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The final meeting of 2017-2018 of the Delaware Valley Medieval Association
Saturday, April 21, 2018, 1:00 p.m.
Bryn Mawr College, College Hall 224
$15 for regular DVMA members, Student Members Free
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Meeting of the Delaware Valley Medieval Association
September 29, 2018
Kislak Center, Van Pelt Library, 6th Floor University of Pennsylvania
1 pm – 6:30 pm
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Program
Ana Pairet (Rutgers University), Organizer, Welcome
Carissa Harris (Temple)
“The Poetics of Rage: Women’s Anger in the Lyrics of Bodleian MS Eng.poet.e.1.”
Jamie Taylor (Bryn Mawr College) “Bureaucratic Anger: Frustration, Outrage, and Literary Analysis in the ‘Canterbury Tales’”
Discussion
Coffee Break
Susanna A. Throop (Ursinus College)
“Words and Deeds: Vengeance, Emotion, and the Crusades”
Juan Escourido (East Carolina University) “Alfonso X’s Politics of Joy”
Olga Anna Dhul (Lafayette College), “The Five Senses and Pathos: Paradoxical Persuasion in the ‘Ship(s) of Foolish Maidens’ (1498-1501)”
Discussion
Reception
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December Meeting of the Delaware Valley Medieval Association
Princeton University, McCormick 106
December 9, 1 to 5 pm.
1:00 pm Coffee
1:30 – 3:00 pm
Eduard Muehle, Universität Münster, IAS, Princeton
The Slavic World in the Middle Ages – real or Invented Slavisism?
Adam Izdebski, University of Krakow/IAS, Princeton,
Climate Change and the Eastern Roman Empire. A new dimension of history
3: 30 – 5:00
Xin Wen, Princeton University
Reassembling the Ruins: Song Dynasty (960-1279) Views of the Tang Capital Chang’an
Thomas Conlan, Princeton University,
Law and Violence in Medieval Japan
5 pm Reception
The Michael Powell Memorial Lecture, given by Prof. Leah DeVun (Rutgers), will take place on Tuesday, October 24, 4.30pm-6.00pm, in College Hall 110, Bryn Mawr College. The title of Prof. DeVun’s lecture is “Heavenly Hermaphrodites: Adam, Eve, and the Creation of Sex.”
Greetings colleagues, and welcome to our first meeting of the Delaware Valley Medieval Association of the 2017-18 school year. I am Dot Porter, the Curator of Digital Research Services here in the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts at the University of Pennsylvania, and this is my first year as president of the DVMA. I want to start by thanking the Kislak Center for hosting today’s meeting, in particular the Director of the Kislak Center Will Noel, for allowing us to meet here and for sponsoring the coffee breaks and reception. I would also like to introduce the rest of the Executive Council, many of whom are with us here today:
Vice President Ana Pairet, Rutgers
Secretary Elly Truitt, Bryn Mawr
Treasurer Thomas Izbicki, Rutgers
Graduate Student Representative Marina Mandrikova
Helmut Reimitz, Princeton University
Alicia Walker, Bryn Mawr College
Adam Miyashiro, Stockton University
Sara S. Poor, Princeton University
Rachel Smith, Villanova University
Carissa Harris, Temple University
Kara McShane, Ursinus College
The DVMA has been meeting regularly since 1979 – almost 40 years – to celebrate the work of medievalists from New York to Maryland and beyond. We are the scholarly association for medieval studies in our region, affiliated with the Committee on Centers and Regional Associations of the Medieval Academy of America, and we have the responsibility of growing the field and the people who practice it.
As stated on the About Us page on the DVMA website: “The purpose of the meetings, and the association in general, is to share members’ current research and to make connections and forge relationships that support, sustain, and advocate for all aspects of medieval studies in the Delaware Valley region.” To do this we hold four annual meetings, at different institutions around the region, one of which is designated a Graduate Student event. Our next meeting will be in December at Princeton, a Graduate Student workshop will be on February 17th at Temple, and the Spring meeting will be in April at Villanova. More details on all of these are coming soon.
Right now is an interesting and difficult time to be a medievalist. It wasn’t even a year ago that I found out that white supremacists use medieval and medieval-influenced icons in their imagery, and that they imagine a white European state that has a basis in an imagined white European past; in the past few months there have been stories about this in major newspapers, and it’s hard to avoid the topic. Everyone in this room knows that, for its many ugly issues with religions and cultures competing for dominance throughout the middle ages, there were constant contacts between European countries, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia during the periods we study. We as professional medievalists need to work harder to ensure that these contacts and links are discussed in our introductory classes, no matter the subject, and within DVMA we must likewise make space for an insight into medieval studies that is global in scope. I have attempted to do so in the organization of today’s meeting, and I look forward to seeing more non-European perspectives in future meeting as well. To recognize this responsibility the DVMA has co-signed the Medieval Academy of America’s document “Medievalists Respond to Charlottesville,” along with almost 30 other scholarly associations. This document both pushes against the adoption of medieval icons by the far right, and also acknowledges that medievalists must do better in representing the middle ages to their students, and to the wider public. This year’s Graduate Student workshop will focus on the topic of diversity and inclusion in medieval studies, which will be an opportunity for our students to discuss this issue in more detail and to learn practical approaches on handling potentially sensitive topics in the courses they teach.
