Florida MedievaList:
Inaugural Meeting, Nov. 18/19, 2005, University of South Florida,
Tampa, hosted by the USF Library and
Special Collections
Provisional
program
Friday,
November 18
-7:30 PM: dinner at Café Don José
Saturday, November 19
-8:30 AM: breakfast at Savvy Jack's
Southern Gourmet (11401 N 56TH St Ste 22)
-10:00 AM: Welcome/introduction (Mark
Greenberg, USF Special Collections;
James D'Emilio, USF Humanities) (Florida
Studies Reading Room, 4th floor, USF Library)
-10:30: Session I, discussion of
precirculated papers (Florida Studies Reading Room, 4th floor,
USF Library)
- Florin Curta,
University of
Florida, "Merovingian and Carolingian Gift-Giving"
- Mary Jane Schenck, University of
Tampa, "The Mission of Charlemagne in Spain Seen Through the Window at
Chartres Cathedral"
- Tison Pugh, University of
Central Florida, "'He nedes moot unto the pley assente': Queer
Fidelities and Contractual Hermaphroditism in Chaucer's Clerk's Tale"
-12:30 PM: Lunch (Grace Allen Room, 4th Floor, USF Library)
and
a viewing of the
third of the Sacred Leaves exhibits (Liturgy and
Devotion: Manuscripts from England to Ethiopia) at the USF library, 4th Floor, Special
Collections;
the curator, Lesley
Stone, will present the exhibition
-2:00-4:30:
Session II, shorter introductions of members' research projects or
issues in teaching and curricular development (moderators and organizers, Carrie Benes
and Anne Latowsky) (Florida Studies Reading Room, 4th Floor,
USF Library),
- Carrie Benes, New College of
Florida: The Advantages, Disadvantages, and Logistics of Curricular
Re-Enactments
- Alex Bruce, Florida Southern
College: The Florida Southern College Medieval Symposium
- James
D'Emilio, University of South Florida: Medieval Galicia in the USA,
Kalamazoo and Beyond
- Nicole Discenza, University of
South Florida: NEH Grant Proposal, "Geography and Cosmology in
Anglo-Saxon England"
- Maria Esformes, University of
South Florida: A Year as a Fulbright Scholar in Spain
We are grateful to the USF Library
and Special Collections for hosting the meeting, and we appreciate the
additional support generously provided by the New College of Florida
Division of Social Sciences, the USF College of Arts and Sciences
Dean's Office, and the USF Departments of English, Humanities and
American Studies, and World
Language Education.