Texas Tech University Medieval & Renaissance Presents
CENTERS AND PERIPHERIES: THE GLOBAL PREMODERN
Texas Tech University
April 20-22, 2023
Keynote Presentations
The Triumph of Fashion in the Early Modern World (Virtual)
Ulinka Rublack, Department of History, University of Cambridge
&
Crafty Mobilities: Disabled Travel Writing and a Global Middle Ages
Jonathan Hsy, English Department, George Washington University
Map of the Commentaries on the Apocalypse of Saint John by Beatus of Liébana, circa 1086. Museum of the Cathedral of El Burgo de Osma, Soria, Cod. 1, fols. 34v-35r
Thursday, April 20, 2023 Museum of Texas Tech University 3301 4th Street
Session 1: Thursday, 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm
Panel 1A (Museum, Green Room)
Sharing Official Knowledge and Authority in Medieval and Early Modern Italy and Germany
Chair: Abigail Swingen, Dept. of History, Texas Tech University
“The Men of Santo Stefano: Witnessing and Identity in a Thirteenth-Century Monastery.” Lee Morrison, Dept. of History, Washington University, St. Louis
“From Peripheral Study to Center of Learning: Ancient Greek in Italy and Germany (1400–1550).” Justin Meyer, Dept. of History, Washington University, St. Louis and Sydnor Roy, Dept. of Classical & Modern Languages & Literatures (Classics), Texas Tech University
“Medical Pamphlets in Seventeenth-Century State-Building”
John Conrad, Dept. of History, Washington University, St. Louis
Panel 1B (Museum, Dressing Room) Gender and Politics
Chair: John Beusterien, CMLL (Spanish), Texas Tech University
“Political and Economic Theory in Cervantes ́ Exemplary Novels.”
Mia Clapp, Dept. of Classical & Modern Languages & Literatures (Spanish), Texas Tech University
“Life is a Dream: Re-casting a Spanish Golden Age play from a Feminine Perspective.” Yazarei Bazaldua, Dept. of Classical & Modern Languages & Literatures (Spanish), Texas Tech University
“No Damsel in Distress: From Rationality to Brute Force in Don Quixote’s Female Characters.” Nicolas Spencer and Marcus Valadares, Dept. of Classical & Modern Languages & Literatures (Spanish), Texas Tech University
2:00 – 2:15 pm, Coffee Break
(Outside Museum Green Room)
Session 2: Thursday, 2:15 pm – 3:45 pm
Panel 2A (Museum, Green Room) Cultural Adaptation Across Time I
Chair: Caroline Bishop, CMLL, Texas Tech University
“Paratemporality and Visuality: Sensory Training, Interpretive Force, and the Role of the Medieval Sensorium in Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Franklin’s Tale and Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale.”
Sylvie Monet Hansen, Dept. of English, University of Wyoming “From Carthage to Chaucer: Exploration of a Medieval Dido.” Lily Tun, Dept. of English, Texas A&M University, College Station
“Poe(tree) in The Pear Tree: Pregnancy, Disability, and the Semiotic in The Merchant’s Caitlyn Salinas, Dept. of English, Texas A&M University, College Station
Panel 2B (Museum, Dressing Room) The Bestial at the Border
Chair: Ben Poole, Dept. of History, Texas Tech University
“Blurring Ideals of Heroism and Markers of Monstrosity in The Ninth Hour: The Beowulf Story.” Kristen York, Dept. of English, Texas A&M, College Station
“Distance and Resistance: Measurement as Defense in the Old English Wonders of the East.” Brian McFadden, Dept. of English, Texas Tech University
“The Life of an Axolotl in Fray Bernadino de Sahagun’s General History of the Things of New Spain.” Fernando Martínez Caleano, Dept. of Classical & Modern Languages & Literatures (Spanish), Texas Tech University
“A Woman Werewolf and Scapegoat in Cervantes’s Persiles y Sigismunda.”
