Past Medieval Conferences

1988 | 1989 | 1990
1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995
1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000
2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005
2006 | 2007 | 2008

1988 - Conference on Meaning and Understanding in the Medieval Narrative

CONFERENCE SPEAKERS

• Derek Baker, University of Edinburgh (University of North Texas)
• Wolfgang Kemp, Art History, University of Marburg, Visiting Fellow, The J. Paul Getty Center for the History of Art and Humanities
• Karl Morrison, Ahmanson-Murphy Distinguished Profesor of Medieval and Renaissance History
• Nancy Partner, History, McGill University
• Edward Peters, History, University of Pennsylvania
• John Vickrey, English, Lehigh University

1989 - Crossed Paths: The Celtic Dimension to the European Middle Ages

CONFERENCE SPEAKERS

• Próinséas Ní Chatháin, Early Irish Literature, University College, Dublin
• W. F. Nicolaisen, Distinguished Profesor of English Literature, SUNY-Binghamton
• Máirtín ó Briain, Irish Folklore, University College, Galway
• Patrick o’Neill, English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Mark Scowcroft, English, University of Virginia
• Dean Simpson, Classics, University of Richmond
• Robin Stacey, History, University of Washington
• Benjamin T. Hudson, History, Penn State

1990 - People of the Plough: Land and Labor in Medieval Europe

CONFERENCE SPEAKERS

• Sándor Bökönyi, Archaeological Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
• Karl Brunner, Institute of Austrain Historical Research, Vienna
• Michael Camille, Department of Art History, University of Chicago
• Bruce M. S. Campbell, Department of Economic and Social History, Queens University, Belfast
• Alfred W. Crosby, Department of American Studies, University of Texas, Austin
• Robert W. Frank, Department of English, Pennsylvania State University
• Bridget Henisch, State College, Pennsylvania
• Ludolf Kuchenbuch, Fern Universität, Hagen, Germany
• Andrew M. Watson, Department of Economics, University of Toronto

1990- Medieval Agricultural Fair (in collaboration with Prof. Benjamin Hudson)

1991- Matrons and Marginal Women in Medieval Society

CONFERENCE SPEAKERS

• James A. Brundage, Ahmanson-Murphy Distinguished Profesor of History, the University of Kansas
• Carol Clover, Scandinavian Literature, University of California at Berkeley
• Laurinda Dixon, Fine Arts, Syracuse University
• Robert Edwards, English and Comparative Literature, Pennsylvania State University
• Nurith Kenaan-Kedar, Art History, University of Tel Aviv (Israel)
• Ann J. Kettle, Medieval History, University of St. Andrews, Scotland
• Alan Knight, French, Pennsylvania State University
• Priscilla Martin, English Literature, Birkbeck College, University of London (England)
• Katharina M. Wilson, Comparative Literature, University of Georgia

1992 - A Conference on Urban Warfare in the Middle Ages

CONFERENCE SPEAKERS

• Michael Mallett, History, University of Warwick, England
• Denys Pringle, Scottish Historical Monuments Commission, Edinburgh, Scotland
• Bert S. Hall, History of Technology, University of Toronto, Canada
• Heather Arden, French, University of Cincinnati
• Winthrop Wetherbee, Avalon Profesor of English, Cornell University
• Eric McGeer, History, Harvard University
• James Powers, History, College of the Holy Cross
• Michael Toch, History, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
• Michael Wolfe, History, The Pennsylvania State University-Altoona

1993 - The Stage as Mirror: Civic Theatre in Late Medieval Europe

CONFERENCE SPEAKERS

• Richard Beadle, English, Cambridge University
• Barrie Dobson, Medieval History, Cambridge University
• Lynette Muir, French, Leeds University
• Martin Stevens, CUNY Distinguished Profesor of English, City University of New York
• Alexandra Johnston, Director, Records of Early English Drama (REED), University of Toronto
• Gerard Nijsten, History, Polytechnic- Holland, Amsterdam
• Pamela Sheingorn, Art History, Baruch College
• Stephen Spector, English, SUNY-Stony Brook
• Alan Knight, French, Penn State

