43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies

8-11 May 2008

Western Michigan University

Kalamazoo, Michigan

I. BABEL Working Group panels:

Session #540: What Is the Place of the Present in Medieval Studies? (roundtable discussion panel)

Sunday, May 11th @ 8:30 am [Schneider 1280]

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

Myra J. Seaman (College of Charleston), Presider

• Nancy F. Partner (McGill University), "Hello, I Must Be Going: The Medievalist's Theme Song"
• Betsy McCormick (Mount San Antonio College), "The Bittersweet Symphony"
• Jeffrey Jerome Cohen (George Washington University), "Towards a Restless Medieval Studies"
• Karma Lochrie (Indiana University), "Being Un-timely"
• Steve Guthrie (Agnes Scott College), "Presentism and Pastism"
• Andrew Scheil (University of Minnesota), "To Find Ourselves More Truly and More Strange"
• Glenn Burger (Graduate Center, CUNY), "The Place of the Present in the Middle Ages: A Scene of Possibility"
• Bruce Holsinger (University of Virginia), RESPONSE

Session #588: Is There a Theory in the House of Old English Studies? (roundtable discussion panel)

Sunday, May 11th @ 10:30 am [Schneider 1280]

Eileen A. Joy (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville) and Larry J. Swain (The Heroic Age), Co-Organizers

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

• Jacqueline Stodnick (University of Texas, Arlington)
• Renee Trilling (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• Mary Swan (University of Leeds)
• Kathleen Davis (Princeton University)
• Kathryn Powell (University of Manchester/University of Cambridge)
• Mary Dockray-Miller (Lesley University)
• Stacy Klein (Rutgers University), RESPONSE

II. A non-BABEL panel with BABEL-y persons:

Session #280: Why Am I Me? On Being Born in the Middle Ages I

Friday, May 9th @ 1:30 pm [Schneider 1330]

Medieval Club of New York, Sponsor (Nicola Masciandaro, Organizer)

Richard H. Godden (Washington University in Saint Louis), Presider

• Nicola Masciandaro (Brooklyn College, CUNY), "The Sorrow of Being in the The Cloud of Unknowing"
• Anna Klosowska (Miami University of Ohio), "Being Silly: On Non Sequitur"
• Karl Steel (Brooklyn College, CUNY), "Losing Anthropocentrism: Folcuin's Horse, Yvain's Lion, and the Two Trueloves"
• Eileen Joy (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville), "Dying is an Art, Like Everything Else: The Lowly, Unsettled Aesthetics of Guthlac-Becoming"