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Third Annual<br />
Undergraduate Conference on <strong>Medieval</strong> <strong>and</strong> Renaissance Studies<br />
Discipuli Juncti:<br />
Students Connected through the Middle Ages <strong>and</strong> the Renaissance<br />
<strong>Friday</strong><br />
<strong>October</strong> <strong>29</strong>, <strong>2010</strong><br />
<strong>Arizona</strong> State University at the West Campus<br />
Hosted by<br />
<strong>Arizona</strong> <strong>Center</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Medieval</strong> <strong>and</strong> Renaissance Studies<br />
Sponsored<br />
by<br />
New College of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences<br />
Co-sponsored<br />
by<br />
ASU Jewish Studies<br />
ASU University College<br />
School of Human Evolution <strong>and</strong> Social Change<br />
The School of Historical, Philosophical <strong>and</strong> Religious Studies – The Faculty of Religious Studies
Acknowledgments<br />
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ACMRS would like to thank the following <strong>for</strong> their financial support:<br />
New College of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences –<br />
Vice President <strong>and</strong> Dean, Elizabeth Langl<strong>and</strong><br />
ASU Jewish Studies – Director, Hava Tirosh-Samuleson<br />
ASU University College – Dean, Frederick C. Corey<br />
School of Historical, Philosophical, <strong>and</strong> Religious Studies – Faculty of Religious Studies – Chair, Joel Gereboff<br />
School of Human Evolution <strong>and</strong> Social Change – Executive Director, Alex<strong>and</strong>ra Brewis Slade<br />
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Organizing Committee<br />
Mary L. Dudy Bjork, Chair<br />
William Gentrup<br />
Audrey Walters<br />
Program Committee<br />
William Gentrup, Chair<br />
Mary L. Dudy Bjork<br />
Audrey Walters<br />
Travel Grant Committee<br />
Markus Cruse, Chair<br />
Marsha Fazio<br />
Ryan Muckerheide<br />
Discipuli Juncti Student Committee<br />
Melissa Sawyer, Chair<br />
Michelle Jameson<br />
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<strong>Arizona</strong> <strong>Center</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Medieval</strong> & Renaissance Studies<br />
ACMRS Staff<br />
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Director<br />
Robert E. Bjork<br />
Assistant Director<br />
William F. Gentrup<br />
Research Coordinator<br />
Karen Lackey<br />
Managing Editor<br />
Roy Rukkila<br />
Manager of Design & Production<br />
Todd Halvorsen<br />
Program Coordinator<br />
Audrey Walters<br />
Manuscript Editor<br />
Leslie S. B. MacCoull<br />
Graduate Research Assistant<br />
Leah Faibisoff<br />
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General In<strong>for</strong>mation<br />
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Registration will be open on <strong>Friday</strong> from 8:00am – 3:30pm in the room 131 of the SANDS<br />
Classroom Building at ASU West campus. Participants must check in <strong>and</strong> pick up name badges at<br />
the registration desk<br />
Sessions Locations: Sessions will be held in SANDS 101, 103, <strong>and</strong> 105.<br />
Book Exhibit: Publishers <strong>and</strong> book sellers will display their publications from 8:30am – 4:00pm in<br />
SANDS 131.<br />
Beverage Service: Refreshments will be provided beginning at 8:00am. Free lunch will be provided<br />
<strong>for</strong> the presenters, chairs, <strong>and</strong> invited guests in the UCB Faculty/Staff Lounge.<br />
Closing Reception will be held in the UCB Faculty/Staff Lounge.<br />
Thank you <strong>for</strong> attending the <strong>2010</strong> conference
Session ONE – 8:45-10:00am<br />
1A. Ambiguities in Old English Poetry<br />
Chair: Heather Maring, <strong>Arizona</strong> State University<br />
SANDS 101<br />
Unlocking the Ferhðcofa: Discourse of Loyalty in the “Finn Episode” of Beowulf<br />
Emile Young, New York University<br />
