Friday,
September 27
12pm:
Registration begins at French House.
Coffee
service and light refreshments offered.
12:45pm, French House Main Salon:
Welcome
and opening remarks
1-2:30pm, French House Main Salon: Re-reading Shakespeare
Chair:
Catherine Loomis (University of New Orleans)
Natalia Fiore (Hillsborough
Community College), “Shakespeare’s Sonnet 87: A ‘Misreading’”
Celia Lewis (Louisiana Tech
University), “Grieving for the Absent Male: Brotherless Sisters and Fatherless
Daughters in Twelfth Night”
Catherine Riley (Louisiana State
University), “The Rhetorical Dilemma for Women in Julius Caesar and Coriolanus”
1-2:30pm, French House Room 220: History, Histories, and
Style
Chair: Lisi Oliver (Louisiana State
University)
George Molchan (Louisiana State
University), “From
West to East: Locating the Orient in the Matter of Britain”
David Porter (Southern
University), “O Thou Second Person! Pronouns and Style in the Middle English
Romance”
Joe Wingenbach (Louisiana State
University), “Epistolary Exchange in the Death of King Arthur: the Romance of
the Late Pseudo-Histories”
2:45-4:15pm, French House Main Salon: “Women of Style in the Age of Chaucer”
Chair: Jesse Gellrich (Louisiana State
University)
Elizabeth Green (Louisiana State
University), “Legal
Rights of Women in Medieval Wales: Medieval Land Inheritance”
Stephanie Johnson (University
of West Florida), “The Hypocrisy of Criseyde: Creating Character from
Conversation in Three Texts”
Katherine Willis (Louisiana State
University), “‘This is the final ende of al this thyng’: Striking a Bitter
Bargain in Chaucer’s ‘Legend of Ariadne’”
2:45-4:15pm, French House Room 220: Character and
Spirituality in the Age of Shakespeare
Chair:
Mary Sirridge (Louisiana State University)
Amanda Allen (Louisiana State
University), “‘And let these heretics preach’: Luke Shepherd’s Poetry as
Protestant Theological Teaching Tool in Mid-Sixteenth Century England”
M. Thomas Hester (North Carolina
State University), “‘the time is free’: Reading Macbeth, the Scottish Play”
William Robison (Southeastern
Louisiana University), “Will Out of This World: How Shakespeare (Frequently)
Became Someone Else on Film and Television”
4:30-6pm, French House Room 220: “Gender and Sexuality:
Representing Women in the Age of Elizabeth”
Chair: Vikki Forsyth (Tulane
University)
Hannah Griggs (Loyola University New
Orleans alumna), “Ephesus, Marriage, and The
Comedy of Errors”
Catherine Loomis (University of New
Orleans), “‘One that so willingly lay her legges open’: Seated Portraits of
Queen Elizabeth I”
Meredith Will (Louisiana State
University), “A Pansy for Your Thoughts: How Ophelia’s Flowers Are Addressed in
Modern Film Adaptations”
6pm, French House Main Salon:
Reception
with light refreshments
Saturday,
September 28
8am, French House Main Salon: Coffee service begins
8am, French House Main Salon: Coffee service begins
8:30-10am, French House Main Salon: Love, Lovers, Confessio
Shannon R. Holst (University of West
Florida), “A Rhetorical Analysis of John Gower’s Confessio Amantis”
Andrea Johnson (University of West
Florida), “The Politics of Love in Gower’s Confessio
Amantis”
Sara Ritchey (University of
Louisiana at Lafayette), “Saintly Transmissions: Gender and Affect in KBR MS
8060”
8:30-10am, French House Room 220: Early Modern Experiments—Marlowe,
Milton, Donne
Chair: Victor L. Stater (Louisiana
State University)
Ben Mabry (Louisiana State
University), “Barabbas: The Bad Machiavellian”
Ben Moran (University of Alabama),
“Rethinking Milton’s Epic Voice: The Evolving Terms of Poetic Authority in Paradise Lost”
Cristina Rosell (Louisiana State
University), “Sappho Speaks: Donne and the Dramatic Monologue”
10:15-11:45am, French House Main Salon: New Perspectives on Art and Architectural
History
Chair: Marie-Thérèse Champagne
(University of West Florida)
Samantha Perez (Tulane University),
“Art, Politics, and the Venus Statue in Late Medieval Sienna”
Matthew Savage (Louisiana State
University), “Toward a Practical and Theoretical Approach to Mimesis and
Byzantine Architecture”
Carla White (Louisiana State
University), “Reassembled Art and History: Issues of Renovation, Restoration,
and Reconstruction through the History of the San Michele in Africisco
(Ravenna) Mosaics”
10:15-11:45am, French House Room 220: Expanding Medieval
and Renaissance Studies Horizons
Chair: Michelle Zerba (Louisiana State University)
Safa Elnaili (Louisiana State
University), “The Islamic Context of Protagonist and Antagonist in the Arabian
Nights”
Vikki Forsyth (Tulane
University), “A Memetic Approach to Early Modern Literature”
Halil Ibrahim (Gok (Kirikkale University-Turkey),
“Slavery in the Mediterranean World in the Medieval Era”
11:45am,
French House Main Salon:
boxed
lunch served
12noon-1pm,
French House Main Salon:
Business
Meeting
12noon-1pm,
Hill Memorial Library:
tour
of medieval and Renaissance special collections at the LSU Libraries
1:30-3pm, French House Main Salon: Humanism, History, and
Law in the Medieval Period
Chair: Christine Kooi (Louisiana
State University)
Erin Halloran (Louisiana State
University), “Thomas Linacre's Humanistic Transformation of the English Medical
Field”
Isaac McDuffie (Louisiana State
University), “How to Determine Guilt in an Ordeal”
Malcolm Richardson (Louisiana State
University), “The Late London Guilds, Language, and Cultural Change”
1:30-3pm, French House Room 220: Law and Religion in the
Middle Ages
Chair: Maribel Dietz (Louisiana
State University)
Gillian Brownlee (Louisiana State
University), “Laws about Priests: A Comparison of Royal and Ecclesiastic Law in
Anglo-Saxon Society”
Marie-Thérèse Champagne (University
of West Florida), “Peering into the Past: A Clerical Perspective of Early
Twelfth-Century Rome”
David Liberto (Notre Dame Seminary),
“Maimonides and Aquinas on Divine Simplicity and the Divine Names”
3:15-4:45pm, French House Room 220: Sound and Structure
Chair: Jan Herlinger (Louisiana State
University, emeritus; University of Alabama)
Alice Clark (Loyola University
New Orleans), “Experiments of Style and Genre in Machaut’s Songs and Motets”
Brittany Courville (Louisiana State
University), “An Early English Sound Change Returns”
Linda Cummins (University of
Alabama), “The Reception of ‘Nicolaus de Capua’”
3:15-4:05pm, French House Main Salon: Epic Adventures
Chair:
Anna Nardo (Louisiana State University)
Jonathan Broussard (Louisiana State University),
“The Argument and Aesthetics of Dragon-Slaying: How the Unferð Flyting Defines
and Structures Beowulf’s Heroic Career”
Brandon Kyle (Louisiana State
University), “The Politics of the New Poet: Representations of English Imperial
Eschatology in The Faerie Queene”
4:45pm,
French House Main Salon: Closing
reception,
including
graduate prize award ceremony and closing remarks.
Light
refreshments will be served.
