Category: Meetings

Meetings held in 2010-2011

April 9 @ Temple University
Topic:  Performing Medieval Women


 

 

 

Organizer:  Montserrat Piera (Temple University)


 

Speakers:
           

 

•  Margaret Schaus (Haverford College), “When Adam Delved and Eve Span”: Taking Account of Women and Gender”
            

 

•  Jessica Van Oort (Temple University), “The Wound of the Left Foot”: Agnes Blannbekin’s Theory and Practice of Sacred Performance and Dance”
            

 

•  Ruth Mazo Karras (University of Minnesota), “Why did Medieval Women Want to Get Married?”
            

 

•  Geoffrey Gust (Temple University), “Performing the Middle Ages:  Cinematic Frames, Gender Games, and the Theater of Medieval Studies”


 

 

 

Feb. 26 @ Rutgers University
Topic:  From England to Byzantium: Geography, Manuscripts and Architecture in the Middle Ages


 

 

 

Organizer: Erik Thuno 


 

Speakers:
            •  Matthew Goldie (Rider University), “England’s Insularity in the Late Middle Ages: Theoretical 
                   and Material Geographies” 
            •  Robert Maxwell (University of Pennsylvania), “Illuminating Absence: Signatures and Signs on 
                   Romanesque Charters”
            •  Jeanette Patterson (Johns Hopkins University), “Stolen Scriptures: The Wartime Politics of 
                   Owning the Bible Historiale” (Winner of the Graduate Student Paper Award)
            •  Jelena Trkulja (Princeton University), “Hidden Revelations: Semiotics of Byzantine
                   Architecture”

 

December 11 @ Princeton University
Topic:  Contemplation, Image and History in the Middle Ages 
Organizer: Colum P. Hourihane, Princeton University
Speakers:
        •  Lynn Ransom (Lawrence J. Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts), “The Stein Quadriptych and the 
            Pictorial Vita Christi Tradition in the Late Middle  Ages”
        •  Don C. Skemer (Princeton University), “English Genealogical Chronicle Rolls and their Readers”
        •  Constance Bouchard (University of Akron), “The Twelfth Century Contemplates Its Merovingian Past”
        •  Karl Morrison (Rutgers University), ” ‘The image of God is one thing; what is contemplated in the
            image is another’:  Paradoxes of Art and the Self”
        •  Katrin Kogman-Appel (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev), “Women with Books in Medieval Jewish
            Art: Female Education and (Il)literacy from Cairo to Worms” 
        •  Michael Curschmann (Princeton University), “Integrating Anselm: Pictures, Inscriptions and Music in
            a 12th-Century Manuscript of His Prayers and Meditations”

September 11 @ Free Library of Philadelphia
Topic:  Transmedieval Techne
Organizer: Kathleen Biddick, Temple University
Speakers:

 

Larry Scanlon (English-Rutgers), “The Premodern Real”

 

Kathleen E. Kennedy (English- PSU Brandywine), “Transmedieval IT: The Law”

 

Margaret Mullett (Director of Byzantine Studies-Dumbarton Oaks), “A Life of Bliss: Positioning Byzantine Studies in the 21st Century”

 

Catherine Conybeare (Classics-Bryn Mawr), “Postmodern Positivism: On Techne & Text Editing”

 

Meetings held in 2011-2012

April 28 @ Villanova University 


 

Organizers:  Rebecca Winer and Adriano Duque


 

 

 

Speakers:  


 

• Cristina Guardiola-Griffiths (University of Delaware), “Beauty Matters. Towing the line between aiding the   divine and enabling the demonic in the later Middle Ages”  • Adriano Duque (Villanova University), “Reading Gardens in the Spanish Frontier Ballad Tradition”  

 

• Jessica Goldberg (University of Pennsylvania), “The Language of Trust, Risk and

 

 Calculation in the  Documents of Medieval Mediterranean Merchants”   



 

 

 

February 18 @ The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey


 

Organizer:  Adam Miyashiro 


 

Speakers:

 

• Marla Pagan-Mattos (Ph.D. Candidate, University of Pennsylvania), “The Erasure of a Saintly
 Genealogy: The Vida de San Millán de la Cogolla of Berceo and the Task of ‘tornar en 
romance’”


 

• Claire Taylor Jones (Ph.D. Candidate, University of Pennsylvania), “Meister Eckhart’s Daughter?” 


