See You in Kalamazoo

The Medieval Club is sponsoring the following sessions at Kalamazoo:

Why Am I Me? On Being Born in the Middle Ages I (Session 280)
Sponsor: Medieval Club of New York
Organizer: Nicola Masciandaro, Brooklyn College, CUNY
Presider: Richard H. Godden, Washington Univ. in St. Louis

"The Sorrow of Being in the Cloud of Unknowing"
Nicola Masciandaro

"Being Silly: On Non Sequitur"
Anna Klosowska, Miami Univ. of Ohio

"Losing Anthropocentrism: Folcuin’s Horse, Yvain’s Lion, and the Two Trueloves"
Karl Steel, Brooklyn College, CUNY

"Dying Is an Art, like Everything Else: The Lowly, Unsettled Aesthetics of Guthlac-Becoming"
Eileen A. Joy, Southern Illinois Univ.–Edwardsville


Why Am I Me? On Being Born in the Middle Ages II (Session 333)
Sponsor: Medieval Club of New York
Organizer: Nicola Masciandaro, Brooklyn College, CUNY
Presider: Nicola Masciandaro

"Contradictions towards Identity in Wolfram von Eschenbach and Meister Eckhart"
Claire Taylor Jones, Univ. of Pennsylvania

"The Shifting Example of Knighthood in Ywain and Gawain"
Debbie Killingsworth, Univ. of Colorado–Boulder

"'Ce que Christine dit': Self-Scrutiny in Christine de Pizan’s Le livre de l’advision Cristine"
Julie Fifelski, Fordham Univ.


The Global Middle Ages (Session 587)
Sponsor: Medieval Club of New York
Organizer: Matthew Boyd Goldie, Rider Univ.
Presider: Nicola Masciandaro, Brooklyn College, CUNY

"William of Rubruck’s Mission to Asia: Travel Writing and the Medieval Contact Zone"
Rebecca Campbell, Univ. of Western Ontario

"Windows on the World in Fifteenth-Century Venice: Geography, Cartography, and the Eyewitness Traveler"
Marianne O’Doherty, Univ. of Southampton

"Earthly Motions: The Antipodes and Antipodeans"
Matthew Boyd Goldie


See you (whoever you are) there!