•Please JOIN US in 2013-2014 for another exciting series of programs!! Planning for our first meeting of the year is well under way, and the conference is scheduled for Saturday, September 15. The meeting will be held at the lovely new Special Collections Center of Van Pelt Library at the University of Pennsylvania. The day's events will include papers on books and materials found in the Special Collections, and attendees will have a special opportunity to see and experience selected objects from their fine holdings! Additional details for this meeting will be posted soon.
2012-2013 MEETINGS
April 13 @ LGBT Carriage House, University of Pennsylvania
Symposium in Celebration of the Thirtieth Anniversary of the Delaware Valley Medieval Association
Organizer: Martha Easton
Speakers: • Edward Peters (University of Pennsylvania), "Just One More Foundation Myth: From the Lilly
Pennsylvania Program to the DVMA"
• Agnieszka E. Szymańska (Temple University),"Designing the Vault of Heaven at the Cappella
Palatina, Palermo"
• Jeffrey Jerome Cohen (George Washington University), "Medieval/Environmental Activism"
Participants in Roundtable Discussion of "The Future of Medeival Studies":
• Celia Chazelle (The College of New Jersey)
• Dallas G. Denery (Bowdoin College)
• Darin Hayton (Haverford College)
• E. Ann Matter (University of Pennsylvania)
• Karen Overbey (Tufts University)
• David Wallace (University of Pennsylvania)
March 16 @ University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Topic: “Crossing Bridges”
Organizer: Dale Kinney
Speakers:
• Larry Nees (University of Delaware), “Arculf”
• Louis Hamilton (Drew University), “Invisible Cities, Invented Histories: Jerusalem and Rome in the Exegesis of Bruno of Segni”
• Jesse Mann (Montclair State University), "Juan de Segovia & Islam:
Opportunities, Obstacles and Contexts"
• Renata Holod, University of Pennsylvania, Lecture and Gallery Visit
December 1 @ Princeton University
Organizer: Colum Hourihane
Speakers:
• Johanna Seasonwein (Princeton University Art Museum), "A Tale of Two Windows: the Gothic Revival at
Princeton University"
• Courtney Palmbush (Princeton Theological Seminary), "The Frontier and Patrick's 'Ministry of Slavery’ "
• Susan Auth (Curator Emerita, Newark Museum), "Birds and Their Symbolism in the Late Antique Art of Egypt"
• Danielle Oteri (International Center of Medieval Art, The Cloisters), "The Unicorn Tapestries at the Cloisters:
Weaving a New Interpretation"
• Anna Zayaruznaya (Princeton University), "Cis chans veult boire! On the Anthropomorphisation of
Late-Medieval Song"
• John Rassweiller (Independent Scholar), "A collection of seal matrices of the common People:
Signatures and a Portal to Medieval Life"
• Mayke de Jong (Utrecht University), "Epitaph for an Era: Paschasius Radbertus and his Lament
for Wala"
September 15 @ The Philadelphia Museum of Art
Topic: Visions of Wonder, Thoughts of the Divine
Organizer: Geoffrey W. Gust
Speakers:
• Rita Copeland (University of Pennsylvania), “Living with Uncertainty: Reactions to Aristotle’s Rhetoric
in the Later Middle Ages"
• Julia Verkholantsev (University of Pennsylvania), “The Two Bibles of St. Jerome: The Question of the
Vernacular and the Legend of St. Jerome’s Slavonic Rite and Letters”
• Robert Maxwell (University of Pennsylvania), "Fraud"
• Dale Kinney (Bryn Mawr College), “Holy Popes”
2011-2012
April 28 @ Villanova University
Organizers: Rebecca Winer and Adriano Duque
Speakers:
• Cristina Guardiola-Griffiths (University of Delaware), “Beauty Matters. Towing the line between aiding the
divine and enabling the demonic in the later Middle Ages"
• Adriano Duque (Villanova University), “Reading Gardens in the Spanish Frontier Ballad Tradition”
• Jessica Goldberg (University of Pennsylvania), "The Language of Trust, Risk and Calculation in the
Documents of Medieval Mediterranean Merchants"
February 18 @ The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
Organizer: Adam Miyashiro
Speakers: • Marla Pagan-Mattos (Ph.D. Candidate, University of Pennsylvania), “The Erasure of a Saintly
Genealogy: The Vida de San Millán de la Cogolla of Berceo and the Task of ‘tornar en
romance’”
• Claire Taylor Jones (Ph.D. Candidate, University of Pennsylvania), “Meister Eckhart’s
Daughter?”
