Annual Meeting 2011 Report

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, 2010

The annual meeting of the Corporation was held on Friday, 15 April. President Elizabeth A. R. Brown presided. The minutes of the eighty-fifth annual meeting were approved. Reports were delivered by the Executive Director, the Editor of Speculum, the Treasurer, and the Delegate to the American Council of Learned Societies.

The Van Courtlandt Elliott Prize was awarded to Anna Zayaruznaya for her article, "'She Has a Wheel That Turns . . .': Crossed and Contradictory Voices in Machaut's Motets," published in Early Music History 28 (2009), 185-240.

The John Nicholas Brown Prize was awarded to Leor Halevi for Muhammad's Grave: Death Rites and the Making of Islamic Society, published by Columbia University Press in 2007, and to Carol Symes for A Common Stage: Theater and Public Life in Medieval Arras, published by Cornell University Press in 2007.

The Haskins Medal was awarded to Caroline Walker Bynum for her book Wonderful Blood: Theology and Practice in Late Medieval Northern Germany and Beyond, published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2007.

The Robert L. Kindrick-CARA Award for Outstanding Service to Medieval Studies was presented to Girard J. Etzkorn, professor emeritus of the Franciscan Institute, St. Bonaventure University.

The CARA Award for Excellence in Teaching Medieval Studies was presented to Howell D. Chickering, G. Armour Craig Professor of Language and Literature at Amherst College.

The Program Committee awarded travel subventions for meritorious papers to the following graduate students: Lindy Brady, Jennifer Feltman, Ronald Greenwald, Andreas Lemke, Brandon Parlopiano, Leah Schwebel, and Mark Singer.

The 2011 slate chosen by mail ballot was presented to the assembled members. All present, without dissent, voted to accept the slate and elect the following: President (2011-12): Alice-Mary Talbot, Dumbarton Oaks; First Vice-President (2011-12): Maryanne Kowaleski, Fordham University; Second Vice-President (2011-12): Richard W. Unger, University of British Columbia; Councillors (2011-14): Susan Boynton, Columbia University; Bonnie Effros, University of Florida; Cary J. Nederman, Texas A&M University; and Martha G. Newman, University of Texas; Nominating Committee (2011-13): Olivia Remie Constable, University of Notre Dame; and Thomas E. A. Dale, University of Wisconsin.

Session sponsored by the Fellows.

The session sponsored by the Fellows was held on Saturday, 16 April. Joan M. Ferrante, President of the Fellows, presided. In the 2011 election Rita Copeland, Richard K. Emmerson, Monica Green, María Rosa Menocal, and John H. Munro were elected Fellows. John Lowden and Brian Patrick McGuire were elected Corresponding Fellows. Professors Copeland, Emmerson, McGuire, and Munro were present for formal induction, as was Professor Paul R. Hyams, elected a Fellow in 2010. Citations were read by John V. Fleming, Orator of the Fellows. The session concluded with an address by Julia M. H. Smith, University of Glasgow, "Portable Christianity: Relics in the Medieval West, c. 700-c. 1200."

Plenary lectures.

James Given, University of California, Irvine, delivered an address entitled "The Politics of Fear in the Early Fourteenth Century"; the session was chaired by Robert E. Bjork, Arizona State University. Edward Peters, University of Pennsylvania; Hava Tirosh Samuelson, Arizona State University; and the Right Reverend Kirk S. Smith, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Arizona, participated in a roundtable entitled "Medieval Backgrounds of Contemporary Issues: Immigration Then and Now"; the session was chaired by Marcia L. Colish, Yale University. Elizabeth A. R. Brown delivered the presidential address, "Moral Imperatives and Conundrums of Conscience" on Friday afternoon; the session was chaired by Alice-Mary Talbot.

CARA session.

