Kalamazoo Sessions Spring 2005

International Congress--Kalamazoo 2005

• Session 292 (MRDS)
Early Drama and the Muslim World
Friday, May 6, 1:30 p.m., Bernhard 215

Organizer: Max R. Harris, Wisconsin Humanities Council
Presider: Max R. Harris

Performing Muslims in Early Iberian Dance, Drama, and Festival
Manuela Carvalho, Univ. de Lisboa

Searching for Contacts between Early Drama in Italy and the Muslim World
Vincent Marsicano, Univ. degli Studi di Torino

The Conquering Turk in Carnival Nuremberg: Has Rosenplüt's Das Turken Vastnachtspil of 1456
Martin W. Walsh, Univ. of Michigan

• Session 351 (MRDS)
The Influence of Glynne Wickham on Early Drama Studies: A Roundtable in His Memory
Friday, May 6, 3:30 p.m., Bernhard 210

Organizer: Paul Whitfield White, Purdue Univ.
Presider: Paul Whitfield White

Glynne Wickham and Reconstructing the Past through Performance
Martin White, Univ. of Bristol

Reflections on the Impact of Early English Stages
David Bevington, Univ. of Chicago

Glynne Wickham and REED
Alexandra F. Johnston, Univ. of Toronto

Glynne Wickham: Stage and Spectacle
Gordon Kipling, Univ. of California-Los Angeles

Glynne Wickham and Drama in a World of Science
Mark Pilkington, Univ. of Notre Dame

Business Meeting
Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society
Friday, May 6, 5:00 p.m., Bernhard 210

• Session 400 (MRDS)
Technology and Early Drama: Teaching and Research Tools and Tactics
Saturday, May 7, 10:00 a.m., Fetzer 2030

Organizer: Gloria J. Betcher, Iowa State Univ.
Presider: Gloria J. Betcher

Student-Centered Technology and the Learning Process
Carolyn Coulson-Grigsby, Centenary College

"Take Heed, How Your Clerk Shent His Book": E-Texts and the Classroom
Gerard NeCastro, Univ. of Maine-Machias

ReREEDing Records: New Technology for Old Problems
James C. Cummings, Oxford Text Archive, Univ. of Oxford

• Session 564 Sponsor: (MRDS)
Putting Performance in Its Place: Topography and Meaning in Early Drama
Sunday, May 8, 8:30 a.m., Fetzer 1035
Organizer: Robert Barrett, Univ. of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign
Presider: Robert Barrett

Performing Ben Commune: The Semiotics of Space and the Politics of Performance in Siena's Piazza del Campo
Jenna M. Soleo, Graduate Center, CUNY

Intra or Extra Muros: Performances in Seurre and Orleans in Late Fifteenth-Century France
Vicki Hamblin, Western Washington Univ.

Spectacles of State: The Blackfriars Theater and Trials of Marriage
Karen Sawyer Marsalek, St. Olaf College

Special Performance
Readers' Theater Performance of the Towneley Iudicium
Thursday, 5 May, 8:00 p.m. Valley III 302

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

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

Other Sessions of Interest

• Session 9
Relative Roles in the Medieval Family Romance and in Shakespeare: Love, Desire, Identity, Gender
Thursday, 5 May, 10:00 a.m., Valley II 201

Organizer: Elizabeth Archibald, Univ. of Bristol
Presider: Derek S. Brewer, Emmanuel College, Univ. of Cambridge

There's Magic in the Web of It: Desdemona's Handkerchief and the Romance Tradition of Magic Cloths
Yvette Kisor, Ramapo College of New Jersey

Female Friendship and Agency in All's Well That Ends Well, Part One: The Medieval Analogues
Elizabeth Archibald

Female Friendship and Agency in All's Well That Ends Well, Part Two: The Shakespearean Twist
Lesel Dawson, Univ. of Bristol

Sex and the Heiress
Helen Cooper, Univ. of Cambridge

• Session 21
Body and Voice in Early Theater
Thursday, 5 May, 10:00 a.m., Valley I 109

Organizer: Jane Marianna Tolmie, Univ. of Western Ontario
Presider: Mary-Jo Arn, Medieval Academy of America

The Nun's Voice: Body and Word in the Wilton Visitatio sepulchri
Margaret Aziza Pappano, Queen's Univ.

