ICMS Kalamazoo 2025

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Our ICLS-NAB business meeting will be this Thursday, May 8, at 8:30 p.m. in Student Center 3205. We will be serving refreshments and providing drink tickets. We will also have a Zoom option if you are not attending the conference in person, at this link. It is through Julie Human’s Zoom account, so you do not have to be registered for the conference to attend virtually. Please note that we may have sound and connection issues, but we will do our best to make the meeting available to you if you are not able to attend in person.

Please access last year’s minutes on our website.

The following are ICLS-sponsored sessions and we invite you to attend.

Thursday, 1:30 p.m., Sangren Hall 3520
67. Sisterhood of the Traveling Song: Gendered Voices in Religious and Secular Lyric
Sponsor: International Courtly Literature Society (ICLS), North American Branch
Presider: Christopher J. Callahan, Illinois Wesleyan Univ.
Organizer: Christopher J. Callahan, Illinois Wesleyan Univ.

  • Crossing Over, Longing, and Traversal in Li solaus qui en moy luist, Rachel May Golden, Univ. of Tennessee–Knoxville
  • “Formosa tu in mulieribus”: Genre and Gender in French Marian Prayer, Ariane Bottex-Ferragne, New York Univ.
  • Sonic Sisterhoods: Gendered Experiences of Jewish and Christian Multilingual Lyric Poetry, Julien R. Stout, Princeton Univ.

Thursday, 1:30 p.m., Student Center 3205 (room change from one listed in program)
80. No Stranger in Medieval Society: A Roundtable in Honor of Stephanie Cain Van D’Elden
Sponsor: International Courtly Literature Society (ICLS), North American Branch
Presider: Shawn Phillip Cooper, Independent Scholar
Organizer: Susanne Hafner, Fordham Univ.

  • A roundtable discussion with Ray M. Wakefield, Univ. of Minnesota–Twin Cities; Joseph M. Sullivan, Univ. of Oklahoma; Evelyn Meyer, Saint Louis Univ.; Tina Boyer, Wake Forest Univ.; Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand, Appalachian State Univ.
  • Respondent: Stephanie Cain Van D’Elden, Univ. of Minnesota–Twin Cities

Thursday, 3:30 p.m., Sangren Hall 3520
111. The Eye of the Beholder: Courtly Representations of Beauty
Sponsor: International Courtly Literature Society (ICLS), North American Branch
Presider: Julie Human, Univ. of Kentucky
Organizer: Gloria Allaire, Univ. of Kentucky

  • Hunks on Horseback: Bartolomeo Benci’s Armeggeria of 1464, Gloria Allaire, Univ. of Kentucky
  • Perilous Pianelle: Chopines as Dichotomous Social Performance in Late Sixteenth-Century Venice, Heidi Zmick, Univ. of Virginia

Friday, 10:00 a.m., Sangren Hall 3310
167. Arthurian Kingship (1): King Arthur
Sponsors: International Arthurian Society, North American Branch (IAS/NAB); International Courtly Literature Society (ICLS), North American Branch
Presider: Margaret A. Finlay, Rijksuniv. Groningen
Organizer: Shawn Phillip Cooper, Independent Scholar, Joseph M. Sullivan, Univ. of Oklahoma, Jonathan Seelye Martin, Illinois State Univ.

  • King Arthur as the Epitome of Kingship, John Anthony Edwards II, Abilene Christian Univ.
  • Heavy Is the Head: Kingship in the Alliterative Morte Arthure and the Stanzaic Morte Arthur, Andrew D. Fields, Univ. of New Mexico, Univ. of New Mexico Graduate Student Prize Winner
  • Dux Bellorum: Arthur as a Living Avatar of the Germano-Celtic Warrior Elite, Cody J. West, Univ. of New Mexico

Friday, 1:30 p.m., Sangren Hall 3310
214. Arthurian Kingship (2): Queens, Kings, Lords, Military Commanders, and More
Sponsors: International Arthurian Society, North American Branch (IAS/NAB); International Courtly Literature Society (ICLS), North American Branch
Presider: John Anthony Edwards, II, Abilene Christian Univ.
Organizer: Shawn Phillip Cooper, Independent Scholar, Joseph M. Sullivan, Univ. of Oklahoma, Jonathan Seelye Martin, Illinois State Univ.

  • Named and Stolen Swords: Gawain as Worthy Heir in the Alliterative Morte Arthure, Margaret A. Finlay, Rijksuniv. Groningen
  • Kingship, Kinship, and Feminine Rule in the Prose Lancelot, Stacey L. Hahn, Oakland Univ.
  • “Most Traytoures unto the Kynges Person”: Treasonable Queenship in Malory’s Morte Darthur, Seonoh Kim, Ohio State Univ.

Saturday, 1:30 p.m., Sangren Hall 3520
376. Courtly Literature: The Next Generation (1)
Sponsor: International Courtly Literature Society (ICLS), North American Branch
Presider: Susanne Hafner, Fordham Univ.
Organizer: Susanne Hafner, Fordham Univ.

  • What We Think We Know: Rethinking the Problem of Love as Discourse, Davide Pafumi, Univ. of Lethbridge
  • Konrad of Wüzrburg’s “Herzmaere”: An Instruction on How (Not) to Love, Julia Lorenz, Univ. of Oxford
  • “The ancient race of the Ushers”: Unearthing Edgar Allan Poe’s Medieval Context, Estefania Velez, Fordham Univ

Saturday 3:30 p.m., Sangren Hall 3520
424. Courtly Literature: The Next Generation (2)
Sponsor: International Courtly Literature Society (ICLS), North American Branch
Presider: Shawn Phillip Cooper, Independent Scholar
Organizer: Susanne Hafner, Fordham Univ.

  • Episcopal Courtiers and Courts in Twelfth-Century England: Henry of Blois and Courtly Culture, Benjamin Anthony Bertrand, Fordham Univ.
  • The Classical and the Courtly: Alexander Literature at the Episcopal Court of William of the White Hands, Maria L. Carriere, Fordham Univ.
  • Crusader Masculinity, Violence, and Troubadour Lyric, Kelly Kornell, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison