Keynote Speakers:  Mary Carruthers (New York University) and Jean-Claude Schmitt (EHESS).

Day 1 - Wednesday, 27 June

9.30: Registration

10:00-10:15: Welcome
Meredith Cohen, IMS-Paris President/University of Leeds

10:15-11:15: Keynote Address
Memories and the Art of Memory: Remembering the Future
Mary Carruthers, New York University

11:15-11.30: Pause Café/Coffee Break

11:30-1:00: Séance 1/ Session 1 - Mnemonics
L’échiquier comme outil mnémotechnique dans la littérature didactique de la fin du Moyen Âge
Amandine Mussou, ENS-Paris IV (abstract)

Le droit romain et la mémoire du passé dans le Digeste de Justinien enluminé
Joanna Fronska, CESCM, Poitiers/University of Varsovie (abstract)

Les citations lyriques dans les œuvres narratives et didactiques au XIIIe siècle en France d’oïl: jeux de mémoires croisées
Anne Ibos-Augé, Independent scholar (abstract)

Discussion

1:00-2:30: Déjeuner/Lunch

2:30-3:50: Séance 2/ Session 2 - Tropes and Topoi
'As I have now mémoire': description, memory, and desire in the dream visions of Geoffrey Chaucer and Guillaume de Machaut
Lisa Manter, Saint Mary’s College of California (abstract)

Mémoire étiologique et mouvance dans le Roman de Tristan en prose
Donald Maddox, University of Massachusetts (abstract)

Beyond the two doors of memory: intertextualities and intervisualities in thirteenth-century illuminated manuscripts of the Roman de Troie and the Histoire Ancienne
Rosa Maria Rodriguez Porto, University of Santiago de Compostela (abstract)

Discussion

3:50-4:00: Pause Café/Coffee Break


4:00-5:30: Séance 3/ Session 3 - Forgetting and the Mutability of Memory
Ritual excommunication: an Ars Oblivionalis?
Christian Jaser, Humboldt University, Berlin (abstract)

Amnesiac knights:  on forgetfulness and losing one’s way in Chrétien de Troyes’s Romance
Jeanne Provost, University of California - Santa Barbara (abstract)

The aventure of forgetting in the Lais of Marie de France
Seeta Chaganti, University of California, Davis (abstract)

Discussion

Day 2 - Thursday, 28 June

9.30-10.30: Keynote Address
Les images et le travail de la mémoire
Jean-Claude Schmitt, EHESS-Paris

10.30-10.45: Pause café/Coffee Break

10:45-12:05: Séance 4/ Session 4 - Memory, Reading and Performance
Mnemonics and memory misunderstood: an early case of copy protection
John F. Levy, University of California - Berkeley (abstract)

‘Quant j’eus tout recordé par ordre': memory and performance on display in the manuscripts of Guillaume de Machaut’s Voir Dit and Remede de Fortune
Kate Maxwell, University of Glasgow (abstract)

Images gross and sensible: violence and memory in medieval art
Martha Easton, Bryn Mawr College (abstract)

Discussion

12:05-2:00: Déjeuner/Lunch

2:00-4:00: Séance 5/ Session 5 - Historical Consciousness and Commemoration
The making of the libri memoriales: exploring or constructing the past?
Eva-Maria Butz and Alfons Zettler, University of Dortmund (abstract)

Remembering salvation: commemoration and monastic spirituality in the Flabellum of Tournus
Anna Bücheler, University of Toronto (abstract)

2:40-2:50: Pause

Status and the soul: intercession and commemoration in Rayonnant chapels
Mailan Doquang, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University (abstract)

Imaginative and architectural memory at St. Denis, 1274-1505
Erik Inglis, Oberlin College (abstract)

Discussion

3:50-4:00: Pause

4:00-5:30: Séance 6/ Session 6 - The Creative Force of Memory
Remembering Louis of Anjou: the creation of a fourteenth‑century Franciscan saint
Holly J. Grieco, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies - Toronto (abstract)

Un trésor en parchemin: l’encyclopédie comme lieu de mémoire
Mary Brown, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities (abstract)

Recalling peace in a time of war: history and ritual during the war of the Armagnacs and Burgundians (1407-35)
Tim Pollack-Lagushenko, Wright State University (abstract)

Discussion

Day 3 - Friday, 29 June

9:30-10:30: Visit to the Sainte-Chapelle with lecture by Meredith Cohen.
(MEET INSIDE THE PALAIS DE JUSTICE).
Architectural prototypes and the production of memory
Meredith Cohen, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds (abstract)

10:30-10:45: Return to Maison de la Recherche.

10:45-12:05: Séance 7/ Session 7 - Aristocratic and Clerical Memory
(organized by Amy Livingstone)
Family memory: commemoration among the eleventh-century Chartrain aristocracy
Amy Livingstone, Wittenberg University (abstract)

A forgotten sister: Agnes of Meran (d. 1201), wife of King Philip II Augustus of France
Jonathan R. Lyon, University of Chicago (abstract)

Forgeries and historical consciousness in the monasteries of medieval France
Robert F. Berkhofer III, Western Michigan University (abstract)

2:30-3:50: Séance 8/ Session 8 - Constructing Capetian Memory (organized by Xavier Hélary)
Saint Louis in liturgical memory
M. Cecilia Gaposchkin, Dartmouth College (abstract)

Autour du rôle de quelques abbayes féminines dans la construction de la mémoire capétienne (fin XIIIe-mi XIVe siècle)
Anne-Hélène Allirot, Université de Paris VIII (abstract)

Autour de la mort de Pierre d’Alençon (1283): enjeux et modèles des récits de mort dans la construction de la sainteté capétienne
Xavier Hélary, Université de Paris IV-La Sorbonne (abstract)

Discussion

3:50-4:00: Pause Café/Coffee Break

4:00-5:45: Séance 9/Session 9 - Memories of the Middle Ages (organized by Janet Marquardt)
Feasting on the Gothic in 1888: Pierre Loti's Gourmet Selections
Elizabeth Emery, Montclair State University (abstract)

Cluny’s jubilee of 1898: a contrast of memories
Janet Marquardt, Eastern Illinois University (abstract)

4:40-:4:50: Pause

Medievalists and medievalism: Émile Mâle and his readers
Joseph Byrnes, Oklahoma State University (abstract)

A mere patch of color: the shattered glass of Rheims cathedral
Shirin Fozi, Harvard University (abstract)

Discussion

5:45-6:00: Concluding Remarks

6:45-8:00 IMS-Paris Symposium 2007 closing apéritif, chez Danielle Johnson. (Address and door codes provided at the Symposium).