2006 UCSB Medieval Studies Graduate Conference

Saturday, April 8, 2006, 900AM-5:30PM
McCUNE CONFERENCE ROOM, 6020 HSSB

Please register here or contact Edward D. English at 893-3167 or english@history.ucsb.edu

“Manuscript Culture in the Middle Ages: Production,

Transmission, & Use”

9:00a.m.-9:15a.m. Opening Remarks

9:15a.m.-10:45a.m. Session I

"Canonization Inquest Proctors: It's Time to Pay Attention to the Man behind the Curtain "

Nicole Archambeau - Department of History, UCSB

"A Shady Mirror of Civilization: Medieval Images of the Forest"

Ruthemma Ellison - Department of French & Francophone Studies, UCLA

"Specialization & Meditation: Private Reading and the Domestic Sphere

in the Later Middle Ages"

Christine Thuau - Department of French & Francophone Studies, UCLA

10:45a.m.-11:00a.m. Break

11:00a.m.-11:45a.m. Session II

"The Journey of Everyman : Actualizing a Medieval Script for

a Modern Aucience"

Jan Hawkley - Department of English, California State University, Chico

"The Poetry of Dafydd ap Gwilym and Dafydd Nanmor from the

Perspective of MS. Peniarth 52"

Owen Thomas - Department of Welsh, University of Wales, Lampeter

11:45a.m.-1:30p.m. Lunch Break

1:30p.m.-2:30p.m Keynote Address

"The Sound of Medieval Manuscripts"

Thomas Forrest Kelly

Harvard College Professor & Morton B. Knafel Professor of Music

Harvard University

2:30p.m.-2:45p.m. Break

2:45p.m.-3:30p.m. Session III

"The Spider KIng & the Good Duke of Burgundy Possibilities for Missa Dum Sacrum Mysterium/L'homme armé"

Kathryn Baillargeon - Department of Music, UCSB

"Spanish Medieval Nobility and the Production of Poetry Manuscripts: The Cancioniero del Conde de Haro (Geneve, Foundation Martin Bodmer, MS. 45)"

Óscar Perea-Rodriguez - Department of Spanish & Portuguese, UC Berkeley

3:30p.m.-3:45p.m. Break

3:45p.m.-4:30p.m. Informal Discussion & Closing Remarks

Sponsored By: The Medieval Studies Program; Graduate Division, The Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, Department of Drama & Dance, Department of English, Department of French & Italian, Department of History, Department of Music