 

• Aaron Hostetter (Rutgers University, Camden), “Feeding Aristocratic Identity in Sir Gowther”


 

• David King (The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey), “Judicial Duels and Moral Anomie in La Mort le Roi Artu”


 

• Teofilo Ruiz (University of California, Los Angeles), “Writing Festivals in Late Medieval Spain” 

 

 

 

December 3 @ Princeton University 

 

 

 

Organizer:  Colum Hourihane (Princeton University)
Speakers:       

 

• Andrea Worm (University of Augsburg), “Sancta Mater Ecclesia. A Catechetic Rendering of
the Heavenly Jerusalem”
                     

 

• Mailan Doquang (Princeton University), “Architectural Thresholds in Thirteenth Century
 France” 
                    

 

• Martha Easton (Seton Hall University), “Memory, Mysticism, and Medieval Architecture: Hammond Castle and American Medievalism”

 

 • Mildred Budny (Research Group on Manuscript Evidence), “The Holistic Approach is Greater
Than the Sum of the Parts:  The Added Mark Frontispiece in the Ninth-Century Royal Bible
Revisited”

 

• Nino Zchomelidse (Princeton University), “Allegory and Remembrance: Lay Patronage in the Angevin Kingdom”

 

• Beatrice Radden Keefe (Princeton University), “A Pictograph of Terence”  

 

• Annemarie Weyl Carr (Southern Methodist University, emeritus), “Naming Images,
 Venerating Icons in Sylvester Syropoulos’ World”

 

 

 

October 1 @ Glencairn Museum


 

 

 

Organizer:  Martha Easton (Seton Hall University)


 

 

 

Speakers: 

 

• Sandy Bardsley (Moravian College),  “Gender, Health, and the Archaeological Record”
                

 

• Heather Flaherty (Gettysburg College), “Theological Summa or Liber Laicorum? Classifying the Speculum Humanae Salvationis”

 

Meetings held in 2012-2013

April 13 @ LGBT Carriage House, University of Pennsylvania
Symposium in Celebration of the Thirtieth Anniversary of the Delaware Valley Medieval Association


 

 

 

Organizer:  Martha Easton
Speakers:

 

• Edward Peters (University of Pennsylvania), “Just One More Foundation Myth: From the Lilly
Pennsylvania Program to the DVMA”

 

 • Agnieszka E. Szymańska (Temple University),”Designing the Vault of Heaven at the Cappella Palatina, Palermo”

 

 • Jeffrey Jerome Cohen (George Washington University), “Medieval/Environmental Activism”

 

 Participants in Roundtable Discussion of “The Future of Medeival Studies”:

 

 • Celia Chazelle (The College of New Jersey)

 

 • Dallas G. Denery (Bowdoin College)

 

 • Darin Hayton (Haverford College)

 

 • E. Ann Matter (University of Pennsylvania)

 

 • Karen Overbey (Tufts University)

 

 • David Wallace (University of Pennsylvania)

 

 

 

March 16 @ University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

 

Topic:  “Crossing Bridges”

 

 

 

Organizer:  Dale Kinney

 

 

 

Speakers:

 

 

 

• Larry Nees (University of Delaware), “Arculf”

 

• Louis Hamilton (Drew University), “Invisible Cities, Invented Histories: Jerusalem and Rome       in the Exegesis of Bruno of Segni”

 

• Jesse Mann (Montclair State University), “Juan de Segovia & Islam: 

 

  Opportunities, Obstacles and Contexts”

 

• Renata Holod, University of Pennsylvania, Lecture and Gallery Visit

 

 

 


December 1 @ Princeton University


 

 

 

Organizer:  Colum Hourihane
Speakers: 


 

•  Johanna Seasonwein (Princeton University Art Museum), “A Tale of Two Windows: the Gothic Revival at Princeton University”

 

• Courtney Palmbush (Princeton Theological Seminary), “The Frontier and Patrick’s ‘Ministry of Slavery’ “  

 

• Susan Auth (Curator Emerita, Newark Museum), “Birds and Their Symbolism in the Late Antique Art of Egypt”  

 

• Danielle Oteri (International Center of Medieval Art, The Cloisters), “The Unicorn Tapestries at the Cloisters:   Weaving a New Interpretation”  

 

• Anna Zayaruznaya (Princeton University), “Cis chans veult boire! On the Anthropomorphisation of   Late-Medieval Song”  

 

• John Rassweiller (Independent Scholar), “A collection of seal matrices of the common People:  Signatures and a Portal to Medieval Life”  

 

• Mayke de Jong (Utrecht University), “Epitaph for an Era: Paschasius Radbertus and his Lament  for Wala”

 

 

 


September 15 @ The Philadelphia Museum of Art
Topic:  Visions of Wonder, Thoughts of the Divine


 

 

 

Organizer:  Geoffrey W. Gust


 

Speakers:

 

 •  Rita Copeland (University of Pennsylvania), “Living with Uncertainty:  Reactions to Aristotle’s Rhetoric in the Later Middle Ages” 

 

 •  Julia Verkholantsev (University of Pennsylvania), “The Two Bibles of St. Jerome:  The Question of the

 

    Vernacular and the Legend of St. Jerome’s Slavonic Rite and Letters” 

 

 •  Robert Maxwell (University of Pennsylvania), “Fraud” 

 

