This year ICLS-NAB is sponsoring the following sessions at the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo:

Thursday, 3:30 p.m., Fetzer 1060
Place, Space, and/or Travel in Courtly Context
Sponsor: International Courtly Literature Society (ICLS), North American Branch
Organizer: Patricia Price, California State Univ.–San Marcos
Presider: Kenneth Salzberg, Hamline Univ.

• Spatiality and the Rendering of Order in Troilus and Criseyde and The Knight’s Tale
  Matthew Smith, Univ. of Alabama
• Welsh Bardic Travel and Cultural Interchange in the Late Middle Ages
  Patricia Price
• Regional Identity between Courts in the Romance Mediterranean
  Valerie M. Wilhite, Univ. of the Virgin Islands

Thursday, 7:30 p.m., Fetzer 1060
Performance in and of Courtly Literature
Sponsor: International Courtly Literature Society (ICLS), North American Branch
Organizer and Presider: Tamara Bentley Caudill, Tulane Univ.

• A chantar in Performance
  Laura Zoll, Independent Scholar
• The Performance of Awe in Courtly Romance
  Evelyn Birge Vitz, New York Univ.
• Shifting Our Horizons of Expectation: Love Service in the Devotional Contrafacta of Jacques de Cambrai
  Christopher Callahan, Illinois Wesleyan Univ.
• “Þe forme to be fynisment foldez ful selden”: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the Dynamics of Performance
  Gerard Lavin, Univ. of New Mexico
  Univ. of New Mexico Graduate Student Prize Winner

Our business meeting with reception and open bar is on Thursday at 9:00 p.m. in Fetzer 1030.