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Friday, 27 March
11:00am—5 pm	Registration (Dorrill Hall-Nance Foyer)
Noon—1:30	Session #1
1:30—1:45	Break / Refreshments
1:45—3:15	Session #2
3:30—5:00	Session #3
6:00—7:00pm:	Reception (Dorrill Hall-Tea Room)
7:00—8:00pm:	Banquet (Dorril Hall-Nance Room)
8:00—9:00pm:	First Plenary Address (Dorrill Hall-Nance Room)
Saturday, 28 March
8:30—11:10am:	Continental Breakfast (Tea Room)
9:00—10:30am:	Session #4
10:45—12:15pm:	Session #5
Noon—2:00pm:	Lunch
2:00—3:00pm:	Second Plenary Address
3:00—3:15pm:	Afternoon Break
3:15—4:45pm:	Session #6
7:00–7:45pm:	Medieval Drama: York Cycle (3 works)

SESSION #1:  Noon—1:30pm
Dangerous Liaisons
Chair: Kat Tracy, Longwood University

• “Elevation, Virtue, and Suffering: Themes of Impossible Love in Fourteenth Century Narrative”
  Catherine Albers, University of Mississippi
  


• “A Servant of Two Masters: The Balance of Courtly Love and Knightly Honor in The Lais of Marie de France”
  Alegra N. Padrón, Florida State University
  


• “‘Keep Well This New Kinship’: Examining the Legality of Beowulf's Adoption”
  Sharon Wofford, University of Mississippi

SESSION #2:  1:45—3:15pm
Marginal Magic
Chair: Melissa Ridley-Elmes, UNC-Greensboro

• “Magic and Femininity as Power in Medieval Literature”
  Anna McGill, East Tennessee State University


• “The Politics and Perils of Alchemy”
  Jennifer Bryant, Longwood University


• “A Crown That Is Not a Crown: The Fey Politics of the Fairy Lady”
  Savannah Hughes, Florida State University
  
  
• “Singing Sirens—How Medieval Misogyny Shaped a Monster”
  Kimberly Lynn Morrill, Radford University

SESSION #3:  3:30—5:00pm
Powerful Women
Chair: Jessica Pitts, Florida State University

• “Obedience and Obligation”
  Ansley McDurman, The University of the South (Sewanee)
  
  
• “Rebranding a She-Wolf: The Vilification and Forgiveness of Isabella of France”
  Emily Heim, Longwood University
  
  
• “Lex Orandi est Lex Credendi: The Influence of the Laity and the Liturgy on the Doctrinal Debates of the Immaculate Conception and the Medieval Church’s Role as Mother”
  Nicolas Novak, Catholic University of America
  
  
• “Beowulf’s Wealhtheow: or the Only Sane Character of the Poem”
  Ryan Young, University of Mississippi
  

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, 28 March

SESSION #4:  9:00—10:30am
Othering and Violence
Chair: Asa Simon Mittman, California State Univ., Chico

• “Beowulf and Judith; Relationships Recasting the Role of Christianity in Beowulf”
  Blaise Denton, Florida State University


• “Dead Honor: Justice and Honor Killing in The Physician’s Tale”
  P.J. Dominiski, Randolph-Macon College


• “Grendel’s Mother: The Deviant Other in Beowulf”
  Cheri D. Molter, Methodist University


• “Outside of the Christian ‘Norm’: Medieval Bestiaries Representing Owls as Being ‘Sinful’ Birds”
  Julia Poyer, Radford University
  

SESSION #5:  10:45—12:15pm
Patrolling the Borders
Chair: Steven Isaac, Longwood University

• “Conflict and Contestation in Early Medieval Italy: Charlemagne, Byzantium and the Imperial Coronation”
  Jonathan Dell Isola, American University
  
  
• “Medieval Marriages and Law Codes: A Study of Multiculturalism in Medieval Iberia”
  Margo Sheffler, Longwood University
  
  
• “‘With Many Proverb Divers and Unkouth’: John Lydgate’s Response to Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale in his Siege of Thebes”
  Madeline Monk, Randolph-Macon College


• “Manipulation and Memorialization: The Shifting Legacy of Roger II in Twelfth-Century Italy”
  Bill Oldham, American University

SECOND PLENARY ADDRESS:  2:00—3:00pm

SESSION 6:  3:15—4:45pm
Passing as the Other
Chair: Ana Grinberg, East Tennessee State

• “The Green Knight and Racial Passing”
  Lin Baumeister, Methodist University
  
  
• “From Bisclavret to Lupin: Social Anxiety and Werewolves”
  Parker Smith, Appalachian State University


• “Monstrous Muslims: The Existential Threat of Islam to the Medieval Christian”
  Graham Shelton, Appalachian State University

7:00—7:45pm: MEDIEVAL DRAMA—The York Cycle (The Resurrection, Appearance to Mary Magdalene, and Appearance on the Road to Emmaeus) In the Rehearsal Room of the Communications/Theatre Building

• Performance by Murray State University
  Alexis Ash, Connor Jaschen, Amber Parker, Andrew Shepherd, Keri Mogan, Raquell Verri, Erin Froelich, Kris Cole