FRIDAY, MAY 15, 3:30 PM
Session 249, Sangren Hall 1720
Global Medieval Performance: Performing Beasts in the Middle Ages—Fables and More
A performance by Gema Valencia-Turco, Univ. of Pennsylvania; Francis J. Valencia- Turco, Temple Univ.; Alexander Volokh, Emory Law School; M. Wendy Hennequin, Tennessee State Univ.
SATURDAY, MAY 16, 10 :30 AM
Session 323, Sangren Hall 1720
Marie de France
Representing Gendered Violence in the Manuscripts of Marie de France’s Fables
Joseph R. Johnson, Georgetown Univ.
“Ceste beste ad entente e sen”: Affect and Animal Rhetorics in Bisclavret
Miles Smith, Fordham Univ.
Education, Authority and Authoritarianism: Medieval Lessons for Modern Times from Marie de France
Laine E. Doggett, St. Mary’s College of Maryland
SATURDAY, MAY 16, 12 :00 PM—ANNUAL MEETING (LUNCH PROVIDED)
Student Center 2207
International Marie de France Society, Lunch and Business Meeting
SATURDAY, MAY 16, 1 :30 PM
Session 357, Sangren Hall 1720
Breton Lays in Old French, Old Norse, and Middle English (A Roundtable)
A roundtable discussion with Jillian Kern, Univ. of North Carolina–Chapel Hill; Shaun F. D. Hughes, Purdue Univ.; Genevieve R. Berendt, Univ. of Minnesota–Morris; Karen Casey Casebier, Univ. of Tennessee–Chattanooga; Tamara Bentley Caudill, Jacksonville Univ.
In addition to IMFS’s sponsored sessions, there are a number of Marie de France papers throughout the program. Let us draw your attention to these sessions:
THURSDAY, MAY 14, 8:30 AM
Session 9, Sangren Hall 1920
Revisiting the Anglo- and Cambro-Norman Imaginary in Marie de France and the Literary Lay
Jillian Kern, Univ. of North Carolina–Chapel Hill
Session 20, Sangren Hall 4530
What Do Trees Have to Talk About? Examining Chevrefoil’s Embodiment of Trees as Reflective of Paper in the Middle Ages
Sarah A. Burt, Saint Louis Univ.
THURSDAY, MAY 14, 10:30 AM
Session 43, Sangren Hall 2710
Cabbage, Class, and Gender in Marie de France’s La vie seinte Audree
Jacob Abell, Baylor Univ.
Session 45, Sangren Hall 2730
“Thought her a wonder”: Silk as Political Rhetoric in Marie de France’s Lanval
Nicole A. Waters, Texas Tech Univ.
Session 49, Sangren Hall 3520
When the Apple Bites Back: Decay, Knighthood, and Ecological Ruin in Le Lai de Guingamor
Genevieve R. Berendt, Univ. of Minnesota–Morris
THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1:30 PM
Session 91, Sangren Hall 4725
Imagining Otherworlds: The Art of Queer Failure in Marie de France’s Lanval
Charlie Serigne, Univ. of Notre Dame
Session 268, Sangren Hall 1720
Papers by Undergraduates (2): Literature
Shifting Sympathies: Gender, Power, and Identity in the Lais of Marie de France
Dustin Wilde, Univ. of Tennessee–Chattanooga
Session 274, Student Center 3205
Material Transfers: Clothing and Textile Terminology in the Medieval Adaptations of Marie de France’s Lais
Monica L. Wright, Univ. of Louisiana–Lafayette
SATURDAY, MAY 16, 8 :30 AM
Session 301, Sangren Hall 3110
Marie de France’s Lanval and the Lawful Autonomy of the Otherworldly Woman
Kyla C. Hill, Independent Scholar