Kalamazoo sessions sponsored by the Ibero-Medieval Association of North America

IMANA SESSIONS, INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON MEDIEVAL STUDIES 2017

Ibero-Medieval Association of America (IMANA) Reception and Banquet

Friday, May 12
6:30 p.m – Reception, Fetzer Lobby
7:30 p.m. – Dinner, North Fetzer 1055

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Session 409: Literary, Artistic, and Cultural Approaches to Friendship in Late Medieval Iberia
Presider: Sol Miguel-Prendes, Wake Forest University
FETZER 2040
Saturday, May 13, 1:30 pm

• Four Hispanic Examples of Friendship and Its European Correlatives: Libro de Alexandre, Libro de caballero Zifar, El Conde Lucanor, Celestina
  Adam Alberto Vazquez Cruz, Univ. of Saskatchewan
• Social Networks in Late Medieval Iberia: What Letters Tell Us about Writers and Their Readers
  Gemma Pellissa Prades, Independent Scholar
• Friends in Life and Death: Sociopolitical Status and Funerary Constructions in Fifteenth-Century Castile
  Holly Sims, Univ. of North Carolina–Chapel Hill

Session 468: A Text by Any Other Name: Rewritings, Reworkings, and Manipulations of Medieval Iberian Texts
Presider: David Arbesu;, University of South Florida
SCHNEIDER 1160
Saturday, May 13, 3:30 p.m.

• From Great Muslim Warriors to Good Christian Subjects: Converting the Legend of the Infantes of Lara between the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
  Marcelo E. Fuentes, Univ. of Minnesota–Twin Cities
• Libro de Troya, Estoria de Troya y General estoria: (Re)escrituras y recepcion de la materia troyana alfonsi en los siglos XIII y XIV
  Ricardo Pichel Gotérrez, Univ. de Alcala/Univ. de Santiago de Compostela
• Textual Alteration and Philosophical Appropriation: The Peculiar Case of Dominicus Gundissalinus in Toledo
  Nicola Polloni, Durham Univ.

• Arabic Authority in Biblical History in the General estoria
  Erik Ekman, Oklahoma State Univ.
• Reading the Siete Partidas Transconfessionally
  Gregory S. Hutcheson, Univ. of Louisville
• Alfonso X’s Geographical Ideas: Arabic Sources and Castilian Legacy
  Luis Miguel dos Santos, Univ. of Michigan–Ann Arbor
• Caliphs and Kingship: Calila e Dimna and the Transmission of Islamic Political Theory to Christian Kingdoms under Alfonso X
  Robey Clark Patrick, Ohio Wesleyan Univ.

Session 542: Ibero-Medieval Studies Tomorrow: Developing New Materials and Pedagogical Approaches to Introduce the Rich Variety of Medieval Iberian Cultures (A Roundtable)
Presider: Emily C. Francomano, Georgetown Univ.
FETZER 1045
Sunday, May 14, 10:30 a.m.

• A roundtable discussion with Emily S. Beck, College of Charleston; Linde M. Brocato, Univ. of Memphis; Mark D. Johnston, DePaul Univ.; Gregory Kaplan, Univ. of Tennessee–Knoxville; Isidro J. Rivera, Univ. of Kansas; and Maureen Russo Rodriguez, Schreiner Univ.

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