1994 - Beginning the Middle Ages: Continuity and Change

CONFERENCE SPEAKERS

• Alan Deyermond, Hispanic Studies, Queen Mary and Westfield College, London
• Jonathan Bloom, Art History, Richmond, NH
• James McKinnon, Music, University of North Carolina
• Alan Cameron, Greek and Latin, Columbia University
• Dale Kinney, Art History, Bryn Mawr College
• Paul Harvey, History, Penn State
• Rémi Brague, Philosophy, University of Paris
• Michael Herren, History, York University

1995 - The Cathedral, the Mill, and the Mine: Technology in the Middle Ages

CONFERENCE SPEAKERS

• David Crossley, Archaeology, University of Sheffield
• Dominic Tweddle, York Archaeological Trust for Excavation and Research, Ltd.
• Paolo Squatriti, History, Yale University
• Lynn Courtenay, Art History, University of Wisconsin
• Robert Mark, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Princeton
• Sergio Sanabria, Architecture, Miami University of Ohio
• Richard Holt, Medieval History, University of Birmingham
• Michael Toch, Medieval History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Bert S. Hall, History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto

1996 - From Moravia to Muscovy: The Medieval Slavic World

CONFERENCE SPEAKERS

• Natalie Kononenko, Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Virginia
• John Fine, History, University of Michigan
• Eve Levin, History, Ohio State University
• Paul Bushkovitch, History, Yale University
• William Brumfield, Slavic Studies, Tulane University
• Edward Williams, Assoc. Dean for Research and Graduate Studies, College of Arts and Architecture, Penn State
• Ihor Ševcenko, Dumbarton Oaks of Byzantine History and Literature, Emeritus, Harvard
• William Ryan, Warburg Institute, University of London

1996 - A Conference on the North Sea World—University of St. Andrews, Scotland

(co-organized with the Department of Medieval History at University of St. Andrews)

CONFERENCE SPEAKERS

• Michael Alexander, St. Andrews
• Ronald Buckalew, Penn State
• Paul Bibire, Cambridge
• Gareth Williams, St. Andrews
• Colin Martin, St. Andrews
• Clive Sneddon, St. Andrews
• Lorna Walker, St. Andrews
• Richard Hall, York Archaeological Trust
• Robert Edwards, Penn State
• Thomas Liszka, Penn State, Altoona Campus
• Vickie Ziegler, Penn State
• Julie Smith, St. Andrews
• Rosemary Muir-Wright, St. Andrews
• Susanne Lyle, St. Andrews
• Robert Frank, Penn State

1997 - Word, Image, Number: Communication in the Middle Ages

CONFERENCE SPEAKERS

• James Carey, Journalism, Columbia University
• Santa Casciani, Italian, Penn State
• Valentino Pace, Medieval Society & Culture, University of Rome
• Lawrence Bryant, History, Chico State University
• Bridget Henisch, author on medieval feasts and calendars
• Frank Swetz, Mathematics, Penn State-Harrisburg
• Pamela Nightingale, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, England
• John Contreni, History, Purdue University

1998 - Way and Wayfarer: Travels in the Medieval World

CONFERENCE SPEAKERS

• Clive Sneddon, French, University of St. Andrews
• Lorna Walker, Medieval History, University of St. Andrews
• Scott Westrem, English, City University of New York
• Valerie Flint, History, University of Hull
• Anthony Cutler, Art History, Penn State
• Jeanne Krochalis, English, Penn State- New Kensington
• Barbara Crawford, Medieval History, University of St. Andrews
• Christian Zacher, English, Ohio State University

