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Crossing Boundaries: Program
Conference Schedule
Friday, May 3, 2019
The CUNY Graduate Center
365 5th Avenue
New York, NY 10016
Room 5409
8:30am-9:00am Registration & Breakfast
9:00am-10:15am Panel #1: Crossing TEMPORAL Boundaries
Moderator: Dainy Bernstein
Fate, Faust, and Magical Girls: Japanese Reception of German Medievalism through the Case of Puelli Magi Madoka Magicka
William Arguelles, GC
Crossing the Irish Border: Towards an Understanding of Ireland’s Early Medieval Sculptural Heritage
Megan Henvey, University of York
10:15am-10:25am Coffee Break
10:25am-11:40am Panel #2: Crossing AESTHETIC Boundaries
Moderator: Robin Hizme
“Luminous and Gracefully Decorated”: A Guided Reading of the Armenian Lives of the Fathers
Earnestine Qiu, Tufts University
Le Roman de la Rose and the Dialectic of Vices: Text and Image
Cortney Berg, Arizona State University
“In swich Englissh as he kan”: A Study of Chaucer’s Vernacular
Wesley Boyko, Vanderbilt University
11:40am-11:50am Coffee Break
11:50am-1:05pm Panel #3: Crossing NORMATIVE Boundaries
Moderator: Jennifer Alberghini
The Precarious Language of Madness in Thomas Hoccleve’s Complaint
Emily Price, GC
The Well Behaved Rarely Make History: A Case Study of Cross-Dressing in Regard to Sodomy Laws and Gender Constructions in the High and Late Middle Ages
Margaret Paz, San Francisco State University
“How Can I Know if This is Truly a Sickness, or Something Else?”: Medieval Epistemology of Humoral Imbalance of the Love-Sick Body in Cligès
Miranda Hajduk, GC
1:05pm-2:10pm Lunch Break
2:10pm-3:10pm Roundtable: Teaching Across Boundaries in Medieval Classes
Moderator: Steven Kruger, Queens College and GC
Kristina Richardson (History, Queens College), Jennifer Ball (Art History, Brooklyn College and GC), Abby Kornfeld (Art History and Jewish Studies, City College of New York), Lauren Mancia (History, Brooklyn College)
3:10pm-3:20pm Coffee Break
3:20pm-4:35pm Panel #4: Crossing CULTURAL Boundaries
Moderator: William Arguelles
Tristan and the Medieval World
Mark-Allan Donaldson, GC
Majority in Number, Minority in Status, the Legacy of Byzantium in Islamic State Administration
Aliya Abdukadir Ali, Exeter University
Gender, Disability, and Jews in the Old English “Elene”: Intersections
Heide Estes, Monmouth University
4:35-4:45pm Coffee Break
4:45pm-5:45pm Keynote
Moderator: Soojung Choe
Of Saracens and Their Objects in the Epic: Translation, Association, Desire
Shirin Khanmohamadi, San Francisco State University
5:45pm Reception
PKMS 2019 Conference CFP: Crossing Boundaries
Crossing Boundaries: Towards an Interdisciplinary Medieval Studies
Date: May 3, 2019
Location: The Graduate Center, CUNY
Keynote Speaker: Shirin Khanmohamadi, San Francisco State University
The Pearl Kibre Medieval Study’s 14th annual conference in May will showcase a variety of scholarship with interdisciplinary or intersectional approaches. It will also consider the field of medieval studies in light of recent conversations such as those about Eurocentrism, racism, sexism, homophobia, and transphobia at Leeds and Kalamazoo. It will specifically seek to open spaces for graduate students and other potentially vulnerable members of academia to engage with the recent debates and other complicated and controversial topics.
The 2018 PKMS conference explored the relationship between French and English departments, literatures, and cultures. The 2017-2018 workshop series focused on decentralizing Europe in medieval studies in our research and teaching. Medieval scholars often work across disciplines, but the institutional lack of communication across disciplinary borders has become more apparent recently, and the need to collapse those borders more urgent. The 2019 PKMS conference will expand those conversations beyond England and France, bringing together medieval scholars who work in various disciplines and with various methodologies for this day-long conversation, as the culmination of a year of graduate-student workshops on interdisciplinarity and intersectionality in medieval studies.
We invite proposals for intersectional and/or interdisciplinary papers in medieval studies from all disciplines, regions, languages, methodologies, theoretical approaches, etc. We also welcome proposals for papers on the practical aspects, challenges, and benefits of interdisciplinary and intersectional work in medieval studies. Submit 250-word abstracts to medieval.study@gmail.com by December 31, 2018 JANUARY 31, 2019.
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
- Spatial, temporal, and disciplinary boundaries in medieval studies
- The history of medieval studies
- The “Global Middle Ages”
- Global views of the European Middle Ages
- Working with multiple languages
- Working with translations and editions
- Medieval translations and adaptations of texts
- Studies in comparative religion
- The politics of medievalism
- Legal status of women in various regions, religions, etc.
- Representations of women across multiple contexts
- Medieval studies and a method of colonization
- Similar traditions in Western and non-Western contexts
- Digital Humanities in medieval studies
- Medievalists and medicine / medieval medicine
- Dis/ability in the Middle Ages
- Medievalists teaching non-medieval topics and texts
- Later uses of medieval music, art, and motifs
- Medieval ideologies and constructions of identity surrounding gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, religion, and social class
