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Subject: CU Conference
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 10:27:59 -0500 (EST)
From: Laura Maureen Weber <[log in to unmask]>
To: Nancy Gajee <[log in to unmask]>
Dear Nancy,
Could you please forward this program to the students (particularly the
graduate students) in your department? The last panel dedicated to Italian
literature and includes papers by Tobias Gittes and Scott Failla.
Thank you! Laura Weber
PROGRAM: MEDIEVAL ALTERITY CONFERENCE, Saturday March 2, Philosophy Hall
Medieval Alterity: The Other in the Middle Ages, and the Middle Ages as
Other
8:30 - 9:30 Registration and Coffee
9:30 - 11:00 Roundtable Panel: Methodology
David Wallace, University of Pennsylvania (Moderator), Patricia Grieve,
Columbia University, Robert Stein, SUNY-Purchase, Gil Anidjar, Columbia
University, Patricia Ingham, Lehigh University, Daniel Heller-Roazen,
Princeton University.
11:00 - 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15- 12:45 Concurrent Sessions
1. The Middle Ages in the Modern Imagination
Lee Fulton, "Like to Swords Swords Opposing: Ezra Pound and Bertran de
Born"
Brantley Bryant, "Blackening Magic: John Gerson, Harry Potter and the
Necromantic Other"
Breixo Viejo, "A Yearning for the Ideal: Theses on Tarkovsky's Andrey
Rublyov"
2. Geography and Identity
Rebecca Slitt, "Planting the Self Among Others: Society and Property in
Cardiff 1081-1282"
Derrick Higginbotham, "'Not Love but Faction': Unity and Ethnic Identity
in The Conquest of Lisbon"
Babak Rahimi, "Alterity in cultural historical context: the case of the
European narration of Shi'a rituals in Safavid Persia, 1578-1629"
3. Saracen Identities
Marilyn Lawrence, "Saracen Heroines and Cross-Dressing in the Christian
World"
Asifa Malik, "Arab-Syrian Gentlewomen and Warriors in the Time of the
Crusades: Memoirs of Women Rarely Found Behind the Veil"
Valentina Jones-Wagner, "The Familiar Body of the Other in the French
Epic: The Case of the Saracen Princess in La Belle Helene de
Constantinople"
12:45- 200 Lunch Break
2:15-3:30 Keynote Address: Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, George
Washington University: "The Flow of Blood in Twelfth Century Norwich"
3:30 - 5:00 Concurrent Sessions
1. Figuring Jews
Susannah Crowder, "Nuns and Jews in Thirteenth Century England:
Veronica,
Conversion, and Female Devotion"
Michael Pantazakos, "From Epic to Romance: The Literary Transformation
of Private Blood Feud into Societal Ressentiment"
Jessie Sherwood, "Killers of Christ and Enemies of God: Jews in Petrus
Alfonsi's Dialogi Contra Judeos"
2. Negotiating the Feminine
Diane Peters Auslander, "Holy Culture Shock: An Irish Saint in the South
English Legendary"
Nina Hein, "Males as 'Other'?: The Notion of Norm and Abnormality in
Hrotsvit von Gandersheim's Plays"
Karl Steel, "Nostalgia Confounded in the Cotton Cleopatra Des Grantz
Geanz"
3. Transgressing in Italian
Karina Attar, "Canine Moors and Fickle Women: Medieval Christian Notions
of Alterity in the Italian Renaissance Novella"
Tobias Gittes, "Dante's 'trista conca': the Feminization of Lower Hell"
Scott Failla, "Transvestism and Masquerading in Boccaccio's Decameron"
5:15- 6:00 Play
6:00- 7:00 Reception
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