On Friday morning Gregory Heyworth, University of Mississippi, chaired the session "Manuscripts and Technology: Methods of Textual Recovery from the Archimides Palimpsest to the Eschecs d'amour and Beyond," sponsored by the Committee on Centers and Regional Associations (CARA). The speakers were the chair and Roger Easton, Rochester Institute of Technology.

Concurrent sessions.

Concurrent sessions were held on Thursday afternoon, Friday, and Saturday. The Thursday afternoon sessions were as follows: Bishops versus Monks (Brian Patrick McGuire, Roskilde University, chair): Albrecht Diem, Syracuse University; John S. Ott, Portland State University; and Kathryn Salzer, Pennsylvania State University; The Reception of Gregory the Great in the Middle Ages (Patrick J. Geary, University of California, Los Angeles, chair); Scott DeGregorio, University of Michigan, Dearborn; Ann Kuzdale, Chicago State University; and Thomas Humphries, Emory University; Generic, Symbolic, and Aesthetic Concerns in English Literature (Sarah Stanbury, College of the Holy Cross, chair): Richard Firth Green, Ohio State University; Andrea Denny-Brown, University of California, Riverside; and R. F. Yeager, University of West Florida; No Place Like Rome: City as Text, Text as City in the High Middle Ages (Cynthia White, University of Arizona, chair): Jason Moralee, Illinois Wesleyan University; Carmela Vircillo Franklin, Columbia University; and Dale Kinney, Bryn Mawr College; Rhetoric and Place in Courtly Literature (Dhira Mahoney, Arizona State University, chair): M. C. Bodden, Marquette University; Michael Foster, Korea University; and Sarah Breckenridge, Pennsylvania State University; and Color and Sound in Church Art (Janet E. Snyder, West Virginia University, chair): Elizabeth Moodey, Vanderbilt University; and Ilana Schroeder, University of Wisconsin.

The Friday morning sessions were as follows: Constructed Jewish Identities (Robert Sturges, Arizona State University, chair): Leslie K. Arnovick, University of British Columbia; Katja Vehlow, University of South Carolina; and Maija Birenbaum, Fordham University; Vernacular Devotional Texts for Courtly and Clerical Audiences (Katherine Smith, University of Puget Sound, chair): Andrew Reeves, Troy University, Global Campus; and Maureen B. M. Boulton, University of Notre Dame; Holy Women: Hostility, Heresy, and Hagiography (Karl F. Morrison, Rutgers University, chair): Kriszta Kotsis, University of Puget Sound; Heidi Febert, Fordham University (Ms. Febert was unable to attend; her paper was read by Maryanne Kowaleski); Heidi Breuer, California State University, San Marcos; and Jessica Fenn, Columbia University; Academic Publication: A Roundtable Discussion (Blair Sullivan, University of California, Los Angeles, chair): Cary J. Nederman, Texas A&M University; Simon Forde, Brepols Publishers; Patrick J. Geary, University of California, Los Angeles; and Jan M. Ziolkowski, Harvard University; with Edward Schoolman, University of Nevada, as respondent; The Muslim-Christian Mediterranean: Migration, Borders, and Identity (Roger Dahood, University of Arizona, chair): Sarah Davis-Secord, University of Texas, Arlington; Aaron Moreno, University of California, Los Angeles; Lawrence McCrank, Chicago State University; and Karen Rose Mathews, University of Miami; Scholarship, Membership, Ownership: National and Ethnic Identities in the Discipline of Art History (Lori Eshleman, Arizona State University, chair): William Diebold, Reed College; Corine Schleif, Arizona State University; Catherine E. Karkov, University of Leeds (Professor Karkov was unable to attend; her paper was read by Professor Eshleman); and Nancy Wu, Metropolitan Museum of Art; and Sources for Chaucer's Female Characters (Michael Calabrese, California State University, Los Angeles, chair): John Bugbee, Mount St. Mary's University; Wendy Marie Hoofnagle, University of Northern Iowa; and Leah Schwebel, University of Connecticut.