Wulf <strong>and</strong> Eadwacer: A Modern Interpretation<br />
Courtney Barajas, University of <strong>Arizona</strong><br />
Argument by Analogue: Beowulf <strong>and</strong> Grettir<br />
Zach Miller, University of Miami<br />
1B. The Bamberg Witchcraze<br />
Chair: Stephanie F. DeBacker, <strong>Arizona</strong> State University<br />
SANDS 103<br />
Hecate’s Daughters: Witch Hunts in Early Seventeenth Century Bamberg<br />
Matthew Gramling, Oglethorpe University<br />
Inversion <strong>and</strong> Modernity: The Trials in Bamberg <strong>and</strong> the Role of Women<br />
Clair Carter, Oglethorpe University<br />
Bamberg at the Intersection of False Dichotomies in Witchcraft Studies<br />
Brittany Prince, Oglethorpe University<br />
Morning Break – 10:00-10:15am<br />
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Session Two – 10:15-11:30am<br />
2A<br />
2B<br />
Documenting <strong>Medieval</strong> History<br />
Chair: Patricia Turning, <strong>Arizona</strong> State University<br />
SANDS 101<br />
The Warrior of Badon: King Arthur’s Place in History<br />
Ryan Hatch, <strong>Arizona</strong> State University<br />
Where the Crescent Meets the Cross: Law in the Crusader States<br />
Samuel Mijal, <strong>Arizona</strong> State University<br />
Trade <strong>and</strong> the Power of the English Monarchy<br />
Alan Rosenfeld, University of Cali<strong>for</strong>nia, Davis<br />
Models <strong>for</strong> <strong>Medieval</strong> Piety<br />
Chair: Tom Goodmann, University of Miami<br />
SANDS 103<br />
The Cult of St. Margaret of Antioch at Tarrant Craw<strong>for</strong>d: The Saint’s Didactic Body <strong>and</strong><br />
Its Resonance <strong>for</strong> Religious Women<br />
Jenny Bledsoe, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville<br />
Vanity <strong>and</strong> the Virgin<br />
Lilliam Albizu-Campos, University of Miami
Mid-morning Break: 11:30-11:45am<br />
3 Plenary Session<br />
SANDS Kiva<br />
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Session Three – 11:45am-12:45pm<br />
Welcome<br />
Introduction<br />
Mary L. Dudy Bjork, <strong>Arizona</strong> State University<br />
From Script to Print: Reactions to a Technological Revolution<br />
Rodney M. Thomson<br />
Honorary Research Fellow, School of History <strong>and</strong> Classics<br />
University of Tasmania, Australia<br />
Lunch Break: 12:45-1:45pm<br />
Faculty/Staff Lounge<br />
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Session Four – 1:45pm-3:00pm<br />
4A<br />
Pride, Monsters, <strong>and</strong> Heretics in <strong>Medieval</strong> Religion<br />
Chair: Diane Facinelli, <strong>Arizona</strong> State University<br />
SANDS 103<br />
Augustine of Hippo on Pride <strong>and</strong> Humility, Damnation <strong>and</strong> Redemption<br />
Zachary Young, University of Cali<strong>for</strong>nia, Davis<br />
I St<strong>and</strong> at the Door <strong>and</strong> Knock. Hard: Divine Inspiration <strong>and</strong> the Monstrous in the<br />
Ottonian Gospel’s Portraits of the Evangelists<br />
Emily M. Smith, <strong>Arizona</strong> State University<br />
Cathars <strong>and</strong> the Albigensian Crusade<br />
Kristy Stapley, <strong>Arizona</strong> State University<br />
4B<br />
Female Agency in Arthurian Romance/Chronicle <strong>and</strong> in Shakespeare<br />
Chair: Brad Ryner, <strong>Arizona</strong> State University<br />
SANDS 101<br />
The Role of Faerie Ladies in Arthurian Romance<br />
Ariane Merida Metz, University of Cali<strong>for</strong>nia, Davis<br />
Geoffrey's <strong>and</strong> Chrétien's Guinevere: The Development of Agency in Arthur's Queen<br />
Emily Reynolds, <strong>Arizona</strong> State University<br />
Effeminacy <strong>and</strong> the Meta-Theatrical in As You Like It: The Boy-Actor as Rosalind<br />
Genevieve Egana, <strong>Arizona</strong> State University<br />
Afternoon Break: 3:00-3:15pm
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Session Five – 3:15pm-4:30pm<br />
5A<br />
