21st Annual International Conference on Medievalism:
Medievalism and the Marvelous

The Ohio State University
12-14 October 2006

Thursday afternoon: Orton Hall

Group Outing: time TBA

Conference attendees will have the opportunity to visit Orton Hall, a unique nineteenth-century example of Darwinist Gothic (travel by car to the OSU campus from the University Plaza Hotel)

Friday: Denney Hall (all sessions except Plenary)

Registration: 8:30 a.m.

Registration materials will be available in Room 311

Welcome: 9:00 a.m.

Session One: 9:15 a.m.

1a) Monsters, Myths, and The Marvelous
Chair: Ed Risden
Jane Toswell, “Here be Dragons”
Mary R. Bowman, "The Monsters and the Neanderthals: Three Twentieth-Century Views of the Marvelous in Beowulf”
Karen Borresen Walsh, "Arcane Objects in Harry Potter"

1b) Gallic (and Celtic?) Interpretations
Chair: TBA
Mathew Tiritilli, "Of Faerie Queens and Demon Seeds: The Curious Evolution of Morgan Le Fay"
Alicia Montoya, “Contes du style des Troubadours: 17th and 18th-century French fairy tales as continuators of medieval literary tradition”

1c) Film and Theory
Chair: Karl Fugelso
Gwendolyn Morgan, "Translating Beowulf to Film in Beowulf and Grendel"
Christine M. Neufeld, "Merlin M.I.A.: The Disappearance of the Marvelous in Contemporary Medieval Cinema"
David Lampe, "Tristan Transformed: Sutcliff, Taylor, Millhauser, and Ridley Scott”
Alessandra Pires, "The auteur in Robert Bresson’s Le Procès de Jeanne ’Arc"

Coffee: 10:45 a.m.

Session Two: 11:00 a.m.

2a) Music and Mythmaking
Chair: Gwendolyn Morgan
Richard Firth Green, "Sir Gawain in America"
Clare A. Simmons, "Medieval Freedom in the Romantic National Melodies
Marcus Rathey, "Liszt and the Quest for National Identity"

2b) Performing Medievalism I
Chair: TBA
Laura Morowitz, "A Passion for Theater: Max Reinhardt’s The Miracle and 1920s New York"
Michael Cramer, "Psychedelic Medievalism: Berkeley, the 60s, and the SCA"
Michael Johnson, "Intimate Evenings of Grand Illusions: the Alchemical Delights of David Copperfield"

2c) Gender and Theology
Chair: Jill Galvan
Matthew Stallard, "Guglielma and the Guglielmites: Heresy and Gender in the Thirteenth Century"
Kara Cahill, "Lacanian Receptivity to Julian of Norwich: Gendered Divinity?"
Debra Stoudt, "Re-Inventing Hildegard of Bingen: Adapting an Old 'Habit' to a New Age Culture"

Lunch: 12:30 p.m.

Session Three: 1:30 p.m.

3a) (Re)visions of Dante
Chair: Richard Utz
Matthew Horn, "Transfiguring the Marvelous: Ways of Knowing the Supernatural"
Kathleen Verduin, "Dante and American Calvinism"
Karl Fugelso, Barry Moser: "A Neo-Goth of the Late Twentieth Century"

3b) Panel Title: Theology and War: The Crusades to the Present
Chair: TBA
Dongmei Xu, "Mercy or Justice: Perplexity to the Medieval Mind"
Michael Evans, "Explaining or Excusing? The Crusades, the “War on Terror,” and Historical Objectivity"
Kay Harris, "Medieval Majesty and the Uniqueness of the U.S. Military Community"

3c) Power Struggles
Chair: Richard Green
Patricia T. Anderson, "Los ángeles caídos de Alfonso, el Sabio y la espiritualidad del matrimonio" (translation: "The Fallen Angels of Alfonse the Wise and the Spirituality of Matrimony")
Ricky Crano, “'I Blame Hym Thus': Lordly Hegemony and Echoic Iconoclasm in Chaucer’s Clerk’s Tale"
John Stachura, "From the Closing of the Monasteries to the Dawning of the Renaissance"

Plenary: 3:30 p.m.

Tom Shippey, “Magic Comes Back: The Inklings and After”

Reception: 5:15 p.m.

Return to hotel: 6:15 p.m.

Banquet: 7:30 p.m.

Saturday: Denney Hall

Session Four: 9:00 a.m.

