Columbia University
Hosted by Barnard College, Broadway and 117th Street
New York City, NY
Room 328 Milbank Hall
ORIENTATION: Enter the Barnard College campus by its main gate, on the west side of Broadway at 117th Street. (#1 Subway to 116th St.) Head to your right, heading north. Milbank is at the north end of our little campus. There will be signposts toward the conference as well.
SCHEDULE:
9:30-10:30 Registration / Coffee
10:30-11:45 Session #1: WORLD AND WONDER
Christopher Richards, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
“The Mortuary Roll of Lucy: Cohesion and Separation, Poetry and Picture.”
Gianmarco Sarretto, English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
“Interpretative Gluttony: A Reading of Cleanness”
Lauren McConnell, English, Rutgers University
“’Suche ferlies shull fal’: Anxiety and Futurity in The Awntyrs off Arthure”
11:45-1:00 Session #2: SAINTLY SPACES
Emily Dalton, Comparative Literature, Princeton University
“ ‘Clansyd hom in Cristes nome’: Translation of Spaces and Bodies in St. Erkenwald”
Nathan Melson, History, Fordham University
“Problems of a Portable Saint: Relic Economy and Negotiation in Late Medieval Marseille”
1:00-2:15 Lunch
2:15-3:30 Roundtable: THEFT: METHODS AND THEORIES WE DON’T REALLY KNOW
Moderator: Christopher Baswell, Barnard College and Columbia University
Participants: Brigitte Bedos-Rezak, History, New York University
Steven Kruger, English, CUNY Graduate Center
Sara Poor, German, Princeton University
Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, English, Fordham University
3:30-4:45 Session #3: COMMON GOODS
Paul Holchak, English, CUNY Graduate Center
“The Practice of Devotion in Piers Plowman”
Samantha Sabalis, English, Fordham University
“From a Confessor’s Manual to a Text for Lay Religious Instruction:
The Transformation of Robert Grosseteste’s Templum Dei in BL
Additional MS 32578”
Allison Tyndall, English, Stony Brook University
“Common People and the Common Good in the Early Modern History Play”
4:45-6:00 Reception
IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE IUDC MEETING, SPONSORED BY
THE GRADUATE MEDIEVAL COLLOQUIUM OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY:
A lecture by Professor Jonathan Hsy,
George Washington University
“Deaf Gain in the Middle Ages: Language, Cognition, Culture”
6:00 PM, 328 Milbank Hall
