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Schedule of Papers & Events

(2008 Conference)
 

Sponsors

Department of English and Modern Languages
Department of History, Political Science, and Philosophy
Longwood History Club
Longwood Literature Club
The Cook-Cole College of Arts and Science
Longwood Alumni Association

General Schedule
(panels below)

Friday, 21 March

 
Noon—5 pm: Registration (Science Bldg Atrium)
2:15—3:30pm: Session #1
3:30—3:45pm: Afternoon Refreshments
3:45—5:15pm: Session #2
6:30—8:00pm: Reception and Banquet
8:00—9:00pm: First Plenary Address

Saturday, 22 March

 
8:30—11:15am: Continental Breakfast
9:30—10:45am: Session#3
11:00—12:30am: Short Session with Keynote Speaker
12:30—2:15pm: Lunch
2:15—3:30pm: Session #4
3:30—3:45pm: Afternoon Break
3:45—5:15pm: Session #5


Sessions and Speakers

Friday, 21 March

SESSION #1:  2:15—3:30pm
“What’s Love Got to Do with It?:” Deconstructing Courtly Love
Chair: Larissa Tracy, Longwood University

  • “Till Death Do We Part: Deconstructing the Suicidal Love Story of Chaucer’s Legend of Good Women”
    Niki Swann, Longwood University

  • “He’s Lost that Lovin’ Feeling: Thomas Chestre’s Launfal as an Indictment of the Courtly Ideal “
    Melissa Elmes, Longwood University

SESSION #2:  3:45—5:15pm
Boundaries of Medieval Violence
Chair: John Bradley, NUI Maynooth

  • “Lisbon, Bruges, and the Medieval Mind”
    Travis Lankford, Longwood University

  • “A Woman Exiled: The Vengeance of Grendel’s Mother in Beowulf ”
    Samantha Cash, Longwood University

  • “Violence IS the Answer: Socially, Politically, and Emotionally Productive Depictions of Violence in Three Anglo-Saxon Poems”
    Jennifer Sanders, Longwood University
RECEPTION & BANQUET: 6:30-8:00, Lewis Room, Dorrill Hall

FIRST PLENARY ADDRESS:  8:00—9:00pm

Dr. Julian Lethbridge, Tüebingen University (Visiting at East Carolina University)
“No Girls, Only Logic: The Definition of Romance”

Saturday, 22 March

SESSION #3:  9:30—10:45am
SHAKESPEARE: DEATH & DECEPTION
Chair: Julian Lethbridge, Tüebingen University, visiting at East Carolina University

  • “Three-D Choices: Death, Dishonor, and Disillusionment in Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure”
    Dawn Van Ness, Longwood University

  • “Cross-Dressers, Gays, Lesbians, and Deception: Shakespeare’s Jerry Springer”
    Jason Vanfosson, Fairmont State University

SECOND PLENARY ADDRESS:  11:00—12:30pm

Dr. John Bradley, National University of Ireland
“On the Edge of the World: The Irish Middle Ages”

SESSION #4:  2:00—3:30pm
TOLKIEN AND THE FRONTIERS OF MEDIEVAL ENGLISH
IDENTITY
Chair: Tom Herron, East Carolina University

  • “Iron Gates, Iron Curtains: Aragorn, Gawain, and the Cold War”
    Thomas Scott, Longwood University

  • “The Melting Pot of Middle Earth: Tolkien’s Reconfiguration of Medieval English Identity”
    Alice Kirby, Longwood University

SESSION #5:  3:45—5:15pm
IMAGING THE CHURCH
Chair: Raymond Cormier, Longwood University

  • “Abbey Church of Saint Michael’s in Hildesheim, German and its Painted Ceiling”
    Kellie Burris-Walton, East Carolina University

  • “Where the Fire is not Quenched: Medieval Visions of Hell”
    Avie Cone, Longwood University

  • “The Hours of Mary of Burgundy: Didactic Images for Christian Meditation”
    Margaret Lally, Virginia Tech

CLOSING REMARKS: 5:15pm