Snapshots of the Fall: Eva/Ave
Jane Marianna Tolmie

"Ye Must Resist Lyke a Man": Gender Politics in Mankynde
Diane Cady, St. John's Univ.

• Session 32
Court and Social Mobility
Thursday, 5 May, 10:00 a.m., Fetzer 2030

Sponsor: International Courtly Literature Society
Organizer: Rosmarie Thee Morewedge, Binghamton Univ.
Presider: Rosmarie Thee Morewedge

Home Thoughts from Abroad: Ex-Patriot Troubadours
Amelia E. Daniels, Univ. of Minnesota-Twin Cities

"Par Bien Servir Son Signeur Acquert On pour Fit et Honneur": Jean Froissart and the Literary Patronage at the Court of Brabant
Remco Sleiderink, Katholieke Univ. Brussel

Social Mobility in the Miracles de Nostre Dame par personnages
Carol Harvey, Univ. of Winnipeg

Social Mobility and the Cultured (Converso) Self in the Late Medieval Spanish Court
Ana M. G—mez-Bravo, Purdue Univ.

• Session 45
The Other Stage: New Perspectives on Performance and Theatricality
Thursday, 5 May, 10:00 a.m., Bernhard 210

Organizer: Candace Gregory, California State Univ.-Sacramento
Presider: Candace Gregory

Schadenfreude: Modern Drama, Medieval Torture
Leon Wiebers, California State Univ.-Sacramento

Performance and the Construction of Visual Piety in York
Jill Stevenson, Graduate Center, CUNY

"Draw If You Be Men": The Culture of Swordplay in Romeo and Juliet
Dianne E. Berg, Higgens Armory Museum

Being Nothing: "Geta" and Impersonation in Medieval Latin Comedy
Monika Otter, Dartmouth College

• Session 79
Performing the Other in Early Drama
Thursday, 5 May, 1:30 a.m., Valley I 109

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

Gods and Monsters in the Towneley Pageants
Marc Guidry, Stephen F. Austin State Univ., and Liam O. Purdon, Doane College

Exchanging Bodies: National Sentiment and the Reformation of Merchant Identity in The Play of the Sacrament
Derrick Higginbotham, Columbia Univ.

• Session 133
Economics and Identity in Late Medieval England
Thursday, 5 May, 3:30 a.m., Valley I 101

Organizer: Kimberly A. Thompson, Ohio State Univ.
Presider: Dawn Simmons Walts, Ohio State Univ.

Practical Paradise: Love and Economics in a Late Middle English Poem
Elizabeth Walgenbach, Cornell Univ.

Consume to Save: The Path to Salvation as Mercers' Preservation in the York Last Judgment
Maren L. Donley, Univ. of Colorado-Boulder

Money and the Man: Sir Amadace, Economics, and Chivalric Identity
Kimberly A. Thompson

• Session 137
The Word and the Image: The Iconoclastic Struggle in Early Modern Drama
Thursday, 5 May, 3:30 a.m., Valley I 107

Organizer: J. Terry Wade, Independent Scholar
Presider: J. Terry Wade

Assertions of Orthodoxy in a Sixteenth-Century Polish Resurrection Play
Robert Sulewski, Univ. of Michigan-Ann Arbor

"Playing" Protestant, "Claiming" Catholic, in John Buchanan's Baptistes
Cynthia Bowers, Kennesaw State Univ.

