Brock University, October 12-13, 2018
Steampunk meets the Renaissance faire at the 2018 International Conference on Medievalism! Hosted by Ann Howey and Martin Danahay at Brock University, October 12-13, 2018, our conference on “Boundary Crossings” will examine the intersections of medievalism and the neo-Victorian.
Registration is now open! Click here to register by September 15, 2018.
Program
Friday, October 12 Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries: Medievalism / Neo-Victorianism
8:45-9:30am Registration (Coffee service provided)
9:30-9:45 Welcome
9:45-11:00 Plenary I: The Academy and Disciplinary Borders
Dr Karl Fugelso, Professor, Towson University
“Negotiating Identity: An Editor’s Perspective on the Borders of Medievalism (Studies)”
Dr Marie-Luise Kohlke, Senior Lecturer, Swansea University (U.K.)
“Neo-Victorianism’s Janus-Faced Orientations: To the Nineteenth Century and Beyond (All the Way Back to the Medieval)”
11-11:30 – coffee break (coffee service provided)
11:30-12:45 Plenary II: Material Culture
Dr Kathleen Coyne Kelly, Professor, Northeastern University
“Morris’s Souvenir: The Kelmscott Chaucer and its Facsimiles.”
Dr Mike Perschon, Assistant Professor, MacEwan University
“Vintage, not Victorian: that old-time Steampunk feeling”
12:45-2:00 Lunch (provided)
2:00-3:15 Plenary III: Politics
Dr Dorothy Kim, Assistant Professor, Brandeis University
“Alt-Right Politics and Medievalism: Race and Genealogies of Medievalism”
Dr Louisa Hadley, Associate Professor, Dawson College
“The Monumental Past”
3:15-3:45 – coffee break
3:45-4:45 Discussion Session
Medievalism and Neo-Victorianism: Future Collaborations
Dr Karl Fugelso, Dr Marie-Luise Kohlke, Dr Kathleen Coyne Kelly, Dr Mike Perschon, Dr Dorothy Kim, Dr Louisa Hadley, and all conference participants
6:30 pm – Conference Dinner – Four Points Sheraton Hotel, Newman Room
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Saturday, October 13 Boundary Crossings in Medievalism
9am-9:30 Registration (coffee service provided)
9:30-10:50 Panels
1.1 Medievalisms in the World I TH 257
Presider: Angela Weisl, Seton Hall University
Laura Harrison, University of Edinburgh
“It’s ‘just’ a statue to some people”: How Commemorations Cross Boundaries with the Scottish Diaspora
Sarah Daiker, Independent Scholar
“Poems of Past Ages”: George Grey Barnard and the Bishop’s Garden of Washington National Cathedral
Andrew Elliott, University of Lincoln
Brexit, Victoriana, and Participatory Medievalism
Peter Konieczny, Medievalists.net
Trying to Bridge the Academic with the Popular–Thoughts from a Magazine Editor
1.2 Beowulf TH 258
Presider: Karen Winstead, The Ohio State University
Bruce Gilchrist, Concordia University
Beowulf for the Very Young Reader
Renée Ward, University of Lincoln
The Earliest Beowulf for Victorian Children: E. L. Hervey’s “The Fight with the Ogre”
Sadie Hash, University of Houston
“Beyond the Pale”: Translating and Adapting the Physical Places of Beowulf
1.3 Arthurian TH 259
Presider: Jane Toswell, University of Western Ontario
Barbara D. Miller, SUNY Buffalo State
Merlin’s Crossings: From Transgression to Transcendence in the Spanish Baladro del sabio Merlin
Kathryn O’Toole, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
An Arthurian Yankee in a British Norman’s Court: The Collapse of Sectional Difference in Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee
Anita Obermeier, University of New Mexico
Queer Dinadan: The Medieval and Post-Medieval Evidence
Christina Francis, Bloomsburg University
Rewriting Vivienne, Steampunk Style
10:50-11:20 Coffee Break (coffee service provided)
11:20-12:40 Panels
2.1 Medievalisms in the World II TH 257
Presider: Mike Perschon, MacEwan University
Brent Moberly, Indiana University, and Kevin Moberly, Old Dominion University
College and Castle: Neo-Scholasticism, Neomedievalism, and Fan Production in Dark Souls
Valerie Johnson, University of Montevallo
Robin Hood in Greenwood Stood: Disrupting Ableism and False Realisms in a Robin Hood Course
Jesse Swan, University of Northern Iowa
Horace Walpole’s Little Studies in Medievalism
Dustin Frazier Wood, University of Roehampton
Progress, Sociability and Medievalist Identity Formation at the Spalding Gentleman’s Society, 1710-1750
2.2 Kings and Queens TH 258
Presider: Kirsten Yri, Wilfrid Laurier University
Megan Arnott, Western Michigan University
The fictionalized Haraldr harðráði: Power and gender in modern poetry and prose depicting Harald the “Hardruler” and Ellisif
Lisa Bevevino, The University of Minnesota Morris
Vashti and Esther: Told and Retold for Medieval and Modern, Christian and Jewish Audiences
Gillian Gower, UCLA
“Gloriana, Alleluia”: Medievalist Themes in Martin Phipps’ Scores for The Virgin Queen (2006) and Victoria (2016-)
2.3 World Building TH 259
Presider: Louisa Hadley, Dawson College
John Wyatt Greenlee, Cornell University, and Anna Fore Waymack, Cornell University
In the Beginning was the Word: How Medieval Text became Fantasy Art
James Estes, Wesley Theological Seminary
Worlds Apart: The Medieval Cosmology of Bernardus Silvestris and the Religious Imagination of C. S. Lewis
Jane Toswell, University of Western Ontario
The Medieval World of Louise Penny’s Canadian Murder Mysteries?
