Date/Time
Date(s) - 15 Feb 2013
9:00 AM - 7:30 PM
Location
University of Pennsylvania Van Pelt Library
Category(ies) No Categories
5th Annual Graduate Conference: Translatio
Keynote Address by Jamie Taylor, Bryn Mawr College
“Chaucerian translatio: Spanish Wine, Vernacular Invention, and Anglo-Iberian Exchange”
9:00-9:30 Breakfast and Registration
9:30-9:45 Welcoming Remarks
Sarah Massoni, University of Pennsylvania
9:45-11:15 PANEL I: EXPLORING TRANSLATIO
Chair: Liza Strakhov, University of Pennsylvania
Faculty Respondent: David Wallace, University of Pennsylvania
Ø WEREWOLVES AS TRANSLATION: “MELION” AND
“BISCLAVRET”
Jessica Auz, Seton Hall University
Ø BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX’S POLITICAL EXEGESIS AND THE
SENSES OF SCRIPTURE: IMAGES OF JERUSALEM AND
WARFARE
Nicole T. Hughes, Columbia University
Ø THE COURTLY LOVE TRIANGLE IN TRADITIONAL MUSIC OF
LOUISIANA: EVIDENCE OF LATENT NARRATIVES
Nathan Rabalais, Tulane University
11:15-11:30 Coffee and Tea
11:30-12:30 PANEL II: MANUSCRIPT TRANSLATIONS AND
TRANSMISSIONS
Chair: Sierra Lomuto, University of Pennsylvania
Faculty Respondent: Emily Steiner, University of Pennsylvania
Ø THE TRANSLATION OF ENOCH: AN EXAMINATION OF
ASHKENAZIC MANUSCRIPTS OF 3 ENOCH IN THE LIGHT OF A
PARALLEL GENIZA FRAGMENT
Jesse Abelman, Yeshiva University
Ø BIBLES FOR SALE: MAPPING THE POST-MEDIEVAL
CIRCULATION OF 13TH-CENTURY BIBLES
Alexander Devine, University of Pennsylvania
12:30-1:00 RARE BOOK AND MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY
EXHIBITION (Meyerson Conference Room)
1:00-2:15 Lunch Break
2:15-2:30 Coffee, Tea, and Small Desserts
2:30-4:00 PANEL III: TRANSCENDING SELF AND
LANGUAGE: TRANSLATIO AND SPIRITUALITY
Chair: Marie Turner, University of Pennsylvania
Faculty Respondent: Ann Matter, University of Pennsylvania
Ø TRANSLATING MARY MAGDALENE: LINGUISTIC, GENERIC,
HISTORICAL AND THEMATIC TRANSLATION IN GUILLAUME
LE CLERC’S ROMANZ DE SAINT MARIE MAGDALENE AND THE
DIGBY MARY MAGDALENE
Sarah W. Townsend, University of Pennsylvania
Ø TRANSLATING BETWEEN GOD AND THE INTERIOR SELF
THROUGH “THE CLOUD”: AN AUGUSTINIAN
DECONSTRUCTION OF “THE CLOUD OF UNKNOWING”
Yun Ni, Harvard University
Ø GOD’S “MERVEILLOUS” “WERKIS” OF TRANSLATION: THE
MIROUR OF MAN’S SALVACIOUNE
Erika Smith, University of Pennsylvania
4:00-4:15 Coffee and Tea
4:15-5:15 PANEL IV: THE TANGIBLE CRAFT: MATERIALITY
AND THE ART OF EXCHANGE
Chair: Jacqueline Burek, University of Pennsylvania
Faculty Respondent: Julia Verkholantsev, University of Pennsylvania
Ø EKPHRASIS AS TRANSLATIO IN MIDDLE ENGLISH POETRY
Lydia Yaitsky Kertz, University of Pennsylvania
Ø THE NORTH CAUCASUS AS A MELTING POT FOR SILK ROAD
FASHION: AN ANALYSIS OF CLOTHING FROM MOSCHEVAJA
BALKA
Aneta Samkoff, CUNY Graduate Center
5:15-5:30 Coffee and Tea
5:30 KEYNOTE ADDRESS: JAMIE TAYLOR, Bryn Mawr College
7:00 Reception