e Geographic Imagination: Conceptualizing Places and Spaces in the Middle Ages 28 February – 1 March 2014 2nd Annual Conference for the Indiana Medieval Graduate Student Consortium www.nd.edu/imgc2014 Professor Geraldine Heng Keynote Speaker Early Globalities, and Its Questions, Objectives, and Methods Saturday, March 1 at 11:00 a.m. Geraldine Heng is Perceval Fellow and Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, with a joint appointment in Middle Eastern studies and Women’s studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She holds the Perceval endowment for Medieval Romance, Historiography, and Culture, an endowment created to support her research and teaching. Heng is Founder and Co-director of the Global Middle Ages Projects (G-MAP), the Mappamundi cybernetic initiatives, and the Scholarly Community for the Globalization of the Middle Ages (SCGMA). Her teaching has included courses on the literatures and political cultures of the crusades, the genealogies and texts of medieval romance, the literatures of medieval England, Chaucer, medieval biography, premodern race and race theory, transcultural medieval travel narratives, and feminist theory and third world feminisms. In 2004, she designed, coordinated, and taught in “Global Interconnections: Imagining the World 500-1500 CE,” an experimental interdisciplinary graduate seminar collaboratively taught by seven faculty to introduce an interconnected premodern world spanning Europe, Islamic civilizations, Mahgrebi and SubSaharan Africa, India, China, and the Eurasian continent. Heng’s research focuses on literary, cultural, and social encounters between worlds, and webs of exchange and negotiation between communities and cultures, particularly when transacted through issues of gender, race, sexuality, and religion. She is especially interested in medieval Europe’s discoveries and rediscoveries of Asia and Africa. Her book, Empire of Magic, traces the development of a medieval literary genre—European romance, and, in particular, the King Arthur legend— in response to the traumas of the crusades and crusading history, and Europe’s myriad encounters with the East. She is completing two books: a book theorizing premodern race and racial-religious difference and a book on medieval England as a global site, traced through its literature.
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The Geographic Imagination: Conceptualizing Places and Spaces in the Middle Ages
28 February – 1 March 2014 2nd Annual Conference for the
Indiana Medieval Graduate Student Consortium www.nd.edu/imgc2014
Professor Geraldine HengKeynote Speaker
Early Globalities, and Its Questions, Objectives, and MethodsSaturday, March 1 at 11:00 a.m.
Geraldine Heng is Perceval Fellow and Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, with a joint appointment in Middle Eastern studies and Women’s studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She holds the Perceval endowment for Medieval Romance, Historiography, and Culture, an endowment created to support her research and teaching.
Heng is Founder and Co-director of the Global Middle Ages Projects (G-MAP), the Mappamundi cybernetic initiatives, and the Scholarly Community for the Globalization of the Middle Ages (SCGMA).
Her teaching has included courses on the literatures and political cultures of the crusades, the genealogies and texts of medieval romance, the literatures of medieval England, Chaucer, medieval biography, premodern race and race theory, transcultural medieval travel narratives, and feminist theory and third world feminisms.
In 2004, she designed, coordinated, and taught in “Global Interconnections: Imagining the World 500-1500 CE,” an experimental interdisciplinary graduate seminar collaboratively taught by seven faculty to introduce an interconnected premodern world spanning Europe, Islamic civilizations, Mahgrebi and SubSaharan Africa, India, China, and the Eurasian continent.
Heng’s research focuses on literary, cultural, and social encounters between worlds, and webs of exchange and negotiation between communities and cultures, particularly when transacted through issues of gender, race, sexuality, and religion. She is especially interested in medieval Europe’s discoveries and rediscoveries of Asia and Africa. Her book, Empire of Magic, traces the development of a medieval literary genre—European romance, and, in particular, the King Arthur legend—in response to the traumas of the crusades and crusading history, and Europe’s myriad encounters with the East. She is completing two books: a book theorizing premodern race and racial-religious difference and a book on medieval England as a global site, traced through its literature.
Conference Highlights
About the Conference
In observing recent attempts to destabilize the nation as a fundamental block for understanding social development and identity, we do well to recall that in the Middle Ages the “nation” and feelings of nationality were very much in their incipient stages. Medieval peoples conceptualized their spaces and places of belonging in as many and as various ways as we do today but in ways unbounded by our modern understandings of the nation. Such conceptualizations are featured in this conference in medieval attempts to map the world; in the persistence of sacred spaces; in close regional or local identification; or in the creation of spaces for transgression. As such, this conference presents a selection of studies that explore the medieval geographic imagination, the rich, complex faculty by which medieval people imagined their place and the places and spaces of others in their world.
