8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast (Grand Ballroom Foyer)
Introduction: Herbert L. Kessler, Johns Hopkins Univ.
Patrick J. Geary, UCLA, "Whatever Happened to Latin?"
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee (Grand Ballroom Foyer)
Organizer: Frans van Liere, Calvin College
Chair: Theresa Gross-Diaz, Loyola Univ. Chicago
Andrew B. Kraebel, Yale Univ., "The Education of Anselm of Laon: Some Evidence from the Psalms-Commentaries"
Eileen Kearney, St. Xavier Univ., "Peter Abelard: Reflections on the Passion of Christ"
T. J. H. McCarthy, New College of Florida, "Frutolf of Michelsberg and Biblical Exegesis: The Sources and Method of the Glosa in vetus et novum testamentum"
Organizer and Chair: Michael Kulikowski, Univ. of Tennessee
Leonora Neville, Catholic Univ. of America, "Fortuna and Providence in the Twelfth-Century Byzantine History of Nikephoros Bryennios"
Anthony Kaldellis, Ohio State Univ., "When Medieval Grand Narratives Collide: The Case of the Roman Identity of Byzantium"
Paul Stephenson, Univ. of Durham, "The Emergence of Popular Byzantine History"
Organizer: Theresa Earenfight, Seattle Univ., Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship
Chair: Monica Green, Arizona State Univ.
Keith Sisson, Univ. of Memphis, "Political Aristotelianism and the Rule of Women in the Writings of Medieval Theorists from Thomas Aquinas to Christine de Pizan"
Mary Dockray-Miller, Lesley Univ., "Hagiography as Political Theory"
Nancy McLoughlin, Univ. of California at Irvine, "Jean Gerson's Visionary Daughter of the King and Woman as Counselor"
Organizer: Jennifer M. Feltman, Florida State Univ., and Graduate Student Committee of the MAA
Chair: Kristin Canzano Pinyan, Rutgers Univ.
Panelists: Anne Clark Bartlett, DePaul Univ.; Gina Brandolino, DePauw Univ.; Kara Morrow, Albion College; Jill Stevenson, Marymount Manhattan College
Organizer: Newberry Library, Center for Renaissance Studies
Chair: Carla Zecher, Newberry Library
Participants: Richard Kieckhefer, Northwestern Univ., Lezlie S. Knox, Marquette Univ., Roy Liuzza, Univ. of Tennessee at Knoxville, Elizabeth C. Teviotdale, Western Michigan Univ.
Respondents: Ray Clemens, Illinois State Univ., and Timothy Graham, Univ. of New Mexico
Organizer: Susan E. Phillips, Northwestern Univ.
Chair: Simon Gaunt, King's College, London
Lori J. Walters, Florida State Univ., "A Map for Despairing Minds: Real and Imagined Pilgrimages to Rome as Spiritual Consolation in a Gerson Anthology, Paris, BnF fr. 990"
Rebecca Krug, Univ. of Minnesota, "Margery Kempe's Fear of Flying: Travel, Narration, and the Book"
Susan E. Phillips, "Insults, Pick-up Lines, and Other Helpful Tips for the Pre-Modern Traveler"
Organizer and Chair: Katherine French, SUNY-New Paltz
Mary Clemente Davlin, O.P., Dominican Univ., "The Parish in Piers Plowman"
Mary Erler, Fordham Univ., "London Theatre In and Around St. Botolph Aldersgate 1530-1570"
S. Adam Hindin, Harvard Univ., "'In capella Boemorum in cimiterio ecclesie': Minoritized Devotional Spaces in Medieval Central Europe"
Organizer: Program Committee
Chair: Elizabeth Sears, Univ. of Michigan
Deborah M. Deliyannis, Indiana Univ., "The Mausoleum of Theoderic and the Seven Wonders of the World"
Mary B. Shepard, Friends Univ., "A Tomb for Blanche of Castile and Alexandre Lenoir's Musée des monuments français"
Mariah Proctor-Tiffany, Rhode Island School of Design, "Gothic Art in Motion in Fourteenth-Century France"
12:15 - 1:45 Lunch (Grand Ballroom)
12:30 - 1:30 Graduate Student Lunch (off-site, see flyer)
12:45 - 1:45 Illinois Medieval Association Business Meeting (Old Town)
Organizer: Frans van Liere, Calvin College
Chair: Katherine Zieman, Univ. of Notre Dame
Ian Christopher Levy, Lexington Theological Seminary, "The Role of the Literal Sense of Scripture in the Quest for Ecclesiastical Authority"
Mary Raschko, Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, "Luke's Great Supper: Expanding the Preference for the Poor"
Ryan McDermott, Univ. of Virginia, "Langland's Ethical Invention: Scenes of Interpretation in Piers Plowman"
Organizer: Carol Symes, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Chair: Gabrielle Spiegel, Johns Hopkins Univ.
