Tuesday, June 18, 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
8:00 AM - 7:30 PM Book Exhibit & Coffee Service - Center for Global Citizenship
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM Concurrent Sessions
T11 Little-Known Illuminated Manuscripts from Bologna to France and the Other Way Round
46th Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies (Organizer: Dr. Susan L'Engle, Saint Louis University)
(Chair: Gianluca del Monaco)
Location: Pere Marquette Gallery (DuBourg, 2nd floor)
46th Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies (Organizer: Dr. Susan L'Engle, Saint Louis University)
(Chair: Gianluca del Monaco)
Location: Pere Marquette Gallery (DuBourg, 2nd floor)
- Investigating the Origins of the Illustration of the Decretum Gratiani: The MS 454 of Saint-Omer, Bibliothèque Municipale (Gianluca del Monaco DAR/Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna)
- An Unpublished 13th-Century French Bible in the University Library of Bologna - (Fabio Massaccesi, DAR/Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna)
T12 Identity & Arthurian Performativity
Arthurian Mini-Conference sponsored by the International Arthurian Society, North American Branch (Organizer: Dr. David F. Johnson, Florida State University, and Dr. Evelyn Meyer, Saint Louis University)
(Chair: Evelyn Meyer, Saint Louis University)
Location: Sinquefield Stateroom
Arthurian Mini-Conference sponsored by the International Arthurian Society, North American Branch (Organizer: Dr. David F. Johnson, Florida State University, and Dr. Evelyn Meyer, Saint Louis University)
(Chair: Evelyn Meyer, Saint Louis University)
Location: Sinquefield Stateroom
- Divorce, Arthurian Style: Love, Marriage and Law in Hartmann von Aue’s Iwein (Jonathan S. Martin, Illinois State University)
- Friend from Foe: Determining Knightly Enmity in Malory’s Le Morte Darthur (Whitney Whitaker, Oklahoma University)
- Arthurian Performativity and Gaming: Choosing your Identity (Margaret Sheble, Purdue University)
T13 Questions for Aquinas (Chair: Kendall Fisher, Seattle University)
Location: Davis-Shaughnessy Hall 256
Location: Davis-Shaughnessy Hall 256
- Godfrey of Fontaine's Modal Uniformity Principle Against Giles of Rome and Aquinas (Genevieve Barrette, College Montmorency)
- Is Aquinas a Theodicist? Stump and Davies on Aquinas and the Problem of Evil (Tate Williams, University of Saskatchewan)
- Aquinas and the Empirical Claims against Aristotelianism (Jeffrey Wayne Case, Saint Louis University)
T14 Popes and Papal Policy (Chair: Atria Larson, Saint Louis University)
Location: Cook Hall 330
Location: Cook Hall 330
- On Becoming the Pope in the Early Middle Ages (Andrew Steck, University of Iowa)
- A Crusading Pope Evolving Into a Reforming Pope: A Proposal for the Papacy of Leo X (James Kroemer, Concordia University Wisconsin)
- Tam incestuosa copula: The Papacy and Marriage Alliance in Twelfth and Thirteenth-Century Leon and Castile (Emily Henry, Saint Louis University)
T15 Theory in Early Modern Literature: Gender, Masculinity, and Aristotle - With Beer! (Chair: David Rollo, University of Southern California)
Location: Cook Hall 240
Location: Cook Hall 240
- Enter Lucrece, Lavinia, and Cyntoia, Ravished (Amanda Lyn Riggle, University of California - Riverside)
- Shakespeare's Aristotelian Turn: The Ethics of Small Beer in “2 Henry IV” (Sophia Mason Feingold, The Catholic University of America)
T16 Intellectual Intricacies in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Early Modern Mediterranean Mini-Conference (Organizer: Beth Petitjean, Saint Louis University)
(Chair: Nic Lewis, Saint Louis University)
Location: Boileau Hall
Early Modern Mediterranean Mini-Conference (Organizer: Beth Petitjean, Saint Louis University)
(Chair: Nic Lewis, Saint Louis University)
Location: Boileau Hall
- The Penitent Apostate: Preachers, Congregations, and the Problem of Conversion (Claire Schen, SUNY-Buffalo)
- Petrarch's Solitudes and the Long Past of the Mediterranean (Michael E. Moore, University of Iowa)
T17 Philosophical Theology in the Muslim, Jewish, and Christian Traditions
Later Medieval Philosophy Mini-Conference (Organizers: Dr. Susan Brower-Toland, Saint Louis University, and Dr. Jenny Pelletier, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
(Chair: John McGinnis, University of Missouri)
Location: Cook Hall 236
Later Medieval Philosophy Mini-Conference (Organizers: Dr. Susan Brower-Toland, Saint Louis University, and Dr. Jenny Pelletier, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
(Chair: John McGinnis, University of Missouri)
