Travel and Translation
New England Medieval Studies Consortium Graduate Conference 3.28.2015
Conference Schedule
March 28, 2015: 8:30 AM-6:30 PM
All conference events will be held at the Hall of Graduate Studies at Yale University.
320 York St.
New Haven, CT 06511
8:30 - 9:30am: Coffee Reception and Welcome, HGS 211
9:30 - 11:00am: Two Concurrent Sessions
1: Travel and Translation across Media, HGS 211
Chair: Henry Parkes (Music, Yale)
Katherine Hindley (Yale), “The Codicology of Predestination: Beinecke MS 492 and La lumiere as lais”
Clio Doyle (Yale), “Not Seeing the Forest for the Parchment: Narrated and Narrative Movement in Yale MS 229”
Brianne Dolce (Yale), “Lambillotte and the Monks at Solesmes: Translating the Medieval for the Age of Reform”
2: Religion in Ecological and Geographic Space, HGS 217
Chair: Fred Biggs (English, UConn)
Julia Exarchos (Ghent), “Travel and Transmission in Manuscripts as Impulses for Changing Ritual Norms and Truth in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries?”
Brittany Poe (UT-Knoxville), “Alan of Lille: Parisian Scholar in the Languedoc”
Justin Park (Yale), “The Making of a Local Saint: Guthlac and the Fens”
11:00am - 12:15pm: Plenary Session:
Cecilia Gaposchkin (Dartmouth), “Performing Penance and the First Crusade,” HGS 211
12:15 - 1:30pm: Lunch
1:30 - 3:00pm: Three Concurrent Sessions
3: Social and National Cartographies, HGS 217
Chair: Ardis Butterfield (English, Yale)
Cordelia Ross (UC-Davis), “King Arthur and the Cave: Anglo-Norman England and Sicilian-Norman Italy”
Brittany Claytor (Purdue), “The Other 1/10th: Norman Rulers in Sicily and the Translation of Possession into Authority through Religious Spaces”
Hillary O’Brien (Seton Hall), “Social Cartography in The Travels of Sir John Mandeville”
4: Sustenance and Mobile Medicines, HGS 119A
Chair: Ian Cornelius (English, Yale)
Agnieszka Rec (Yale), “Blood is Thicker than Aqua Regia: The Travels of Franciszek Mymer and his Alchemical Sons”
André Leitão (University of Lisbon, Portuguese Catholic University) and Luís Gonçalves (University of Lisbon/University of Évora), “Physicians across European studia generalia: Mobility and conflict in the late medieval Portugal (1481-1537)”
Shu-han Luo (Yale), “Sustaining Byleue: Food, Faith, and Langland’s Strange Diction”
5: Converting Bodies, HGS 119B
Chair: Denys Turner (Religious Studies, Yale)
Joseph Leake (UConn), “The Bones of Weland, Etymology, and Anglo-Norse Storytelling”
Megan Behrend (Michigan), “Translation and Conversion in the Alliterative Morte Arthure”
Mireille Pardon (Yale), “The Violent Dead: A New Interpretation of Orderic Vitalis' Wild Hunt”
3:00 - 3: 15: Coffee Break, HGS 211
3:15 - 4:45pm: Three Concurrent Sessions
6: Adaptable Texts, HGS 119A
Chair: Anders Winroth (History, Yale)
Jose R. Nebres (UConn), “Translating Pilgrimage: The ME Prose Translation of Deguileville’s Pèlerinage de la vie humaine”
Marian Homans-Turnbull (Yale-Cambridge), “What translates as discovery? Sighting land in Icelandic settlement narratives”
Zachary Domach (Columbia), “Literature from the Dungheap: Proverbial Practice between Medieval Christianity and Classical Culture”
7: Translating Authority, HGS 119B
Chair: Candace Barrington (English, Central Connecticut University)
Wesley Fiorentino (Simmons College), “Sanctity or Sacrality: Kingship in Ӕlfriċ’s Life of Oswald”
Christopher Rose (Fordham), “The Politics of Perfume: Levantine Elites in Western Courts in the Twelfth to the Fourteenth Century”
Rebecca Hill (UCLA), “Sense-for-Sense: Nascent Middle English Poetry & the Sufi Figure after Michael Scot”
8: Translating Genre, HGS 217
Chair: Fred Biggs (English, UConn)
Felisa Baynes-Ross (Fordham), “Also Latin is a langage, as Walsch and Englisch: Translating lectio divina and the Humanity of Christ for a Widow in Book to a Mother”
Ann Killian (Yale), “The Gest of Salvation in Grosseteste and Langland”
Clara Wild (Yale), “Eucharistic Image and Narrative in N-Town Passion Play I”
4:45 - 5:00pm: Presentation of the Alison Goddard Elliott Prize and Farewell, HGS 211
5:00 - 6:30pm: Reception, HGS 211
A dinner will be held for conference participants at Barracuda Bistro (http://www.barracudanewhaven.com/).
Please notify us of any dietary restrictions or requests at newenglandmedievalstudies.2015 (@) gmail.com.