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Records of Early English Drama/ Victoria College/ 150 Charles Street W Toronto Ontario Canada Phone (416) 585-4504/FAX (416) [log in to unmask] http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~reed/reed.html => REED's home page http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~reed/reed-l.html => REED-L's home page http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~reed/stage.html => our theatre resource page http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~reed/archive.html => library & archives page ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 20:41:05 -0700 From: "Jesse D. Hurlbut" <[log in to unmask]> Reply-To: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Subject: MRDS Kalamazoo Schedule Here's a list of performance-related sessions and events at Kalamazoo. It is probably not a complete list. Feel free to plug other sessions that didn't make it here. It would be nice if session organizers could send abstracts from their sessions to PERFORM so we could have a sneak preview of what's coming up MRDS AT KALAMAZOO (and Other Sessions of Interest) Thursday, May 8, 10:00 am Session 12 (MRDS) Sacrament and Sacrilege in Medieval and Renaissance Drama Room 314 Organizer: Gerard NeCastro, University of Maine Presider: Gerard NeCastro 1. Elizabeth Mazzola, The City College of New York "Untransubstantiated Hosts and Royal Litter: Sacrament and Sacrilege in The Tragedy of Mariam" 2. Lara Bieler Kwalbrun, City University of New York "The Jew and the Sacred: Historical Configurations" 3. Victor I. Scherb, University of Texas-Tyler "Sacrilege and Grotesque Realism in the Digby Mary Magdalene" Session 26 The York Doomsday Play Project Room 1010 Fetzer Sponsor: Centre of Information Management and Technology for Scholarship Organizer: Andrew Prescott, The British Library Presider: Andrew Prescott 1. Meg Twycross, Lancaster University "The Scribal Environment of the York Register" 2. Pamela E. King, University College of St. Martin-Lancaster "The Maritime Heritage of the York Doomsday Play" 3. Louise Wheatley, York Company of Merchant Adventurers "The Community of Mercers and Their Pageant" Session 41 Medieval Drama Room 1280 Schneider Presider: David E. Lampe, State University College-Buffalo 1. Veronique Plesch, Colby College "Notes for the Staging of a Passion Play" 2. James Stokes, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point "The Donington Cast List: Parish Guild Drama in Early Elizabethan Lincolnshire English Drama" 3. Roger A. Ladd, University of Wisconsin-Madison "Ye Herbered Me Full Hartefully: Civic Power and Charity in the York Mercers' Last Judgment Play" Thursday, May 8, 3:30 PM Session 126 Ritual and Its Spaces in Medieval Europe Room 1140 Schneider Organizer: Joelle Rollo-Koster, University of Rhode Island Presider: Janice Racine Norris, Binghamton University 1. Joelle Rollo-Koster "Justice's Rituals and Public Space: The Dismemberment of Francois de Cario in 1401 Avignon" 2. Lyn Blanchfield, Binghamton University "La Piazza Delle Lacrime. Preaching, Weeping and the Use of Public Space in XV-Century Italy" 3. Viginia Cole, Binghamton University "The Ritual Space of Royal Palaces: Alms Giving in Thirteenth-Century England" Thursday, May 8, 8:30 P.M. Le Gieu d'Amour: Songs and Dances of Medieval France Dalton Recital Hall Friday, May 9, 10:00 AM Session 136 Medieval and Renaissance Drama II Room 310 Presider: Donald Hoffman, Northeastern Illinois University 1. William Munson, University of Alabama-Huntsville "Is Dramatization of a Sacrament Subversive?--The Case of the Towneley and York Baptisms" 2. Margaret J. Arnold, University of Kansas "Medieval Elements in Pimlott's Richard III" Friday, May 9, 5:00 P.M. Medieval Renaissance Drama Society Business Meeting Stinson Lounge Friday, May 9, 7:30 P.M. THE BOSTON CAMERATA The Sacred Bridge: Jews and Christians in Medieval Europe Dalton Recital Hall Saturday, May 10, 1:30 PM Session 316 Shakespeare Room 310 Presider: John M. Boni, Northeastern Illinois University 1. Matthew Fike, American University in Bulgaria "'And mermaidlike awhile they bore her up': Hamlet IV.vii.167-84" 2. Paul Rovang, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania "Not All That Ruthless: King Lear and the Book of Ruth" Session 344 The Medieval Face: Art, Drama, Literature I Room 1220 Schneider Organizer: Susan Yager and Gloria Betcher, Iowa State University Presider: Gloria Betcher 1. Margaret Raftery, University