Outline of Sessions
SEMA 32
October 12-14, 2006
University of Mississippi
Click on a round for the names of presenters and titles
of
papers scheduled during those sessions.
*Denotes a need in the session for AV equipment.
Round I
12 October, Thursday, 1:00-2:30
1. Premodern to Modern Humanisms: Beginnings – Yerby boardroom
2. Defining the Middle Ages – Harrison room
3. Anglo-Saxon Religious Themes – Union 404B
4. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight – Union 405A
5. Chaucer I: The Canterbury Tales 1 – Union 405B
6. Art History I* – Yerby aud
7. The Middle Ages and Modern Novelists – Union 403
Round II
12 October, Thursday, 2:45-4:15
8. Designing Images – Yerby boardroom
9. Art History II* – Yerby Aud
10. Old English to Middle English – Union 404A
11. Peter of Eboli* – Union 405B
12. Music: Voice and Power – Harrison Room
13. Chaucer II: The Canterbury Tales 2 – Union 405A
14. Fourteenth-Century English Mystics – Union 404B
Round III
13 October, Friday, 9:00-10:30
15. Round-Table Discussion:
Teaching the Middle Ages at Historically Black Colleges and Universities – Yerby Aud
16. Law, Literature, and History – Yerby boardroom
17. Medieval Romance: Origin and Genre – Union 404A
18. Chaucer III: Troilus and Criseyde 1 – Union 404B
19. Malory’s Morte Darthur: Theme, Manuscript, Edition – Union 405A*
20. History of Anglo-Saxon Scholarship – Harrison room
21. The Middle Ages on Film* – Union 405B
Round IV
13 October, Friday, 10:45-12:15
22. Teaching Middle English Literature to Undergraduates: The Language Question
A Panel Discussion with Audience Participation – Union 404A
23. Body Barter – Union 403
24. Leveraging the Spiritual* – Yerby auditorium
25. Tenth-Century Anglo-Saxon History* – Union 405B
26. Chivalry: Endings – Harrison room
27. Chaucer IV: Troilus and Criseyde 2 – Union 404B
28. Symbol and Allegory – Yerby boardroom
29. Female Authority I – Union 405A
Round V
13 October, Friday, 2:00-3:30
30. Teaching “Below the Belt” in the Bible Belt – Union 404A
31. Beowulf, the Dragon, and the Scholars – Harrison room
32. Defining the Old French Epic* – Union 405B
33. Death and Its Afterlife* – Union 403
34. Alliterative Traditions: Beginnings and Endings – Yerby boardroom
35. Chaucer V: Masculine and Feminine – Union 405A
36. Fictive Truth – Union 404B
37. A Readers’ Theatre Performance of Mankind – Yerby aud
4:00, First Plenary Address
Professor Giles Constable, Institute for Advanced Study
"The Fourth Crusade" – Moot court
Round VI
14 October, Saturday, 9:00-10:30
38. Chaucer VI: Breakfast with Chaucer, A Reading Out Loud Workshop – Yerby Aud
39. The Art of Early English Prose* – Tupelo Room
40. Old English Religious Verse – Union 403
41. Beginnings and Endings: Jewish-Christian Relations in the Middle Ages – Union 404A
42. Where Does Hagiography End and Romance Begin? – Union 404B
Bodies and Souls in Oxford Bodleian MS Laud Misc. 108
43. Marie de France* – Union 405B
44. Ballads and Ballad Traditions I – Yerby boardroom
45. Modern Revisions of Medieval Myths – Union 405A
11:00, Second Plenary Address
Professor Roberta Frank, Yale University
"The Hip Factor in Anglo-Scandinavian England" –
Moot court
Round VII
14 October, Saturday, 2:00-3:30
46. Anglo-Saxons on the Mind – Tupelo room
47. Royal Rule: Defining and Establishing Kingship – Union 405B
48. Legendary Women – Union 404B
49. The Chrétien Tradition – Union 403
50. Pagans, Christians, Jews – Union 405A
51. Chaucer VII: Beyond Sex—Obscenity and Subversion in Chaucer’s Work – Yerby aud
52. Female Authority II – Union 404A
53. Ballads and Ballad Tradition II – Yerby boardroom
Round VIII
14 October, Saturday, 3:45-5:15
54. Teaching Medieval Drama: Beginning to Teach Old Plays in New Ways* – Yerby aud
55. Church History – Union 403
56. Old Norse – Yerby boardroom
57. Budding Medievalists at Ole Miss: Reading French and Latin Texts in Codex – Tupelo Room
58. Chaucer VIII: Chaucer and Other Middle English Poets – Union 404B
59. Exotic Unions – Union 405A
60. Premodern to Modern Humanisms: Endings – Union 405B
To report corrections please email J. R. Hall (jrhall@olemiss.edu).
