Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Thirty-First Annual Conference
Binghamton University, State University of New York, October 31 and November 1, 1997
Conference Coordinator: Charles Burroughs
Conference Program:
Friday, October 31, 1997
Registration and Coffee 8:30 am
Public Service Programs Center Lounge
Introduction 9:00 am
Chamber Hall, Anderson Center
Fine Arts Building
Charles Burroughs
Conference Coordinator and Director of CEMERS
Welcome to University
Donald Blake
Associate Dean, Academic Affairs, Harpur College of Arts and
Sciences
Plenary Session 9:30-10:30 am
Introduction: Donald Quataert (Binghamton University)
John Van A. Fine (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
"Resisting the ‘Great Traditio'' Hierarchs: Religious
Co-Existence and Cultural Identity in Bosnia, 12th to 19th
Centuries."
Plenary Session 10:40-11:40 am
Introduction: Tiffany Patterson (Binghamton University)
Gwendolyn Hall (Rutgers University) "Patterns of Formation
of Cultures and Societies in the Americas: an Encounter of
Africans, Native Americans, and Europeans."
Lunch 11:45-12:45 pm
Public Service Programs Center Dining Room
Concurrent Sessions 12:50-2:20 pm
Session 1
Room C
Panel: Constructions of Identity: The Ottoman Empire
Moderator: Donald Quataert (Binghamton University)
Nancy Bisaha (Cornell University) "Renaissance Humanists and
the Discourse of Eurocentrism."
Eric Dursteler (Brown University) "Identity and Coexistence
in the Eastern Mediterranean, ca. 1600: Venice and the Ottoman
Empire."
Bronwen Wilson (Northwestern University) "Venus and Mars:
Figuring the Battle of Lepanto."
Session 2
Room D
Panel: Acquiring Land, Acquiring a Literary Canon: Geoffrey
Chaucer, Edmund Spenser, and Anne Clifford
Moderator: Larry Scanlon (Rutgers University)
Session Organizer and Chair: Carl Whithaus (Graduate Center and
Queens College, CUNY)
Kathleen Davis (Bucknell University) "‘And for my land
thus hastow mordred me?': Land, Nation, Text, and the Female Body
in the Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale."
Brian Christopher Lockey (Rutgers University) "From Common
Law to Natural Law: The Laws of Conquest in Book Six of The
Faerie Queen."
Carl Whithaus (Graduate Center and Queens College, CUNY)
"The Importance of Owning Land and Reading Chaucer: The
Experiences of Edmund Spenser and Anne Clifford."
Session 3
Room E
Panel: Gender and Colonizing Discourse
Moderator: Leslie Abend Callahan (Vassar College)
Session sponsored by the Society for Feminist Scholarship.
Session organized by Marilynn Desmond(Binghamton University)
Marguerite Walter (Aquinas College) "Cross-Gender
Transformation and the Colonization of the Body in La Chanson
d'Yde et Olive."
Mary Christensen (Aquinas College) "Colonizing Languag in
‘La deffence et illustration de la langue francoyse': Tropes
of Gender and Power in the Establishment of French National
Identity."
Session 4
Room F
Panel: Images of Order in Colonial Regimes
Moderator: Alvin Vos (Binghamton University)
Lynn Festa (University of Pennsylvania) "Colonialism and
Closure in Louis XI's 1662 Carrousel and Cyrano's Les Etats et
lesEmpires du Soleil."
Binita Mehta (Boston University) "Tipu Sultan and
Franco-British Conflicts in Eighteenth-Century India."
Diane Graham (Hamilton College) "English Colonial Images of
Order: The Cathedral Church of St. Patrick, Dublin (1190-1254)
and the Cathedral Church of St. Thomas, Bombay (1675-1718)."
Session 5
Room LNG 332
Panel: Material Fashions and Cultural Transformation: Colonizing
the Colonizers
Moderator: Albert Tricomi (Binghamton University)
Marcy Norton (University of California, Berkeley) "‘The
Devil of Chocolate and the Devil of Tobacco arrive in Spain': The
Impact of the New World on the Old World Revisited."
Roze Hentschell (University of California, Santa Barbara)
"Clothing Colonialism: Cloth and ‘Civilized'
Consumption in the New World."
Gauvin Bailey (Clark University) "Abandoning Taste? Jesuit
Artists in China and Art for Jesuits in Paraguay,
1581-1773."