Location: Cook Hall 236
- On the Structure of Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed (Daniel Frank, Purdue University)
- Saadya's Metaphysics of Revelation (Brett Yardley, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Coffee Service - Center for Global Citizenship
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Concurrent Sessions
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Concurrent Sessions
T21 Signs and Symbols: Editorial Shorthand by Scribe and Reader
46th Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies (Organizer: Dr. Susan L'Engle, Saint Louis University)
(Chair: Dr. Susan L'Engle, Saint Louis University)
Location: Pere Marquette Gallery (DuBourg, 2nd floor)
46th Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies (Organizer: Dr. Susan L'Engle, Saint Louis University)
(Chair: Dr. Susan L'Engle, Saint Louis University)
Location: Pere Marquette Gallery (DuBourg, 2nd floor)
- The Interventionist Editor of Vatican City, BAV, Vat. Lat. 1598 (Frank Coulson, Ohio State University)
- Tree Diagrams in Academic Manuscripts (Ayelet Even-Ezra, History department, Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
- Readers and Art of Classification (Susan L'Engle, Saint Louis University)
T22 Arthur in Film
Arthurian Mini-Conference sponsored by the International Arthurian Society, North American Branch (Organizer: Dr. David F. Johnson, Florida State University, and Dr. Evelyn Meyer, Saint Louis University)
(Chair: Jonathan S. Martin, Illinois State University)
Location: Sinquefield Stateroom (DuBourg, 4th floor)
Arthurian Mini-Conference sponsored by the International Arthurian Society, North American Branch (Organizer: Dr. David F. Johnson, Florida State University, and Dr. Evelyn Meyer, Saint Louis University)
(Chair: Jonathan S. Martin, Illinois State University)
Location: Sinquefield Stateroom (DuBourg, 4th floor)
- Snake-Woman and Vikings: Gendered Geographies in King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (Caitlin G. Watt, Clemson University)
- A Mythopoeic Mash-Up: Atlantis, King Arthur, and Aquaman (Kevin Whetter, Acadia University)
- Arthur in the Age of Brexit: Joe Cornish’s The Kid Who Would be King (Christopher Jensen, Florida State University)
T23 Late Medieval and Early Modern Sciences (Chair: Thomas Renna, Saginaw Valley State University)
Location: Davis-Shaughnessy Hall 171
Location: Davis-Shaughnessy Hall 171
- Brewers, Priests, and Alchemists: Discourses of Transformation on the Early Modern English Stage (Donovan Tann, Hesston College)
- Ars Antiqua and Ars Nova: Ancients and Moderns? (Carol Williams, Monash University)
T24 Entangled Identities in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Early Modern Mediterranean Mini-Conference (Organizer: Beth Petitjean, Saint Louis University)
(Chair: Dru Swadener, Saint Louis University)
Location: Boileau Hall
Early Modern Mediterranean Mini-Conference (Organizer: Beth Petitjean, Saint Louis University)
(Chair: Dru Swadener, Saint Louis University)
Location: Boileau Hall
- Interwoven Identities: A Portrait and the Spaces Between Venice and Istanbul in the Sixteenth Century (Jaiya Anka, University of Victoria)
- Defining the Self and Demarcating Difference: The Hajj and Empire in the Early Modern Mediterranean (Tyler Conklin, Yale University)
- Torquato Tasso's Muslims in Gerusalemme Liberata (Matthew Motyka, S.J., University of San Francisco)
T25 Topics in Faith and Reason
Later Medieval Philosophy Mini-Conference (Organizers: Dr. Susan Brower-Toland, Saint Louis University, and Dr. Jenny Pelletier, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
(Chair: Dr. Jenny Pelletier, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
Location: Cook Hall 236
Later Medieval Philosophy Mini-Conference (Organizers: Dr. Susan Brower-Toland, Saint Louis University, and Dr. Jenny Pelletier, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
(Chair: Dr. Jenny Pelletier, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
Location: Cook Hall 236
- Delayed Beatitude, Primal Sin, and Theodicy (Adam Wood, Wheaton College)
- Religious Epistemology in William of Auxerre (Jacob Andrews, Loyola University)
12:30 PM - 2:30 PM Lunch
12:45 PM - 2:15 PM Tour of Downtown St Louis (Starts at Pius XII Memorial Library)
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM Tour of St Louis Cathedral Basilica (Starts at Pius XII Memorial Library)
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM Concurrent Sessions
12:45 PM - 2:15 PM Tour of Downtown St Louis (Starts at Pius XII Memorial Library)