• Aaron Hostetter (Rutgers University, Camden), “Feeding Aristocratic Identity in Sir Gowther”
• David King (The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey), “Judicial Duels and Moral Anomie in
La Mort le Roi Artu”
• Teofilo Ruiz (University of California, Los Angeles), “Writing Festivals in Late Medieval Spain”
December 3 @ Princeton University
Organizer: Colum Hourihane (Princeton University)
Speakers: • Andrea Worm (University of Augsburg), “Sancta Mater Ecclesia. A Catechetic Rendering of
the Heavenly Jerusalem”
• Mailan Doquang (Princeton University), “Architectural Thresholds in Thirteenth Century
France”
• Martha Easton (Seton Hall University), “Memory, Mysticism, and Medieval Architecture:
Hammond Castle and American Medievalism”
• Mildred Budny (Research Group on Manuscript Evidence), “The Holistic Approach is Greater
Than the Sum of the Parts: The Added Mark Frontispiece in the Ninth-Century Royal Bible
Revisited”
• Nino Zchomelidse (Princeton University), “Allegory and Remembrance: Lay Patronage in the
Angevin Kingdom”
• Beatrice Radden Keefe (Princeton University), “A Pictograph of Terence”
• Annemarie Weyl Carr (Southern Methodist University, emeritus), “Naming Images,
Venerating Icons in Sylvester Syropoulos' World”
October 1 @ Glencairn Museum
Organizer: Martha Easton (Seton Hall University)
Speakers: • Sandy Bardsley (Moravian College), “Gender, Health, and the Archaeological Record”
• Heather Flaherty (Gettysburg College), “Theological Summa or Liber Laicorum? Classifying the
Speculum Humanae Salvationis”
2010-2011
April 9 @ Temple University
Topic: Performing Medieval Women
Organizer: Montserrat Piera (Temple University)
Speakers:
• Margaret Schaus (Haverford College), "When Adam Delved and Eve Span": Taking Account of
Women and Gender”
• Jessica Van Oort (Temple University), “The Wound of the Left Foot”: Agnes Blannbekin’s Theory
and Practice of Sacred Performance and Dance”
• Ruth Mazo Karras (University of Minnesota), “Why did Medieval Women Want to Get Married?”
• Geoffrey Gust (Temple University), "Performing the Middle Ages: Cinematic Frames, Gender
Games, and the Theater of Medieval Studies"
Feb. 26 @ Rutgers University
Topic: From England to Byzantium: Geography, Manuscripts and Architecture in the Middle Ages
Organizer: Erik Thuno
Speakers:
• Matthew Goldie (Rider University), “England’s Insularity in the Late Middle Ages: Theoretical
and Material Geographies”
• Robert Maxwell (University of Pennsylvania), "Illuminating Absence: Signatures and Signs on
Romanesque Charters"
• Jeanette Patterson (Johns Hopkins University), "Stolen Scriptures: The Wartime Politics of
Owning the Bible Historiale" (Winner of the Graduate Student Paper Award)
• Jelena Trkulja (Princeton University), “Hidden Revelations: Semiotics of Byzantine
Architecture”
December 11 @ Princeton University
Topic: Contemplation, Image and History in the Middle Ages
Organizer: Colum P. Hourihane, Princeton University
Speakers:
• Lynn Ransom (Lawrence J. Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts), "The Stein Quadriptych and the
Pictorial Vita Christi Tradition in the Late Middle Ages"
• Don C. Skemer (Princeton University), "English Genealogical Chronicle Rolls and their Readers"
• Constance Bouchard (University of Akron), "The Twelfth Century Contemplates Its Merovingian Past"
• Karl Morrison (Rutgers University), " ‘The image of God is one thing; what is contemplated in the