Attending the Conference
The conference will take place at the Notre Dame Conference Center at the University of Notre Dame. Lectures and panels are free and open to the public. Drop-in attendance at panels and lectures is strongly encouraged. Registration is required for meal participation.
Visitor parking is available in the lots south of the football stadium. View the campus map at map.nd.edu.
Additional information about the conference and the Indiana Medieval Graduate Student Consortium can be found at www.nd.edu/imgc2014.
Conference OrganizersKarrie Fuller, Department of English ([email protected])Megan J. Hall, Department of English ([email protected])Andrew Klein, Department of English ([email protected])Amanda Bohne, Department of English ([email protected])
Conference Sponsors
This conference is generously sponsored by the Nanovic Institute for European Studies at the Unviersity of Notre Dame.
Acknowledgments
Special thanks to the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, the Medieval Institute, the Department of English, the Hesburgh Library’s Special Collections at the University of Notre Dame, our Faculty Advisor Dr. Chris Abram, Nanovic Communications Specialist Jenn Lechtanski, Nanovic Manager of Operations Monica Caro, and ISLA Academic Conference Specialist Lauri Roberts.
Cover Image: The Psalter World Map, c. 1265 (c) The British Library Board, BL Add. MS 28681, f.9v
Friday, February 28
2:30 p.m. Campus tour (departs from the Morris Inn)Highlighting medieval manuscripts in Notre Dame Special Collections with remarks by David Gura, Medieval Institute
4:00 p.m. Registration (Refreshments available)
4:30 p.m. WelcomeAnthony Monta, Nanovic Institute for European Studies Chris Abram, Department of English
4:45 - 6:15 p.m. Panel I: Local Spaces
Presider: Karrie Fuller, University of Notre Dame
Þe worde þat he warpyd: Diachronic English Language Contact in St. Erkenwald - Leanne MacDonald, University of Notre DameThe Marginal, Marshy, and Monstrous Elements of Eolh-secg in The Rune Poem - Mae Kilker, University of Notre DameNative Earth, Native Tongue: The Consolation of “Erþ” in Two Fourteenth-Century Manuscripts - Marjorie Harrington, University of Notre Dame
6:45 p.m. Dinner with Keynote Speaker (invitation only)
Saturday, March 1
8:30 - 9:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast plus refreshments
9:00 - 10:30 a.m. Panel II: Transgressive Spaces
Presider: Andrew Klein, University of Notre Dame
Rogue Space: Genre, Closure, and Prostitution in Chaucer’s Cook’s Tale - Emilie Cox, Indiana University (Bloomington)“3e ar welcum to my cors”: The Bedchamber’s Place in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - Whitney Sperrazza, Indiana University (Bloomington)Recovering a Fairer Heloise - Kim Lungociu, Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.
11:00 a.m. - Noon Keynote Address with Geraldine Heng
Noon - 1:00 p.m. Banquet Lunch (included in registration)
Saturday, March 1 (Continued)
1:30 - 3:00 p.m. Panel III: Sacred Spaces
Presider: Megan J. Hall, University of Notre Dame
“Saints of That Place”: The Holy Landscape of Twelfth-Century Northumbria - Lauren Whitnah, University of Notre DameCreating a Saint: Christianization and Sacred Space in Hrafns saga sveinbjarnarsonar - Melissa Mayus, University of Notre DameMartyrdom in Asye and Remapping Late Medieval Catholic Identity - Jerrell Allen, Indiana University (Bloomington)All Boats Lead to Rome: Tensions Between Virtue and Rome in The Man of Law’s Tale and Emaré - Adrianna Radosti, Purdue University
3:30 - 4:45 p.m. Panel IV: Mapped Spaces
Presider: Amanda Bohne, University of Notre Dame
The Geography of Later Crusades: Ramon Llull’s Routes to the Holy Land - Michael Sanders, Western Michigan UniversityNavigating Borders and Empires in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - Meagan Loftin, University of WashingtonThe Cartographic Imagination: Maping Anglo-Scotish Existence in the Late Middle Ages - Andrew Klein, University of Notre Dame
6:00 p.m. Dinner with Keynote Speaker (invitation only)
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