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Sunday, June 16, 2019

12:00 PM - 8:00 PM Registration - Center for Global Citizenship
12:00 - 8:00 PM Check-In - Center for Global Citizenship
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Monday, June 17, 2019

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

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

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM Concurrent Sessions
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M11 Books and Objects: Building Collections, Teaching Collections
46th Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies (Organizer: Dr. Susan L'Engle, Saint Louis University)
​(Chair: Stephanie Russell, Truman State University)
Location: Pere Marquette Gallery (DuBourg Hall, 2nd floor)

• The Library as High-Impact Experience  (Stephanie Russell, Truman State University)
• Developing Transformative Experiences: The Rare Book Collection at Truman State University (Amanda Langendoerfer, Truman State University)
• ​The Teaching Collection of Early Manuscripts at the University of South Carolina (Scott Gwara, University of South Carolina)

M12  Arthur in History
Arthurian Mini-Conference sponsored by the International Arthurian Society, North American Branch (Organizers: Dr. David F. Johnson, Florida State University, and Dr. Evelyn Meyer, Saint Louis University)
​(Chair: Kevin Whetter, Acadia University)
​Location: Sinquefield Stateroom (DuBourg, 4th floor)

• Why Arthur was Crowned in Silchester (David W. Burchmore, California Institute of Technology and SUNY Birminghamton University)
• The Arthurian Past and Twelfth-Century Perceptions of History (David Rollo, University of Southern California)
• Cataloguing the Collapse in Malory’s Morte (Stephen Atkinson, Park University)

M14 Chivalry Abroad: Exiles, Outcasts, and Adventurers
De Re Militari
(Chair: Craig M. Nakashian, Texas A&M - Texarkana)
​Location: Cook Hall 234

• From a French Prince to an Italian King: The Violent Life of Charles d' Anjou, c. 1250-70 (J. Tucker Million, University of Rochester)
• Exporting Chivalric Violence in Late Medieval Castile (Samuel Claussen, California Lutheran University)​

M15 ‘Aquinas On My Mind’: Aquinas on the Soul and Will (Chair: William Hannegan, Saint Louis University)
​​Location: Davis-Shaughnessy Hall 171

• Thomas Aquinas on the Incompleteness of the Human Soul (Kendall Fisher, Seattle University)
• Can We Want Courage and Candy at the Same Instant? Aquinas on the Possibility of Simultaneous Will-Acts (Francis Feingold, St Patrick’s Seminary and University)

M16 Gender Norms and Subversions in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods (Chair: Natalie Whitaker, Saint Louis University)
​​Location: Cook Hall 240

• Transforming Adulterers into Adults: Jewish Sexual Morality in Late-Medieval Italy (Dana Fishkin, Touro College)
• The Invisible Foreigner: Representation of Occidental Females in Persian Private Houses in the Early Modern Era (Fatemah Tashakori, University of Texas - Dallas)

M17 Themes in Ockham’s Metaphysics
Later Medieval Philosophy Mini-Conference (Organizers: Dr. Susan Brower-Toland, Saint Louis University, and Dr. Jenny Pelletier, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
​(Chair: Eric Hagedorn, St Norbert’s College)
​Location: Cook Hall 236

• Ockham on Social Aggregates (Jenny Pelletier, University of Leuven)
• Ockham on the Metaphysics of Location (Susan Brower-Toland, Saint Louis University)
• The Intensification and Diminution of Intuitive Acts: Ockham and Wodeham (Deni Gamboa, Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla)

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

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Concurrent Sessions
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 M21 Miscellany Manuscripts
​46th Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies (Organizer: Dr. Susan L'Engle, Saint Louis University)
(Chair: Atria Larson, Saint Louis University)
​Location: Pere Marquette Gallery (DuBourg Hall, 2nd floor)

• Miscellany Contents as Interpretive Context (Nancy Pope, Washington University in St. Louis)​
• Lost and Found: An Unknown Document of Queen Leonor Plantagenet (Jose Manuel Cerda, Universidad Gabriela Mistral)
• The Scribes of the Beowulf Manuscript as Curators (Andrew Clapham, Seton Hall Preparatory School)

M22  Speaking of Pre-Modern Speech Acts (Chair: Johanna Kramer, University of Missouri)
Medieval Speech Act Society ​(Organizer: Alexander Vaughan Ames, University of South Carolina)
​Davis-Shaughnessy Hall 256

• The Diachrony of Pragmatic Meaning in Old Norse Sagas: The Benefits of Manuscript Variation (Eric Bryan, Missouri University of Science and Technology)
• Speech as Action in the Old and Middle English Harrowings of Hell (Alexander Vaughan Ames, University of South Carolina)
• A Pragmatics Analysis of Malory’s Morte D'arthur Using Leech’s Framework (FTAs, Implicatures, Politeness) and Focusing Upon Dialogue Involving Launcelot (Graham P. Johnson, Reinhardt University)

M23 Subversive Religion Between England and France in the Early Modern Period (Chair: Donovan Tann, Heston College)
​​Location: Cook Hall 330