Theorizing an "Iconoclastic Drama": A Discourse Analysis Approach
Charlotte Pressler, South Florida Community College

• Session 138
Marlowe versus Medieval
Thursday, 5 May, 3:30 a.m., Valley I 109

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

Getting Medieval with Marlowe
Daniel Gates, Rhodes College

"Of Finer Mould Than Common Men": Marlowe's Vita of Barabas
Ineke Murakami, Univ. of Notre Dame

• Session 152
Late Medieval Courtly Culture in the Dramatic Discourse of the Period
Thursday, 5 May, 3:30 a.m., Schneider 1245

Sponsor: School of English, Adam Mickiewicz Univ.
Organizer: Jacek Fisiak, Adam Mickiewicz Univ.
Presider: Jacek Fisiak

Writing a New Morality Play: The Court as the World in John Skelton's Magnificence and John Redford's The Marriage of Wisdom
Liliana Sikorska, Adam Mickiewicz Univ.

The Concept of Verbal and Non-Verbal Courtship in Henry Medwall's Fulgence and Lucrece
Anna Warmuz, Adam Mickiewicz Univ.

Satirical Presentation of the Court in John Heywood's The Play of the Weather
Paulina Steplowska, Adam Mickiewicz Univ.

• Session 196
Staging Justice: Theater and Law in Early Drama
Friday, May 6, 10:00 a.m., Valley I 107

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

The Most Virtuous and Godly Susanna's Garters and the Inns of Court
J. Terry Wade, Independent Scholar

Royal Repentance and the Just State in Hamlet
Grace Tiffany, Western Michigan Univ.

Justice Speaks: Representing the Common Law on Early Modern Stages
Holger Schott Syme, Miami Univ. of Ohio

"Higher Powers Forbid": Staging the Trial of Masculine Justice in Early English Drama
Joe Ricke, Taylor Univ.

• Session 214
Subversive Humor
Friday, May 6, 10:00 a.m., Schneider 1340

Organizer: Margaret Dupuis, Western Michigan Univ.
Presider: Margaret Dupuis

Vagrants, Cruelty, and Conflicting Discourse in Robert Greene's A Notable Discovery of Cozenage (1591)
Donald Brasted-Maki, West Chester Univ. of Pennsylvania

The Goose Flown Away without Her Head: Jack Straw and the Representation of Radical, Popular Rebellion on the Early Modern Stage
Stephen Schillinger, Univ. of Washington-Seattle

Measure for Measure as Shakespearean Bedtrick: Coitus Interruptus for Everyone Concerned
Gretchen Schulz, Oxford College, Emory Univ.

• Session 250
Fourteenth-Century Mysticisms
Friday, May 6, 1:30 p.m., Valley II 205

Sponsor: 14th Century Society
Organizer: Phyllis E. Pobst, Arkansas State Univ.
Presider: Wendy Love Anderson, St. Louis Univ.

The Meaning of the Word: Language and Understanding in Marguerite d'Oingt
Jessica Barr, Brown Univ.

Living the Good (Contemplative) Life: Advice from Three Fourteenth- Century Mystics
Toni J. Morris, Univ. of Indianapolis

Performing the Book: Men, Women, and Performative Mystical Texts in the German Vernacular
Patricia Z. Beckman, Univ. of Missouri-Columbia

• Session 258
Shakespeare Gets Medieval I: Theory and Practice
Friday, May 6, 1:30 p.m., Valley I 106

Sponsor: Shakespeare at Kalamazoo
Organizer: Jonathan Walker, Portland State Univ.
Presider: Bradley Greenburg, Northeastern Illinois Univ.

Getting Medieval in Venice: Portia's Cross-Dressing as Identity Construction in The Merchant of Venice
Jamie Friedman, Whitworth College

"The Dearest Issue of His Practice": Helena's "Triple Eye" as Medieval Empiric in All's Well That Ends Well
LaRue Love Sloan, Univ. of Louisiana-Monroe

Love, Politics, Intertextuality: Chaucer's Parlement of Foules and Shakespeare's The Phoenix and Turtle
Steele Nowlin, Pennsylvania State Univ.

