Calendar of Events
The New England Medieval Conference 2005
Medieval Conflicts, Modern Concerns
October 22 & 23, 2005, Saturday & Sunday
Worcester, Massachusetts
Clark University, College of the Holy Cross, Higgins Armory Museum
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Schedule
| Saturday, October 22 | |
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| Higgins Armory Museum | |
| 8:00am | Registration with coffee & pastries |
| 8:30am | Welcome by Kent dur Russell, Executive Director, Higgins Armory Museum |
| 8:50am | Opening Remarks: SunHee Kim Gertz, Clark University |
| 9:00am | Session I: Boundaries Anisa Mehdi, President, Whetstone Productions What If We Had the WWW in the Middle Ages? Sohail Hashmi, Mount Holyoke College Just War, Holy War, and Jihad: Early Encounters and Mutual Influences |
| 10:15 a.m. | Coffee break |
| 10:30 a.m. | Session II: Politics and Identity Sara Lipton, State University of New York at Stony Brook An Enemy We Cannot See: Identifying the Jew in Medieval Christian Art Virginia Mason Vaughan, Clark University Medieval Dukes and Modern Problems: Prospero Strikes Back |
| Clark University | |
| 12:00 p.m. | Lunch |
| 1:30 p.m. | Session III: Performance: A Woman Taken in Adultery Director: Raymond Munro, Clark University |
| Higgins Armory Museum | |
| 3:30 p.m. | Session IV: Christianity and Identity Sylvia Tomasch, Hunter College Borders and Bodies: Performing the Christian/Imitating the Jew Winthrop Wetherbee, Cornell University Boccaccio and Non-Christian Culture |
| 4:45 p.m. | Coffee break |
| 5:00 p.m. | Session V: Opening Up Corpora James Simpson, Harvard University Reading and Rejection: English Reformation, Bible Reading Alain Touwaide, Historian of Sciences, Department of Botany, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution Medieval Byzantine Medical and Herbal Practices |
| 6:30 p.m. | Cocktail Reception |
| 7:30 p.m. | Banquet |
| Sunday, October 23 | |
| Higgins Armory Museum | |
| 9:00 a.m. | Session VI: Round Table Discussion with Conference Speakers |
| 10:00 a.m. | Behind-the-Scenes Tour, Executive Director Kent dur Russell "One of my greatest pleasures during a recent visit to Worcester and to Clark University was to be taken on a guided tour of the Higgins Armory by its lively and well-informed Director, Kent dur Russell. I can't tell you how exciting it was to be shown the armor, the larger-than-life-size horses and mounted knights, the weapons of every imaginable sort of destructiveness and ingenious mayhem, by a Director whose life is devoted to this astonishing collection. I recommend this to one and all." -- David Bevington, Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor in the Humanities, University of Chicago |
Housing
A block of rooms has been reserved at the Hampton Inn, 110 Summer Street, Worcester, MA, at a rate of $95 plus tax for single or double rooms; a hot buffet breakfast is included.
Contact the Hampton Inn directly to make reservations at (508) 757-0300 or toll free at (800) 426-7866. Mention the New England Medieval Conference to receive the discount, which must be booked by September 21, 2005. More information about the hotel and its amenities is available at www.hamptoninn.com.
Directions
Detailed directions to the Higgins Armory Museum from throughout New England can be found on the directions page.
The New England Medieval Conference 2005 Steering Committee
- President: Fred Paxton, Connecticut College
- Vice President: SunHee Kim Gertz, Clark University
- Laurel Ginter Broughton, University of Vermont
- Elizabeth Bryan, Brown University
- Gavin T. Colvert, Assumption College
- Arlyn Diamond, University of Massachusetts
- Mary Dockray-Miller, Lesley University
- Daniel Donahue, Harvard University
- Robert Eisenstein, Mt. Holyoke College
- Eric J. Goldberg, Williams College
- Ibrahim Kalin, College of the Holy Cross
- Steven P. Marrone, Tufts University
- Ex-officio: Richard Emmerson, The Medieval Academy of America
Local Organizing Committee
- Gavin T. Colvert, Assumption College
- SunHee Kim Gertz, Clark University
- Kent dur Russell, Higgins Armory Museum
- Sarah Stanbury, College of the Holy Cross
- Tara Young, Higgins Armory Museum