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Friday, 8 April
Noon—5 pm:	Registration (Nance Room Foyer)
Noon—1:30pm:	Session #1
1:45—3:15pm:	Session #2
3:30—5:00pm:	Session #3
6:00—7:00pm:	Reception (Dorrill Hall-Tea Room)
7:00—8:00pm:	Banquet (Dorril Hall-Nance Room)
8:00—9:00pm:	First Plenary Address (Dorrill Hall-Lewis Room)
Saturday, 9 April
8:30—11:15am:	Continental Breakfast (Dorrill Hall-Tea Room)
9:00—10:15am:	Session #4
10:30—12:15pm:	Session #5
12:15—2:00pm:	Lunch
2:00—3:00pm:	Second Plenary Address
3:00—3:15pm:	Afternoon Break
3:15—4:45pm:	Session #6
7:00–7:45pm:	Medieval Drama: An Adaptation of Chaucer’s “Nun’s Priest’s Tale” by Murray State University

SESSION #1:  Noon—1:30pm
Goddesses, Literature, and Law
Chair: Dr. Larissa Tracy, Longwood University

• “Serpent Tongues and Temptation’s Snares: Exploring Sir Gawain and the Green Knight as an Analogue for the Biblical Temptation of Eve”
  Mandy Holley, Florida State University
  


• “Malory’s Enigma: Arthur, Lancelot, and Fate in Le Morte Darthur”
  Br. Gregory Marshall, OSB, Belmont Abbey College


• “Syncretic Middle Earth: Religious Traditions in Tolkien”
  Alexis Sotzing, Longwood University

SESSION #2:  1:45—3:15pm
The View over the Horizon
Chair: Steven Isaac, Longwood University

• “The High Kings of Ireland”
  Sean Moriarty, Belmont Abbey College


• “The Disappearance of Elephants from Mediterranean Armies”
   Matthew Cuellar, Longwood University


• “London as ‘Homefront’ in the Hundred Years War: Guilds, Knights, Military Industry, and Women”
  Annie Thrasher, Longwood University

SESSION #3:  3:30—5:00pm
Cross-Dressing
Chair: Dr. Melissa Ridley-Elmes, UNC-Greensboro

• “Gender Construction, Homosexual Accusations, and Heresy in Silence and Lanval”
  Peter Morgan, Roanoke College


• “‘Queering’ Roman de Silence”
   Rachel Barton, Roanoke College


• “Joan of Arc’s Cross-dressing, Politics, and Gender Norms in 1431 France”
  Matthew Blair, University of Tennessee

RECEPTION 6:00–7:00
Free and open to the public—Dorrill Hall, Nance Room Foyer

BANQUET: 7:00–8:00
(By advance registration only) Dorrill Hall, Nance Room

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

Saturday, 9 April

SESSION #4:  9:00—10:15am
Wearing the Past
Chair: Mary Prevo, Hampden-Sydney College

• “What you May Not Know About Girdles”
  Amber Slusser-Brillhart, Radford University
  
  
• “Heavy upon Their Shoulders: A Study of 11th-Century European Royal Mantles and Regalia”
  Lydia James, Winthrop University

SESSION 5:  10:30—12:15am
Sword Maidens
Chair: Dr. Ana Grinberg, East Tennessee State University

• “Joan of Arc's Voices”
  Lauren Huffman, Longwood University
  


• “Lover and Lord: Gendered Displays of Fealty in The Wife’s Lament and The Lord of the Rings”
   Shelby Jay, University of Montevallo


• “War Gets Wyrd: Gender-fluid Women and Gods in Judith and Lord of the Rings”
  Jacob Robertson, University of Montevallo
  

SECOND PLENARY ADDRESS:  2:00—3:00pm

SESSION 6:  3:15—4:45pm
Looking at the Other
Chair: Dr. Lilla Kopár, The Catholic University

• “God Forbid: Christian Hyperbole and Depictions of Vikings in Anglo-Saxon England”
  Robert Luke Sealey, Appalachian State University
  
  
• “Shakespeare’s Geography of Northern Otherness in Hamlet”
  Kathryn Bishop, Schreiner University
  
  
• “The English Image of Irish Culture: John Derricke’s Plates”
  Brendan Vickers, Belmont Abbey College

INNOVATION SESSION: 5:00-5:30pm
Dr. Thomas Herron, East Carolina University

• “Irish Castles in the Air: Building Centering Spenser: A Digital Resource for Kilcolman Castle”

7:00–7:45pm: MEDIEVAL DRAMA

• An Adaptation of Chaucer’s “Nun’s Priest’s Tale” by Murray State University players.