Carol Symes, "Can the Medieval Speak? The Scripting of History and the Activation of Evidence"
Abigail Firey, Univ. of Kentucky, "Getting Rid of the Lawyers with High Explosives: The Strange History of Medieval Canon Law"
Steven Justice, Univ. of California at Berkeley, "A Few Kind Words for Teleology"
Comment: Gabrielle Spiegel
Organizer: Program Committee
Chair: Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Univ. of Pittsburgh
Alfred Thomas, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, "Lost Books: Myths of Origins and Intertextuality in the Czech 'Dalimil Chronicle' and Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain"
Tina-Marie Ranalli, Univ. of Pennsylvania, "The Myths of Thebes, Troy and Rome in Medieval France and England: Historicizing ms. BN fr. 60"
Daisy Delogu, Univ. of Chicago, "The Nature of Politics: Philippe de Mézières, Jean Gerson, Christine de Pizan"
Organizer and Chair: Susan E. Phillips, Northwestern Univ.
Wan-Chuan Kao, CUNY Graduate Center, "The Enigma of Arrival: Black Mouth, White Voice, and the Kiss of Tartary"
Emily Burnham, New York Univ., "Travel Writing as Identity: Finding the Islamic West in Two Thirteenth-Century Travelogues"
Thomas Sizgorich, Univ. of California at Irvine, "Paradise on Earth: Imperial Desire and Discontent in Early Muslim Travel Writing"
Organizer: Jacqueline Hamesse, Université Catholique de Louvain
Chair: Carmela Vircillo Franklin, American Academy in Rome; Columbia Univ.
M. Michèle Mulchahey, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto, "'Omnia disce': Leonard Boyle in Toronto"
Joseph Goering, Univ. of Toronto, “Father Boyle and the Literature of Pastoral Care”
Jacqueline Hamesse, "'. . . coartata scientia non iucunda est': Father Boyle and Medieval Studies in Rome (1984-1999)"
Organizer: Program Committee
Chair: Aden Kumler, Univ. of Chicago
Christopher R. Lakey, Univ. of California at Berkeley, "The Madonna di San Luca and the Problem of Materiality in Medieval Representation"
Beatrice Kitzinger, Harvard Univ., "Real Presence / Ritual Presence: Crucifix and Crucifixion in 10th-century Breton Gospel Books"
Cristina Maria Cervone, Villanova Univ., "'Þat freoli flour weore fair to fynde': Incarnational Poetics and the Lily Crucifixion"
Organizer and Chair: Andrew Rabin, Univ. of Louisville
Kathryn A. Lowe, Univ. of Glasgow, "Sight and Sound: The Visual and the Vernacular in Anglo-Saxon Charters"
Leslie K. Arnovick, Univ. of British Columbia, "Trial by Oath, or the Oath on Trial: Compurgation Failure in Anglo-Saxon England"
Patrick W. Conner, West Virginia Univ., "Legal Language and Poetry in the Abbotsbury Guild Statutes"
Organizer and Chair: Cecily Hilsdale, Northwestern Univ.
Charles A. Stewart, Indiana Univ. at Bloomington, "Painting on the Margins: Eighth- and Ninth-Century Frescos in Cyprus"
Paroma Chatterjee, Univ. of Pennsylvania, "Saintly Novelties: The 'Vita' Image in Byzantium and Italy"
Sarah K. Kozlowski, Yale Univ., "The Early Portrait and the Byzantine Icon in Fourteenth-Century Naples"
3:30 - 4:00 Coffee (Grand Ballroom Foyer)
Organizer: Fellows of the Medieval Academy
Presider: Joan Ferrante, Columbia Univ.
Induction of Fellows and Corresponding Fellows
Sara S. Poor, Princeton Univ., "Sister Act: Gender, Reform, and the Devotional Book in Late Medieval Germany"
5:30 - 7:00 Closing Reception (Grand Ballroom)