Medieval Studies Graduate Student Conference

The 2008 Medieval Studies Graduate Student Conference will be held on Saturday, May 3rd from 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the UCSB Marine Sciences Institute Auditorium. The conference theme is Emotion and Environment. A complete schedule is below.
Conference Schedule

9:30-10:00: Breakfast
10:00-10:15: Opening Remarks (Jennifer Hammerschmidt, History of Art and Architecture, Chair, Emotion and Environment)

10:15- 11:15 Panel 1: Space and Spectacle
10:15-10:20: Introduction: Jeroen Vandommele, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of Groningen

10:20-10:40: Speaker 1: Valerie Cullen, English, UCLA “Eve’s Starry Nightmare: Temptation in Paradise Lost
10:40-11:00: Speaker 2: Noa Turel, History of Art and Architecture, UCSB “Tracing Spectacle? The Prints of Master WA and the 1468 Wedding of Charles the Bold and Margaret of York”
11:00-11:15: Response and Discussion

11:15-11:30: Break

11:30-12:30 Panel 2: Violence and Faith
11:30-11:35: Introduction: Megan Palmer, English, UCSB

11:35-11:55: Speaker 3: Nicole Archambeau, History, UCSB, “Resisting Revenge in Fourteenth-Century Provence”
11:55-12:15: Speaker 4: Catherine Zusky, English, UCSB, “Hybrid Spirituality in The Dream of the Rood”

12:15-12:30: Response and Discussion

12:30-1:30: Lunch

1:30-2:30: Keynote Lecture
Professor Jacqueline Jung, Yale University
“From Motion to Emotion: The Wise and Foolish Virgins in the Urban Environments of Gothic Germany”

Introduction: Professor C. Edson Armi, History of Art and Architecture, UCSB
Respondent: Professor Richard Wittman, History of Art and Architecture, UCSB

2:30-2:50: Discussion

2:50-3:05: Break

3:05-4:05 Panel 3: Architecture and Emotion
3:05-3:10: Introduction: Christine Bolli, History of Art and Architecture, UCSB

3:10-3:30: Speaker 5: Brigit Ferguson, History of Art and Architecture, UCSB, “The Viewer in the Screen: Emotion and Identification in the West Choirscreen at Naumburg Cathedral”
3:30-3:50: Speaker 6: Shannon Meyer, English, UCSB, “‘ye wote wele that I haue ben affrayd there’: Reading Gender in Margaret Paston’s Architectural Environment”
3:50-4:05: Response and Discussion

4:05-4:15: Break

4:15-4:50: Theatre Performance
The Farce of the Fart
Anonymous
Translated by Jody Enders, French and Theatre
Directed by Andrew Henkes, Theatre and Dance, UCSB

4:50-5:00: Closing Remarks (Professor Carol Pasternack, 2007-2008 Director, UCSB Medieval Studies Program)