Concurrent Sessions 2:25-3:55 pm
Session 6
Room C
Panel: Crusades/ Colonization/ Colonialism
Moderator: Khahil Semaan (Binghamton University)
Sharon Kinoshita (University of California, Santa Cruz, Oakes
College)
"Brave New Worlds: Robert de Clari's La Conquete de
Constantinople."
Amin Hamid Zeinelabdin (University of Khartoum, Sudan) "The
Western Colonial Experience in Syria and Palestine in the Middle
Ages."
Nicole Avallone (South Dakota State University) "The
Crusader's Cultural Convergence: The Colonization of the Holy
Land."
Session 7
Room D
Panel: Territories of Reflection: American and Western Cultural
Constructions and (Self) Critiques
Moderator: Salvador Fajardo (Binghamton University)
Elizabeth T. Howe (Tufts University) "The Tenth Muse and
Other Epithets: The Example of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz."
Ursula Appelt (S.U.N.Y., Stony Brook) "The Reality of
Rhetoric and the Rhetoric of Reality: Thomas Morton, Ben Johnson
and the Meanings of Hybridity."
Kevin Hickey (SUNY Oneonta) "‘A +Boundless Territory
Worthy of Reflection': Reading Michel de Montaigne's ‘On the
Cannibals' Through Immanuel Kant and Johann Fichte."
Session 8
Room E
Panel: Sodomy and the Geopolitics of Imperial Desire
Moderator: Marilynn Desmond (Binghamton University)
Session sponsored by the Society for the Study of Homosexuality
in the
Middle Ages.
Session organized by Marilynn Desmond(Binghamton University)
Katherine Millersdaughter (University of Colorado- Boulder)
"Ŝaet heo faeren moste: St. Eugenia and the Sodometrics of
Travel."
Carroll Hilles (Union College) "Taillynge the Shipman."
Merrall Price (University of Rochester) "Colonial
Dismemberment and the New World."
Session 9
Room F
Panel: Colonial Worlds: Pre-Contact and Post-Contact
Moderator: Francesco Pellizzi, editor, Res: Anthropology and
Aesthetics.
Session held jointly with the New York Conference on Asian
Studies
Glenn Peterson (Baruch College and Graduate Center)
"Indigenous Pacific Islands Empires: Some Sociopolitical and
Historical Considerations."
Jerry Brotton (University of Leeds) "Mapping the Moluccas:
Global Consciousness in Early Modern Geography and
Diplomacy."
Session 10
Room LNG 332
Panel: Contextualizing Colonial Relations
Moderator: Thomas O'Connor (Binghamton University)
Barbara Fuchs (Stanford University) "Civil Engagements: The
Spanish Empire and its Discontents."
Linda Wimmer (Bridgewater State College) "Images of Race
Relations During the Dutch Occupation of Northeastern Brazil,
1630-1654."
Fernando Gomez (Duke University) "Revisiting Legitimations
of Imperialism and Colonialism: Reading James Brown Scott Reading
Francisco de Vitoria."
Introduction 4:00 pm
Chamber Hall, Anderson Center
Fine Arts Building
John Chaffee
Conference Coordinator for the New York Conference on Asian
Studies and Department of History Chair, Binghamton University
Welcome to University
Mary Ann Swain
Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs
Plenary Session
Session held jointly with the New York Conference on Asian
Studies
Anthony Reid (Australian National University) "Imperialism
and the Construction of Identities: Some Southeast Asian
cases."
Reception 5:00/ 5:30 pm
Banquet 6:30 pm
Saturday, November 1, 1997
Coffee 8:30 am
Public Service Programs Center Lounge
Concurrent Sessions 9:00-10:30 am
Session 11
Room C
Panel: Hybridities and Linguistic Colonialism: An Early Modern
Reassessment
Moderator: Alan S. Weber (Binghamton University)
Mohamad Tavakoli (Illinois State University) "Orientalism's
Genesis Amnesia."
David Paxman (Brigham Young University) "The Sixteenth
Century and the Fear of Language."
Scott Manning Stevens (Arizona State University) "‘Sleeping
Dictionaries': The Erotics of Language in the Age of
Encounter."
Session 12
Room D
Panel: Colonial Narrative: Framing Texts and the Body Framed
Moderator: Francis X. Newman (Binghamton University)
Mark DeStephano, S.J. (Saint Peter's College) "‘Books
of the Brave' and ‘True Histories': Medieval Debates,
Renaissance Solutions."
Michelle Molina (University of Chicago) "A Woman and the
World: Colonial Governmentality and the Modernity of Imperial
Spain."
Rhonda Knight (Binghamton University) "The Pleasures of
Ethnography: Gerald of Wales and the Colonial Position."
