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Wednesday, June 19, 2019

8:00 AM - 5:00 PM Registration - Center for Global Citizenship

8:00 AM - 7:30 PM Book Exhibit & Coffee Service - Center for Global Citizenship

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM Concurrent Sessions
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W11 Games and Immersive Simulations in the Classroom (ROUNDTABLE)
​De Re Militari
​(Chair: Craig M. Nakashian, Texas A&M University - Texarkana)
(Location: Cook Hall 234)
  • William Jones (Texas A&M - Texarkana)
  • Melissa Ridley Elmes (Lindenwood University)
  • Kyle Lincoln (Kalamazoo College)
  • TBA​**
W12 Natural Philosophy and the Middle Ages (Chair: Kendall Fisher, Seattle University)
​Location: Davis-Shaughnessy Hall 171
  • The Saint and the Swan: Animal Interactions in the Hagiography of Hugh of Avalon (Emma Grover, Stanford University)
  • Thomistic Ethics vs. Darwinian Debunking (Jonathan Fuqua, Quincy University)
  • Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas: The Cardiovascular Platform of Natural Prudence and Scientific Intelligence (Jack Marler, Saint Louis University)
W13 Matters of State: Crafting Law and Diplomacy Among Hapsburgs and Tudors (Chair: Meg Smith, Saint Louis University)
​Location: Cook Hall 236

  • Ceremony and Diplomacy at the Court of the Last Spanish Hapsburgs in the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century (Ondrej Stolicka, Autonomous University of Madrid)
  • If Treason Never Prospered: The Earl of Kildare's Attainders and the Redefinition of Treason in Tudor Ireland (Consuelo M. Concepcion, Independent Scholar)
  • Where God Pitches His Tent: Co-Opting Subversive Potential in the Gospel of John (Elise Robbins, Purdue University)
W14 Modern Memory and Myth-Making About the Past (Chair: Fr. Schoenig, S.J., Saint Louis University)
​​Location: Davis-Shaughnessy Hall 256
  • The Myth of Belisarius and Antonina (David Parnell, Indiana University Northwest)​
  • Medieval Debates on the Paternity of Alexander the Great (Jose Miguel de Toro, Catholic University of Concepcion)​
  • Historic Preservation and Collective Memory: Jewish and Medieval Urban Spaces in Spanish Literature and Culture (Edurne Beltran de Heredia, Arizona State University)
  • The Age of the Tribunes in Early Venice: Medieval Myths and Modern Historiography (Philip Mazero, Saint Louis University)
W15 Treatments of Marriage, Romance, and Femininity in Early Modern Theatre and Literature (Chair: Kathleen Llewellyn, Saint Louis University)
​​Location: Cook Hall 240

  • The Stains of Status in Arden Faversham (Emily Murray, Tennessee State University)
  • Female Agency in John Donne's "The Flea" and "Elegy 19" (Veda Alexandra Gerlach, University of Missouri - Columbia)

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Coffee Service - Center for Global Citizenship

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Concurrent Sessions
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W21 Theological Conceptions: Faith, Love, and Time (Chair: Atria Larson, Saint Louis University)
​​Location: Cook Hall 236

  • Anticipating the Resurrection: Holy Corpses as Expressions of Time in the Lives of Early Medieval Saints (John Kevin Kitchen, University of Alberta)
  • The Lord's Lesson: The Amoretti as a Quest for Divine Love (Fr. Stephen Andrew Gregg, University of Dallas)
  • Abraham Believed God: Aquinas on Abraham, Faith, and the Incarnate Christ (Amy Carmichael, Saint Louis University)
W22 Crafting the Past to Make the Future in Salian Germany (Chair: William North, Carleton College)
​Location: Cook Hall 330
  • Justifying Forchheim: Lampert's Annals as Polemical Collage (Lisa Wolverton, University of Oregon)
  • Writing Against Memory's Current: The Purpose and Polemic of Bruno's Book of the Saxon War (William North, Carleton College)
  • Crafting the Past in Twelfth-Century Bamberg: The Continuations of Frutolf of Michelsberg's Chronicle (Thomas McCarthy, New College of Florida)
T41 Rhetorical Strategies in Hagiography, Letters, and Chronicles (Chair: Natalie Whitaker, Saint Louis University)
​Location: Davis-Shaughnessy 171
  • St. Kilian’s Life: Three Tales, Two Stories (Dmitrii Glass, Mary Immaculate College)
  • Rhetorical Strategies in the Letters of Catherine of Siena (Karen Scott, DePaul University)

12:30 PM - 2:30 PM Lunch

2:30 PM - 4:00 PM Concurrent Sessions
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W31 Using Texts: Agency in Translation, Reception, and Collection (Chair: Kathleen Llewellyn, Saint Louis University)
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​​Location: ​Davis-Shaughnessy Hall 256
  • The Old French Bible Translations-Adaptations from the Twelfth to the Fourteenth Centuries (Julia C. Szirmai, University of Leiden)
  • Wit, Wisdom, and Wine: Proverbs and Songs in a Late-Medieval Student Notebook (Elizabeth Wade-Sirabian, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh)​
  • Counting Forgery (Geoff Brewer, Saint Louis University)
W32 Constructing Medieval and Early-Modern Concepts of Femininity and Power in Literature (Chair: David Rollo, University of Southern California)
​​Location: Cook Hall 234
  • "My Ornaments Are Arms": Spanish Balladry as Inspiration, Satire, and Source of Credibility in Don Quixote (Matthew Warshawsky, University of Portland)
  • Horsemanship and Gender Roles in Romance (Brooke Runyan, Memorial University of Newfoundland)
W33 A Sainted Stoic: Finding Seneca in His Medieval Afterlife (Chair: Anthony G. Cirilla, College of the Ozarks)
Organizer: 
SASSY: Society for the Appreciation & Study of Seneca the Younger
​​​Location: ​Davis-Shaughnessy Hall 171
  • Hope for a Happy Life: Augustine's Transformation of an Analogy from Seneca (Kimberly Heil, University of Dallas)
  • Procul a Patria: Seneca’s Consolatory Epistulae and Boethius’s Philosophical Intentions (Anthony Cirilla, College of the Ozarks)
  • Disciplinae liberales virum bonum non faciunt: Seneca in the Metalogicon of John of Salisbury (Luca D’Anselmi, St Charles Borromeo Seminary)
  • Dum fit miser: Sorrow and Fear in Seneca's Thyestes (Jenni Glaser, Bryn Mawr College)
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM Coffee Service - Center for Global Citizenship

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM Plenary Session - Dr. Maureen C. Miller (University of California - Berkeley): Abbot Balsamo’s Book: The Origins of Abbatial​ Registers at Cava de’ Tirreni.

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Wine Reception - Center for Global Citizenship


Thursday, June 20, 2019

8:30 AM - 12:00 PM Check-Out
The Humanities and Technology Camp (THATCamp)
(Organizer: Natalie Whitaker, Saint Louis University)
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM Registration/Breakfast   -  Adorjan Hall 142
9:30 AM - 10:45 AM SESSION 1 - Adorjan Hall 142
10:45 AM - 11:00 AM 15 Minute Break
11:00 AM - 12:15 PM SESSION 2 - Adorjan Hall 142
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM Lunch  - Adorjan Hall
1:15 PM - 2:30 PM SESSION 3 - Adorjan Hall 142
2:30 PM - 2:45 PM 15 Minute Break
2:45 PM - 4:00 PM SESSION 4  - Adorjan Hall 142
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Wine Reception - Adorjan Hall

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