Kalamazoo 2012

For the upcoming Conference, May 10-13, 2012, AVISTA will be offering sessions on the following topics:

• Thursday, May 10, 1:30 pm, Bernhard 157
  Medieval Environments II: Religion and the Environment

  Organizer: Ellen F. Arnold (Ohio Wesleyan University)
  Presider: Robert Babcock (Hastings College)

  “The Lynn White Thesis: The View from Outside Medieval Studies,” Elspeth Whitney (University of Nevada-Las Vegas)
  “Holy Environments and Saintly Identity in Guillaume de Berneville’s La vie de saint Giles,” Monica Ehrlich (University of Virginia)
  “Gifts of Forest Rights to New Monastic Foundations in Thirteenth-Century Northern Europe,” Constance H. Berman (University of Iowa)

• Friday, May 11, 10:00 am, Bernhard Brown and Gold Room
  Fifty Years after Lynn White’s Medieval Technology and Social Change (1962) I: Military-Technical Revolutions

  Organizer: Steven A. Walton (Penn State University)
  Presider: George R. Brooks (Valencia College)

  “Determined Disjunction: Lyne White’s Medieval Technology and Social Change Then and Now,” Steven A. Walton (Penn State University)
  “Lynn White, Jr. and the Study of Technology in Medieval Europe,” Bernard S. Bachrach (University of Minnesota-Twin Cities)
  “Mechanical Arts and the Medieval Military Treatise, from Vegetius to Valturio,” Matthew Landrus (Rhode Island School of Design/University of Oxford)

• Friday, May 11, 1:30 pm, Bernhard Brown and Gold Room
  Fifty Years after Lynn White’s Medieval Technology and Social Change (1962) II: The Agricultural Revolution

  Organizer: Steven A. Walton (Penn State University)
  Presider: Philip Slavin (McGill University)

  “Weather and Subsistence Crises in Burgundian Low Countries during the Fifteenth Century,” Chantal Camenish (Univ. Bern)
  “Weather and Human Livelihood: England in the Late Middle Ages,” Kathleen Pribyl (Univ. of Brighton)
  “Animal Care as Empirical Practice and Written Tradition,” William H. York (Portland State University)

• Friday, May 11, 3:30 pm, Bernhard Brown and Gold Room
  Fifty Years after Lynn White’s Medieval Technology and Social Change (1962) III: The Mechanical Revolution

  Organizer: Steven A. Walton (Penn State University)
  Presider: Constance H. Berman (University of Iowa)

  “Interlocking Structure of Agriculture, Trade, Shipping, Power, Corporality, and Escapement Images in the Pearl Poem,” Martha Reiner (Florida International University)
  “Just Add Water: How Industrial Mills Spurred the Economic Growth of the Cistercian Order,” Christie Peters (University of Houston)
  “Casting Aspersions: Fishing Rights and Twelfth- or Thirteenth-Century Mills in Northern France,” Heather Wacha (University of Iowa)

• Saturday, May 12, 1:30 pm, Schneider 1140
  New Approaches to Chartres I

  Organizer: Laura Gelfand (Utah State University)
  Presider: Vibeke Olson (University of North Carolina-Wilmington)

  “Chartres and the Concept of Gothic,” Sarah Thompson (Rochester Institute of Technology)
  “The Structure of Chartres,” Andrew Tallon (Vassar College)
  “Chartres’s South Spire: Structure, Construction, and Stability,” A. Richard Jones (AVISTA)

• Saturday, May 12, 3:30 pm, Schneider 1140
  New Approaches to Chartres II

  Organizer: Laura Gelfand (Utah State University)
  Presider: Vibeke Olson (University of North Carolina-Wilmington)

  “Marginalizing Margaret? The Margaret and Catherine Windows at Chartres Cathedral,” Ashley J. Laverock (Emory University)
  “Mary in the Mirror: The Many Meanings of the Magdalene at Chartres,” Laura Hollengreen (Georgia Institute of Technology)
  “The Pairing of the Sylvester and Charlemagne Windows at Chartres Cathedral and the Moralization of the Fourth Crusade” Christopher Timm (Florida State University)
  “Crusades, the French Army, and Tournaments: Mapping Military Pilgrimage to Chartres Cathedral,” James Bugslag (University of Manitoba)

• AVISTA Reception – Friday, May 11, 5:15 pm, Bernhard 158
• AVISTA Business Meeting – Saturday, May 12, 12:00 pm, Schneider 1125