pm, and the Carleton Hotel at 6:00pm; van will also drop people off after the keynote address)
Reception 6:oo-7:oo pm in the Parmer Atrium
Keynote Address I
Prudential Penitence: Robert Hanning,
7:00 pm / Bluhm Lecture Hall - Parmer Hall /Dominican University
Robert Hanning, Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, will examine the nature and implications of the medieval adaptation of aural confession by the Church, which required from her members exercise of ethical and rhetorical practice originating in classical antiquity. Then, he will explore some of the ways in which "prudential penitence" was appropriated by authors such as Geoffrey Chaucer and Giovanni Boccaccio as a component of some of their most trenchant and most amusing fictions about both clergy and laity. His forthcoming book, Serious Play: Crises of Desire and Authority in the Poetry of Ovid, Chaucer, and Ariosto is to be published by the Columbia University Press. This event co-sponsored by the Department of English and the Illinois Medieval Association conference.
Friday February 19, 2010
Dominican Van will collect people from the Ginkgo Tree at 8:00 am, the Harvey House at 8:15 am, and the Carleton Hotel at 8:30 am; the van will also drop people off after the last session)
8:00–12:00 pm Registration Parmer Hall/ Dominican University8:00–9:00 am Coffee
9:00–10:30 am Sessions
Session I: England and Romance
Nicole Clifton, Session Chair (Springer Suite/Crown Library)
The Ends of Romance for Derbyshire Landowners – Michael Johnston, Purdue University
'Novelries' New and Old in Chaucer' s Squire' s Tale – Corey Sparks, Indiana University
The Thee/You Feature in the Knight' s Tale: Using Second – Person Pronouns to Reveal Ideal Relationships in the Romances – Raychel Haugrud Reiff, University of Wisconsin – Superior
Session II: Romance – A key to time, place, and readers?
Edward Risden, Session Chair (Lewis Lounge/ Lewis Hall)
Before Arthurian Romance: Barbing and Barbarity in Culhwch ac Olwen, – Kristen Over, Northeastern Illinois University
The Southern Version of the ME Octavian Romance: Cotton Caligula A.II and its Audiences – Bill Fahrenbach, DePaul University
Why so late: Examining medieval Tudor romances within the context of the Melusine narratives – Barbara Goodman, Clayton University
10:30–11:00 am ResourcesCoffee Provided (Springer Suite/ Crown Library)
The Incunabula on the Edge of the Prairie; Fifteenth – Century Books at Saint John' s University – Matthew Heintzelman, Hill Museum & Manuscript Library Saint John' s University
11:00–12:30 pm Sessions
Session I: Women, Gender, and the Construction of Learned Male Authority?
Peter Goodrich, Session Chair (Springer Suite/ Crown Library)
Ecstasy and Annihilation: Praxis and the Critiques of Reason in Bonaventure' s Itinerarium Mentis in Deum and Marguerite Porete' s Speculum simplicium animarum–Wendy Petersen Boring, Willamette University
Gender and the Visionary Authority of Jean Gerson and Catherine of Siena– Nancy McLoughlin, University of California, Irvine
Clerics, Beguines and the Ordo Caritatis: Male/Female Collaboration at the Beguine of Paris – Tanya Stabler, Purdue University Calumet
Session II: Italian conversations,
Sister Clemente Davlin, Session Chair (Lewis Lounge/ Lewis Hall)
Revelation's Aporetic Authority in the Divine Comedy and Dante' s Demarcation and Defense of Philosophical Authority – Jason Aleksander, Saint Xavier University
Botticelli in Purgatory, Cristina Varisco, Independent Scholar
Dante' s Heavenly Lessons: Educative Economy in the Paradiso – Tonia Bernardi Triggiano, Dominican University
The Prose Romance According to Boccaccio – Christopher Nissen, Northern Illinois University
12:45–2:00 pm Lunch – Old Library (2nd floor Lewis Building)2:00–3:30 pm Sessions
Session I: End/ing/s of Arthurian Romance: German, French, English
Tom Hanks, Session Chair (Lewis Lounge/ Lewis Hall)
Marriage: The End of Romance: Erec' s ' verligen,' Daniel' s Wedding and King Arthur' s Night in the Woods – Jon Sherman, Northern Michigan University
The End of the Romance: La Mort le roi Artu – Tara Foster, Northern Michigan University
Of Ends and Excalibur: Merlin Shows Arthur the Ropes in Malory' s Le Morte Darthur – Peter Goodrich, Northern Michigan University
Session II: Romance – origins of form? Music, Cantar, Dawn Song?