image is another': Paradoxes of Art and the Self"
• Katrin Kogman-Appel (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev), "Women with Books in Medieval Jewish
Art: Female Education and (Il)literacy from Cairo to Worms"
• Michael Curschmann (Princeton University), "Integrating Anselm: Pictures, Inscriptions and Music in
a 12th-Century Manuscript of His Prayers and Meditations"
September 11 @ Free Library of Philadelphia
Topic: Transmedieval Techne
Organizer: Kathleen Biddick, Temple University
Speakers:
- Larry Scanlon (English-Rutgers), "The Premodern Real"
- Kathleen E. Kennedy (English- PSU Brandywine), "Transmedieval IT: The Law"
- Margaret Mullett (Director of Byzantine Studies-Dumbarton Oaks), "A Life of Bliss: Positioning Byzantine Studies in the 21st Century"
- Catherine Conybeare (Classics-Bryn Mawr), "Postmodern Positivism: On Techne & Text Editing"
2009-2010
September 26 @ University of Pennsylvania
Organizer: Lynn Ransom, University of Pennsylvania
Speakers:
- Erik Knibbs (University of Pennsylvania), "The First Seven Miracles Performed by Aldhelm of Malmesbury"
- Martin Foys (Drew University), "The Digital Mappaemundi Project: Making the World more than Word"
- Round-table Discussion with Kathleen E. Kennedy (Penn State University-Brandywine) & Paul Patterson (St. Joseph's University) on "Reforming the Reformation of the Book: A Report on the recent NEH Seminar 'Reformation of the Book'"
December 12 @ Princeton University
Organizer: Matt Shoaf, Ursinus College
Speakers:
- Colum Hourihane (Index of Christian Art), "The Irish High Crosses - A New Interpretation"
- Emily Zazulia (University of Pennsylvania), "Corps contre corps, voix contre voix: Conflicting Codes of Discourse in the Late Fifteenth-Century Combinative Chanson" WINNER OF THE GRADUATE STUDENT PAPER PRIZE
- Robert Hollander (Princeton University), "Dante's Problematic Cato the Younger: Purgatory I& II"
February 21 @ Bryn Mawr College
Topic: Translatio and Translation in Medieval Europe
Organizer: Ellie Truit, Bryn Mawr College
Speakers:
- Maud McInerney (Haverford College), "Hector in the Alabaster Chamber: Translating History in the Medieval Troy Story"
- Jennifer Borland (Oklahoma State University and Penn Humanities Forum), "Accessing Health in the Regime du corps"
- Jamie Taylor (Bryn Mawr College), "From Mouth to Page: William Langland's Testimonial Book"
- Nicholas Watson (Harvard University), "Work in Progress: The Thirteenth-Century Pastoral Revolution and the Making of Lay Identity"
April 17 @ Temple University
Organizer: Montserrat Piera, Temple University
Speakers:
- Susan Einbinder (Hebrew College), "Seeing the Blind: On Misreadings of the Medieval Jewish Past"
- Ronald Surtz (Princeton University), "The Perils of Female Writing in Late Medieval Valencia"
- Kathleen Biddick (Temple University), "Dead Neighbors: The Sovereignty of Miracles"
2008-2009
September 27 @ University of Pennsylvania, University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Organizer: Lawrence Nees, University of Delaware
Speakers:
- Richard Hodges (Williams Director, University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania), "Rethinking S. Vincenzo al Volturno and the Plan of St. Gall”
- Alan Gaylord (Winkley Professor of English, emeritus, Dartmouth College; Senior Scholar, English, Princeton University; Visiting Scholar, University of Pennsylvania), "Medieval Literature and Medieval Readers: Performed Out Loud or Imagined by Single Readers?"
