Animal sessions in Kalamazoo 2014
MAD will not be present at Kalamazoo this year (49th International Congress on Medieval Studies May 8–11, 2014) , but many sessions will deal with various aspects of animals in the Middle Ages. This post provides an exhaustive selection of the animal sessions and papers in Kalamazoo this year.
Thursday 3:30 p.m. Session 89 Bernhard Brown & Gold Room
Other Animals and Humans in Medieval Art
Sponsor: International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA)
Organizer: Martha Easton, Seton Hall Univ., and Corine Schleif, Arizona State Univ.
Presider: Corine Schleif and Martha Easton
- Kalila and Dimna (Paris, BnF lat. 8504): Visual Lessons from Cross-Cultural Animals,
Anna D. Russakoff, American Univ. of Paris - Animal, Human, or Both? The Monstrous Races in a Bestiary Compilation
Elizabeth Morrison, J. Paul Getty Museum - “Partout la figure du lion”: The Enduring Legacy of the Coucy donjon Tympanum
Richard A. Leson, Univ. of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Thursday 3:30 p.m.Session 127, Schneider 1360
Monsters I: Parallel Worlds
Sponsor: Monsters: The Experimental Association for the Research of Cryptozoology
through Scholarly Theory and Practical Application (MEARCSTAPA)
Organizer: Asa Simon Mittman, California State Univ.–Chico, and Stefanie Goyette,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Harvard Univ.
Presider: Stefanie Goyette
- Monstrous Ireland and the Fantasy of British Sovereignty
Alexander Baldassano, Graduate Center, CUNY - Lady Macbeth and the Strix: Monstrous Maternity, Time, and Periodization
Morgan Bozick, Pennsylvania State Univ. - (Not) Solving the Mystery: The Complexity of the Melusine Legendary in Medieval French and German Traditions
Deva Fall Kemmis, Georgetown Univ., and Melissa Ridley Elmes, Univ. of North Carolina–Greensboro
Thursday 3:30 p.m. Session 138 Bernhard 212
Facing the Abyss: Visualizing Submarine Worlds, Aquatic Life, and Hybrids in Medieval Art
Sponsor: International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA) Student Committee
Organizer: Matthew Westerby, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison
Presider: Matthew Westerby
- “The world is damned and lost”: Alexander the Great and the Mirror of the Deep
Peter Bovenmyer, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison - There Be Dragons: Charting the Role and Evolution of Fish and Aquatic Monsters in Early Anglo-Saxon Art
Melissa Herman, Univ. of York - Land, Water, Woman: Coudrette’s Melusine as a Symbol of Regional Identity in Late Medieval Poitou
Shana Thompson, Univ. of North Texas
Friday 10:00 a.m. Session 181 Fetzer 2016
Guilds, Confraternities, and Merchant Companies in the Fourteenth Century
Sponsor: 14th Century Society
Organizer: Marie D’Aguanno Ito, Catholic Univ. of America
Presider: Marie D’Aguanno Ito
- Nuisance and Necessity: Supervising the Leather Industry in Late Medieval Lucca
Daniel Jamison, Univ. of Toronto
Friday 10:00 a.m.Session 198 Schneider 1275
Carolingian Art and Artists
Presider: Genevra Kornbluth, Kornbluth Photography
- “The turtle dove and the swallow and the stork watched for the time of his coming”: Birds, Revelation, and the Ideal Viewer in Early Medieval Gospel Books
Elizabeth Fischer, Univ. of North Carolina–Chapel Hill
Friday 10 PM Session 212 Bernhard 204
Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral: Textual and Material Evidence of Medieval Healing
Sponsor: Medica: The Society for the Study of Healing in the Middle Ages
Organizer: Linda Migl Keyser, Univ. of Maryland
Presider: Linda Migl Keyser
- Mint, Mandrake, and Materia Medica: Localized Andalusi Medical Knowledge in Practice
Allyssa J. Metzger, Harvard Univ. - Sixteenth-Century Italian Medical Recipe Books: Between the Ideal and the Practical
Emily E. Hagens, Univ. of Minnesota–Twin Cities - Madness as Metaphor: Clinical Concepts in Medieval Psychiatry
Mary Hardiman Farley, Univ. of Southern California - Diseases Shared by Humans and Animals
William H. York, Portland State Univ.
