Kalamazoo Sessions Spring 2004

International Congress--Kalamazoo 2004

• Session 331 (MRDS)
Itinerant Playing in the Sixteenth Century
Friday, 7 May, 3:30 p.m., Fetzer 1035

Organizer: David N. Klausner, Centre for Medieval Studies, Univ. of Toronto
Presider: David N. Klausner

"A Garland, a Hobby Horse, and a Mock Wedding: Dramatic Processions in
and around Wiltshire"
Rosalind Hays, Dominican Univ.

"Village Players on the Move in the Thames Valley"
Alexandra F. Johnston, Records of Early English Drama, Univ. of Toronto

"Star Turns or Small Companies?"
Barbara D. Palmer, Mary Washington College

• Business Meeting
Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society
Friday, 7 May, 5:00 - c. 6:00, Fetzer 1035

• Session 389 (MRDS)
Early Revivals of Medieval and Early Modern Drama
Saturday, 8 May, 10:00-11:30 a.m., Fetzer 1035

Organizer: Robert L. A. Clark, Kansas State Univ.
Presider: Robert L. A. Clark

"'Corected and Not Playd': The Towneley Plays and Theories of Medieval
Performance in Nineteenth-Century England"
Garrett P. J. Epp, Univ. of Alberta

"Before Browne: The Mystery Plays in York"
Margaret Rogerson, Univ. of Sydney

"Religious Drama as Propaganda: Early Twentieth-Century Uses of a Sixteenth-Century Polish Resurrection Play"
Rob Sulewski, Univ. of Michigan - Ann Arbor

• Session 462 (MRDS)
Manuscripts and Performance
Saturday, 8 May, 1:30 p.m., Bernhard 208

Organizer: Pamela Sheingorn, Baruch College, CUNY
Presider: Pamela Sheingorn

"Saints and Signs: Performance Clues in the Mystère de saint Didier and the Mystère du siege d'Orleans"
Vicki Hamblin, Western Washington Univ.

"Dramatic and Ritual Performances Done in Fifteenth-Century Ferrara during Holy Week: Diaries and Descriptions"
C. Thomas Ault, Indiana Univ. of Pennsylvania

"Mise-en-Page et Mise-en-Scène: The Booke of Sir Thomas Moore"
Jonathan Walker, Univ. of Illinois - Chicago

• Session 521 (MRDS)
Never Appear with One: Animals and Children on the Early Stage
Saturday, 8 May, 3:30 p.m., Bernhard 208

Organizer: Victor I. Scherb, Univ. of Texas - Tyler
Presider: Victor I. Scherb

"The Augsburg St. George Play: Wrangling Livestock, Children, and Dragons"
Stephen Wright, Catholic Univ. of America

"The Role of Horses in Elizabethan Pageantry"
Paulette Marty, Millikin Univ.

"Bringing the Burgundian Court to Life: Animals, Pageantry, and Automatons"
Jesse D. Hurlbut, Brigham Young Univ.

Special Performances

• Readers' Theater Performance of the Towneley Magnus Herodes
Thursday, 6 May, 8:00 p.m., Valley III 301

Sponsor: Chaucer Studio
Organizer: Warren Edminster, Murray State Univ.
Presider: Warren Edminster

A readers' theater performance with Joe Ricke, Taylor Univ.; Thomas J. Farrell, Stetson Univ.; Susan Yager, Iowa State Univ.; Gloria J. Betcher, Iowa State Univ.; Miriam Rheingold Fuller, Central Missouri State Univ.; Joseph S. Wittig, Univ. of North Carolina - Chapel Hill; and Alan Baragona, Virginia Military Institute.

• Malory's Morte Darthur Aloud - Flourishing Your Heart in This World
Friday, 7 May, 8:00 p.m., Valley III 301

Organizer: D. Thomas Hanks Jr., Baylor Univ.
Presider: D. Thomas Hanks Jr.

A readers' theater performance with Mary Hamel, Mount St. Mary's College; Dorsey Armstrong, California State Univ. - Long Beach; Michael W. Twomey, Ithaca College; Barbara Newman, Northwestern Univ.; Janet Jesmok, Univ. of Wisconsin - Milwaukee; Peter G. Christensen, Cardinal Stritch Univ.; Joyce Coleman, Univ. of North Dakota; Karen Cherewatuk, St. Olaf College; and Marc Kaiser, Royal Holloway, Univ. of London.