• Popular Iconoclasm, Glass-Breaking, and Anti-Laudian Theology in Eastern English Counties (John W. Shin, Independent Scholar)
• Comic Confession in Early Modern France (Kathleen Llewellyn, Saint Louis University)
• Henry Vaughan and the Construction of Religion in Early Modern England (Erik Ankerberg, University of Chicago)

M24 Warfare in the Medieval Mediterranean
​De Re Militari
​(Chair: Craig M. Nakashian, Texas A&M - Texarkana)
​​Location: Cook Hall 234

• Matilda of Canossa’s Hidden War (Valerie Eads, School of Visual Arts)
• Campaign-Speak: Some Observations on the Fifth Crusade (Laurence W. Marvin, Berry College)
• The Seventh Crusade in Modern Doctrinal Parlance (John D. Hosler, Command and General Staff College)

M25 Causation in Medieval Philosophy
Later Medieval Philosophy Mini-Conference (Organizer: Dr. Susan Brower-Toland, Saint Louis University, and Dr. Jenny Pelletier, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
​(Chair: Susan Brower-Toland, Saint Louis University)
​​Location: Cook Hall 236

• Scotus, Ockham, and Biel on sine qua non Causes (Zita Toth, Conception Seminary)
• A Case Study: Backward Causation in the Middle Ages (Giuseppe Colonna, Universita della Svizzera Italiana)
• Ungrounded Purpose: Descartes' Treatment of Final Causation in the Meditations on First Philosophy (Matthew Advent, Florida State University)

​M26 Showing of Guy Ritchie’s King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017) - Kevin J. Harty, La Salle University (126 min.)
​Arthurian Mini-Conference sponsored by the International Arthurian Society, North American Branch (Organizers: Dr. David F. Johnson, Florida State University, and Dr. Evelyn Meyer, Saint Louis University)
​​Location: Sinquefield Stateroom (DuBourg, 4th floor)

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12:30 PM - 2:30 PM Lunch

2:30 PM - 4:00 PM Concurrent Sessions
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M31 Lowrie J. Daly, S.J. Memorial Lecture on Manuscript Studies - Books of Hours, Passion Narratives, and Devotional Practices in Trecento Italy
46th Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies (Organizer: Dr. Susan L'Engle, Saint Louis University)
Speaker: Francesca Manzari, Sapienza Università di Roma
​Location: Pere Marquette Gallery (DuBourg, 2nd floor)

M32 Thought and Consciousness in Later Medieval Philosophy
Later Medieval Philosophy Mini-Conference (Organizer: Dr. Susan Brower-Toland, Saint Louis University, and Dr. Jenny Pelletier, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
(Chair: Alexandra Romanyshyn, Saint Louis University)
​​Location: Cook Hall 236

• The Activity of the Soul and the Causality of Its Object: Connecting Peter John Olivi, Gonsalvus of Spain, and John Duns Scotus (Andre Martin, McGill)
• Unity of Consciousness: Peter of Palude, Durand of St Pourcain, and Guido Terreni on Reflex Acts (Peter Hartman, Loyola University)
• Singular Thought in Vital du Four (Machessa Samz, Fordham University)

M33 Conceptions of Holiness and the Communion of Saints (Chair: Karen Scott, DePaul University)
​​Location: Cook Hall 240

• The Quest for Sanctity, the Constraints of Governance, and the Persistence of the Monastic Ideal in the Lives of Saints Francis of Assisi (d. 1226) and Edmund of Abingdon (d. 1240) (George W. Dameron, Saint Michael’s College - Vermont)
• Models of Virtue: Saint Worship in Early Modern Castile (Ricardo Fernandez Gonzalez, Uppsala University)
• Saints’ Lives and the Making of Saints and Heretics in the Later Middle Ages (Adam Hoose, Troy University)

M34 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Morgan le Fay, Guinevere and Witches
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: Melissa Ridley Elmes, Lindenwood University)
​​Location: Sinquefield Stateroom (DuBourg, 4th floor)

• Safeguarding Chivalry: Morgan le Fay's role in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Katja Marek, Eastern Oregon University)
• Medieval Romance: A “Safe Space” for Magic and Cultural Investigation (Emilee J. Howland-Davis, University of Missouri, Columbia)
• Changing Minds, Changing Role: Guinevere Throughout Literary History (Nicole Evelina, Independent Scholar)

M35 Tears, Trauma, and Time (ROUNDTABLE)
(Chair: Anthony G. Cirilla, College of the Ozarks)
(Location: Davis-Shaughnessy 171)

• ​Natalie Whittaker (Saint Louis University)
• Christina Hildebrandt (Saint Louis University)
• Amy Nelson (Saint Louis University)
• Anessa Kemna (Saint Louis University)

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4:00 PM - 4:30 PM Coffee Service - Center for Global Citizenship

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM Plenary Session - Dr. John J. Contreni (Purdue University) : Sitting Shiva in Carolingian Auxerre: Jews among the Franks

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Wine Reception - Center for Global Citizenship
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8:00 PM - 11:00 PM Graduate Student Pub Night - Fieldhouse (510 North Theresa Avenue)

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