Session 13
Room E
Panel: Identity and Fusion: East Africa and Sicily
Moderator: Barbara Wisch (SUNY Cortland)
Johanna H. Drell (Colgate University) "Cultural Syncretism
and Individual Identity: The Norman ‘Conquest' of Southern
Italy and Sicily."
Thomas Gensheimer (University of California, Berkeley) "The
Colonial Question in Medieval East African History: the Nature of
Economic and Cultural Interaction as seen through Architecture
and Cities."
Jeremy G. Prestholdt (Northwestern University) "Cultural
Congruencies and the Confrontation of the Familiar on the
16th-century Swahili Coast."
Session 14
Room F
Panel: Insular Relations: Colonial Intimacies of the Medieval
British Isles.
Moderator: Michelle R. Warren (University of Miami)
Session organized by Michelle R. Warren
Michelle R. Warren (University of Miami) "Giant Colonial
Spaces: Encounters at the Edge of Civilization."
Patricia Clare Ingham (Lehigh University) "‘Branwen,
Daughter of Llyr' and the Colonial Refrain."
Kathleen Biddick (University of Notre Dame) "You Are My
Body: The Colonial Christian Unconscious in Medieval Peasant
Studies."
Concurrent Sessions 10:35-12:05
Session 15
Room C
Panel: English as a Colonizing Agent in the 17th and 18th
Centuries
Moderator: Alan S. Weber (Binghamton University)
Janina Brutt-Griffler (Ohio State University) "The Genesis
of English as a World Language in the 18th Century: A Theoretical
Perspective."
Glenn Simshaw (Claremont Graduate School) "Writing as a
Linguistic Tool in Captain John Smith's Histories."
Alan S. Weber (Binghamton University) "Logos Recolonizes
Itself in 17th Century England."
Session 16
Room D
Panel: Converging/Converting Identities: Gender, Community, and
Nation in Religious Texts and Images
Moderator: Catherine Annette Grisé (The University of Western
Ontario)
Session sponsored by the Society for Medieval Feminist
Scholarship.
Session organized by Catherine Annette Grisé (The University of
Western Ontario)
Emily Francomano (Columbia University) "Spiritual and
Biological Mothering in Gonzalo de Berceo's ‘Poema de Santa
Oria'."
Jane Zatta (Southern Illinois University) "Severing the
Maiden's Head: Mystical Marriage and the Political Power of the
Bride of Christ."
Jacqueline Jenkins (University of Calgary) "‘Hureŝ
& lerneŝ & forĉete hyt nawĉt: Public Piety in the
'Vita Beate Katarine'."
Session 17
Room E
Panel: Issues of Representation
Moderator: Oscar Vazquez (Binghamton University)
Jose F. Buscaglia (University at Buffalo, SUNY) "Towards a
Hybrid Ideal: Revisiting the Legacy of al-Andalus."
Sam Kinser (Northern Illinois University) "Raising the
Stage: From Fictive Wilderness to Fashionable Ballet."
Session 18
Room F
Panel: Western Colonial Projects and the African Continent
Moderator: Francesca Sautman (Hunter College, CUNY)
Session 1 "Constructing the Other"
Rosemarie Varga (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) "The
Ethiopian Alexander Romance as a Symbol of Cultural
Resistance."
Cathy Darrup (Harvard University) "Otherness From an Other
Side: Representations of Europeans in Motion on Benin Bracelets,
15th - 18th Centuries."
Marlin E. Blane (University of North Texas) "Eroticism and
Emulation in Davenant's 'Madagascar' (1638)."
Lunch 12:10-1:10 pm
Public Service Programs Center Dining Room
Concurrent Sessions 1:15-3:15 pm
Session 19
Room C
Panel: New Readings in Nineteenth- Century Colonialism
Moderator: Nancy Henry (Binghamton University)
Session sponsored by the Victorian Studies Workshop.
Nancy Henry (Binghamton University) "Conflicts of Interest:
George Eliot's Investment in the Colonies."
Philip Rogers (Binghamton University) "Jane Eyre and
Jamaica: Charlotte Bronte and Colonial Exculpation."
Stephanie Oxendale (Binghamton University) "The Idyll of the
Mother: Gendered Ruralism and Organised English Women's
Emigration and Colonisation."
Session 20
Room D
Panel: Visual Constructions of National Identity/ Ethnicity and
Gender: Pre-Modern Europe Constructs the Other
Moderator: Mary Weitzel Gibbons
Session sponsored by: The Medieval Feminist Art History Project
Session organized by Pamela Sheingorn (Baruch College and
Graduate School, CUNY)
Genevra Kornbluth (Youngstown State University) "Crystal
Shells, Crystal Balls: Markers of Gender, Ethnicity, or
Status?"