• Session 35
Old French Literature
Thursday, 6 May, 10:00 a.m., Schneider 1325

Presider: Lisa Bansen-Harp, Independent Scholar

"Ibn Hazm and Aucassin et Nicolette: A Plausible Connection"
Lorrel Sullivan, Univ. of Tennessee - Knoxville

"Love and Looks: Physical Imperfection in Ille et Galeron and Caradoc"
Linda Rouillard, Univ. of Toledo

"The Devil Made Them Do It: Satan the Conniver in French Vernacular Drama"
Patrice C. Ross, Columbus State Community College

• Session 52
Gender Comedy in the Early English Drama
Thursday, 6 May, 10:00 a.m., Sangren 2210

Organizer: Joe Ricke, Taylor Univ.
Presider: Thom Satterlee, Taylor Univ.

"Gender and Comedy in Everyman"
Tom Murphy, Mansfield Univ.

"Gender Tragicomedy: Early English Gender Comedy and Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale"
Joe Ricke

"Going Public: Household and Community in John Lydgate's Mumming at Hertford"
Nicole Nolan, East Carolina Univ.

• Session 54
The Crucifix as Object
Thursday, 6 May, 10:00 a.m., Sangren 2303

Organizer: Jacqueline E. Jung, Univ. of California - Berkeley
Presider: Jacqueline E. Jung

"The Crucifix and Franciscan Identity in 'Medieval' China and Central Asia: The Case of William Rubruck"
Jennifer C. Lane, Brigham Young Univ. - Hawaii

"Wounded Christ, Wounded Cross: The Bleeding Crucifix in Late Medieval Miracles"
Sarah Covington, Queens College, CUNY

"The Boxley Rood of Grace: Mechanical Marvel or Miraculous Object?"
Leanne Groeneveld, Carleton Univ.

"Crossing Elizabeth: The Queen's Crucifix Controversy and the 1564 Royal Performance of Ezechias"
Paul Whitfield White, Purdue Univ.

• Session 80
Supernatural Shakespeares: A Roundtable Discussion
Thursday, 6 May, 1:30 p.m., Valley I 106

Sponsor: Shakespeare at Kalamazoo
Organizer: Bradley Greenburg, Northeastern Illinois Univ.
Presider: Carole Levin, Univ. of Nebraska - Lincoln

"Silencing Sycorax: Magic, Science, and The Tempest"
Brinda Cherry, Syracuse Univ.

"Prologue to the Omen Coming On: The Ghost as the Symbol of Irrevocability in Hamlet"
John Curran, Marquette Univ.

"Extrascriptural Prophecy in Antony and Cleopatra and Macbeth"
Timothy Francisco, Youngstown State Univ.

"'Poor Fancy's Followers': Rhetorical Magic in A Midsummer's Night's Dream"
Christy Desmet, Univ. of Georgia

• Session 86
Cultural Affinities: East Meets West in Drama I
Thursday, 6 May, 1:30 p.m., Fetzer 1010

Sponsor: Comparative Drama
Organizer: Eve Salisbury, Western Michigan Univ.
Presider: Eve Salisbury

"Fighting for the Woman in the Veil: The Korèula Moreska"
Max Harris, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison, and Lada éale Feldman, Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Zagreb

"The Weeping Mothers in Nô and Medieval English Drama"
Mikiko Ishii, Kanagawa Univ.

"Comparative Analysis: Western Medieval Drama and the Nô Theater of Japan"
Mary Lyn Hikel, Univ. of Washington - Seattle

• Session 148
Pedagogy in Context: Teaching Medieval Literature in the Twenty-First Century (A Roundtable Discussion)
Thursday, 6 May, 1:30 p.m., Fetzer 1005

Organizer: Terri L. Major, Univ. of Washington - Seattle, and Jen Gonyer-Donohue, Univ. of Washington - Seattle
Presider: Wendy Love Anderson, St. Louis Univ.

"Seven Years in the Virtual Classroom: Teaching Old English via the Internet"
Murray McGillivray, Univ. of Calgary

"Teaching Medieval Literature in a Freshman Writing Course"
Brooke Heidenreich Findley, Duke Univ.