The Friday afternoon sessions were as follows: Food and Cultural Conflict/Practice (Nancy Partner, McGill University, chair): Alexander Wolfe, University of Chicago; Heather Blatt, Fordham University; and Charlotte Stanford, Brigham Young University; Didactic Literature and Scripture (James J. Murphy, University of California, Davis, chair): Susan Kramer, Brooklyn, N.Y.; and Barnabas Hughes, California State University, Northridge; The Cult and Meaning of the Holy Tunic in the Middle Ages (Dorothy Glass, State University of New York, Buffalo, chair); Thomas Waldman, University of Pennsylvania; Elizabeth Parker, Fordham University; Nino Simonishvili, Georgian National Museum; and Mary Dzon, University of Tennessee; Fourteenth-Century Exiles and Aliens (Patricia Turning, Arizona State University, chair): Rebecca June, Fordham University, Lincoln Center; Katherine L. Jansen, Catholic University of America; and Jonathan Good, Reinhardt University; Regulating Medicine and Science in the Medieval World (Linda Ehrsam Voigts, University of Missouri, Kansas City, chair): Wendy Turner, Augusta State University; Sara Butler, Loyola University, New Orleans; and Nicholas Everett, University of Toronto; Conversion Romances (Juliann Vitullo, Arizona State University, chair): Jason Jacobs, Roger Williams University; Denyse Delcourt, University of Washington; and Jenna Stook, Mount Royal University; Philosophy: Virtues, Intentions, Binaries (Karl F. Morrison, Rutgers University, chair): Michael Fournier, Dalhousie University; Babette Hellemans, University of Groningen; and Kimberly Klimek, Metropolitan State College of Denver; Metaphors for the Monastery from the Tenth-Thirteenth Centuries (Susan Wade, Keene State College, chair): Scott Wells, California State University, Los Angeles; Katherine Smith, University of Puget Sound; and Susan Wade; Liturgical Reforms and Embellishments (Catherine Saucier, Arizona State University, chair): Brenda M. Bolton, University of London; and Yossi Maurey, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Racial and National Identities after the Norman Conquest (John Fyler, Tufts University, chair): Ronald Greenwald, University of Aberdeen; Lindy Brady, University of Connecticut; and Jonathan Davis-Secord, University of Texas, Arlington; Documents and History: Letter and Book Collections in England and Spain (Lawrence McCrank, Chicago State University, chair): Kathleen Neal, Monash University; and Ana Sáez-Hidalgo, University of Valladolid; Vestiges of Rome: Rhetoric and Language (Phyllis R. Brown, Santa Clara University, chair): George Hardin Brown, Stanford University; Edward Schoolman, University of Nevada; and Laura Carlson, University of Oxford; Exile Literature (Elizabeth Walsh, University of San Diego, chair): Laurence Hooper, University of Chicago; Deborah McGrady, University of Virginia; and Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona; and Anglo-Saxon Literature: Contexts and Readings (Carl T. Berkhout, University of Arizona, chair): Tracey-Anne Cooper, St. John's University; and Eric Weiskott, Yale University.