Marilynn Desmond (Binghamton University) and Pamela Sheingorn
(Baruch College and Graduate School, CUNY) "‘And Thus
Ends Cyrus, the Great King of Persia': Gender, Castration, and
Orientalism in Christine de Pizan's Othea."
Corine Schleif (Arizona State University) "Ritual and
Transference: Grieving Widows and Tormenting Jews in the
Nuremberg Stations of the Cross."
Cristelle Baskins (Tufts University) "The Image of La
Malinche in Colonial Mexico and the Sibylline Tradition."
Session 21a
Room E
Panel: Consolidating Culture: Five Anthropological Case Studies
of Colonial Identity
Moderator: Diana Loren (Binghamton University)
Jennifer Tobey (Binghamton University) "Dynamic Households
in Russian America: Examining Changes in Tena Social Patterns
During Contact Period."
Judy Voelker (SUNY Buffalo) "Social and Economic Factors
Affecting Household and Village Level Ceramic Production in
Northeast Thailand."
Brian Vivian (Binghamton University) "Searching for the
Smoking Gun."
Session 21b
Room E
Diana Loren (Binghamton University) "Jambalaya and Zydeco:
Examining Creolization in the Eighteenth-Century Lower
Mississippi Valley."
Emily Stovel (Binghamton University) "Working within the
System: A freedom fighter's manual for the 18th century in the
Southern Andes."
Session 22
Room F
Panel: Western Colonial Projects and the African Continent
Moderator: Francesa Sautman (Hunter College, CUNY)
Session 2 "Women's History and the Formation of
Colonialism"
Sharon Harrow (University of Arizona) "Narrative Slippage
between Monogamy and Polygamy in 18th Century Colonialist
Discourse."
Maghan Keita (Villanova University) "The Signares and the
Construction of Colonialism in Mid-17th Century Senegal."
Francesa Sautman (Hunter College, CUNY) "Engendering
Resistance: Problematizing the Reign of Queen Njinga of
Ndongo-Matamba."
Session 23
Room LNG 332
Panel: The Politics of Maintenance and Control
Moderator: Howard Brown (Binghamton University)
Neal Salisbury (Smith College) "The Juggernaut and the
Trickster: Assessing Native-Missionary Encounters in
Seventeenth-Century New England."
Deborah Baumgarten (Yale University) "‘Drunken Men They
Call Fools': Alcohol and the Keeping of Good Order at Fort
Orange, New Netherland."
James Krippner-Martinez (Haverford College) "‘Representing
the Spiritual Conquest': Beaumot's Crónica [1788]."
Break 3:15-3:35
Plenary Session 3:35-4:35 pm
Chamber Hall
Fine Arts Building
Walter Mignolo (Duke University) "From ‘El Derecho De
Gentes' to ‘La Dignidad Humana': The Zapatistas' Theoretical
Revolution."
Plenary Session 4:45-5:45 pm
Patricia Seed (Rice University) "The Invention of Indians
and the Pursuit of Riches in the Americas: Comparing
Colonialisms."
Sessions held jointly by The New York Conference on Asian Studies
and CEMERS - see NYCAS Program for Times and Room locations.
Panel: Asia and the World: Comparative Methodologies
Moderator: Victor Koschmann (Cornell)
Heidi Langley (SUNY Albany) "Comparison of Heidegger's Being
and Time and The Vimalakriti Sutra."
Liya Li (Rockland Community College) "A Comparative Analysis
of the Resistance and Lack of Resistance to the formation of
Post-colonial Cultures in the Chinese and Igbo Societies."
Tomoko Yoshida (Cornell) "Kingship and Religion in Late
Medieval Japan: A Comparative Study of Nobunaga and Philip IV of
France."Panel: Language, Colonialism, and Power
Moderator: Rebecca Mbuh (Allen University)
Suhail Islam (Colby College) "Empire, Literacy, and the
Literary Studies."
Syed Hassan (Allen University) "The Marginalization of
Persian and the Rise of Urdu in English India."
Shaila Mian (Purdue University) "Validation and Denigration
of Traditional Culture: Language Functions in Prepartition Bengal
during Muslim and British Rules."
Panel: Perceptions of China East and West: Case Studies from the
16th to 20th Centuries
Moderator: Anne Csete (St Lawrence University)
Timothy Billings (Colgate University) "The Chinese Utopolis:
Market-square, Microcosm."
