UT @ Kzoo

Here's the roughly complied listing of UT-Austin faculty and graduate students participating in the 2009 Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo, MI, in May.

Thursday, 10am
Session 51 (Sangren 2303)
“Margins of Error: On the Self-Correcting Medieval Manuscript

Commentary from the Canoness: Images of Debate in the Hortus Deliciarum
Sarah Celentano Parker (Art History)

Thursday, 1:30pm
Session 61 (Valley II Garneau Lounge)
Platinum Latin II

Nocturnal Letters: The Role of Literary Tradition in Augustine’s Correspondence with Hebrides
Jennifer Ebbeler (Classics)

Thursday, 3:30pm
Session 129 (Fetzer 1005)
Excrement in the Middle Ages: Literary, Historical, and Art Historical Perspectives

The Excrement Lady
Michael A. Johnson (French)

Thursday, 7:30pm
Session 187 (Bernhard 204)
The Siege of Jerusalem in Middle English

Respondent: Geraldine Heng (English)

Friday, 10am
Session 211 (Fetzer 1010)
Performance, Performativity, and Italian Arts I: Theoretical Structures

Places In-Between: Making Sense of Place in Medieval Aosta (Italy)
Cheryl Kaufman (History)

Friday, 1:30pm
Session 269 (Valley I 110)
Glosynge is a glorious thyng: Medieval Studies and the Future of Commentary

Room for Commentary
Christopher Taylor (English)

Session 274 (Fetzer 1040)
Exempla and Exemplars

Cistercians in Heaven and Hell: Formation of the Living and Care for the Dead in Cistercian Exempla
Martha G. Newman (History and Religious Studies)

Session 280 (Schneider 1125)
The Nordic Ballad: New Approaches: In Memory of Ardis Syndergaard

Presider: Sandra Ballif Straubhaar (Germanic Studies)

Friday, 3:30pm
Session 351 (Schneider 1275)
Woman/Man/God II

Chaucer’s “Pale Custance,” Illuminated by Medieval Mysticism
John Bugbee (Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for the Study of Core Texts and Ideas)

Session 377 (Sangren 2304)
What, in the World, Is Medievalism? Global Reinventions of the Middle Ages (Panel)

Panelist: Sandra Ballif Straubhaar (Germanic Studies)

Saturday, 10am
Session 423 (Bernhard 105)
Women of Power Revisited

Leonor de la Vega and the Exercise of Female Power in Late Medieval Castile
L. J. Andrew Villalon (History)

Session 428 (Bernhard 209)
Globalizing the Middle Ages I: What Have We Done So Far and Where Should We Go Next?

Panelist: Geraldine Heng (English)

Saturday, 1:30pm
Session 470 (Schneider 1275)
Piers Plowman and Poetry

Respondent: Thomas Cable (English)

Session 485 (Bernhard 209)
Globalizing the Middle Ages II: Mapping the Medieval World

Presider: Geraldine Heng (English)

Saturday, 3:30pm
Session 520 (Schneider 1140)
The Crusades III

How Did the Templars See Themselves? An Investigation into Templar Collective
Identity and Self-Image through Their Visual Expressions
April Jehan Morris (Art History)

Sunday, 10:30am
Session 610 (Bernhard 209)
Barlaam and Josaphat in the European Middle Ages

Illuminated Morals: The Apologies in The Romance of Barlaam and Joasaph
Stephanie Payne

Session 615 (Bernhard, Brown & Gold Room)
Perceptions of Place and Space in Medieval Literature

Samson’s Touch: The Body of Saint Edmund and Spaces of Identity
Michael Widner (English)

"Ensemble Micrologus" Performing at UT

Monday, October 20, 2008, 7:00 PM
Jessen Auditorium, Rainey Hall
Free Admission

The Division of Musicology at the Butler School of Music, in collaboration with the Harry Ransom Center, the Program of Medieval Studies, and the Program of European Studies is hosting the residency of the ensemble Micrologus, in connection with the Harry Ransom Center exhibition on The Mystique of the Archive.

Micrologus is an internationally renowned group of medieval music with an impressive repertory that spans from sacred and secular monophonic music to the early Renaissance repertory. Over the past 30 years of activity, the ensemble has recorded more than twenty CDs
with Opus 111 and Zig-Zag Territories labels and has been awarded with two “Diapason d’Or” awards (1996 and 1999) and a Goldberg Best record of the year (2000). Several performances of the ensemble Micrologus have been recorded for national radio and TV broadcasting stations: RAI 1, RAI 2, Radio 3 (Italy), Radio France Culture, Radio France – Musique, ORF Vienna, Radio Clara (Belgium), Slovenian Television, Radio Suisse (Switzerland) and Asahi Television (Osaka, Japan). They also collaborated in movies and theatre productions, such as the soundtrack of Academy Award winning Mediterraneo (by Gabriele Salvatores), as well as in dance performances (International Tour 2007-2008 with Myth, a contemporary theatre-dance show by the choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and the Belgian Toneelhuis Company).

Micrologus regularly tours Europe and offers courses on medieval music at the Royaumont Abbey, the Early Music festival of Urbino (Italy) and at the Cité de la Musique in Paris. Through research into manuscript sources, organology, iconography, and an awareness of methods and results achieved in the field of ethnographic research on the musical traditions of the Mediterranean area the ensemble Micrologus revives the vibrant sound of Medieval
music and transport audiences at the heart of everyday life of the Middle Ages.

Members of the ensemble include: Patrizia Bovi, voice and harp; Goffredo Degli Esposti, peasant flute, drum, flute, bagpipe; Gabriele Russo, viola; Mauro Borgioni, voice; Gabriele Miracle, drums and psaltery; Simone Sorini, voice and lute; and Leah Stuttard, harp and cymbals.

Welcome!

On Thursday, October 16, an organizational meeting was held that resulted in the formation of Convivencia. Just as in medieval Iberia, where different cultures and religions existed alongside each other with varying degrees of tolerance and interarticulation, so the choice of Convivencia means to name the productive interdisciplinarity in which medievalists engage. The aim of this group is to bring together graduate students associated with The University of Texas at Austin that specialize in medieval and early modern cultures across a diverse temporal and geographic span.

This blog will be a site for the dissemination of information regarding upcoming gatherings and relevant events, as well as providing a forum to feature the outstanding work of UT graduate students in medieval and early modern studies. Whether through blogging or gathering together for a "papers in progress" session, the aim is always to offer a mutually supportive environment.

Convivencia is a premodern studies academic collective.