of the Orange Free State "Evil Incarnate: Representations of Devils in Medieval Drama" 2. Barbara Palmer, Mary Washington College "The Face of the Virgin: Mary in English Words and Windows" 3. Brad Eden, North Harris Montgomery Community College District "The Medieval Face in Music" Session 351 (MRDS) European Civic and Religious Spectacle Room 1335 Schneider Sponsor: Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society Organizer: Karen Middaugh, Rocky River, Ohio Presider: Karen Middaugh 1. Jesse D. Hurlbut, Brigham Young University "The Sound of Civic Spectacle: Noise at Burgundian Ceremonial Entries" 2. Max Harris, University of Wisconsin-Madison "The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian with the Hobby Horses and the Turks: A Catalan Corpus Christi Play" 3. Donald V. Stump, St. Louis University "Forgetting the Old Testament Heroines: The Politics of Praise in Elizabethan Royal Pageantry" Saturday, May 10, 3:30 PM Session 365 (MRDS) Theorizing the Records: Methodological Approaches to the Production and Use of Edited Dramatic Extracts Room 314 Sponsor: Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society Organizer: James C. Cummings, University of Leeds Presider: Jesse D. Hurlbut, Brigham Young University 1. Anne Brannen, Duquesne University "What is Drama? Considering Some Drunken Ghosts" 2. Patricia Badir, University of British Columbia "The Space of Spectacle and the Place of Text: Representations of the Resurrection at Beverley Minster c. 1200" 3. James C. Cummings "Contexts, Questions and Confusions: Dramatic Activity in Norfolk" Respondent: Theresa Coletti, University of Maryland Session 396 Early Drama East & West: Early Western and Japanese Noh Plays--Points of Comparison/Contrast Room 1345 Schneider Organizer: Maris Fiondella, Fordham University Presider: Maris Fiondella 1. Maris Fiondella "Religious Perception and the Stage in Early Western and Noh Plays" 2. Mikiko Ishii, Kanagawa University "Mirror Images in Noh and Shakespeare" 3. Kuniyoshi Munakata, Shizuoka University "Noh Adaptation of Shakespeare: A Video Discussion" Sunday, May 11, 8:30 AM Session 401 Legal Representations I: Legal Performances Room 302 Organizer: James H. Landman, University of North Texas and Maura B. Nolan, University of Notre Dame Presider: James H. Landman 1. Bruce Holsinger, University of Colorado-Boulder "Music, Discipline, and Forensic Sonority in Medieval England" 2. Maura Nolan "Ritual and Trial: The Performance of Power" 3. Ruth Shklar, University of Nebraska-Lincoln "'Naked as I Napped': Dreams and the Law in the York Plays" Session 422 (EDAM) Early Drama, Art and Music Room 1220 Schneider Sponsor:Early Drama, Art and Music (EDAM) Organizer: Clifford Davidson, Western Michigan University Presider: David Bevington, University of Chicago 1. Dunbar H. Ogden, University of California-Berkeley "Costume in the Liturgical Drama" 2. Mary Remnant, London, England "Musical Instruments in Medieval Drama" 3. Gunilla Iversen, University of Stockholm "New Light on the Ordo Virtutum" Sunday, May 11, 10:30 AM Session 446 New Approaches to British Medieval Drama Room 1040 Fetzer Sponsor: Medieval Association of the Midwest Organizer: Liam O. Purdon, Doane College Presider: Liam O. Purdon 1. Paul Pellikka, University of Texas-San Antonio "Emblematic Staging as Dramatic Principle in the N-town Mystery Cycle" 2. John Velz, University of Texas-Austin "Teaching Medieval Drama through Performance in a Modern Church" 3. Liam O. Purdon "The Morality of Technology in the Towneley Mactatio Abel" Session 454 (EDAM) Technology, Guilds, and Early Drama Room 1120 Schneider Sponsor:Early Drama, Art and Music (EDAM) Organizer: Clifford Davidson, Western Michigan University Presider: Barbara Palmer, Mary Washington College 1. Gloria Betcher, Iowa State University "Makers of Heaven on Earth" 2. Jon Terry Wade, University of Toronto "Paint Your Wagon" 3. Philip Butterworth, Bretton Hall "The Providers of Pyrotechnics in Plays and Celebrations" Session ADD2 Performance of Gendered Bodies, Sacred and Profane Room 1325 Schneider Organizer: William Fitzhenry, Duke University and Jacqueline McEvoy, Duke University Presider: Jacqueline McEvoy 1. James R. Blaettler, Fairfield University "The Virtuous Female Body: The Silos Thomas Relief" 2. Chris Chism, Rutgers University "Robin, Mary, and the Minstrels: Gender and Performance in the Early Ballads of Robin Hood" 3. William Fitzhenry "Body and Voice: Gender and Preaching in the Digby Mary Magdelene"