Esperanza González Moreno, Dept. of Classical & Modern Languages & Literatures (Spanish), Texas Tech University
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm, Texas Tech Centennial Lecture
Museum of TTU Auditorium
Welcome: Michael Borshuk, Director of the TTU Humanities Center Chair & Organizer: John Howe, Dept. of History, Texas Tech University
“Learning institutionalized: The Making and Re-making of University Education from Medieval Bologna and Paris to Modern Lubbock”
John van Engen, Emeritus, Dept. of History, Notre Dame University James C. Turner, Emeritus, Dept. of History, Notre Dame University
5:30 pm – 6:30 pm, Wine & Hors d’Oeuvres Reception
Museum of TTU Sculpture Court
Friday, April 21, 2023, TTU International Cultural Center (ICC) Indiana Ave, north of the Museum
8:00 am – 8:30 am, Morning Coffee
(Outside Conference Rooms A & B)
Session 3: Friday, 8:30 am – 10:00 am
Panel 3A (ICC, Conference A) Gendered Cultural Production (Hybrid)
Chair: Theresa Flanigan, School of Art (Art History), Texas Tech University
“Female Donors in Churches of Laconia after the Battle of Pelagonia Crusades and Imprisonment of the Prince of Achaia William II of Villehardouin.” (Virtual) Katerina Kiltzanidou, Dept. of History and Ethnology, University of Thrace, Greece
“Acts of Faith: The Aesthetics of Penance and Shame in The Spanish Empire, 1400-1700.” Kyna Bullard, Dept. of Classical & Modern Languages & Literatures (Spanish), Texas Tech University
“Unearthing New Voices: A Comparative Analysis of Gender, Religion and Disability in Teresa de Cartagena and Justitia Sengers.” Courtney Gragson, Dept. of History, Texas Tech University
Panel 3B (ICC, Conference B) Meaning and Materiality (Hybrid)
Chair: Sarah Cantor, CMLL (Italian), Texas Tech University
“Framing the Ideal City: Matter and Form in the Urbino Studiolo of Federico da Montefeltro.” (Virtual) Matan Aviel, Art History Dept., Hebrew University of Jerusalem
“Standing on Solid Ground: Turkish Carpets and the Making of English Identity at the Tudor Court.” (Virtual). Hannah Prescott, Dept. of Art History & Archaeology, University of Maryland
“Christian Frontality: Centering Vision as Mediator Between Time and Space.” Katharine Scherff, School of Art (Art History), Texas Tech University
10:00 am – 10:30 am, Coffee Break
10:30 am – 12:00 pm, Keynote Presentation ICC Auditorium
Welcome: Dr. Tosha Dupras, Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, Texas Tech University Introduction: Dr. Jacob A. Baum, Dept. of History, Texas Tech University
“The Triumph of Fashion in the Early Modern World” (Virtual)
Ulinka Rublack, Dept. of History, University of Cambridge
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm, Lunch Break Session 4: Friday, 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
Panel 4A (ICC, Conference A) Animate Materiality
Chair: Christopher Witmore, CMLL, Texas Tech University
“Listening at a Medieval Window: Plainchant and Paleography at the Periphery.” Jann Cosart, Director, Baylor Early Music Ensembles, Baylor University
“Audio divina: Reshaping an ancient practice for the contemporary artist.” Brad Cawyer, School of Music (Conducting), Texas Tech University
“Early Modern Machines and a Hermeneutics of Technology in Don Quixote.” Cory A Reed, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Texas at Austin
Panel 4B (ICC, Conference B)
Worrying about Bodies (Hybrid)
Chair: Klinton Burgio-Ericson, School of Art (Art History), Texas Tech University
“Bodies that Matter: The Applications of Diagrammed Body in Global Medieval Cosmography and Geography.” (Virtual) Canchen Cao, Dept. of Medieval History, University of Glasgow
“Maimonides on Physician-Patient Relationships.” Juliana Izuno Thompson, History Dept., Binghamton University, New York
“Revisiting the Distant Past of the Hospital of Saint John in Brussels: Nuns, City Leaders, and Conflict.” Tiffany A. Ziegler, Dept. of History, Midwestern State University
