The New England Medieval Conference
October 13-14, 2001
Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
Conference Program
Conference site: Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall
Saturday, October 13, 2001
9:00 Registration and Breakfast
9:45 Opening Remarks
10:00–12:00 Theories of Thing-ness, Medieval and
Modern
Sarah Stanbury, College of the Holy Cross Pre-modern
Fetishes: Images and Their Objects
Sharon Kinoshita, University of California, Santa
Cruz Saints in Saracen Silk: Hybridity and Cultural
Contact in the High Middle Ages
Stephen Harris, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Reading Against Things in the Liber de Causis
Lunch
2:00–4:00 Things as Signs and Signs as Things:
Of Divers Arts
Thomas Forrest Kelly, Harvard University Musical
Notation as Object
Jeff Rider, Wesleyan University The Play’s
the Thing: Improvising Murder in the Twelfth Century
Adrian Randolph, Dartmouth College Wealth Personified:
Gender and Politics in Florentine Material Culture,
c. 1500
Coffee Break
4:30-6:00 Counting, Measuring, Ordering: The Rationality
of Things
Andrew Morris, University of Minnesota and Columbus
Academy Walter of Henley and the Rational, Disciplined
Manor
Joel Kaye, Barnard College Cultural Effects of
the Use of Money as Tool: Measurement in the Marketplace
and the University Lecture Hall
7:00 Banquet
Sunday, October 14, 2001
8:00 Breakfast
8:30-10 The Social Life of Things, I: Private Possessions
and Wills
George Dameron, St. Michael’s College Testaments,
Devotional Practice, and Material Life in Dante’s
Florence
Martha Howell, Columbia University The Social
Life of Pots, Beds and Dresses in Late Medieval Europe
Coffee Break
10:30–12 The Social Life of Things, II: Objects
of Devotion
Amy Hollywood, Dartmouth College The Medieval Thing:
On Materiality and Belief in the Later Middle Ages
Angela Weisl, Seton Hall University Holy Relics and
Home Run Balls: Materiality and Memory in Medieval
Popular Religion and Contemporary Culture
Link to Conference
Logistics
Link to Conference
Registration Form
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President: Paul Freedman, Yale University
Vice-President: Walter Simons, Dartmouth
College
Secretary: Lorraine Attreed, College of
the Holy Cross
Steering Committee:
Rebecca Corrie, Bates College
Craig Davis, Smith College
Arlyn Diamond, University of Massachusetts
Linne Mooney, University of Maine
Monika Otter, Dartmouth College
Fred Paxton, Connecticut College
Cassandra Potts, Middlebury College
Amy Remensnyder, Brown University
Robert Sullivan, University of Massachusetts
Susan L. Ward, Rhode Island School of Design
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