The Saturday morning sessions were as follows: Medieval Borders (Anita Obermeier, University of New Mexico, chair): Georgiana Donavin, Westminster College; Maria Dobozy, University of Utah; and Anne Laskaya, University of Oregon; Judicial Spaces (Roger Dahood, University of Arizona, chair): Joanna Carraway, Rockhurst University; and Elizabeth L. Hardman, Bronx Community College; Medical Manuscripts (Linda Ehrsam Voigts, University of Missouri, Kansas City, chair): Erik Kwakkel, Leiden University; and Jaclynne Kerner, State University of New York at New Paltz; Militarism, Nationalism, and Historiography in Art (Scott Kleinman, California State University, Northridge, chair): James F. Powers, College of the Holy Cross; Elizabeth Carson Pastan, Emory University; and Elizabeth Bryan, Brown University; Crusade Romances and the Other (Mark Cruse, Arizona State University, chair): Mark Cruse; Jennifer Gianfalla, Young Harris College; and David F. Tinsley, University of Puget Sound; Language and Literature Studies and Interdisciplinarity (Andrew Kraebel, Yale University, chair): Christine Chism, University of California, Los Angeles; Frank Bezner, University of California, Berkeley; and John V. Fleming, Princeton University; Relics of the Crusades in the Medieval West (Nicholas L. Paul, Fordham University, chair): M. Cecilia Gaposchkin, Dartmouth College; Thomas Madden, Saint Louis University; and Anne E. Lester, University of Colorado; New Proposals for Inclusive Approaches, Reversed Perspectives, and Non-ethnic Terms in the Study of Medieval Art (Corine Schleif, Arizona State University, chair): Virginia Raguin, College of the Holy Cross; Nancy L. Wicker, University of Mississippi; and Lawrence Nees, University of Delaware; Political Theory and Chronicle (Melissa Conway, University of California, Riverside, chair): Maria Luisa Ardizzone, New York University; Chris Jones, University of Canterbury; and Lisa Fagin Davis, Simmons College; Science and Faith: Motion, Time, Vision (Cynthia White, University of Arizona, chair): Leslie MacCoull, Society for Coptic Archaeology (North America); Lesley-Anne Dyer, University of Notre Dame; and Robert Sturges, Arizona State University; Law: Proof, Consent, and Litigation Meddling (Richard Helmholz, University of Chicago, chair): Brandon Parlopiano, Catholic University of America; Christian Knudsen, University of Toronto; and Jonathan Rose, Arizona State University; Gender and Diplomacy (Warren Brown, California Institute of Technology, chair): Jeffrey Bowman, Kenyon College; and Lorraine Attreed, College of the Holy Cross; and Old English Devotional and Homiletic Texts (Heather Maring, Arizona State University, chair): Erik Carlson, University of Minnesota; Mark Singer, University of Missouri; and Andreas Lemke, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.

The Saturday afternoon sessions were as follows: Medieval Seals: New Impressions (Brigitte Bedos-Rezak, New York University, chair): Sue Johns, Bangor University; John McEwan, Aberystwyth University; Phillipp Schofield, Aberystwyth University; and Elizabeth New, Aberystwyth University; Religious Lives: Identity, Individuality, Ideology (Mary Dockray-Miller, Lesley University, chair): Karen Blough, State University of New York, Plattsburgh; Aaron Slodounik, City University of New York, Graduate Center, and Queensborough Community College; Katie Bugyis, University of Notre Dame; and Mahlika Hopwood, Fordham University; Medievalism and Periodization (John Howe, Texas Tech University, chair): Charles Connell, Northern Arizona University; Kevin Poole, Yale University; Shirley Ann Brown, York University; and D'Arcy J. D. Boulton, University of Notre Dame; Radical Religionists (Paul R. Hyams, Cornell University, chair): Henry Ansgar Kelly, University of California, Los Angeles; Eugene Clay, Arizona State University; and Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona; Medical Theories of Anxiety, Pestilence, Disability, and Demonic Conception (Miriam Miller, University of New Orleans, chair): Nicole Archambeau, California Institute of Technology; David Coley, Simon Fraser University; Jayna Brett, University of Toronto; and Anita Obermeier, University of New Mexico; Church Sculpture in Doctrinal Contexts (Virginia Raguin, College of the Holy Cross, chair): Jill Greenwood, Willamette University; and Jennifer Feltman, Florida State University; and Church Teaching and Romantic Love (Fabian Alfie, University of Arizona, chair): Sandy Evans, University of Puget Sound; and Marisa Galvez, Stanford University.

Special events.

Receptions were held on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday evenings; the banquet was held on Friday evening. Tours of Phoenix, the Grand Canyon, and Sedona were offered to conference attendees.