Conference Program

Friday, October 18

8:45-9:50 a.m. Shuttle Service from Holiday Inn to UNI

9:00-9:50 a.m. Late Registration and Coffee Reception (Seerley Hall before The Great Reading Room)

10:00-10:15 a.m. Conference Welcome: Gwendolyn Morgan (SIM Director of Conferences); Tom Shippey, Editor: Studies in Medievalism; James Lubker (Dean, College of Humanities and Fine Arts, UNI)

10:15-11:45 a.m. Plenary Session: The New Middle Ages (Seerley Hall, The Great Reading Room)

John Ganim (University of California at Riverside), "The Afterlife of the Gothic Cathedral: Modernism, Postmodernism and Medievalism in Contemporary Architecture."

William Paden (Northwestern University), "I Learned It At the Movies: Teaching Medieval Film."

Bonnie Wheeler (Southern Methodist University), "Post Modernism Meets King Arthur."

11:45 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Lunch (The Piazza)

2:00-3:30 p.m. Concurrent Sessions - 1 (Lang Hall)

(F1) Bob Dylan & Medievalism (Lang ??)
Chair: Richard Utz, University of Northern Iowa
“Bob Dylan Music Practices, Medieval Rituals, and Modernity.”
Eyolf Ostrem & Nils Holger Petersen, University of Copenhagen
(F2) Mysterious Medievalisms (Lang ??)
Chair: David Lampe, Buffalo State University
“Finding Fidelma: Unraveling the Mystery of Tremayne’s Medievalism.”
Michelle Klingfus, University of Northern Iowa
“Medieval ‘Auctorite’ and Medieval Books in Contemporary Booklovers’ Mysteries.”
Gwendolyn Morgan, Montana State University
“Medieval Media: Actors as Anchors in Barry Unsworth’s Morality Play.”
Heather McDonald, University of Northern Iowa
(F3) Medievalism and Film 1(Lang ??)
Chair: Kathleen Verduin, Hope College
“Medieval Movie Madness: Using Medieval Films in the Classroom.”
Keith Kelly, Saint Louis University
"Filmmakers Contra the Academic Establishment: Claims of Authenticity in Medievalist Films."
Christa Canitz, University of New Brunswick
“Arthur Up For Grabs: Exploring Intertextuality and Elements of Arthurian Legend in First Knight”
Renae Ford, University of Northern Iowa

3:30-4:10 p.m. Coffee Break (Lang Hall Lounge: center of building on second floor)

4:15-5:45 p.m. Concurrent Sessions - 2 (Lang Hall)

(F4) Brave New Middle Ages (Lang ??)
Chair: Gwendolyn Morgan, Montana State University
“The Saint in the Photograph: Sister Marie, the History That Saves, and Another New Middle Ages.”
Hannah McLaughlin, Princeton University
“Pavel Chinezul, Negru Voda and ‘Imagined Communities’: Medievalism in Romanian Rock Music.”
Florin Curta, University of Florida
“From Goth to Gothic: New Perspectives on the Medieval Music Debate.”
Rebekah Ahrendt
(F5) Late Medieval, Early Modern, and Contemporary Middle Ages (Lang ??)
Chair: Susan Rochette-Crawley, University of Northern Iowa
“Arthur Subverted: The Anonymous Tom a Lincoln.”
Crystal Stallman, Hawkeye Community College
“Breechless Cannibals: Chivalry and Rape in Lillian Smith’s Killers of the Dream and Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte D’Arthur.”
Lori Bailey, University of Arkansas
“Mapping the Green Knight Territory in Lindsey Clarke’s Chymical Wedding.”
Liliana Sikorska, Adam Mickiewicz University
(F6) Literary Medievalisms 1(Lang ??)
Chair: Samuel Gladden, University of Northern Iowa
“A Birth Certificate for Sweden, Packaged for Postmoderns: Jan Guillou’s Templar Trilogy.”
Sandra Ballif Straubhaar, University of Texas at Austin
“The Mid(Evil) Nightmare: Flagg as the Immortal Monster in Stephen King’s The Eyes of the Dragon.”
Alissa Stickler, University of Northern Iowa
“Umberto Eco's Baudolino: The Medievalist Bestseller”
Tom Shippey, St. Louis University
(F7) Early Modern Medievalisms 1 (Lang ??)
Chair: Jesse Swan, University of Northern Iowa
“Stephanius’s Contribution to the Scholarship of Gesta Danorum.”
Tania Nikolayeva, St. Petersburg State University
“Portuguese Renaissance Medievalism: Sá de Miranda's Response to Empire.”
Robert Krueger, University of Northern Iowa
“The Disorderly and Effeminizing Middle Ages in Andrew Marvell’s ‘Upon Appleton House.’”
Elena Levy-Navarro, University of Wisconsin at Whitewater

5:45-7:45 p.m. Shuttle route with stops at Holiday Inn, downtown Cedar Falls, and UNI

[Opportunity to see Theatre UNI's performance of The Laramie Project]

7:30 p.m. [Opportunity to hear the Takács Quartet & Garrick Ohlsson at UNI's Gallagher-Bluedorn Center for the Arts]

8:45-11:15 p.m. Shuttle route with stops at Holiday Inn, downtown Cedar Falls, and UNI

Saturday, October 19

8:45-9:50 a.m. Shuttle Service from Holiday Inn to UNI

9:00-9:50 a.m. Morning Coffee Reception (Lang Hall Lounge: center of building on second floor)

