6th Annual Medievalists @ Penn Graduate Conference
Friday, February 28, 2014 8:30am – 5:30pm
Class of 1955 Conference Room
Van Pelt Library, Second
Floor,
University of Pennsylvania
8:30-9:00 Registration
and breakfast
9:00-9:15 Welcoming
Remarks; Jacqueline Burek, University of Pennsylvania
9:15-10:45 Foundations of Imperial Power
Chair: Samantha Pious, University of Pennsylvania
Respondent: Emily Steiner, Associate Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania
Christina Virok, Villanova University
Constructing and Legitimizing National Identity: A Brief Comparison of
Virgil’s Aeneid and Wace’s Roman de Rou
Nicholas A. Pelullo, Villanova University
Knights and the Res Publica: The Role of the Warrior in the Geopolitics of
Christendom
Jonathan Stavsky, University of Pennsylvania
"Susanna figuram Ecclesiae habet": Negotiating Spiritual and Temporal Power through
Biblical Typology
10:45-11:00 Coffee
Break
11:00-12:30 Eastern Alterity in European Imaginaries
Chair: Marie Turner, University of Pennsylvania
Respondent: Kevin Brownlee, Professor of Romance Languages, University of
Pennsylvania
Nicole Slipp, Queen's University
Marco? Polo! Finding Merchants' Value in the Devisement dou monde
Sierra Lomuto, University of Pennsylvania
Between the Great Khan and Prester John: Legacies of the Mongolian Empire
in Mandeville's Travels
Sarah Townsend, University of Pennsylvania
Familiar Distance: Medievalism and Colonialism in Richard Francis Burton's 1885
Translation of The Thousand Nights and a Night
12:30-1:45 Lunch Break
1:45-2:15 Manuscript
Exhibit, Lea Library
Chair: Erika Smith, University of Pennsylvania
Respondent: Ann Matter, Professor of Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Daniel Davies, University of Pennsylvania
The Nonsovereign Exception: The Kingis Quair and the Negativities of Courtly Love
Shokoofeh Rajabzadeh, University of California, Berkeley
Visualizing the Saracen: Contradiction between Text & Image in the Auchinleck's King of Tars
Sylvia Grove, University of Pittsburgh
Appetites to Inspire an Empire: Food and the Failure of France in Honoret
Bovet’s L’Apparicion maistre Jean de Meun
3:45-4:00 Coffee
Break
4:00-5:30 Keynote
Address
Maud McInerney, Haverford College
Crooked Greek: Genealogy and Prophecy in Geoffrey of Monmouth and Aeneid VI
5:30 Reception
Conference is free and open to the public. To register,
please email pennmedieval@gmail.com
with your name and institutional affiliation.
Medievalists @ Penn is grateful to the generous support of our conference sponsors: School of Arts & Sciences Graduate Student Government, Department of English Graduate Studies, Program in Comparative Literature & Literary Theory, Department of French Studies, Department of Classical Studies, Department of History
