Honorary Speaker:  Professor Stephen Murray, Columbia University

9:30-12:00 Séance 1/Session 1 - Medieval Modernism/La Modernité Médiévale

9:30-10:00 Bienvenue/Introduction
Meredith Cohen, President, International Medieval Society

10:00-12:00
Quelques regards nouveaux sur les églises du Bourbonnais
Stephen Murray, Columbia University

Le concept d'histoire au Moyen-Âge: Quelques exemples pris de l'architecture
Stefaan van Liefferinge, Columbia University

Entre innovation et tradition—quelques aspects du concept de 'réforme' dans la France du XIIe siècle
Julian Führer, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena

Lost and Found: Cluny as an Historical Monument
Janet T. Marquardt, Eastern Illinois University


12:00-2:00 Déjeuner/International Medieval Society Lunch


2:00-3:30 Séance 2/Session 2 - La Modernité à Paris au Moyen-Age/Modernity in Medieval Paris

Singing for Alms, Busking for Profit: Musical Begging in Medieval and Modern Paris
Mark O'Tool, University of California, Santa Barbara

Mystics, Ministers or Merchants? Parisian Beguines in Medieval Society
Tanya Stabler, University of California, Santa Barbara

Saints, Sex, and the Social Context: Genre Bending in Rutebeuf's Frère Denise
Karen Casebier, University of Wisconsin, Madison


3:30-4:00  Pause Café/Coffee Break


4:00-5:30 Séance 3/Session 3 - Innovation dans la litterature médiévale/Insight and Innovation in Medieval Literature

Spectacles, Mirrors, and Rondeaux:  The Late Medieval Poetics of Visual Correction
Julie Singer, Duke University

Les dames qui estoient sur les hours: Textual and Pictorial Representation of Women in Tournaments in Late Medieval French Romance, Chronicle and Chivalric Biography
Catherine Blunk, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Community as Innovation in Adam de la Halle
Amy Heneveld, University of Pennsylvania


5:30-6:00  Conclusion/Concluding Remarks