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Friday, 5 April
Noon—5 pm:	Registration (Prince Edward Room)
1:00—2:15pm:	Session #1
2:15—2:20pm:	Break / Refreshments
2:20—3:35pm:	Session #2
3:35—3:45pm:	Break / Refreshments
3:45—5:00pm:	Session #3
6:00—7:00pm:	Reception
7:00—8:00pm:	Banquet
8:00—9:00pm:	First Plenary Address
Saturday, 6 April
8:30—11:15am:	Continental Breakfast (Prince Edward)
9:00—10:15am:	Session #4
10:30—11:45am:	Session #5
11:45—1:30pm:	Lunch
1:45—2:45pm:	Second Plenary Address
2:45—3:00pm:	Afternoon Break
3:00—4:15pm:	Session #6
4:30—5:30pm:	Session #7(incl. fencing demonstration)
7:00–7:45pm:	Medieval Drama: Herod

SESSION #1:  1:00—2:15pm
Things are Not as They Seem
Chair: Dr. Larissa Tracy, Longwood University

• “The Holy Lance at Antioch: Relics and Propaganda in the First Crusade”
  Kristen Finchum, Longwood University
  


• “Economic Changes after the Black Death”
  Clinton C. James, Longwood University
  


• “The Price of Poetry”
  Lindsay Graybill, Longwood University

SESSION #2:  2:20—3:35pm
Wild Men of the North
Chair: Dr. Mary Valante, Appalachian State University

• “Alfred the Great’s Innovative Defense of Wessex”
  Kasey Dye, Longwood University


• “Class Structure in Old Norse-Icelandic Literature”
   Ian Karamarkovich, Longwood University


• “National Identity and Religious Motifs in Snorri Sturluson’s Edda”
  Emily Davidson, Longwood University

SESSION #3:  3:45—5:00pm
Taming the Wild
Chair: Mary Prevo, Hampden-Sydney College

• “The Archaeology of a Medieval Village: Willingham, Cambridgeshire”
  Allison Whitlock, Notre Dame University


• “Where the Wild Things Are: Seeing Ireland From Your House”
   Holli Mahala, Radford University


• “The Hereford Map”
  Marissa Clark, Radford 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, 6 April

SESSION #4:  9:00—10:15am
Whither the Wild...
Chair: Dr. Steven Isaac, Longwood University

• “Violent Times, Vehement People and Vicious Beasts”
  Kenna Crane, Radford University
  
  
• “Nature, Nurture, and Gender in the Roman de Silence”
  Faith Holley, Wofford College


• “Merlin, Jedi Master or...”
   Daniel Catalano, Molloy College


• “Dead King Walking”
   Caitlin Breen, Molloy College

SESSION 5:  10:30—11:45am
Wild Women
Chair: Dr. Susanne Hafner, Fordham University

• “Brynhild: Wild Woman or Agent of Fate?”
  Katy Lewis, Longwood University
  
  
• “More Than a Sight of God: Medieval Female Visionaries”
  Caity Mans, Flagler College


• “The Female Relationship in Le Roman de Silence”
   Molly Brady, Wofford College

SECOND PLENARY ADDRESS:  1:45—2:45pm

SESSION 6:  3:00—4:15pm
Defining the Wild
Chair: Dr. Natalie Grinnell, Wofford College

• “On the Mosaics of Ravenna”
  Nicholas Monahan, University of Virginia
  
  
• “Codicological Research on the Venerable Bede’s De Natura Rerum”
  Amy Gembara, Fordham University
  
  
• “After the Schism: Lingering Religious Hostility in NYPL MS Spencer 103”
  Edward Zukowski, Fordham University

SESSION 7:  4:30—5:30pm
Stepping into the Wild

• “Meeting Middle English in the Middle: The York Crucifixion at Longwood, Spring 2012”
  Brittany Carol Alsup, Murray State University
• Fencing Demonstration
  Tom Leoni, Catholic University

7:00–7:45pm: MEDIEVAL MYSTERY PLAY

• Herod — Performance
  Murray State University