Mark D. Johnston, Session Chair (Springer Suite/ Crown Library)
Thomas' courtly ' Tristan and Yseut' : The Romance born of the Dawn Song – Aubri McVey Leung, Wabash College
El Cid, the Impaler?: Line 1254 of the Poem of the Cid – Alexander J. McNair, The University of Wisconsin–Parkside
Aristotle' s Nicomachean Ethics and Sentimental Romance in Castile at the end of the fifteenth century: Repeticin de amores by Luis de Lucena – Ana Montero, Saint Louis University
The Last Hurrah for the Cuaderna va and a New Lyricism? – Carlos Hawley, North Dakota State University
3:30–4:00 pm Coffee (Springer Suite/ Crown Library)4:00–5:30 pm Sessions "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Films"
Alexandra Bennett, Session Chair (Springer/ Crown Library)
The Cinematic Sexualizing of Beowulf – Edward L. Risden, Saint Norbert College
'no hie fder cunnon' : But Film Makers Do – William Hodapp, The College of Saint Scholastica
Beowulf & Sacrifice: A Giradian Approach to the Film Adaptations – Nickolas Haydock, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez
6:00pm Van will drop people off at their hotels
6:30 Pub gathering at Barclay’s American Grill at the Carleton Hotel
Saturday February 20, 2010
Dominican Van will collect people from the Ginkgo Tree at 8:30 am, the Harvey House at 8:45 am, and the Carleton Hotel at 9:00 am; van will also drop people off after the last session)
9:00–9:30 am Coffee
Keynote Address II:
Malory and the Christian Happy Ending: Thomas Hanks
9:30 am Bluhm Lecture Hall /Parmer Hall /Dominican University
D. Thomas Hanks, Jr., is Professor of English Literature at Baylor University. He will speaking about Malory' s Morte Darthur which partakes of the nature of a "fairy story," as J. R. R. Tolkien defines fairy stories. As such, it embodies a Secondary World which includes magic, perilous realms, unexpected magical dangers (e.g., Morgan), as well as the sun, the moon, the stars above, and ordinary humans going about their business as best they can (to paraphrase Tolkien' s On Fairy Stories). It also contains what Tolkien calls a “eucatastrophe”–a happy ending which partakes of the nature of what Malory would have seen as the evangelion–a specifically Christian happy ending.
11:00–12:30 am
Session I: Canticle for Leibowitz & the Modern Arthurian
Tanya Stabler, Session Chair (Bluhm lecture theatre /Parmer Hall)
Rob Benson, Ball State University
Tom Hoberg, Northeastern Illinois
Why Do Some Stories Keep Returning? Modern Arthurian Fiction and Some Possible Implications for the Narrative Structure of Romance – Mary Frances Zambreno, Elmhurst College
Session II: Romance, Religion, Conversion and Creating Meaning
David Perry, Session Chair (CTLE/ Parmer Hall)
Crime and Punishment in Miracles and Fabliaux – Elizabeth Dolly Weber, University of Illinois at Chicago
Conversionary 'Loose Ends' in the King of Tars – Alan Ambrisco, University of Akron
Greek-Latin Intermarriage and its Implications for Frankish Cyprus – David D. Terry, Western Michigan University
Warring Sources on Women as Military Leaders in the Thirteenth Century – Katrin Sjursen
Conference Concludes(Van will return people to their B&Bs)
FRIDAY NIGHT INVITE
Please join us at the Pub
Friday night
6:30pm
at
Barclay's American Grille
in the Carleton Hotel
Driving from Dominican to Carleton Hotel:
Start at: Dominican University 7900 Division St River Forest, IL 60305
- Head east on Division St toward Park Ave - 0.8 mi (left from the campus exit)
- Turn right at N Harlem Ave/IL-43 S - 1.1 mi
- Turn left at Pleasant St (just ½ block past the viaduct for the train tracks)
Arrive at: Carleton-Oak Park Hotel & Inn 1110 Pleasant Street Oak Park, IL 60302-3093
Joining us from the B&Bs:
This is close to both B&Bs but it is a bit too cold to walk, so if you need a ride, please let Mickey know at msweeney@dom.edu . If it is later than 6:30 on Friday call me at 708 – 209-6400 and I can collect you any time (hotel is only a 5 minute drive away)
If possible please sign up at registration so we know for whom to keep an eye out