In closing, the DVMA exists for us to “make connections and forge relationships that support, sustain, and advocate for all aspects of medieval studies in the Delaware Valley region.” I want to stress that this supporting, sustaining, and advocating, this connecting and forging, is what builds our community. We are scholars and students, and we are individual people, and as the President of DVMA I intend to encourage a community in which individuals support each other, where senior scholars, junior scholars, librarians, and students take the time to hear one another’s scholarly arguments and debate in good faith.
Friends! The first meeting of the DVMA will be held on September 16, 1pm-5pm, at the University of Pennsylvania, in Van Pelt Library, Class of ’78 Pavilion, 6th floor. The theme is “Temporality and the Law,” and the schedule of speakers is as follows:
Individual papers:
Ada Kuskowski (Assistant Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania), Title TBA
James Ker (Associate Professor of Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania), “Differentiating Ancient Histories of Clock-Time at Rome”
Joseph Lowry (Associate Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania), “Time and Law in the Qur’an”
Roundtable with:
Brooke Hunter (Assistant Professor of English, Villanova University), “Translatio studii and Forging Intellectual History”
Mary Channen Caldwell (Assistant Professor of Music, University of Pennsylvania), “Versifying Time”
Nicholas Paul (Associate Professor of History, Fordham University), “Memory and Temporality in La terre d’Outremer“
**Reception to follow**
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Guidelines for Meeting Organizers
Updated May 2017
Meeting format
Although there is no fixed format for DVMA meetings, they generally feature 4–6 speakers in 2 sessions. Papers are typically between 30–45 minutes, but they can be as long as 60 minutes (with fewer speakers) or as short as 10 (for lightning talks). Meetings often start after lunch, but may include lunch (especially if there is external funding). Coffee breaks and informal receptions are encouraged, as they give speakers and attendees time to mingle and continue discussion.
Meetings are often organized around a theme that can showcase the interdisciplinary makeup of the group. Meeting organizers should strive to include graduate student speakers in their lineups.
See the listings of past meetings on this website for examples of the different formats DVMA meetings can hold.
Publicizing meetings
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- Room, Building, Institution, City, State
- Directions by car and public transit
- Schedule
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- Paper titles
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DVMA Documentation
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All lectures take place in the Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building, Room 399
Friday 19 May
1.00-1.30 Pamela Patton and Therese Martin, Welcome
Beatrice Kitzinger, Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University
Opening Remarks: “The Treasury, a Material Witness to Long-Distance Contact and Pivot Point for Interdisciplinary Exchange”
1.30-2.00 Therese Martin, Instituto de Historia, CSIC
“Ivory Assemblage as Visual Metaphor: The Beatitudes Casket in Context”
2.00-2.30 Eduardo Manzano, Instituto de Historia, CSIC
“Beyond the Year 900: The ‘Iron Century’ or an Era of Silk?”
2.30-3.00 Discussion
3.00-3.30 Coffee break
3.30-4.00 Ana Cabrera, Victoria and Albert Museum, London/Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas, Madrid
“Medieval Textiles in León: Material Culture and the Challenges of Conservation”
4.00-4.30 María Judith Feliciano, Independent Scholar and Director, Medieval Textiles in Iberia and the Mediterranean
“Medieval Textiles in León in the Iberian and Mediterranean Context: Towards a Cultural History”
4.30-5.00 Discussion
5.00-5.30 Ana Rodríguez, Instituto de Historia, CSIC
“Narrating the Treasury: What Medieval Iberian Chronicles Choose to Tell Us about Luxury Objects”
5.30-6.00 Julie Harris, Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership
“Jews, Real and Imagined, at San Isidoro and Beyond”
6.00-6.30 Discussion
Saturday 20 May
10.30-11.00 Pamela Patton, Index of Christian Art, Princeton University
“Demons and Diversity in León”
11.00-11.30 Maribel Fierro, Instituto de Lenguas y Culturas del Mediterráneo y Oriente Próximo, CSIC, and Luis Molina, Escuela de Estudios Árabes de Granada, CSIC
“Christian Relics in al-Andalus”
11.30-12.00 Discussion
12.00-2.00 Lunch break (on your own)
2.00-2.30 Jitske Jasperse, Instituto de Historia, CSIC
“Set in Stone: Questioning the Portable Altar of the Infanta Sancha (d. 1159)”
2.30-3.00 Amanda Dotseth, Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University and Prado Museum, Madrid
“Medieval Treasure and the Modern Museum: Christian and Islamic Objects from San Isidoro de León”
3.00-3.30 Discussion
3.30-4.00 Coffee break
4.00-4.30 Ittai Weinryb, Bard Graduate Center
“The Idea of North”
4.30-5.00 Eva Hoffman, Department of Art and Art History, Tufts University
“Arabic Script as Text and Image on Treasury Objects across the Medieval Mediterranean”
5.00-5.30 Discussion
5.30-6.00 Jerrilynn Dodds, Sarah Lawrence College
Closing Remarks: “The Treasury, Beyond Interaction”
6:00 Wine and cheese reception for all attendees
Friday, April 7, 2017, 2:30pm to Saturday, April 8, 2017, 5:30pm
Penn Museum, Widener Lecture Room
CONSTRUCTING SACRED SPACE:
A Career Celebration for Robert Ousterhout
No registration necessary. This event is free and open to the public.