Conference Full Schedule with Participants
9:30: Registration
10:00: Panel One | Looking Back at Looking Back: Pre-Modern Views of the Past
Moderator: Alexander Baldassano, CUNY Graduate Center
Classicisms and Medievalisms in the Songs of Raimbaut de Vaqueiras
Clare Wilson, CUNY Graduate Center
Poking Holes in the Walls of the Patriarchy: The Pyramus and Thisbe Myth in Chaucer and Shakespeare
Jennifer Alberghini, CUNY Graduate Center
For Your Reference (and Reverence): Illustrated Relic Directories and German Media Theory for the Late Middle Ages
Christian Whitworth, Tufts University
Coffee Break
11:30: Panel Two | Enlightening Students about the Dark Ages: Teaching with Pre-Modernisms
Moderator: Allen Strouse, CUNY Graduate Center
Shame! Shame! Shame! Teaching Puritanism with The Game of Thrones
Christina Katopodis, CUNY Graduate Center
Introducing Witch Diction: An Investigation and Analysis of the Pedagogical Presentation of Witchcraft in the Undergraduate Historical Seminar Setting
Ryan Kelly, Eastern University
12:30: Lunch Break
1:30: Panel Three | Young and Modern: Depictions of the Medieval from Tolkien to Today
Moderator: Mary Jean McNamara, CUNY Graduate Center
Fighting the Past: Medieval Dragons in Children’s and YA Literature
Esther Bernstein, CUNY Graduate Center
Tolkien’s Unstable Machinery: The Lord of the Rings as Mimetic History
Micheal Angelo Rumore, CUNY Graduate Center
Compression Dangerous and Beautiful: Incest as Intimate Politics in Elizabeth E. Wein’s The Winter Prince
Rebecca Fullan, CUNY Graduate Center
Break
3:00: Keynote | TRANSTEMPORALITIES: Freud and Mehmed II @ Troy
Kathleen Biddick, Temple University
12th Annual PKMS Graduate Student Conference-Pre-Modernisms Preliminary Schedule
PRE-MODERNISMS
Pearl Kibre Medieval Study
12th Annual Graduate Student Conference
Friday, October 28, 2016
9:30am – 5pm
The Graduate Center, CUNY
Room 9204
Schedule of Events
9:30: Registration
10:00: Panel One
Looking Back at Looking Back:
Pre-Modern Views of the Past
Coffee Break
11:30: Panel Two
Enlightening Students about the Dark Ages:
Teaching with Pre-Modernisms
12:30: Lunch Break
1:30: Panel Three
Young and Modern:
Depictions of the Medieval
from Tolkien to Today
Break
3:00: Keynote
Kathleen Biddick
TRANSTEMPORALITIES:
Freud and Mehmed II @ Troy