10:00-11:30 a.m. Concurrent Sessions - 3 (Lang Hall)

(S1) Marketing the Middle Ages (Lang ??)
Chair: Richard Utz, University of Northern Iowa
“Consumer Medievalism: Fin-de-siècle Paris and the Marketing of the Middle Ages”
Laura Morowitz, Wagner College, & Elizabeth Emery, Montclair State University
(S2) Literary Medievalisms 2 (Lang ??)
Chair: Tom Shippey, Saint Louis University
“Postmodern Poucet and Tristan’s Transformations: Medieval Sources in Two Short Stories by Michel Tournier.”
Christina Ferree Chabrier, Duke University
“Chaucer in Post-Colonial Africa: ‘Creative-Kick/ing Tongue on the Canterbury Tales in Karen King-Aribisala’s Kicking Tongues.”
Pierre-Damien Mvuyekure, University of Northern Iowa
“Postmodernism and the Press in Naomi Mitchison’s To the Chapel Perilous.”
Anita Obermeier, University of New Mexico
(S3) Early Modern Medievalisms 2 (Lang ??)
Chair: Gwendolyn Morgan, Montana State University
“Dualistic Particulars: How Medieval and Renaissance Mystical Writings Demand Differentiation of Erotic Profanities.”
Hailey Haffey, Montana State University,
“Who's Playing? Games and Society in Medieval Spain.”
Jennifer Cooley, University of Northern Iowa
“The Power of his Horror: Abjection, Macbeth, and Medieval Cosmology.”
James R. Keller, Mississippi University for Women
(S4) Mirrors, Illuminations, and Carnival (Lang ??)
Chair: Kathleen Verduin, Hope College
“The Idolum is the Image in the Mirror: The Criterion of the Postmodern Medieval Concept.”
William Blake, University of Toronto
“Robert Rauschenberg’s Commedia Illuminations.”
Karl Fugelso, Towson University
“The Crusades and Frankish Medieval Greece as Carnival: The Postmodern Historiography of Modern Greek Humorist Nikos Tsiforos.”
Sylvia Mittler, University of Toronto at Scarborough
(S5) Medievalism and Film 2 (Lang ??)
Chair: David Lampe, Buffalo State University
“Historical Inaccuracy and Sexual Politics in Mel Gibson’s Braveheart.”
Andrew E. Larsen, Madison, WI
“The Truth About Tomboys: Current Perceptions of the Medieval via the Film, Princess Bride.”
Angela Larson, University of Northern Iowa
“The Once and Future Idiom: Monty Python’s Paradoxical Medievalism.”
Christine Neufeld, University of British Columbia

11:30 a.m.-1:15 p.m. Lunch (Commons Ballroom) Post-Lunch Reception: Georgian Lounge

1:45-3:30 p.m. Public Plenary Lecture (Seerley Hall: The Great Reading Room)

Verlyn Flieger (University of Maryland, College Park), "A Distant Mirror: Tolkien and Jackson in the Looking-Glass."

3:45-5:15 p.m. Concurrent Sessions - 4 (Lang Hall)

(S6) Postmodern Medievalisms (Lang ??)
Chair: Tom Shippey, Saint Louis University
“From the Middle Ages to the Internet Age: The Medieval Courtly Love Tradition in Jeanette Winterson’s The.Powerbook.”
Carla A. Arnell, Lake Forest College
“Disregarding the Text: Postmodern Mediaevalisms and the Readings of John Gardner’s Grendel.”
Anna Kowalcze, Jagiellonian University & University of Northern Iowa
“Medievalism and the Modern City: David Fincher’s Se7en.”
Jennifer Wong, Washington University
(S7) Literary Medievalisms 2 (Lang ??)
Chair: Gwendolyn Morgan, Montana State University
“Intention vs. Reception: Battles in Medieval Fiction.”
Billy Jo Gronen, University of Northern Iowa & Hamilton College of Business
“Authenticity and the Medieval in Don DeLillo’s White Noise.”
Michael J. Crowley, University of Georgia
“Wholly Ghosts: Genre, Postmodern Transubstantiations, and Flannery O'Connor's 'The Enduring Chill'.”
Susan Rochette-Crawley, University of Northern Iowa
(S8) Literary Medievalisms 3 (Lang ??)
Chair: Samuel Gladden, University of Northern Iowa
“‘The Accuracies of My Impressions:” Ford Maddox Ford’s Re-Imagined Chivalry.”
David Lampe, Buffalo State University
“Knight-Errant of the American West: Medieval Parallels of Chivalry in Owen Wister’s The Virginian.”
Mary Shepherd, University of Northern Iowa
“Writers Reading Dante: Wharton, Wilde, Sayers.”
Kathleen Verduin, Hope College
(S9) Neomedievalisms: Art & Politics (Lang ??)
Chair: Elizabeth Emery, Montclair State University
“Writing against France in the Avision-Christine: Politics of Subjectivity in Late Medieval Culture.”
Marcella Munson, Florida Atlantic University
“The Neo-Medievalism of the Luxembourg between the Wars.”
Jeremy duQuesnay Adams, Southern Methodist University
“The Postmodern Subject in Early Christian/Medieval Catacomb Paintings.”
Mike McKeon, Ohio University

5:30-7:45 p.m. Shuttle route with stops at Holiday Inn, downtown Cedar Falls, and UNI

[Opportunity to see Theatre UNI's performance of The Laramie Project]

8:45-11:15 p.m. Shuttle route with stops at Holiday Inn, downtown Cedar Falls, and UNI