David Robinson (Colgate University) "Korean Views of the
Ming Dynasty in : Korean Court Writings about the Rebellions of
the Zhengde Reign."
Anne Csete (St Lawrence University) "Exploration and
Excavation of Hainan Island by Europeans and Japanese, 19th to
mid-20th Centuries."
Book Exhibit
On display throughout the conference in Public Service Programs
Center: Scholarly books related to the conference topic and
Medieval Studies
presented by The Scholar's Choice.
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CEMERS) is an
organized research unit that coordinates and furthers scholarship
in medieval and early modern studies in association with a range
of departments and programs at Binghamton University as well as
with a number of scholarly societies in which Binghamton faculty
play leading roles. It administers undergraduate and graduate
programs in medieval Studies--programs in Early Modern Studies
are in preparation. CEMERS and the Medieval Studies programs are
administered by a director (three year term) and a council (two
year term) elected by the participating faculty. The graduate
students' Medieval and Renaissance Group (MRG) organizes
activities and appoints a representative to the CEMERS Council.
Through its Associates program, CEMERS invites faculty from other
institutions and independent scholars to collaborate in its
activities. Founded in 1966, CEMERS has built upon a reputation
largely for its contributions to interdisciplinary research on
the European Middle Ages and early Renaissance, which will remain
crucial to the Center's mission. The Medieval Studies Program was
inaugurated in 1977, and one year later, in 1978, the center
launched the Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies series
which, under the umbrella of CEMERS until 1996, published over
150 volumes. Currently, CEMERS is engaged in an expansion of its
temporal and geographic focus. Drawing on existing strengths at
Binghamton University and its research centers and in line with
the university's commitment to global perspectives, CEMERS is
aiming at expanding its comparative studies to encompass research
and pedagogical innovation in the following areas: Islamic
Studies, Judaic Studies, Africana Studies, Research in Pre-
Columbian and Colonial American history and Archaeology, East
Asian Studies, and theoretical and historical work on worldwide
colonial formations.
General Information:
Registration: Preregistration by mail is strongly recommended as
facilities are limited. Deadline October 24, for paid
reservations for luncheon, dinner and banquet. No meals sold at
door. No refunds after October 24.
Luncheon: (by reservation only) Friday, October 31,
11:45-12:45 PM, Public Service Programs Center Dining Room,
featuring Sliced Ham, Turkey and Roast Beef on a bed of lettuce,
Pasta salad, accompaniments, dessert and beverage. Vegetarian
cold plate available upon request $8.
Reception: Friday, October 31, 5:00/5:30 PM (following plenary
session featuring John Fine). Grand Corridor, Fine Arts Building
$7.
Banquet: (by reservation only) Friday, October 31, 7:00 PM
Chenango Room, Science I. Choice of Chicken Breast Coq au Vin,
Salmon and Watercress or Fettucine Vegetarian. All served with
salad, vegetable, dessert, beverage including wine. $21.
Luncheon: (by reservation only) Saturday, November 1, 12:10-1:10
PM Public Service Programs Center Dining Room. Buffet featuring
Stir fried Chicken, London Broil, Rice Pilaf, Glazed Carrots,
Tossed Salad with Italian Dressing, rolls and butter, dessert and
beverage. $11.
Parking: For a fee, parking is available at the Garage Ramp and
Visitors Lot (see map).
For further information write to Professor Charles Burroughs, Conference Coordinator, Thirty-First Annual Conference, CEMERS Binghamton University, PO Box 6000, Binghamton, New York 13902-6000; or telephone the CEMERS secretary, Ann DiStefano, (607) 777-2730 or 777-2130. E-mail: CEMERS@BINGHAMTON.EDU
Hotel Accomodations: The HOLIDAY INN AT THE UNIVERSITY is a newly renovated, full-service hotel located adjacent to the campus of Binghamton University. The Garden Court Cafe and Johnnie's Tavern, both in- house, are staffed and prepared to handle all of your food and beverage needs and there are multiple dining and shopping alternatives nearby. Complimentary morning and evening coffe is available in the lobby. RATES: Single/Double $62 plus tax. PLEASE CONTACT THE HOTEL DIRECTLY AT (607) 729-6371 TO MAKE YOUR RESERVATIONS PRIOR TO SEPTEMBER 30, 1997 TO ENSURE RATE AND AVAILABILITY. REMEMBER TO MENTION THE CEMERS CONFERENCE.
Registration Form
(Please use a separate form for each registrant. This form may be
reproduced.)
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