Alicia McKenzie, Wilfrid Laurier University
“Patchwork Worlds”: History and World-Building in Neomedievalist Digital Games
12:40-2:00 Lunch (provided)
2:00-3:20 Panels
3.1 Teaching Medievalisms Roundtable TH 257
Presider: Lauryn S. Mayer, Washington and Jefferson College
Participants: Elizabeth Emery, Montclair State University; Karl Fugelso, Towson University; Valerie Johnson, University of Montevallo; Teresa Rupp, Mount St Mary’s University; Jesse Swan, University of Northern Iowa; Jane Toswell, University of Western Ontario; and Usha Vishnuvajjala, Tulane University
3.2 Fairies, Forests and Folklore TH 258
Presider: Renee Ward, University of Lincoln
Aileen Christensen, New York University
The Fairy Prince: Gender Reversals and Love Narratives in Madame d’Aulnoy’s Fairytales
Miranda L. Hajduk, CUNY Graduate Center
“This is What it Means to be a Wolf”: Crossing Monstrous and Temporal Boundaries in ABC’s Once Upon a Time, Charles Perrault’s “Little Red Riding Hood,” and Marie de France’s “Bisclavret”
Catherine Brassell, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Crossing Through the Woods: Ecotonal Landscapes in Sir Orfeo and C. S. Lewis’ The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
3.3 “Marvel”s and Comics TH 259
Presider: Anna Waymack, Cornell University
Angela Jane Weisl, Seton Hall University
Genre Crossings: Norse Mythology, Poetics, Medievalism (or Renaissance-ism) and Story-telling in Kenneth Branagh’s Thor and the Prose Edda
Cory James Rushton, St. Francis Xavier
The Hulk in Winter: Medieval Blood, Plantagenet Myth, and Old Man Logan
Kara Larson Maloney, Canisius College
Breaking the Silence: Considering Gender-Bending in Arthurian Comics
3:20-3:50 Coffee break (coffee service provided)
3:50-5:10 Panels
4.1 Heritage Sites RT TH 257
Presider: Elizabeth Emery, Montclair State University
Marty Shichtman, Eastern Michigan University
Wewelsburg
Susan Aronstein, University of Wyoming
Rosslyn
Laurie A. Finke, Kenyon College
The Order of the Thistle
Kathleen Kelly, Northeastern University
London
Christine Neufeld, Eastern Michigan University
Château du Haut-Kœnigsbourg
Mary K. Ramsey, Eastern Michigan University
Jorvik
4.2 Gender and Violence TH 258
Presider: Pam Clements, Siena College
Lauryn S. Mayer, Washington and Jefferson College
Policing the Borders: Kate Horsley’s The Changeling of Finnistuath and Normative Medievalism
Karen Winstead, The Ohio State University
George R. R. Martin and the Virgin Martyr: Misogyny, “faux feminism,” and the (ab)uses of the past
Enrica Guerra, Università di Ferrara
The Boundary of Violence
Jose M. Gamboa, Bloomsburg University
The Imploding Brotherhood of The Order: 1886
4.3 Geographical Borders TH 259
Presider: Barbara Miller, SUNY Buffalo State
Nadine Hufnagel, University of Bayreuth
Welcome to Bavaria? Crossing the River Danube within Adaptations of the Nibelungenlied
Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand, Appalachian State University
East Meets West? Heritage and the Nibelungenlied on the Danube
Scott Riley, UC Santa Cruz
Frontier Medievalisms: Thoreau’s Walker-Errant and Western Expansionism as a Chivalric Task
6:30 pm Niagara Falls Excursion
A bus will leave from the front of the 4 Points Sheraton for those wishing to visit Niagara Falls. The cost is $10.50 and tickets must be purchased in advance at the conference registration table; no purchases can be accepted on the bus.
10:00 pm
The bus will pick travelers up from in front of the Hard Rock Café, 5705 Falls Ave, Niagara Falls, ON L2H 6T3 and return to the 4 Points Sheraton.