Confound the Time

7:00–8:30 a.m.

Mod: Dr. Audrey Saxton

Panel 1. Metal and Gothic Medieval Reimaginings

Negotiating Authenticity: Midgardsblot Metal Festival as a “Post-Viking Festival”
Dawid Ansgar Walorski, University of Iceland, Iceland

Dungeon Synth as Transcultural and Transtemporal Construction: Synthetic Medievalisms
Xyh Tamura, University of the Philippines, Philippines

Dungeon-Castle and Demonic Downfall: Traumatizing Horroresque Gothicization of the Medieval Halloween
Z.I. Mahmud, University of Delhi, India

Tracing the Roots of the Gothic: A Proto-Gothic Perspective on Medieval Literature
Suleyman Bolukbas, The Pennsylvania State University, USA

8:45–10:30 a.m.

Mod: Blaire Krakowitz

Panel 2. Representing Gender in the Premodern World

Rhetoric, Religion, and Power: The Letters of Luisa de Carvajal
Javiera Morales-Reyes, The Pennsylvania State University, USA

Female Poisoners in the Castilian Middle Ages: A Gender-Based Analysis
Dr. Andrea Fernández García, University of Oviedo, Spain

Sacred Blood: A Gender-Perspective Analysis of the Holy Wounds of Christ in Medieval Imagery
Alexis Francis Peter Demari, Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil

Medieval Women Thinkers and Their Legacy: Reception in Early Modern and Contemporary European Literature
Maryam Zare Khosheghbal, Kharazmi University of Tehran, Iran

Resurrecting Ophelia: Making the Dead Woman Visible
Dr. Jayme Peacock, Quincy University, USA

10:45–11:45 a.m.

Mod: Suleyman Bolukbas

Keynote Address

Kingship and Kinship: The Racial Ideology of Hrólfs saga kraka ok kappa hans

Dr. Jonathan Correa-Reyes
Clemson University, USA

12:00–1:30 p.m.

Mod: Anders Schiller

Panel 3. Transforming the Tradition of Religious Thought

The Heathen Sages: The Ancients as Imperfect Lights in Puritan Writings
R.A. Miller, Belhaven University, USA

Concern About the Soul as an Object of Care: The Classical Echoes of a Medieval Question
Dr. María Cecilia Colombani, University of Morón, Argentina

Hector of Troy, Hector of Iceland
Dr. Davide Salmoiraghi, Pembroke College, England

Sixteenth-Century English Antiquarianism: Foucault, Gramsci, and Matthew Parker
Dr. Andrea Di Carlo, University of Pisa, Italy

The Influence of Thomism on Iberian Political Language in the 17th Century
Tiago Moura Gonçalves, University of Coimbra, Portugal

1:45–3:15 p.m.

Mod: Dr. Arielle McKee

Panel 4. Shaping History

Building One Communal Past Through Grimm’s Fairy Tales
Iris Freitas Rodrigues, Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil

Indigenous Perspectives of Norse Contact in Contemporary Indigenous Literature
Mervi Maarit Salo, University of Saskatchewan, Canada & University of Tromsø-The Arctic University of Norway

Jesuit Passion at the Mughal Court: The Mir’at al-quds and Akbar’s Courtly Reception of Christian Narratives
Harpreet Kaur, University of St Thomas, USA