"Pilgrimages in the South: Teaching The Canterbury Tales in the Bible Belt"
Natalie Grinnell, Wofford College

"Courtly MTV? Minnesang and the Undergraduate"
Mary Paddock, Smith College

"Teaching Medieval Drama through Performance"
Betty Elizey, Shepherd College

• Session 149
Cultural Affinities: East Meets West in Drama II
Thursday, 6 May, 3:30 p.m., Fetzer 1010

Sponsor: Comparative Drama
Organizer: Eve Salisbury, Western Michigan Univ.
Presider: Eve Salisbury

"Aesthetics of Acting in the Japanese Traditional Nô, Kyôgen, and Kabuki Theaters"
Zvika Serper, Tel Aviv Univ.

Scholar and performance artist Zvika Serper will present live segments of Nô, Kyôgen, and Kabuki acting (in Japanese with English explanation) as well as video clips and slides.

• Session 230
Medieval Drama
Friday, 7 May, 10:00 a.m., Bernhard 212

Presider: David Bevington, Univ. of Chicago

"Method Acting in Medieval York"
Elza C. Tiner, Lynchburg College

"Movable Feasts, Marching Bands, and Mary: The Interdependence of the Sacred and Secular in Sienese Assumption Performances"
Jenna Soleo, CUNY

"Spectacle, Argument, and the Design of Wisdom Who is Christ"
Kathryn King, Univ. of Connecticut

• Session 298
Pedagogical Strategies for Drama, Music, and the Visual Arts: Engaging a Diverse Student Body (A Roundtable Discussion)
Friday, 7 May, 1:30 p.m., Sangren 2302

Organizer: Diane J. Reilly, Indiana Univ. - Bloomington, and Sigrid Danielson,
Grand Valley State Univ.
Presider: Joyce De Vries, Auburn Univ.

"Teaching Manuscripts to the Modern Eye: A Case Study"
Diane J. Reilly

"Gladiators and Gluttons: Using Movies to Teach Art"
Julie Van Voorhis, Indiana Univ. - Bloomington

"Making Place in a Medieval World"
Patricia Trutty-Coohill, Siena College

"Mixing It Up: Student Writing and the Interdisciplinary Classroom"
Sigrid Danielson

• Session 442
Shakespeare's Henry VI
Saturday 8 May, 1:30 p.m., Valley I 102

Presider: Maud Burnett McInerney, Haverford College

"From Saint to Sorceress: Negotiating the Spirituality of Joan of Arc in I Henry VI"
Ayn Becze, Univ. of Calgary

"Shakespeare's Henry VI and the Tragedy of Renaissance Diplomacy"
John Watkins, Univ. of Minnesota

• Session 456
Using Performance in Teaching Literature: A Roundtable Discussion
Saturday, 8 May, 1:30 p.m., Fetzer 2020

Sponsor: TEAMS (Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages, Inc.)
Organizer: Evelyn Birge Vitz, New York Univ.
Presider: Nancy F. Regalado, New York Univ.

A roundtable discussion with Evelyn Birge Vitz; Marilyn Lawrence, College of
Staten Island, CUNY; Russell Peck, Univ. of Rochester; Linda Marie Zaerr, Boise
State Univ.; and Kevin Cryderman, Univ. of Rochester.

• Session 499
Studies in Medieval Literature II
Saturday, 8 May, 3:30 p.m., Valley I 100

Sponsor: Medieval English Studies Association of Korea (MESAK)
Organizer: Young-Bae Park, Kookmin Univ.
Presider: Sung-Il Lee, Yonsei Univ.

"Satirical Elements in Korean and Medieval English Drama"
Dongchoon Lee, Daegu Univ.

"Ritualistic Elements in Korean and English Medieval Drama"
Yejung Choi, Hoseo Univ.

"Re-Reading Mysteries' End: Where Is the Fault-Line between the Medieval and Renaissance English Stages?"
Tai-Won Kim, Sungshin Women's Univ.

"The Unsearchable Dispose of Highest Wisdom"
Hongwon Suh, Yonsei Univ.

• Session 590
Representations of Evil in Early Drama
Sunday, 9 May, 10:30 a.m., Valley I 106

Sponsor: Comparative Drama
Organizer: Eve Salisbury, Western Michigan Univ.
Presider: Clifford Davidson, Western Michigan Univ.

"Keeping the N-Town Devil on Stage"
Ellen Rice Ketels, Columbia Univ.

"'The Serpent Beguiled Me and I Did Eat': Marketing Hell as Heaven in German Easter Plays"
Elizabeth Traverse, Independent Scholar

"Dramatizing the Banal: Evil in Mankind"
Ineke Murakami, Univ. of Notre Dame