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Tentative Schedule

Friday, February 17, 2012

12 - 2 p.m.
Registration

2 - 3:30 p.m.
Session 1: Canids in Crisis: Dog Saints and Fox Sinners in Medieval English and French Texts
Session 2: Brooches, Buttresses, and Byzantines

3:30 - 4 p.m.
Coffee

4 - 5 p.m.
Plenary Speaker: Dale Kinney, "The Past as Property"
Dale Kinney is a historian of art and architecture whose specialties include late antiquity, medieval Italy, and the afterlife of antique sites and objects (spolia). She is also a member of the team currently studying the 5th/6th-century "Red Monastery" near Sohag in Upper Egypt. In addition to the Red Monastery and spolia, her most recent publications treat issues of interpretation ("Interpretatio christiana," "The discourse of columns") and historiography ("Hans-Peter L 'Orange on Portraits and the Arch of Constantine"). Professor Kinney is recently retired from Bryn Mawr College, where she taught medieval art from 1972 to 2010. She has been awarded an Emeritus Fellowship from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a study of church architecture in Italy from the millennium to around 1300.

5 - 6 p.m.
Reception

Saturday, February 18, 2012

8 - 9 a.m.
Registration and continental breakfast

9 - 10:30 a.m.
Session 3: Classical Sources for Early Modern Spanish Literature
Session 4: Early English and Irish Literature

10:30 - 11 a.m.
Coffee

11 - 12:30 p.m.
Session 5: Arthurian Literature
Session 6: Dante and the Classical Tradition: Greeks, Romans, Byzantines

12:30 - 2 p.m.
Lunch and Business meeting

2 - 3:30 p.m.
Session 7: From the Late Antique to the Early Medieval
Session 8: Old French and Anglo-Norman Texts

3:45 - 5:15 p.m.
Session 9: Thirteenth-Century Philosophers
Session 10: Rhetoric and Revision in/of Troilus

Selected essays will be published in Essays in Medieval Studies.  For more information on EMS, go to http://www.illinoismedieval.org/EMS/