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