Confound the Time

7:00–8:30 a.m.

Mod: Dr. Audrey Gradzewicz

Panel 5. Confounding Artifacts: Reception and Material Culture

Reception of the Golden Horde Women’s Costume: Between Narrative Constructions and Archaeological Realities
Tetiana Krupa, A. Margulan Pavlodar Pedagogical University, Kazakhstan

The Evolution of the External Defensive Walls in Syrian Castles, 1128–1516 CE: A Study of Military Architectural Adaptation
Raed Halak, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Hungary

King Rakni’s Afterlife: Archaeology, Heritage, and the Politics of Memory
Dr. Irina-Maria Manea, Signum University, USA

The Conquest of Mexico Serving the Protestant Reformation: The Publication of Hernán Corté’s Letters and the Plan of Tenochtitlan in Nuremberg (1524)
Dr. Daniel Astorga-Poblete, University of La Serena, Chile

8:45–10:15 a.m.

Mod: Dr. Arielle McKee

Panel 6. From Castles To Comics: Contemporary Medievalisms

The Quest Never Ends—Medievalism and Bretonnia in the Total War: Warhammer Series
Dr. Miloš Živković, Institute of Literature and Arts in Belgrade, Serbia

Fairy-Tale Middle Ages: Medieval Visual Elements in European Fairy-Tale Movies and South Korean Webtoons
Dr. Veronika Pichaničová, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia

Parody and Ideology: Satirising the Polish–Lithuania Commonwealth in Netflix’s 1670
Carolina Ferraro, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

What to Do With No End in Sight: The Refugee Tales
Karen Dulaney Smith, Texas State University, USA

10:30–11:30 a.m.

Mod: Suleyman Bolukbas

Invited Lecture

The Echo Marks in Beowulf:
One More Piece to the Puzzle.
Could You Repeat That?

Jim Buckingham, Independent Scholar
Beowulf’s Barrow, Wisconsin, USA

11:45–1:15 p.m.

Mod: Dr. Jayme Peacock

Panel 7: Reframing the Past with Premodern Art

Niemann kann als wüssen (“Nobody can know everything”): Niklaus Manuel’s Humanist Self-Fashioning
Amanda Martin-Parras, Cincinnati Art Museum, USA

The Imagery of Medieval Time: Reconfiguring the Flemish Primitives in the Neo-Medievalist Work of Fernard Khnopff
Dr. Dominique Bauer, University of Leuven, Belgium

Dante Alighieri as a National Symbol and a Means of Cultivation of National Identity in Italian Risorgimento Painting
Dr. Stella Rentoumi, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

Reimagining European-Persian Art and Literature in the Bellini Album Manuscript
Kourosh Nejad, Ohio University, USA

1:30–3:00 p.m.

Mod: Dr. Jayme Peacock

Panel 8: (Re)Reading Medieval Texts

“That’s What (S)He Said”: Queynte Puns and Slippery Meaning in The Canterbury Tales
Dr. Arielle McKee, Wake Forest University, USA

“Of Fair Creisseid and Worthy Troylus”: A Temporal Reading of the Testament by Robert Henryson
Beril Huri, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

The Late Revival of the Rune Poem Tradition and the Impact of Early Scholarship on Medieval Texts
Martina Rizzini Ongarato, University of Padova, Italy

The Relevance of Ibn Khaldūn’s Historical Method in Maghreb According to Al-Muqaddimah (14th Century)
Lunna Sant’Anna Souza, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil

3:30–4:45 p.m.

Mod: Javiera Morales-Reyes

Panel 9: Performing Out of Time

Comic Villainy in Thomas Middleton’s The Revenger’s Tragedy
Blaire Krakowitz, The Pennsylvania State University, USA

Negotiating Italian Opera: The Case of Handel’s Rinaldo
Adrianna Chmielewska, Royal Holloway University of London, England

Clothed in Antique Manner: The Meta-Book History of Thomas Chatterton’s Rowley Poems
Anna Opryszko, Simon Fraser University, Canada

Delicate, Dainty and Harmless: Magical Deviance and Queer Futurity in Shakespeare’s The Tempest
C.J. McGillvray, University of British Columbia, Canada