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Friday, 5 April	(All sessions in the Nance Room of Dorrill Hall)
Noon—5 pm:	Registration (Nance Room Foyer)
1:00—2:30pm:	Session #1
2:30—2:45pm:	Break / Refreshments
2:45—4:15pm:	Session #2
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, 6 April
8:30—11:15am:	Continental Breakfast (Tea Room)
9:00—10:30am:	Session #3
10:45—12:00pm:	Second Plenary Address
Noon—2:00pm:	Lunch
2:00—3:15pm:	Session #4
3:15—3:30pm:	Afternoon Break
3:30—4:45pm:	Session #5

SESSION #1:  1:00—2:30pm
Foundations of Religious Identity
Chair: Dr. Charlotte Cartwright, Christopher Newport
University

• “Peasants on Crusade: The Motives and Actions of
  Commoners During the People’s Crusade”
  Ethan Phillips, Christopher Newport University
  (In Memoriam)
  


• “Treatment of Jewish Settlers by Iberian
  Leadership: Were Changes in Treatment Motivated
  by Financial Gain?”
  James Phillips, Longwood University/Plymouth
  University
  


• “A Hammer Dropped: Norway’s Conversion to
  Christianity”
  William F. Nordgaard, Longwood University

SESSION #2:  2:45—4:15pm
The Papacy as Identity Police
Chair: Dr. Steven Isaac, Longwood University

• “On the Contrary: Papal Policy, Heresy and
  Authority in the Middle Ages”
  Jessica E. McCarty, Old Dominion University


• “Perfect and Imperfect: Doctrine, Cathar Believers,
  and Cathar Perfects in Southern France, c. 1200–
  1350”
   Stephen Miller Bowe, Christopher Newport
  University


• “Liudprand of Cremona’s Political Theology: From
  Theocracy to Ceasaropapism in Western Europe
  Under the Reign of Otto the Great”
  Alexander Mertz, George Mason University

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

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

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

Saturday, 6 April

SESSION #3:  9:00—10:15am
Stories of Identity
Chair: Dr. Larissa Tracy, Longwood University

• “Weapons and Their Bearers: Early Medieval
  Ireland”
  Victoria Sisco, Belmont Abbey College
  
  
• “London’s Guilds and Their Crowning Moment,
  1480–1560”
  Jessica Bennett, Christopher Newport University


• “Leveling Up: Video Games in the Classroom:
  Games, Medievalisms, and Elevating Education”
   Hedrick Leonard, Appalachian State University

SECOND PLENARY ADDRESS:  10:45—12 Noon

SESSION 4:  2:00—3:15pm
Medieval Gender Identity
Chair: Dr. Mary Valante, Appalachian State University

• “Defining and Transcending Identity in The Pillow
  Book”
  Carolyn Marciniec, Roanoke College
  
  
• “A Woman’s Place: Female Power as a Plot Device to
  Further the Male Journey”
  Bryanna Meredith, Auburn University
  
  
• “Trauma, Asceticism, and Survivorhood in The Book
  of Margery Kempe”
  Emily Aguilar and Morgan Smith, Bryn Mawr College

SESSION 5:  3:30—4:45pm
(Re)Constructing Medieval Identity
Chair: Dr. Tina Boyer, Wake Forest University

• “Augustine and the Byronic Hero”
  Max Marck, Belmont Abbey College


• “An Inquisition on Hate: Examining the Medieval
  Roots and Justifications of Modern Terrorism in
  Spain”
  Sebastian Hay, Appalachian State University


• “Medieval Games and the Alt-Right: Racist Elements
  of Medieval Role-Playing Video Games”
  Caleb Guenther, Appalachian State University

SEE YOU NEXT YEAR!!