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Friday, 23 March
Noon—5 pm:	Registration (Prince Edward Room)
1:00—2:15pm:	Session #1
2:15—2:30pm:	Break / Refreshments
2:30—3:45pm:	Session #2
3:45—4:00pm:	Break / Refreshments
4:00—5:15pm:	Session #3
5:00—6:00pm:	Play: “Robin Hood & the Potter”
6:00—7:00pm:	Reception
7:00—8:00pm:	Banquet
8:00—9:00pm:	First Plenary Address
Saturday, 24 March
8:30—11:15am:	Continental Breakfast
9:00—10:15am:	Session #4
10:30—11:45am:	Session #5
11:45—1:15pm:	Lunch
1:30—2:20pm:	Second Plenary Address
2:20—2:30pm:	Afternoon Break
2:30—3:45pm:	Session #6
4:00—4:30pm:	Summary Lecture
4:30—5:30pm:	Special Event: Balista

SESSION #1:  1:00—2:15pm
Women & Power
Chair: Dr. Larissa Tracy, Longwood University

• “Mothers, Daughters and Sister-Wives: Women and Violence in Gregory of Tours’ History of the Franks”
  W. Clay Greeley, Shenandoah University
  


• “Word, Spirit, and Power: Women, Authority, and Prophecy in Early and Late Antique Christianity”
  Mitchell Locklear, Coastal Carolina University
  


• “Chaucer: Men vs. Women and the Conflict between Age and Idiocy”
  Crystal Knappenberger, Winthrop University


• “Gender Balance and Chaucer’s Wife of Bath”
  Paul Thompson, Longwood University

SESSION #2:  2:30—3:45pm
Holy Books
Chair: Dr. Vibeke Olson, UNC–Wilmington

• “Bede, the Lindisfarne Gospels, and Ecclesiastical Politics in Northumbria”
  Margaret Hennessy , George Mason University


• “Books As Mirrors for Medieval Women”
   Jenny Johnstone, Radford University


• “Tables of Power: Women, Feasting and the Medieval Court”
  Sara Briers, Radford University

SESSION #3:  4:00—5:15pm
Witchcraft
Chair: Dr. Bonnie Wheeler, Southern Methodist University

• “She's (not) a Witch!: Idolatry in the Penitential of Theodore”
  Melissa Lavoy, Shenandoah University


• “Gender Instability: The Monstrosity of the Independent S/he”
   Caden John Campbell, Sweet Briar College


• “The Role of the Demon: A Subconscious Mechanism Against Authority in 14th to 17th-Century Europe”
  Michael Tomaselli, UNC-Wilmington 

MEDIEVAL DRAMA 5:15–6:00

• “Robin Hood & the Potter”
  Shenandoah University

RECEPTION 6:00–7:00
Free and open to the public—Dorrill Hall, Nance Room Foyer

BANQUET: 7:00–8:00
(By advance registration only) Dorrill Hall, Nance Room

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

Saturday, 24 March

SESSION #4:  9:00—10:15am
Military History
Chair: Dr. Steven Isaac, Longwood University

• “Naval Operations in the Eastern Mediterranean during the Crusading Epoch”
  William Cabot-Bryans, Longwood University
  
  
• “The Passage of the First Crusade”
  Christopher Randolph Cheatham II


• “Early Medieval Irish Sword Manufacture and Design”
   Eric Spivey, Appalachian State University


• “The End of the Knight: The Road from Brave Warrior to Popular Jouster”
   Michelle Littlejohn, Appalachian State University

SESSION 5:  10:30—11:45am
Women and Law
Chair: Dr. Mary Valante, Appalachian State University

• “Women in Anglo-Saxon Law as Legislated and Practiced”
  David Noel, University of Mary Washington
  
  
• “Laws, Queens, and Goddesses: Medb and the Táin: a Reconsideration”
  Courtney M. Selvage, Sweet Briar College


• “Common Women or Communal Women? The Church's Influence on Perceptions of Prostitutes in Medieval England”
   Rose Buchanan, Appalachian State University

SECOND PLENARY ADDRESS:  1:30—2:20pm

SESSION 6:  2:30—3:45pm
Romancing the Monster
Chair: Melissa Ridley Elmes, UNC–Greensboro

• “A Giant Misunderstanding”
  Danielle Bean, Assumption College
  
  
• “Unaltered Beasts: Transformations in the ‘Beastly Bridegroom’ Tradition of Folklore”
  Lauren Babineau, Sweet Briar College
  
  
• “Chaucer's ‘Doctryne,’ the Knight's ‘Noble Storie": The Tale of Melibee as a Critique of The Knight's Tale in The Canterbury Tales”
   Austin Reid Reiter, Appalachian State University


• “Appropriating Fin'amor in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Pearl”
   Sally Beeson, Winthrop University

SUMMARY LECTURE: 4:00—4:30pm

SPECIAL EVENT :  4:45—5:30pm

• Testing a Re-created Balista
  Christopher Purches, William Cabot-Bryan, Paul Thompson, Longwood University

7:00–7:45pm: MEDIEVAL MYSTERY PLAY

• “The York Crucifixion” — Performance at Johns Memorial Episcopal Church, 400 High Street (across from Ruffner)
  Brittany Alsup, Courtney Christiansen, Kayleen Covert, Michael Mason, Nicole Tuberty, Kishante Muhammad,
  Murray State University