Keynote Speakers:  William Chester Jordan, Princeton University and Michael Davis, Mount Holyoke College
Respondant: Keith Busby, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Day 1 - 29 June: Strangers, Foreigners, and Others

9:00-10:00 Plenary Address
Exclusion and the Yearning to Belong
William Chester Jordan, Princeton University

10:00-10:15 Pause Café/ Coffee Break

10:15-12:15 Séance 1/ Session 1 - Foreigners and Strangers
The Care of French Pilgrims in Schism and Post-Schism Rome
Katharine Brophy Dubois, Michigan State University (abstract)

Wanderers between two worlds: Irish and Anglo-Saxon scholars at the court of Charlemagne
Linda Dohmen, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (abstract)

Reeling in the Strange Knight: Endogamous Paternal Regimes in French and German Arthurian Literature
Jessica Quinlan, University of Würzburg (abstract)

L'exotisme d'un verger enchanté: le « Parc faé » du Livre du Cuer d’Amour espris de René d’Anjou
Sophie Poitral, Université Paris IV-Sorbonne (abstract)

12:15-2:00 Déjeuner/Lunch

2:00-3:30 Séance 2/ Session 2 - Stereotypes
We and the Others: On Barbarians and Civilized Society in Early Medieval Francia
Elke Ohnacker, University of Konstanz (abstract)

University Life and Ethnic Stereotypes
Claire Weeda, University of Amsterdam (abstract)

The Wicked Other, a Vicarious Sign of the Self in Twelfth-Century Sculpture
P. Scott Brown, University of North Florida (abstract)

3:30-3:45  Pause Café/Coffee Break

3:45-5:15 Séance 3/ Session 3 - Disability and Marginality
The povres avugles of the Hôpital des Quinze-Vingts: Disability and Community in Medieval Paris
Mark O'Tool, University of California, Santa Barbara (abstract)

L’iconographie du fou dans l’art français du XIIIe-XVe siècle
Karina Pronitcheva, State University of Saint Petersburg (abstract)

Infamia, marginalisation, and tolerance: prostitutes in thirteenth-century Parisian society
Keiko Nowacka, University of Cambridge, Trinity College


5:15-5:30  Concluding Remarks

Day 2 - 30 June: Strangers, Foreigners, and Others

9:00-10:30 Séance 4/ Session 4 - Jews and Muslims
The Apocalyptic meets the Fantastic: Islam as ‘other’ in the Latin Pseudo-Methodius and the Cosmographia
Richard Matthew Pollard, Cambridge University (abstract)

St. Bernard’s Unexpected Influence: Jewish Adoption of Cistercian Art
Ilia Rodov, Bar Ilan University (abstract)

La représentation de la bataille d'Antioche (1098) sur les peintures murales de Poncé-sur-le-Loir
Elizabeth Lapina, Johns Hopkins University

10:30-10:45 Pause Café/Coffee Break

10:45-12:15 Séance 5/ Session 5 - Monsters and Monstrosity
Civilising the Textual Monster: Chrétien de Troyes’ berbioletes as an Expression of a New Aesthetic
Crenguţa-Beatrice Trîncă, Freie Universität Berlin (abstract)

"Monstres contre nature". Cocuage en tant que figure d'altérité dans les rites populaires, la littérature et les arts
Katja Gvozdeva, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Are Pygmies Men? : Medieval Monstrosity in Travel Accounts
Lynn T. Ramey, Vanderbilt University (abstract)

12:15-2:15 Déjeuner/Lunch

2:15-3:00 Concluding Response
Keith Busby, University of Wisconsin, Madison

3:00-3:15 Pause Café/Coffee Break

3:15-5:30 Assemblée Générale/Annual Meeting

Day 3 - 1 July: Medieval Paris
10:00-12:00 Medieval Paris
Plenary Address
Michael Davis, Mount Holyoke College

11:00-11:15 Pause Café/Coffee Break

The rich and poor in twelfth-century Paris: the social thought of Peter the Chanter
Katherine Chambers, University of Cambridge (abstract)

Les activités des étrangers à Paris au début du XIVe siècle : des indices de la diffusion internationale des activités de production?
Caroline Bourlet, Institut de recherche et d'histoire des textes


Concluding Remarks

12:00-2:00 Déjeuner/Lunch

2:00-5:00 Visit: "Merchants, Bourgeoisie, and the Development of the Right Bank," guided by Agnès Bos, Musée national de la Renaissance. Meeting Point: the wall of Philip Augustus by rue Charlemagne on the rue des Jardins Saint-Paul (map).
Métro: Saint-Paul, Pont Marie

5:00-6:00 IMS-Paris Symposium 2005 closing apéritif