1999 - Scenes and Seasonings: The Medieval Landscape

CONFERENCE SPEAKERS

• Lisa Bitel, History, University of Kansas
• John Cummins, Spanish, University of Aberdeen
• Thomas Glick, History, Boston University
• Bridget Henisch, State College, PA
• John M. Howe, History, Texas Tech University
• Nicholas Howe, English, Ohio State University
• Laura Howes, English, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
• Rick Lee, Philosophy, Pennsylvania State University
• Oliver Rackham, History, University of Cambridge
• Janina Safran, History, Pennsylvania State University

2001 - prudence passion and policy

2002- The Fortunes of King Arthur (March 22-23, 2002)

CONFERENCE SPEAKERS

• Christopher A. Snyder (Marymount University): "Arthur and Kingship in the Historia Brittonum"
• Edward Donald Kennedy (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill): "Visions of History: Robert de Boron and English Arthurian Chroniclers"
• Dennis H. Green (Cambridge University): "King Arthur: From History to Fiction"
• Norris J. Lacy (Pennsylvania State University): "The Lancelot-Grail and Beyond: Arthur's Passions and Permutations"
• Joan Tasker Grimbert (Catholic University of America): "Changing the Equation: The Impact of Tristan-Love on Arthur's Court"
• M. Alison Stones (University of Pittsburgh): "Illustration and the Fortunes of Arthur" (with slides)
• Jane H. M. Taylor (University of Durham): "Pursuing the Parrot: Writing the Quest in Late Arthurian Romances"
• Caroline D. Eckhardt (Pennsylvania State University): "Reconsidering Malory"
• Alan C. Lupack (University of Rochester): "'The Old Order Changeth': King Arthur in the Modern World"

2003 - Health and Healing in the Medieval Garden  (April 4-5, 2003 )

CONFERENCE SPEAKERS

• Mark Horton, “Archaeological Evidence for the Monastic Garden”
• Peter Jones, “Herbs and the Medieval Surgeon”
• Terence Scully, “The Cook as Dietician in the Medieval Garden”
• Linda Voigts, “Plants and Planets: Connecting the Celestial with the Vegetable in Late-Medieval Texts”
• George Keiser, “Rosemary: Not Just for Remembrance”
• Special section on the Penn State AT&T Medieval Garden: Deirdre Larkin and Martin McGann
• Peter Dendle, “Plants in the Medieval Cosmos: Medicine, Magic and Eco-Colonialism”
• Walton Schalick, “Tools of the Trade: Garden-Medicine in Medieval France”
• Alain Touwaide, “Medicinal Plants in 14th-century Eastern Mediterranean World”

2004 - Wind and Water: the Medieval Mill (April 16−17, 2004)

CONFERENCE SPEAKERS -- FULL PAGE HERE

• Steven Bashore, Miller, Stratford Mill, Stratford, VA "Development and Technological Advancements in Wind and Water Mills"           
• Mark Horton, Archaeology, University of Bristol "The Medieval Mill as a Forerunner of the Industrial Revolution"  
• Niall Brady, History and Archaeology, Discovery Programme, Dublin, Ireland "Water and its uses in Late Medieval Ireland, with Particular Reference to Mills and Milling in the Hinterland of Dublin City"  
• Kirk Ambrose, Art History, University of Colorado at Boulder "The 'Mystic Mill' Capital at Vézelay"
• Janet Loengard, Emerita, Medieval English Legal History, Moravian College "Lords' Rights and Neighbours' Nuisances: Mills and Medieval English Law"
• Adam Lucas, History of Technology, University of New South Wales, Australia  "Monastic Innovation or Monastic Oppression? The Role of the Monasteries in the Development of Powered Milling in Medieval England"
• Thomas Glick, History, Boston University "Mills and Millers in Medieval Valencia: The Wheat-Flour-Bread Cycle in the Fifteenth Century"
• Roberta Magnusson, History, University of Oklahoma "Public and Private Urban Hydrology: Water Management in Medieval London"
• D. Fairchild Ruggles, Landscape Architecture, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "Waterwheels and Garden Gizmos: Technology and Illusion in Islamic Landscape"