December 13 @ Princeton University
Organizer: Lawrence Nees, University of Delaware
Speakers:
- Julia Smith (University of Glasgow; visiting member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton), "Rulers and Relics in the Early Middle Ages"
- Erik Thun? (Rutgers University), "The Early Medieval Apse: Observations on Liturgy and Reception"
- Mary Morse (Rider University), "Julitta and Quiricus: Childbirth Protectors in Medieval English Manuscripts and Devotional Traditions"
February 11 @ Rider University
Topic: The Hidden and Revealed in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
Speakers:
- Linda Carreiro (University of Calgary), "Revealing the Anatomical Body: Inscriptions within Early Modern Dissection Culture"
- Timothy McCall (Villanova University), "The Signore Hidden and Revealed: the Coretto of Pier Maria Rossi of Parma"
- Joseph Salvatore Ackley (New York University), "Increasingly Improper: 13th and 14th Century Manuscript Illuminations of Biblical Sodomite"
- Matthew Boyd Goldie (Rider University), "The Global South of Medieval Maps"
- Dominick Finello (Rider University), Cultural Landscapes and Esthetic Norms in the Quijote"
- Geoffrey Shamos ( University of Pennsylvania), "A Crucial Divide: Visions of Zechariah in the Hortus Deliciarum, fols. 64v. and 65r"
- Nick Welding (Georgia State University), "Unmasking the World: Galileo and Authorship"
- Laura Levine (New York University), "Magic and Counter-magic: Spectacles of Visibility"
- Robert J. Dobie (LaSalle University), "The Hidden and the Revealed in Medieval Philosophy"
- Keynote Ingrid Rowland (Notre Dame's School of Architecture in Rome), "The Secret World of Athanasius Kircher"
April 19 @ The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore
Organizer: Lynn Ransom, University of Pennsylvania
Speakers:
- David Reynolds (Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins University), The Roman de la Rose Digital Library
- Stephen Nichols (Johns Hopkins University), Digital Humanities: New Challenges
- Giles Constable (Institute for Advanced Study), Cluny and Rome
- Martha Easton (Bryn Mawr College), Nudity and Dress in the Belles Heures of Jean, Duke of Berry
2007-2008
April 26 @ University of Delaware: Joint meeting of the DVMA and the University of Delaware Medieval-Renaissance Colloquium
Topic: Papers on English Medieval Literature, History and Art in Honor of Mary P. Richards
Organizer: Lawrence Nees, University of Delaware
Speakers:
- Laura Cochrane (University of Delaware), "'Where There Is No Time:' The Quadrivium and Images of Eternity"
- Lisa Letau (University of Delaware), The Cloud of Unknowing: The Individual Reaching for God"
- Kathleen David (Princeton University), "How English Law Has Been Written: Collection, Translation, and Tailoring in the 11th- and 12th Centuries"
- Dorothy Shepherd (Pratt Institute), "Anglo-Norman Manuscript Production in Canterbury"
2006-2007
2005-2006
2004-2005
October 9 @ University of Pennsylvania
Topic: Performance
Speakers: Rob Barrett (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Emma Dillon (University of Pennsylvania), Chara Armon
December 11 @ Princeton Theological Seminary
Topic: Manuscripts
Speakers: Keith Busby (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Sally Poor (Princeton University), Theresa K. Nevins (University of Delaware)
- February 26 at the University of Pennsylvania (Van Pelt Library)
- Topic: The Medieval Bible
- Speakers: Theresa Gross-Diaz (Loyola University-Chicago), Dorothy Shepard (Pratt Institute), plus a visit to Penn's Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- April 16 @ St. Joseph's University
- Topic: The Future of the Past: Graduate Student Papers
- Speakers:Benjamin Anderson, Bryn Mawr College; Jeanne-Marie Musto, Bryn Mawr College; Alex Novikoff, University of Pennsylvania; Manu Radhakrishnan, Princeton University; Jonathan Hsy, University of Pennsylvania
1979-2003 List of speakers and topics
