Cornell at Kalamazoo & Leeds in 2007

The 42nd International Congress on Medieval Studies met from May 10 thru 13, 2007, on the campus of Western Michigan University at Kalamazoo.  We spotted at least 55 participants with Cornell affiliations who took part in this year’s conference, with 42 delivering a total of 44 papers, 18 organizing and/or presiding at 31 sessions, and 3 responding; in addition, one person contributed to a roundtable discussion and two took part in dramatic readings.  Six current faculty members, and eight former faculty took part in this year's conference, as did 9 current grad students and 9 former students, along with 25 who hold Cornell PhDs.  The following Cornellians, listed in alphabetical order and with their current affiliations, delivered papers this year:

Sarah M. Anderson (Princeton U), “Marking the Monster in Malory’s Morte Darthur”

Frederick M. Biggs (U of Connecticut), “Gnof and the Source of The Miller's Tale”

Amy R. Bloch (California State U-Chico), "The Experience of Baptism and the Role of Imagery at the Baptistery of Florence"

James M. Blythe (U of Memphis), "Equal or Inferior to Men? Ptolemy of Lucca's Ambivalence about Women"

Niall Brady (Discovery Programme, Dublin), “Inside an Irish Lordship: Land-Use and Settlement among the O'Conor Roe in North Roscommon”

Shirley Ann Brown (York U), "'Auctoritas, Consilium, et Auxilium' in the Bayeux Tapestry: Images of Ducal Authority"

María Bullón-Fernández (Seattle U), "Poverty, Gender, and Selfhood in the Late Middle Ages: The Case of Chaucer's Griselda"

Cynthia Turner Camp (Cornell grad), “Monastic Division and Corporal Unity in Henry Bradshaw's Life of Saint Weburge”

Karen Cherewatuk (St. Olaf C) participated in a reading of "The Tale of Sir Launcelot: Malory's Morte Darthur"

Alison Cornish (U of Michigan-Ann Arbor), "Dante and the Translation of Classical Culture"

Florin Curta (U of Florida), “The Amber Trail in Early Medieval Eastern Europe”

Susan E. Deskis (Northern Illinois U), "Shepherd's Play through the Seventeenth Century"

Ionut Epurescu-Pascovici (Cornell grad), "Self-Perception in the Livre de raison of Pierre Esperon"

Oren Falk (Cornell fac), “Helgastaðir, 1220: A Battle of No Significance?”

Bernd Goehring (U of Notre Dame) participated in The Critical Edition of Scotus's QQ de anima: A Roundtable

Greg Halfond (U of Minnesota-Twin Cities), “Lex Dei et Ecclesiastica Regula: The Legal Status of Frankish Conciliar"

Sarah Harlan-Haughey (Cornell grad), "'To Bydde a Man to Dyner': Food and Feasting in The Gest of Robin Hood "

M. Leigh Harrison (Cornell grad), "'The Vices and Virtues' and the Twelfth-Century Renaissance of Old English Literature"

Nicholas R. Havely (U of York), "Losing Gianciotto: The Strange Case of William Dyce's Francesca (ca. 1837)"

Gregory Hays (U of Virginia), “Fulgentius and His Medieval Readers: The Evidence of the Glosses”

Thomas D. Hill (Cornell fac), “Seeds and Shoots: Vegetation Imagery in Christ I ”

Paul R. Hyams (Cornell fac), “Poverty, Serfdom, and Modern Development Theory”

Sarah James (U of Kent), "'The Lawe and the Lore to Knawe God All-Mighten': Archbishop Thoresby and the Vernacular in the North"

Curtis Roberts-Holt Jirsa (Cornell grad), “With So Good Entente: Intentio Auctoris in the Lyrics of Troilus and Criseyde”

Nicole Marafioti (Cornell grad), “Hagiography and History in the Icelandic Saga of Edward the Confessor”

James W. Marchand (U of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign), "The Pia Fraus in the Kontakia of Romanos"

Giuseppe Mazzotta (Yale U), "Civil War and Poetry"

Paul Milliman (Cornell grad), "A Iugo Principum Poloniae, a Iugo Teutonicorum: Papal Legations, Translocal Organizations, and State-Formations on the Frontier of Christendom"