• Session 297
Performance and Troubadour Lyric: In Honor of F. R. P. Akehurst
Friday, May 6, 1:30 p.m., Sangren 2204

Sponsor: Société Guilhem IX
Organizer: Vincent Pollina, Tufts Univ.
Presider: Vincent Pollina

Rhetoric and Lyric Performance in Raimon Vidal
Michelle Bolduc, Univ. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Humming Along: Musical Memory and Troubadour Lyric
Wendy Pfeffer, Univ. of Louisville

Gaucelm Faidit's Reputation: Artistic Worth versus Live Performance
Eliza Miruna Ghil, Univ. of New Orleans

Timbre in Troubadour Song
John Haines, Univ. of Toronto

• Session 321
Shakespeare Gets Medieval II: Culture, Theater, Violence
Friday, May 6, 3:30 p.m., Valley I 106

Sponsor: Shakespeare at Kalamazoo
Organizer: Jonathan Walker, Portland State Univ.
Presider: Carole Levin, Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln

The Waning of the Middle Ages in The Merchant of Venice: A Tale of Jerusalem Delivered and of Crusades against the Moor and the Jew
Nadjia Amrane, Univ. d'Alger

Othello, the Medieval "Mumming Play," and the Extinction of Memory
Iain McClure, Birkbeck College, Univ. of London

Some Good, Perchance: Shakespeare's Failures
Kevin Farley, Virginia Commonwealth Univ.

• Session 411
Rutebeuf
Saturday, May 7, 10:00 a.m., Bernhard 215

Organizer: Molly Lynde-Recchia, Western Michigan Univ.
Presider: Molly Lynde-Recchia

Lives and Lessons from Rutebeuf
Maureen Gillespie Dawson, Univ. of Kansas

Dramatic Legend/Legendary Drama: Rutebeuf as Playwright
Minnie B. Sangster, North Carolina Central Univ.

Translating Rutebeuf's Theophile: Rhythm, Rhyme, and Rationale
Judith L. Barban, Winthrop Univ.

• Session 470
Medieval and Renaissance Drama
Saturday, May 7, 1:30 p.m., Bernhard 215

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

Drama and Place in Early Suffolk: Newly Gathered Evidence
James Stokes, Univ. of Wisconsin-Stevens Point

Henry Medwall and Medieval Drama
Michelle M. Butler, Univ. of Pittsburgh

Private Halls and Professional Players
Barbara D. Palmer, Univ. of Mary Washington

• Session 486
Urban Spaces, Identity, and Performance: Appropriations and Articulations during the High and Late Middle Ages
Saturday, May 7, 3:30 p.m., Valley III 303

Sponsor: Medieval Studies Certificate Program, Graduate Center, CUNY
Organizer: Thomas Head, Hunter College and Graduate Center, CUNY
Presider: Pamela Sheingorn, Baruch College and Graduate Center, CUNY

Performance Culture in Early Medieval Metz: Roman Revival and Liturgical Rite
Susannah Crowder, Graduate Center, CUNY

Public Expression of Family Authority in Eleventh-Century Rome
Christopher Petitt, Graduate Center, CUNY

The Dress of Sense: Clothing, Performance, and the Wife of Bath
Katherine Jager, Graduate Center, CUNY

When Identity Is Forced through Clothing: The Distinctive Signs of the Jews in Renaissance Italy
Flora Cassen, New York Univ.

Commentator: Carol Symes, Univ. of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign

• Session 563
The Ceremonial Landscape: Topography and Ritual in the Medieval City
Sunday, May 8, 8:30 a.m., Fetzer 1010

Organizer: Tracy Chapman Hamilton, Sweet Briar College
Presider: Tracy Chapman Hamilton

Performing Royal Devotion in Thirteenth-Century Paris
Meredith Cohen, Skidmore College

The Liturgical Topography of Paris: Struggles of Power during the First Procession of a New Bishop
Agnès Bos, Musée National de la Renaissance, Château d'Ecouen

"Mobilis in Mobile": The Use of Sculpture in Urban Processions in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Times
Xavier Dectot, Musée National de Moyen Age, Thermes de Cluny