“‘They Don’t Wear Breeches’ - Uncanny Cannibal Corporeality in the Early-Modern Contact.” Alexander LaGrand Henkle, Dept. of English, University of New Mexico
2:30 pm – 2:45 pm, Coffee Break Session 5: Friday, 2:45 pm – 4:15 pm
Panel 5A (ICC, Conference A) Revising Premodern Political History
Chair: Ryan Hackenbracht, Dept. of English, Texas Tech University
“Constitutionalism and the Image of God: The Political Theology Underlying Goślicki’s The Accomplished Senator.” David Mendoza, Westminster Theological Seminary & Walker Haskins, Universiteit van Amsterdam
“Thomas More in Egypt: Tawfiq’s Utopia and the Prospects of Revolution.” Ahmed N Muhammad, Dept. of English, Texas Tech University
“Power in Lesbos between Greece and Anatolia.” William Tortorelli, Dept. of Classical & Modern Languages & Literatures (Classics), Texas Tech University
“Unexpected Saviors: Viking Influence on the East Slavic Tribes.” Kelsey Davis, Dept. of History, Midwestern State University
Panel 5B (ICC, Conference B)
Cultural Exchange Across Time and Place
Chair: Theresa Flanigan, School of Art (Art History), Texas Tech University
“Altering the Altar: A Case Study in Greek-Etruscan Artistic Exchange.” Michael Anthony Fowler, Dept. of Art & Design (Art History), East Tennessee State University
“At the Periphery of the Carolingian Empire: Rethinking the Genoels-Elderen Ivories.” Riccardo Pizzinato, School of Art (Art History), University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
“Tracing a Mamluk Emblem in Early Modern Venetian Painting.” Caroline Koncz, Department of Visual & Performing Arts (Art History), Angelo State University
“Roman Art at the Borders of Europe. Karl von Lichtenstein-Castelcorno: A Moravian Patron’s Network in Late Baroque Rome (1670-1690).” Elisa Marangon, Dept. of Art History, Palacký University, Faculty of Arts, Olomouc (CZ)
Session 6: Friday, 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Panel 6A (ICC, Conference A)
Bringing Medieval History to Texas (Roundtable, Hybrid)
Chair & Organizer: John Howe, Dept. of History, Texas Tech University
Participants:
Bruce Brasington, Dept. of History, West Texas A&M University
Scott Buchanan, History Dept., South Plains College
John Howe, Dept. of History, Texas Tech University
Craig Nakashian, Dept. of History, Texas A&M University, Texarkana (virtual)
Lane Sobehrad, Coordinator of Research & Innovation, Lubbock Independent School
Panel 6B (ICC, Conference B)
Cultural Exchange: Pre-Modern Americas (Hybrid)
Chair: William Tortorelli, CMLL, Texas Tech University
“Spiritual Geographies of Resistance: Memory and Narrative in Caribbean Pilgrimages.” (Virtual) Felisa Baynes-Ross, English Dept., Yale University
“Exiles of Ashanti and Connemara: Afro-Irish movement and sound synthesis in the English Caribbean.” Christopher J Smith, Director, Vernacular Music Center, Texas Tech University
“The Turducken of Tusaya: Translational Maneuvers, Indigenous Agency, and the Interpretation of Hybrid Ceramics in Seventeenth-Century New Mexico.” Klinton Burgio-Ericson, School of Art (Art History), Texas Tech University
5:30 pm – 6:30 pm, Concert Performance, ICC Auditorium
“Centers & Peripheries”
TTU Collegium Musicum
Director: Angela Mariani, School of Music, Texas Tech University
Saturday, April 22, 2023, TTU International Cultural Center (ICC)
8:00 am – 8:30 am, Morning Coffee
(Outside Conference Rooms A & B)
Session 7: Saturday, 8:30 am – 10:00 am
Panel 7A (ICC, Conference A) Global Mapping (Hybrid)
Chair: Brian McFadden, Dept. of English, Texas Tech University
“Safar, Ishq, and the Traveling Sufi: Making of a ‘Sacred Geography.’” (Virtual)
Rhitama Basak, Dept. of Modern Indian Languages and Literary Studies, University of Delhi
“Social Space: Marco Polo and the Hereford Map.” (Virtual)
Guillermo Pupo Pernet, Dept. of Comparative Literature & Cultural Studies, University of Arkansas
“Reorientation in the Flyleaves: An Anglicized Map of the Itinerarium Kambriae and Descriptio Kambriae.” Sarah Sprouse, Dept. of English, Philosophy & Modern Languages (English), West Texas A&M University, Canyon