Asa Simon Mittman (Arizona State U), "A Response, via Walter Benjamin" to the session entitled "Medieval Monstrosities and Their Ill Repute"; "'In the Same Place': The Location of Identity in the Wonders of the East"

James Muldoon (John Carter Brown Library, Brown U), "Humanitarian Intervention and Imperial Power"

Éamonn Ó Carragáin (University College Cork), “Northumbrian Liturgical Culture as Reflected in Bede's Historia abbatum and Related Evidence”

Michael T. Orr (Lawrence U), "Learning to Read in the Hortus Conclusus: Images of the Education of the Virgin in Early Fifteenth-Century English Manuscripts"

Simone Pinet (Cornell fac), “Shields, Tents, and Other Maps of the World in the Libro de Alexandre”

Teresa Pugh Rupp (Mount St. Mary's U), "Gird your Sword on your Leg: Remigio dei Girolami's 1301 Sermon for the Reception of Charles of Valois."

Marla Segol (Skidmore C), “Sex with God! What Do We Mean, and How?”; "Mysticism and Kabbalah: Same or Different"

Danuta Shanzer (U of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign), “Vouillé 507: Diplomatic (Re-)Considerations and Fortuna”

Sachi Shimomura (Virginia Commonwealth U), "Spaces of Time in the Old English Bede and the Benedictine Rule"

Colleen Slater (Cornell grad), "Women, Warfare, and the Politics of Emotion in the Middle Ages"

Fiona Somerset (Duke U), "Lollard Saints, 'Gostly Cities'"

Lorraine K. Stock (U of Houston), “Queen, Maid, Witch: Female Archetypes in Television Versions of the Robin Hood Legend”

Katherine H. Terrell (Hamilton C), "Orality and the Borders of Identity in the Old English Andreas"

Michael W. Twomey (Ithaca C), “Mountains in the Margins: Glosses in De propietatibus rerum, Book XIV”

Misty Urban (Cornell grad), “Women's Body as Sacred Space in Middle English Romance”

Jennifer Welsh (Duke U), “Dicete O Matres Filias Vostras ad Honorem dei Institutuere: Saint Anne as a Model and Teacher”

Joseph S. Wittig (U of North Carolina-Chapel Hill), “Macrocosm, Microcosm, and Neo-Platonic Thought in Early Glosses on Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy”

Suzanne M. Yeager (Fordham U), “Refiguring Muslim Presence in the Holy Land: An English Pilgrim's View”

The International Medieval Congress at the University of Leeds took place July 10-13, 2006, and also featured several Cornell faculty (past and present) and former students. Below is a list of their names, current affiliations, and the titles of their talks. Others, such as Paul Hyams (Cornell fac) and Cristiana Sogno (U of California--Irvine), were involved as session organizers and/or moderators. (N.B. If anyone was overlooked, please contact medievalst@cornell.edu so that our information can be complete.)  

Tracey L. Billado (Seton Hall U), "'Evil Customs' in 11th-Century Western France"

Niall Brady (The Discovery Programme, Dublin), "Medieval Dublin and its Region: Archaeological Perspectives"

Andrew Cain (U of Colorado--Boulder), "Rethinking the Audience of Peter Abelard's Historia calamitatum"

Margot Fassler (Yale U), "Emotion and Meaning in Medieval Gotland: Shifting Correspondences between Wall Paintings and the Sequence Repertory"

Jamie Friedman (Cornell grad), “Between Boccaccio and Chaucer: The Limits of Female Interiority in the Knight’s Tale”

Lynn Marie Laufenberg (Sweet Briar C), "The Physical Language of Defamation and Defiance in Medieval Florence"

F. Regina Psaki (U of Oregon), "The Anatomy of Melancholy: Tristan in Italian Prose Romance"

Danuta Shanzer (U of Illinois--Urbana-Champaign), "Some Treatments of Sexual Scandal in Latin Epistolography"

Fiona Somerset (Duke U), "A Lollard Climate of Feeling?: Reading and Emotion in a Middle English Bible Summary"

Samantha Zacher (Cornell fac), "In the Lion's Den: Prophecy and Punishment in the Old English Daniel"