Friday 1/30 PM Session 243 Schneider 1135
Violence and Vulnerability I: Slow and Systemic
Sponsor: Medieval Academy of America
Organizer: Diane J. Reilly, Indiana Univ.–Bloomington
Presider: Ruth Mazo Karras, Univ. of Minnesota–Twin Cities
- Adam and Eve and the Animals
Peggy McCracken, Univ. of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Friday 1:30 p.m. Session 254 Schneider 1330
The Word and the World: Exegetical Readings of Everyday Life in the Early Middle Ages
Organizer: Daniel Price, Univ. of Toronto, and Abigail Owen, Univ. of Toronto
Presider: Abigail Owen
- Christian Typology and Medieval Bestiaries
Tomas Flecker, Centre for Medieval Studies, Univ. of Toronto
Friday 1:30 p.m.Session 266 Bernhard 204
Herbal Therapies and Medicinal Gardens in Art, Literature, and Medicine
Sponsor: Medica: The Society for the Study of Healing in the Middle Ages
Organizer: Gerard P. NeCastro, Univ. of Maine–Machias
Presider: Gerard P. NeCastro
- Plant, Bird, Fish, and Stone: Enrique de Villena, Cyranides and the Four Ingredients for Love in Medieval Iberia
Felipe Esteban Rojas, Univ. of Chicago
Friday 3:30 p.m. Session 286 Fetzer 1040
Cistercians and the World
Sponsor: Center for Cistercian and Monastic Studies, Western Michigan Univ.
Organizer: E. Rozanne Elder, Western Michigan Univ.
Presider: Ralf Lützelschwab, Freie Univ. Berlin
- Renart the Fox and Bernard the Ass
Clare Balombin, Ohio State Univ.
Friday 3:30 p.m. Session 312 Schneider 1350
Speculum Arabicum: Medieval Encyclopaedism between the East and the West II
Sponsor: Action de Recherche Concertée, Fédération Wallonie
Organizer: Mattia Cavagna, Univ. catholique de Louvain
Presider: Baudouin Van den Abeele, Univ. catholique de Louvain
- Between Orient and Occident: The Quotations from Arab Authors in the Zoological Books of Thirteenth-Century Latin Encyclopaedias
Grégory Clesse, Univ. catholique de Louvain
Friday 3:30 p.m.Session 321 Bernhard 208
Global Sanctity
Sponsor: Hagiography Society
Organizer: Sara Ritchey, Univ. of Louisiana–Lafayette
Presider: Alison Frazier, Univ. of Texas–Austin
Repentant Demons, Contrite Cannibals, and Vengeful Crocodiles: Sin and
- Sanctity in Medieval Arabic Christian Narratives
Elizabeth L. Anderson, Yale Univ.
Saturday 10 AM Session 347 Schneider 1125
Old English Hagiography
Presider: Hans Sauer, Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ. München
- Real and Imagined Animals in Anglo-Saxon Hagiography
Todd Preston, Lycoming College
Saturday 10 AM Session 368 Schneider 1355
Metalwork
Presider: Holly R. Silvers, Minnesota State Univ.–Moorhead
- Friend, Foe, or Food? The Role of Animals on a Middle Byzantine Bowl
Lara Frentrop, Courtauld Institute of Art
Saturday 1:30 p.m. Session 390 Valley I Shilling Lounge
Animals in Marie de France
Sponsor: International Marie de France Society
Organizer: Matthieu Boyd, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ.
Presider: Ed Ouellette, Air Univ.
- Of Loyalty and Love, Desire and Deceit: Birds in the Lais and Fables of Marie de France
Sherron Lux, San Jacinto College - Le Laustic: Reflections on the Nightingale, Philomena, and Fabric
Leslie Burress, Univ. of Louisville - Translating Bisclavret
Katherine Kong, Univ. of Tennessee–Knoxville - “I don’t reckon you’re any better than a mad dog!”: The Transformative Power of Furor in Twelfth-Century Vernacular Literature
Jonathan Sapp, Univ. of Akron
Saturday 1:30 p.m.Session 400 Schneider 1120
Market Power: Royal, Civic, and Manorial Enterprise in Fourteenth-Century England
Sponsor: Society of the White Hart
Organizer: Mark Arvanigian, California State Univ.–Fresno
Presider: Douglas Biggs, Univ. of Nebraska–Kearney
- The Horse Trade in Medieval England
Jordan Claridge, Univ. of East Anglia
Saturday 1:30 p.m.Session 401 Schneider 1125
Medieval Environments I: Disasters
Sponsor: Environmental History Network for the Middle Ages (ENFORMA)
Organizer: Ellen F. Arnold, Ohio Wesleyan Univ.
Presider: Ellen F. Arnold
- Epidemics, Epizootics, and Famine in Ireland, 500–800 AD
Michelle Ziegler, St. Louis Univ. - Volcanic Events and European Climate Extremes, 670–730 CE
Conor Kostick, Univ. of Nottingham - The Beginning of the End: Sheep Panzootics and Fortunes of Wool Industry in England, 1250–1330
Philip Slavin, Univ. of Kent
Saturday 1:30 p.m.Session 425 Schneider 2345
The Medieval Monster as Mirror: Translation, Hybridity, and Cultural Identity
Sponsor: Medieval Studies Institute, Indiana Univ.–Bloomington
Organizer: Ben Garceau, Indiana Univ.–Bloomington, and Margot Valles, Michigan
State Univ.