Politics <strong>and</strong> Contact: Byzantium, the West, <strong>and</strong> the East<br />
Chair: Wm. Brad<strong>for</strong>d Smith, Oglethorpe University<br />
SANDS 103<br />
Alexios I <strong>and</strong> the First Crusades<br />
David Gondo, <strong>Arizona</strong> State University<br />
The Kiev Metropolitan See as Intermediary between East <strong>and</strong> West<br />
in Late Renaissance Literature<br />
Ryan Hanning, Maryvale Institute, Liverpool Hope University<br />
Bureaucracy <strong>and</strong> Autocracy in Sima Qian's Shiji<br />
Chloe Edwards, Oglethorpe University<br />
5B<br />
5C<br />
Contexts <strong>for</strong> Middle English Poetry<br />
Chair: William Bolton, <strong>Arizona</strong> State University<br />
SANDS 101<br />
“The <strong>for</strong>me to the fynishment foldez ful selden”: The Accommodation of the Welsh in<br />
Sir Gawain <strong>and</strong> the Green Knight<br />
Michael Diaz de la Portilla, University of Miami<br />
The Crown <strong>and</strong> the Garter: The Shared Motto of Sir Gawain <strong>and</strong> the Green Knight<br />
<strong>and</strong> Edward III’s Order of the Garter<br />
David Urbach, Santa Clara University<br />
Lighting the Doom: The All Saints’ “Pricke of Conscience” Window<br />
Krista Boone, <strong>Arizona</strong> University<br />
Chaucer’s Narrators<br />
Chair: Robert Sturges, <strong>Arizona</strong> State University<br />
SANDS 105<br />
Say Not So: The Bewildered Narrator in Chaucer’s Book of the Duchess<br />
David McDevitt, <strong>Arizona</strong> State University<br />
“What may ever laste?”: The Desire <strong>for</strong> Permanence in an Impermanent<br />
Written Culture in Chaucer’s The House of Fame<br />
Elizabeth Pitts, <strong>Arizona</strong> State University<br />
Closing Reception 4:30 – 5:30pm<br />
Faculty/Staff Lounge
Mentors<br />
Carl T. Berkhout,<br />
University of <strong>Arizona</strong><br />
Professor, English<br />
Courtney Barajas<br />
Fr. Andriy Chirovsky, STHD<br />
St. Paul University<br />
Professor, Theology<br />
Ryan Hanning<br />
Diane Facinelli<br />
<strong>Arizona</strong> State University<br />
Principal Lecturer, Barrett, The Honors<br />
College<br />
Emily Reynolds<br />
Marsha Fazio<br />
<strong>Arizona</strong> State University<br />
Lecturer, Humanities, Arts & Cultural<br />
Studies<br />
Genevieve Egana<br />
Thomas Goodman<br />
University of Miami<br />
Associate Professor, English<br />
Lilliam Albizu-Campos<br />
Michael Diaz de la Portilla<br />
Zachary Miller<br />
Thomas Heffernan<br />
University of Tennessee, Knoxville<br />
Professor, English<br />
&<br />
Tina Shepardson<br />
University of Tennessee, Knoxville<br />
Associate Professor, History<br />
Jenny Bledsoe<br />
Rebekah Pratt<br />
<strong>Arizona</strong> State University<br />
Ph.D. C<strong>and</strong>idate, Art History<br />
Krista Boone<br />
Asa Mittman<br />
Cali<strong>for</strong>nia State University, Chico<br />
Assistant Professor, Art History<br />
Emily M. Smith<br />
Haruko Momma<br />
New York University<br />
Associate Professor, English<br />
Emile Young<br />
Kevin Roddy<br />
University of Cali<strong>for</strong>nia, Davis<br />
Professor, <strong>Medieval</strong> Studies<br />
Alan Rosenfeld<br />
Zachary Young<br />
Wm Brad<strong>for</strong>d Smith<br />
Oglethorpe University<br />
Professor, History<br />
Clair Carter<br />
Chloë Edwards<br />
Matthew Gramling<br />
Brittany Prince<br />
Robert Sturges<br />
<strong>Arizona</strong> State University<br />
Professor, English<br />
David McDevitt<br />
Elizabeth Pitts<br />
Thomas Turley<br />
Santa Clara University<br />
Associate Professor, History<br />
David Urbach<br />
Patricia Turning<br />
<strong>Arizona</strong> State University<br />
Visiting Assistant Professor, History<br />
David Gondo<br />
Ryan Hatch<br />
Samuel Mijal<br />
Kristy Stapley<br />
Claire Waters<br />
University of Cali<strong>for</strong>nia, Davis<br />
Associate Professor, English<br />
Ariane Metz
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