 •  Dale Kinney (Bryn Mawr College), “Holy Popes” 

 

 Meetings held in 2013-2014

April 5 @ Drew University
Organizers:  Louis Hamilton, Laura Morreale, and Dot Porter
Theme:  Communities of Italy:  New and Traditional Approaches

Speakers:    • Wayne Storey (Indiana University), “A Rich-Text Petrarch and the Expansion of Communities”

  • Isabella Magni (Indiana University), “Petrarchive: a new digital frontier in the study of Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta”

 


  • Samantha Kelly (Rutgers University), “The Black Africans of Italy”

 

  • Laura Morreale (Fordham University), “The French of Italy: Rethinking Political Narratives” 

 

 • Matthew Shoaf (Ursinus College), “Bound by Sound: Trecento Art and Community”

 

  • Andrew Irving (The General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church), “Quam inhonestum: Changes in Massbook Design at Montecassino in the Eleventh Century”

 

  • Richard Gyug (Fordham University), “Between East and West on the shores of the southern Adriatic: Dubrovnik and Kotor.”

 

 

 

 

February 15 @ the RUC Campus Center Rutgers University-Camden

 

 

 

Organizers:  Aaron Hostetter and Adam Miyashiro 



 

 

 

Speakers:  

 

• Gabrielle Parkin (University of Delaware), “’Clothed by God in fanciful costume’: White Clothes, Tears, 
and Livery in the Book of Margery Kempe” (Winner of the DVMA Paper Prize)

 

 

• Adam Miyashiro (Stockton College), “Alexander Between Empires”

  

 

• Cord Whitaker (Temple University), “Black, White, and in Between: Medieval Race, the Spirit, and   Chaucer’s Miller’s Tale 


 

• Carissa Harris, Assistant Professor of English, Temple University:  ” ‘All medons be ware, be rewe’: 
  Sexual Education in the Middle English Pastourelle”

 

 

• Andrew Cole, Professor of English, Princeton University: “Chaucer’s Occupations”

 

 

 

 Lightning Talks on Chaucerian Manuscripts from Advanced Undergraduates and Graduate students:

 

 

 

  • Richard Milligan (Rutgers-Camden)

 

 

 

  • Cristina Chillem (Rutgers-Camden)

  • Nikolai Fomich (Rutgers-Camden)

  • Nate Hall (Rutgers-Camden)

  • Sarah Baginsky (Stockton College)

 

 

 

  • Mark-Allan Donaldson (Stockton College)

 

 

 

  • Lauren Bevins (Rutgers-New Brunswick)

 

 

 

 

November 23 @ the Index of Christian Art, Princeton University


 

 

 

Organizer:  Colum Hourihane
Speakers:                               

 

• Helmut Reimitz (Princeton University), “History and Cultural Brokerage in Late Antiquity”
                                                 

 

• Susan Mosher Stuard (Haverford College, Emerita), “Shopping as Consuming Acts in 
Fourteenth Century Italian Towns”

 

• Markus Cruse (Arizona State University and Institute for Advanced Study) “What Marco Polo’s Travel Account Meant to its Earliest Readers”


 

• Judith Golden (Princeton University), “Mahaut, Countess of Artois as Patron, Proclaiming  Wealth and Heritage through her Gardens and her Art”


 

• Elizabeth Valdez del Álamo (Montclair State University), “Hearing the Image at Santo  Domingo de Silos”


 

• Maureen McCormick (Prosopon School of Iconology and Princeton University Art Museum), “     From Image to Likeness: Musings of a Latter Day Iconographer”


 

• Michael Curschmann (Princeton University, Emeritus), “Duo bellatores: The Changing    Contexts and Meanings of a Visual Paradigm”

 

 

 

 

 

September 23 @ the Special Collections Center, Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania

 

 

 

Organizer:  Dale Kinney

 

 

 

Speakers:             

 

•  Dorothy Porter (University of Pennsylvania),  “What are we Presenting? Gauging medievalists’ Use of Digital Resources through Major Conferences in the Field”

 

• Elly Truitt (Bryn Mawr College), “Natural Philosophy in LJS 384: William of Conches, De   philosophia mundi”

 

• Tom Izbicki (Rutgers University), “Analyzing a Legal Miscellany: Schoenberg MS 450”

 

 

 

“Lightning” talks:                  • Nick Harris, LJS 441
• Jackie Burek, LJS 477
• Larissa Grollemond, LJS 19: Spanish Nobility and 16th-Century Manuscript Illumination
• Regan Kladstrup, The Penn Provenance Project
• Marie Turner, MS Roll 1066
• Lynn Ransom, The Schoenberg database of manuscripts
• Liza Strakhov, Codex 902
• Alex Devine, MS Codex 236
• Emily Steiner, LJS 266: The History of the World (according to the French) 
• Dorothy Porter, The Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance
• Will Noel, The Schoenberg Institute