42nd International Congress on Medieval Studies

May 10-13, 2007

Western Michigan University

Kalamazoo, Michigan

BABEL Working Group panels:

THURSDAY, May 10, 10:00 a.m.

Session #11: Premodern to Modern Humanisms (roundtable discussion panel)

Kimberly K. Bell (Sam Houston State University), Presider

• Mary K. Ramsey (Fordham University), "Niobe's Tears: Mourning on the Margins of the Human"
• Karl Steel (Brooklyn College, CUNY), "How Delicious We Must Be: Anthrophagy, Again"
• LeAnne Teruya (San Jose State University/Department of Geology), "Mapping Humanism in the Age of Global Positioning Systems "
• Timothy Spence (Hollins University), "The Book of Hours and iPods, Passionate Lyrics and Prayers: Technologies of the Devotional Self"
• Betsy McCormick (Mount San Antonio College), "Oh, the Humanity! or, Cry Me a River to the Love Below"
• Jeffrey Jerome Cohen (George Washington University), Response

FRIDAY, May 11, 10:00 a.m.

Session #209: What Happened to Theory in Medieval Studies? (roundtable discussion panel)

Eileen A. Joy (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville), Presider

• Martin B. Shichtman (Eastern Michigan University)
• Laurie Finke (Kenyon College)
• Bonnie Wheeler (Southern Methodist University/Arthuriana)
• James J. Paxson (University of Florida/Exemplaria)
• Anna Klosowska (Miami University at Oxford, Ohio)
• Michael Uebel (Fellow, Houston-Galveston Psychoanalytic Institute)
• CO-RESPONDENTS: Steven Kruger (Queens College, CUNY Graduate Center) and Ethan Knapp (Ohio State University)