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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
12th Annual PKMS Graduate Student Conference CFP
Pre-Modernisms: Friday, October 28th, The Graduate Center, CUNY
As the famous sayings go, everything old is new again, and history repeats itself. How many times have we heard someone described as a Renaissance man or woman, or something that seems old-fashioned called “medieval?” Scholars of these periods often find, of course, that such evaluations are, at best, inaccurate. However, trans-temporal approaches to study and even historical anachronisms can produce fruitful new inquiries into our fields, from contemporary children’s literature that engages in medievalisms to produce new fantasy worlds to queer and transgender studies that attempt to see the past from non-normative perspectives. This conference aims to bring together a wide variety of scholars of different disciplines and especially different time periods to pair what we know about the classical, medieval, and early modern periods with what later times perceive about these periods and how they manipulate the past for present agendas. As such, this conference is aimed not only at pre-modern scholars, but also at scholars of later and contemporary periods whose work engages in envisioning the past.
Please submit a 300-word abstract no later than September 15 at 5 PM.
E-mail: [email protected]
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
Arthurian Tradition
Early Book Collections
Architectural Styles
Medieval TV and Film
Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Historical Fiction
J.R.R. Tolkien
Historically Based Political Rhetoric
History of Marginal Perspectives
Law and the Legal Tradition
Renaissance Humanism
Philosophical Traditions
Renaissance Faires and Period Dress
Medieval and Early Modern Adaptations of Classical Texts
Premodern Recipes and Remedies
Contemporary Classroom Approaches
Linguistic Developments
Premodern Historiography (including history plays)