4a) Motives and Motifs
Chair: Tom Shippey
Sarah Harlan-Haughey, "Misreading the Fantastic in Hrafnkels Saga Freysgo[th]a"
Gina DiSalvo, “'If Fires Be Hot, Knives Sharp, or Waters Deep': Performing Passio in Pericles"
Leslie Tannenbaum, "Gothic Imitation in Blake’s Illustrations to Gray’s The Fatal Sisters and The Descent of Odin"

4b) Performing Medievalism II
Chair: Kathleen Verduin
Stefano Mengozzi, "The Guidonian Hand and Its Renaissance Fingerprints"
Elizabeth Emery, “'Gothic Dinners': Serving the Middle Ages in Nineteenth-Century France"
Nils Holger Petersen, "The Concept of Liturgical Drama: Edmond de Coussemaker (1805-76) and Modern Scholarship"

4c) Victorian Modernity Confronts the Past
Chair: Clare Simmons
Albert D. Pionke, "A Marvelous Medieval Failure: The Eglinton Tournament, The Victorian Medieval Revival, and Victorian Ritual Culture"
Emily W. Heady, "A Steam-Whistle Modernist?: Representations of King Alfred in Dickens’s A Child’s History of England and The Battle of Life"
Jill Galvan, "Communication Wars: The Scientific vs. the Marvelous in Dracula"

4d) In Bright Lights and On the Silver Screen
Chair: Carol Robinson
Pam Clements, "Perceval in Gotham: Neomedievalism in Batman and Batman Begins"
Carol L. Robinson, "Lord of the Screen: Tolkien and the Neomedieval Virus (A Good Thing?)"
Martin B. Shichtman, "Mel Gibson’s Braveheart: The Passion of the Scot"

Coffee: 10:30 a.m.

Plenary: 10.45 a.m.

Laurie Finke, "Youssef Chahine's Saladin: Contrapuntal Histories & the Clash of Civilization"

Lunch: 12:15 p.m.

Session Five: 1:15 p.m.

5a) British Literature Imagines the Middle Ages
Chair: David G. Riede
Seth Reno, "A Poetics of Self-Consciousness: Medievalism and the Literary Heroes of Tennyson and Byron"
Katarina Gephardt, "Chivalry in Thackeray’s The Newcomes"
Chene Heady, “'I am Weary of that Foolish Tale': Yeats’s Revisions of Tennyson’s Idylls and Ideals in Time and the Witch Vivien”
Leigh Smith, "Imagining the Middle Ages: A Course in Medievalist Literature"

5b) Medieval Values and the 20th Century
Chair: Tom Shippey
Paul Robichaud, "Modernist Medievalism"
Greg Smith, "Medievalism and Modernity in The Good Soldier"
Nathan Breen, "Envisioning the Everyday in Arthur’s Court: Family, Honor and Bravery in Hal Foster’s Prince Valiant"

5c) Rereading Texts
Chair: Jane Toswell
Richard Utz, "The Colony Writes Back: Chaucer’s Translatio to the United States"
Dan Nastali, "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight—Points of Reception"
Michael Johnston, "From Edward III to Edward VI: The Vision of Piers Plowman and Early Modern England"

Tea: 2:45 p.m.

Session Six: 3:00 p.m.

6a) Beowulf and Grendel—A Cinematic Adaptation of the Anglo-Saxon Poem and its Post-Medieval Heritage
Chair: Alexander Vaughan Ames
Laura Reinert, "The Face of the Anonymous: Creating the Poet and the Poem in Beowulf and Grendel"
Graham Johnson, "Subverting the Anglo-Saxon Epic on Film: Selma the Witch in Beowulf and Grendel"
Justin Noetzel, "Invasion in Beowulf and Grendel and Women in Love"
A.Keith Kelly, "Marveling at the Monstrous and the Modern Grendel"
Respondent: Eric S. Bryan

6b) Special Session: Neo Gets Medieval: Medievalist Video Games
Chair: Carol Robinson
Joseph M. Isenberg, "Teaching the Medieval through Games"
Brenda Lauritzen, “'There is No Spoon': Violence and Neo-Medievalism in the Modern Era"
Carol Robinson, "Video Game Workshop"

6c) 19th-Century Exoticism
Chair: Elizabeth Emery
Chimi Woo, "Medievalism and the Nation in Sydney Owenson’s The Wild Irish Girl"
Gretchen Kreahling McKay, "Byzantium Rediscovered: Byzantine Art and Nineteenth-Century French Painting"
Edward L. Risden, "Myth and the Problem of Generational Succession in The Silmarillion"

 

Studies in Medievalism Board Meeting to follow: time and location TBA.

 

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