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM Tour of St Louis Cathedral Basilica (Starts at Pius XII Memorial Library)
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM Concurrent Sessions
T31 Work in Progress
46th Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies (Organizer: Dr. Susan L'Engle, Saint Louis University)
(Chair: Susan L'Engle, Saint Louis University)
Location: Pere Marquette Gallery (DuBourg, 2nd floor)
46th Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies (Organizer: Dr. Susan L'Engle, Saint Louis University)
(Chair: Susan L'Engle, Saint Louis University)
Location: Pere Marquette Gallery (DuBourg, 2nd floor)
- Psalter Illustration and the Rise of Coronation Imagery in Medieval England (Lucy Sandler, New York University)
- Responsive Books in Some Late Medieval English Illuminated Manuscripts (Kathryn Smith, New York University)
T32 The Fourth Annual Loomises Lecture
Arthurian Mini-Conference sponsored by the International Arthurian Society, North American Branch (Organizer: Dr. David F. Johnson, Florida State University, and Dr. Evelyn Meyer, Saint Louis University)
(Chair: David F. Johnson, Florida State University)
Location: Sinquefield Stateroom (DuBourg, 4th floor)
Arthurian Mini-Conference sponsored by the International Arthurian Society, North American Branch (Organizer: Dr. David F. Johnson, Florida State University, and Dr. Evelyn Meyer, Saint Louis University)
(Chair: David F. Johnson, Florida State University)
Location: Sinquefield Stateroom (DuBourg, 4th floor)
- James Bond, A Grifter, A Video Avatar, and a Shark Walk into King Arthur’s Court: The Ever-Expanding Canon of Cinema Arthuriana (Kevin J. Harty, La Salle University)
T33 Negotiating and Crossing Boundaries of Confession and Ethnicity (Chair: James Kroemer, Concordia University - Wisconsin)
Location: Davis-Shaughnessy Hall 171
Location: Davis-Shaughnessy Hall 171
- Approaching the Saracen on the Way to the Eschaton (Joel Cerimele, Saint Louis University)
- White as Snow: The Invisibility of Ethnicity in Aucassin et Nicolette and Floire et Blanchefleur (Keenan Burton, Washington University in St Louis)
- “By the Grace of God We Have Come Close to Each Other”: Sincerity in Armenian Ecumenical Diplomacy with the East and West, 1165-1199 (Alaric Powell, Saint Louis University)
T34 Economic Complexities in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Early Modern Mediterranean Mini-Conference (Organizer: Beth Petitjean, Saint Louis University)
(Chair: Beth Petitjean, Saint Louis University)
Location: Boileau Hall
Early Modern Mediterranean Mini-Conference (Organizer: Beth Petitjean, Saint Louis University)
(Chair: Beth Petitjean, Saint Louis University)
Location: Boileau Hall
- Italian Merchant Networks in Tabarka, ca. 1400-1600 (Steven Teasdale, University of Toronto)
- Reorienting Commerce: Florentine Financial and Commodity Networks in the Early Modern Mediterranean, ca. 1550-1700 (Dru Swadener, Saint Louis University)
T35 Ethical Issues in Late Medieval Philosophy
Later Medieval Philosophy Mini-Conference (Organizers: Dr. Susan Brower-Toland, Saint Louis University, and Dr. Jenny Pelletier, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
(Chair: Colleen McCluskey, Saint Louis University)
Location: Cook Hall 236
Later Medieval Philosophy Mini-Conference (Organizers: Dr. Susan Brower-Toland, Saint Louis University, and Dr. Jenny Pelletier, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
(Chair: Colleen McCluskey, Saint Louis University)
Location: Cook Hall 236
- Scotus on the Necessity of Pride as the Unqualifiedly First Sin (Josh Blander, The King’s College)
- Albert and Aquinas on the Judge Who Puts an Innocent Man to Death (David Zettel, Cornell University)
- Ockham on the Superfluity of the Theological Virtues (Eric Hagedorn, St Norbert’s College)
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM Coffee Service - Center for Global Citizenship
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM Concurrent Sessions
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM Concurrent Sessions
T42 ‘Deliver Us From Evil’: Conceiving Hell and the Devil Through the Ages (Chair: Erik P. Ankerberg, University of Chicago)
Location: Davis-Shaughnessy Hall 256
Location: Davis-Shaughnessy Hall 256
- When the Devil Entered the Garden of Eden (Michael Trotter, Saint Louis University)
- Is There Pain in Hell? Moving On From Medieval Perspective (Franco Manni, King’s College - London)
- Martin Luther and Devil (Thomas Renna, Saginaw Valley State University)
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Wine Reception - Center for Global Citizenship