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Schedule of Papers & Events

(2010 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
Office of Academic Affairs

General Schedule
(panels below)

Friday, 26 March

 
Noon—5 pm: Registration (Chichester/Science Building Atrium)
2:15—3:30pm: Session #1
3:30—3:45pm: Afternoon Refreshments
3:45—5:15pm: Session #2
6:00—8:00pm: Reception and Banquet
(Featuring Medieval Music by Otter's Court)
8:00—9:00pm: First Plenary Address : Wendy Hoofnagle

Saturday, 27 March

 
8:30—11:15am: Continental Breakfast
9:00—10:15am: Session#3
10:30—11:30am: Session #4
11:30—1:30pm: Lunch
1:45—2:45pm: Second Plenary Address : Steven Isaac
3:00—3:15pm: Afternoon Break
3:15—4:15pm: Session #5
4:30—5:30pm: Guest Presentation: Nicolas Prouteau


Sessions and Speakers

Friday, 26 March

SESSION #1:  2:15—3:30pm
Rethinking Church Influence
Chair: Dr. Steven Isaac, Longwood University

  • “Rape, Pillage, and Burn: The Christian Demonization of Vikings”
    Eric Fehr, Longwood University

  • “Usurping the Christian Archetype: Syncretism and The Dream of the Rood”
    Jeff Everhart, Longwood University

  • “The Inconsistent and Flip-Flopping Church: The Empowerment of Women Mystics”
    Emmilee Mizerak, Longwood University

SESSION #2:  3:45—5:00pm
The Twelfth Century Envisioned in Chaucer
Chair: Dr. Steele Nowlin, Hampden-Sydney College

  • “Chaucer's Voice: Rhetorical Apostrophes' Effects on The Man of Law's Tale”
    Jarrod Ficklin, Hampden-Sydney College

  • “Understanding History Through Chaucer”
    Luke Hargroder, Hampden-Sydney College

  • “Geoffrey Chaucer and Marie de France: Courtly Love in Context”
    Patrick Day, Longwood University
RECEPTION 6:00–6:30
Medieval Music perofrmed by Otter's Court (free and open to the public—Dorrill Hall, Lewis Room)

BANQUET: 6:30–8:00
(By advance registration only) Dorrill Hall, Nance Room

FIRST PLENARY ADDRESS:  8:00—9:00pm, Lewis Room, Dorrill Hall

Dr. Wendy Hoofnagle
University of Northern Iowa
“Reading between the Lines: Glossing Womanly Wisdom in Marie de France's Lais ”

Saturday, 27 March

SESSION #3:  9:00—10:15am
Women, Myth, and Incest
Chair: Dr. Larissa Tracy, Longwood University

  • “Taking an Active Role in Pursuing Forbidden Love: An Interpretation of Two Incest Myths in Ovid's Metamorphosis”
    Megan Brosnan, Roanoke College

  • “‘Byblis ought to bee a mirror unto thee Maydes in lawfull wyse to love’: Translating Ovid’s Incestuous Myths in the Late Medieval and Reformation Worlds”
    Jennifer Treadway, Roanoke College

  • “Vengeful Monster or Valiant Mother?: Reimagining Grendel’s Mother”
    Cailin Wright, Longwood University

SESSION 4:  10:30—11:30am
The Politics of War
Chair: Dr. Nicolas Prouteau, MIT

  • “The Flower of Chivalry and the Pig in Armor”
    Darcy Satterwhite, Virginiq Tech University

  • “Salah ad-Din from Western Eyes”
    Thomas Bensin, Virginia Tech University

SECOND PLENARY ADDRESS:  1:45—2:45pm

Dr. Steven Isaac
Longwood University/Fulbright Researcher—Université de Poitiers
“The Profits (and Perils) of Peace in the Twelfth Century”

SESSION 5:  3:15—4:15pm
Epistolary Art and the Art of Manuscripts
Chair: Wendy Hoofnagle, University of Northern Iowa

  • “‘Peter of Blois: Epistolary Artist”
    Nancy Starks Sattler, Liberty University

  • “Scriptorium: Makings of a Scribe and Scholar”
    Sarah Strapp, Sweet Briar College

Special Lecture :  4:30—5:30pm
“Hospitaller Fortresses at the Time of the Crusades”
Dr. Nicolas Prouteau, Post-Doctoral Fellow of the Aga Khan Program in Islamic Architecture and Archaeology at MIT

CLOSING REMARKS: 5:30pm