Portals, Pathways, and Peregrinations: Concepts of Mobility and Exchange in the Long Middle Ages

Portals, Pathways, and Peregrinations: Concepts of Mobility and
Exchange in the Long Middle Ages
4th Annual Medieval Studies/Pearl Kibre Medieval Study
Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
March 27, 2009: CUNY Graduate Center, New York, rooms 9204 and 9205

9:00 – 9:30 Registration


9:30 – 11:00 Portals: New Constructions of Identity
Gordon Whatley, Professor of English, Queens College and the Graduate
Center, Moderator
Alice Lynn McMichael
(CUNY Graduate Center) – “Secular Travel Narrative and
Medieval Christian Society as Represented in Marco Polo’s Livre des
Merveilles in Morgan Manuscript 723”
David Heayn (Villanova University) – “Mary D’Oignies: The
Thirteenth-Century Beguine Movement as Gendered Alternative: Lay
Piety or Heresy”
Adin Lears (CUNY Graduate Center) – “An Ave Family Tree: Female
Kinship, Maternal Authority, and the Exchange of Sanctity in
Memling’s Shrine of St. Ursula at Bruges”

11:15 – 12:45 Pathways: Cultural Movement, Exchange and Assimilation
Anne Stone, Professor of Music, Queens College and the Graduate
Center, Moderator
Linda Stein (CUNY Graduate Center) – “Transmuting Violent Murder
into Devotional Art: Limoges Reliquaries of St. Thomas Becket”
Ethan Zadoff (CUNY Graduate Center) – “Intellectual Exchange and
Movement in Medieval England: The Case of Isaac Alfasi and Maimonides
in Late Twelfth and Thirteenth Century England”
Natalie Espino (Binghamton University) – “Continuity, Change, and
Text: Urban Space and Public Building in Early Medieval Italy”
Clare Wilson (CUNY Graduate Center) – “Lyric in Exile:
Troubadours in Foreign Courts and the Albigensian Crusade”

1:00 – 1:45 Brunch

2:00 – 3:00 Keynote Address
Evelyn Birge Vitz, Professor of French, New York University
“Performing the Passions, East and West: An Indian ‘Rasic’
Esthetic in Medieval French Storytelling”

3:15 – 4:45 Panel 3: Peregrinations: Modes and Methods of
Christian Expansion
Eric Ivison, Professor of History, College of Staten Island and the
Graduate Center, Moderator
Jennifer Jordan (CUNY Graduate Center) – “The Children's
Crusadeand Medieval Ideas of Childhood and Parenting”
Brandon Hawk (University of Connecticut) – “Three Stops and
Heaven: Topography in the South English Legendary Life of Thomas
Becket”
AnnaLinden Weller – A Constantinopolitan Latin's Perceptions of
Byzantine Imperial Power: Heresiology and Cultural Interchange in
Hugo Eteriano's Contra Patarenos
Galia Halpern (New York University) – “To India: Geopiety and
Ethnicity in Representations of St. Thomas’s Travels from the
Twelfth to the Fifteenth Century”

A reception from 5:00 – 6:00 p.m. will follow in the Certificate
Programs Office (Room 5109) on the 5th Floor of the CUNY Graduate
Center.

For more information, please contact medieval.study@gmail.com

Organized with the generous support of the Medieval Studies
Certificate Program, the Doctoral Students’ Council, and the Ph.D.
Programs in Art History, English, and History.