9.15 - 9.45AM Registration and Breakfast
9.45-10.00AM Welcome
- Karl Appuhn (History, NYU)
- Brigitte M. Bedos-Rezak (History, NYU)
10.00-11.30AM Session I. Finding New Paths
- Chair: Stephen Krueger (CUNY)
- Jennifer Lynn Jordan (History, Stony Brook), "'The daughter forsakes the father': Women and Marriage in the Chronicles of Norman Sicily and Southern Italy"
- Ethan Leong Yee (History, Columbia) “Privilege, Leniency and Indulgence: Franciscan Ideals and Action in the Penitential Forum in the Thirteenth Century”
- Danielle Sottosanti (English, Fordham) “The Romance of Crossover: Why Now is the Time for Broader Study of Late-Medieval Religious Conversion”
- Respondent: Kate Travers (Italian, NYU)
11.30-11.45AM Pause Café
11.45AM-12.45PM Session II. Chivalry. A Meaningful Currency
- Chair: Norman Underwood, NYU
- Caroline Gruenbaum (Hebrew and Judaic Studies, NYU) “King Arthur’s Jewish Knights: Hebrew Literary Borrowing in Medieval France”
- Valerie J. Piro (History, Princeton) "From Price to Prowess: The Character of the English Tournament from the 12th-13th Centuries."
- Respondent: Joel Rosenthal (History, Stony Brook)
12.45-1.45PM Lunch
1.45-3.15PM Round Table: Elephants in the Classroom
- Chair: Brigitte M. Bedos-Rezak
- Panelists: Chris Baswell (English, Columbia), Will Cerbone (Fordham University Press), Carolyn Dinshaw (English, NYU), Marya Green-Mercado (History, Rutgers), Sara Lipton (History, Stony Brook), Lauren Mancia (History, CUNY), Sarah J. Pearce (Spanish and Portuguese, NYU), Christopher Richards (IFA, NYU), Laura Weigert (Art History, Rutgers
3.15-3.30PM Pause Café
3.30-5.00PM Session III. Space, Sign, and the Senses
- Chair: Andrew Roming (History, NYU)
- Alice Lynn McMichael (Art History, CUNY) “Glimpses of Salvation in a Cappadocian Tomb”
- Paolo Scartoni (Italian, Rutgers) "Songs of Earthly Sweetness: Remembrance in Dante's Purgatory"
- Hannah Hunter-Parker (German, Princeton) "Lessing, Laokoon, and the 'Mooncalf' Manuscript"
- Respondent: Thomas Murphy (French, NYU)
5.00-6.30PM Reception