Presider: Margot Valles
- The Monstrosity of Beasts and Sinners in Beowulf: Issues in Translation
Julie K. Chamberlin, Indiana Univ.–Bloomington - Transforming and Mirroring in The Turke and Sir Gawain
Jean E. Jost, Bradley Univ. - The Object, the Dreamer, and the Dreamwork: A Folio in the Rutland Psalter
Betsy L. Chunko, United States Military Academy, West Point
Saturday 1:30 p.m. Session 429 Bernhard 204
Animals in Arthuriana
Sponsor: Rossell Hope Robbins Library, Univ. of Rochester
Organizer: Kristi J. Castleberry, Univ. of Rochester, and Kara L. McShane, Univ. of
Rochester
Presider: Kristi J. Castleberry and Kara L. McShane
- The Monstrosity of Sin and the Prose Merlin’s Demon Cat
Sharon Rhodes, Univ. of Rochester - Tristan and Medieval Hunting Manuals
Emily R. Huber, Franklin & Marshall College - Shoulders Like an Ox, or, Smiling Like a Tiger? Arthurian Animal Identities in Terry Pratchett’s Albion
Kristin Noone, Univ. of California–Riverside
Saturday 3:30 p.m. Session 456 Schneider 1125
Medieval Environments II: Resource Exploitation
Sponsor: Environmental History Network for the Middle Ages (ENFORMA);
Medieval Association for Rural Studies (MARS)
Organizer: Ellen F. Arnold, Ohio Wesleyan Univ.
Presider: Richard C. Hoffmann, York Univ.
- Strategies and Ecologies: Hunting in Northern and Central Italy between 1300 and 1500
Cristina Arrigoni Martelli, York Univ.
Saturday 3:30 p.m. Session 472 Schneider 1330
French Romance
Presider: Charles-Louis Morand-Métivier, Univ. of Vermont
- Evolution de la figure du lion dans l’imaginaire médiéval et La Queste del saint Graal
Catherine Scubla, Lycée Français de Gaudalajara
Saturday 3:30 p.m.Session 491 Bernhard Brown & Gold Room
In Honor of Geoffrey Richard Russom: Aspects of Early English Poetic Culture II
Organizer: M. J. Toswell, Univ. of Western Ontario
Presider: Amy N. Vines, Univ. of North Carolina–Greensboro
- Boars and Beowulf
Lindy Brady, Univ. of Mississippi
Sunday 8:30 a.m.Session 506 Schneider 1235
Doggy Deux: Dogs, Dogs, Dogs! Redux
Organizer: Laura D. Gelfand, Utah State Univ.
Presider: Laura D. Gelfand
- Beasts, Bestiaries, and the Bayeux Tapestry: Man’s Best Friend Meets “the Animal Turn”
Elizabeth Pastan, Emory Univ. - “Jagd nach der Treue,” or, When Desire Met Devotion
Jane Carroll, Dartmouth College - Collars of Civility: Dogs in Some Medieval Manuscript Miniatures
John Block Friedman, Univ. of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign - Dog Is My Co-Pilot: Canine Companions in English Biblical Drama
Rob Wakeman, Univ. of Maryland
Sunday 10:30 a.m.Session 547 Schneider 1275
All God’s Brutes: Medieval Perspectives on the Ethical Treatment of Animals
Sponsor: Dept. of Philosophy, Marymount Univ.
Organizer: Ariane Economos, Marymount Univ.
Presider: Rosa Slegers, Babson College
- Teleology, Tails, and Other Ends: Medieval Aristotelians on Ethics and Animals
Ariane Economos - Rather They Should Be Working Gently: Muhammed ibn Zakariya Al-Razi on Animal Ethics and Transmigration
Gary Gabor, Hamline Univ. - When Squirrels Take a Stand: Imagining English Law through the Natural World
Katie L. Peebles, Marymount Univ. - From Symbolization to Identification: Human-Animal Communities and the Ethics of Boundaries
Robert Stanton, Boston College
Sunday 10:30 a.m.Session 555 Schneider 1355
Historicizing Form
Sponsor: Graduate Medievalists at Berkeley
Organizer: Jacob Hobson, Univ. of California–Berkeley
Presider: Jacob Hobson
- Constant Monsters, Changing Forms: The Impact of the Encyclopedic Form on Approaches to the Monstrous Races
Rosalind Lintott, Univ. of Cambridge