Going to Kalamazoo this year? The International Marie de France Society proposes three panels and a business meeting.
S346, Saturday 10am, Sangren Hall 1750
Marie de France and the Medieval Fable Tradition: Text, Image, and Context
Sponsor: International Marie de France Society
Presider: Simonetta Cochis, Transylvania Univ.
Organizer: Joseph R. Johnson, Georgetown Univ., Karen Casey Casebier, Univ. of Tennessee–Chattanooga
- The Fox in Marie de France’s Fables and in the Kalila wa Dimna
Anna D. Russakoff, American Univ. of Paris - Les Fables de Marie de France and the French Bestiary Tradition
Karen Casey Casebier - Gender and Genesis: Marie’s “The Man and the Serpent” in its Manuscript Contexts
Joseph R. Johnson
International Marie de France Business Meeting
Saturday, 12-1pm, Student Center 3205
396, Saturday 1pm, Sangren Hall 1750
Monstrosity, Madness, and Marie de France
Sponsor: International Marie de France Society
Presider: Tamara Bentley Caudill, Jacksonville Univ.
Organizer: Joseph R. Johnson, Georgetown Univ.; Leslie Anderson, Washington and Lee Univ
- Marie de France and the Hermeneutics of Dismemberment
Vesta Pitts, Stanford Univ. - The Werewolf, the Wildman, and the Mad Warrior in Marie de France’s Bisclavret
Erin Cadenhead, Independent Scholar - Bisclavret to Barker: The Werewolf Always Returns
Jake Brewer, Tarleton State Univ
S443, Saturday, 3:30 pm, Sangren Hall 1750
Women and Knowledge in the Works of Marie de France (A Roundtable)
Sponsor: International Marie de France Society
Presider: Joseph R. Johnson, Georgetown Univ.
Organizer: Joseph R. Johnson; Leslie Anderson, Washington and Lee Univ.
A roundtable discussion with Ellen M. Thorington, Ball State Univ.; Kathryn Elizabeth Sanford, Univ. of Miami; Jillian Kern, Univ. of North Carolina–Chapel Hill; Laine E. Doggett, St. Mary’s College of Maryland
S485, Saturday, 7pm, Sangren Hall 1750
Performances of Marie de France
Sponsor: International Marie de France Society
Presider: Regula Meyer Evitt, Colorado College
Organizer: Joseph R. Johnson, Georgetown Univ.; Tamara Bentley Caudill, Jacksonville Univ.
A performance by Joseph Brantley, Univ. of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music; Alexander Volokh, Emory Law School; Tamara Bentley Caudill; Yvonne LeBlanc, Independent Scholar; Simonetta Cochis, Transylvania Univ.
In addition to the panels above, here are some additional talks to mark in your program.
- S143 Thursday, 3:30 pm
Defying Feminine and Masculine Expectations in Marie de France’s Lanval, Katarina M. Rexing, Western Michigan Univ. - S232 Friday, 1:30 pm
Teaching Marie de France’s Bisclavret in a Men’s Prison: Masculinity, Monstrosity, and Mediation, Karen J. Taylor, Morehead State Univ. - S235 Friday, 1:30 pm
Reinventing the Scene: The Role of Reciprocity in Marie de France’s “Correction” of Courtly Love in Lanval, Emily Eikost, Ohio State Univ - S359 Saturday, 10 am
Space, Place, and the Promise of the Convent in Eliduc, Katherine Kong
Implications of Lay Piety in the Vie Seinte Audrée as Told by Marie de France, Christina Marie Virok, Independent Scholar