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2011 Schedule of Papers & Events
 

Sponsors

The Cook-Cole College of Arts and Sciences
Office of the Longwood Vice-President/Provost
Department of English and Modern Languages
Department of History, Political Science, and Philosophy
Longwood Chapter of Lambda Iota Tau
Longwood History Club

General Schedule
(specific speakers & panels below; except where noted below, all presentations are in Chichester G12, which is Building #15 on the official campus map)

Friday, 1 April

 
Noon—5 pm: Registration (Chichester/Science Building Atrium)
2:00—3:30pm: Session #1
3:30—3:45pm: Afternoon Refreshments
3:45—5:15pm: Session #2
6:00—8:00pm: Reception and Banquet
(Featuring Medieval Music by Otter's Court)
8:00—9:00pm: First Plenary Address

Saturday, 2 April

 
8:30—11:15am: Continental Breakfast
9:00—10:15am: Session #3
10:30—11:30am: Session #4
11:30—1:30pm: Lunch
1:45—2:45pm: Second Plenary Address
3:00—3:15pm: Afternoon Break
3:15—4:15pm: Session #5
4:30—5:30pm: Special Event: Firing a Trebuchet


Sessions and Speakers

Friday, 1 April

SESSION #1:  2:00—3:30pm
Women and Knighthood
Chair: Dr. Steven Isaac, Longwood University
  • “Queen Matilda: Finessing Authority”
    Audrey Tremblay, Longwood University

  • “Chaucer and the Visualization of Gender in the Middle Ages”
    Deanna Doyle, Radford University

  • “The Scales of Justice: Expectation and Upheaval in the Wife of Bath’s Tale”
    Victoria Hatcher, Bridgewater College

  • “Medieval Parish Guilds in England”
    Kristen Wander, Longwood University

SESSION #2:  3:45—5:00pm
Militarizing the Margins
Chair: Dr. Kelly Devries, Loyola University Maryland

  • “Life After Clontarf”
    Michelle Littlejohn, Appalachian State University

  • “The Anglo-Norman Invasion of Ireland”
    Patrick Barnes, Longwood University

  • “Thomas of Marle and the Ends of Violence”
    Will Guerrant, Longwood University
RECEPTION 6:00–6:30
Medieval Music performed by Otter's Court (free and open to the public—Dorrill Hall, Lewis Room)

BANQUET: 6:30–8:00
(By advance registration only) Dorrill Hall, Nance Room

FIRST PLENARY ADDRESS:  8:00—9:00pm, Lewis Room, Dorrill Hall

Dr. Emily Albu
University of California at Davis
“Mapping the World of Dark Knights and Dingy Castles”

Saturday, 2 April

SESSION #3:  9:00—10:15am
Lover-Knights and Courtly Love
Chair: Dr. Larissa Tracy, Longwood University

  • “Franciscan affectus and the construction of Christ the lover-knight in Middle English religious lyric—an examination of The Dispute between Mary and the Cross”
    Celeste Cruz-Carandang, Washington and Lee University

  • “My Lady, My Love: Images of Courtly Love in Dante’s The Divine Comedy”
    Kyli Archibald, Hobart and William Smith Colleges

  • “Lancelot and his Crisis of Identity”
    Gabriella Magali Granda, Valdosta State University

SESSION 4:  10:30—11:45am
Myths, Legends and Hard Realities around the North Atlantic
Chair: Dr. Emily Albu, University of California at Davis

  • “Language, Mythos, and Oral Tradition: Constructing Cultural Identity in Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings”
    Jeff Everhart, Longwood University

  • “Icelandic Slave Children”
    Andrew Walker, Appalachian State University

  • “William the Conqueror and the Harrying of the North”
    Daniel Bennett, Longwood University

SECOND PLENARY ADDRESS:  1:45—2:45pm

Dr. Kelly DeVries
Loyola University Maryland
“Rhodes:  Place of Slaughter in 1480 and 1522, Laboratory for Study in 2011”

SESSION 5:  3:15—4:30pm
The Colliding Cultures of Christianity and Islam
Chair: Dr. Javier Fernandez, Longwood University

  • “El Camino de Santiago”
    Melyssa Farrell, Longwood University

  • “El retablo de las maravillas (The altar of marvels)”
    Nicole Yard, Methodist University

  • “Piety and Perversion: The Intent and Application of the First Crusade”
    Bryant Young, Winthrop University

CLOSING REMARKS: 4:30pm

SPECIAL EVENT :  4:45—5:30pm
Pre-Gunpowder Artillery
Live Firing (with cabbages!) of a Trebuchet