Panel 7B (ICC, Conference B) Gender and Power (Hybrid)
Chair: Erin-Marie Legacey, Dept. of History, Texas Tech University
“Female Voice in a Medieval Spanish Ballad and A Corrido from the Mexican Revolution.” Yunuen Velazquez, Dept. of Classical & Modern Languages & Literatures (Spanish), Texas Tech University
“Women’s Diji Hairstyle in the Ming Novel Jin Ping Mei: Translating Beauty and Symbol of Power in Classical Chinese Literature.” (Virtual) Meilong Liu and Jackie Xiu Yan, Dept. of Linguistics & Translation, City University of Hong Kong
“Mother, Virgin, or Prostitute? Silenced Desire in a Male Dominated Storyline.” (Virtual) Gabrielle Sunderman, Dept. of English, Texas Tech University
10:00 am – 10:30 am, Coffee Break
10:30 am – 12:00 pm, Keynote Presentation
ICC Auditorium
Welcome: Dr. Joseph A. Heppert, TTU Vice President for Research & Innovation Introduction: Dr. Julie Nelson Couch, Dept. of English, Texas Tech University
“Crafty Mobilities: Disabled Travel Writing and a Global Middle Ages”
Jonathan Hsy, English Dept., George Washington University
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm, Lunch Break
Session 8: Saturday, 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
Panel 8A (ICC, Conference A) Identity in Centers and Peripheries
Chair: Judith Steinhoff, School of Art (Art History), University of Houston
“Melchizedek in Jerusalem, Egypt and Parma.” Ludovico Geymonat, Art History Dept., Louisiana State University
“A New Proposal for the Identification of Three Black African Figures in the Aix-Lehman Adoration Panel.” Eilis Livia Coughlin, Dept. of Art History, Rice University
“An African in the Arena Chapel, Padua: The Intersection of Christianity and Race in Giotto’s Fresco of the Mocking of Christ (ca. 1303-05).” Theresa Flanigan, School of Art (Art History), Texas Tech University
Panel 8B (ICC, Conference B) Slavery and Empire (Hybrid)
Chair: Linda Gosner, CMLL, Texas Tech University
“Serving wine, carrying gold: the image of African or Native American labors in seventeenth-century German cups.” Dasol Kim, Dept. of Art History, Rice University
“The Semantics of Trade, Empire and Resistance in the Depictions of Queen Nzinga of Ndongo.” (Virtual) Marcelo José Cabarcas Ortega, Dept. of Hispanic Languages & Literatures, University of Pittsburgh
“Trade, Colonization, and Empire: Financing the Financial Revolution” Abigail Swingen, Dept. of History, Texas Tech University
2:30 pm – 2:45 pm, Coffee Break
Session 9: Saturday, 2:45 pm – 4:15 pm
Panel 9A (ICC, Conference A)
Cultural Adaptations across Time II (Hybrid)
Chair: Katharine D. Scherff, School of Art (Art History), Texas Tech University
“On the (Baroque) Metaphorization Process: Starting from Federico García Lorca.” Paolo Tabacchini, Dept. of Classical Studies, Masaryk University of Brno (CZ)
“The Liminal Power of Women in The Legend of Pope Gregory.” Andrew Fields, Dept. of English, University of New Mexico
“Reading Motion in Anelida and Arcite.” (Virtual) Clint Morrison, Jr., Dept. of English, The Ohio State University
Panel 9B (ICC, Conference B)
Crossing Confini: Negotiating Medieval and Early Modern Gender Norms
Chair: Ryan Hackenbracht, Dept. of English, Texas Tech University
“What Borders Does Rosalia Cross, and Who Helped Her? An Analysis of the Vitae of Saints Rosalia and Agata.” Emily Jay, Dept. of Art & Design, Ohio Northern University
“Disobeying the Rules: Early Modern Prescriptive Literature and Women’s Disorderly Conduct in Shakespeare’s Othello.” Laura Koleva, Dept. of English, Texas Tech University
“The Armed Medusa: Protofeminist Snake Imagery in Fonte, Sarrocchi, and Marinella.” Sarah Cantor, Dept. of Classical & Modern Languages & Literatures (Italian), Texas Tech University
4:30 pm – 5:30 pm, Dramatic & Musical Performance, ICC Auditorium
“Our New Gold”
Paula Rodriguez & AURIC
6:00 pm – 7:30 pm, Wine & Hors d’Oeuvres Closing Reception
Hosted by Julie Nelson Couch
