The 43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies

Haskins Society sessions at the 43rd annual Congress have been announced. Session 51 is at 1:30 in Valley II, Room 201. Session 100 is in the same room at 3:30.

Session 51
Emotions and Cultural Change in the Twelfth Century
  Presider: Paul Hyams, Cornell Univ.

Anglo-Norman Anger: Emotion, Honor, and Shame in the Historical Writings of Orderic Vitalis and William of Malmesbury
  Kate McGrath, Central Connecticut State Univ.
Quid Rides? High Medieval Satire and the Laughter Question
  M. Leigh Harrison, Cornell Univ.
Anxiety, Remorse, and the Twelfth-Century “Renaissance”
  John D. Cotts

Session 100
History and Memory in High Medieval Wales
  Presider: John D. Cotts

Memory in a Landscape of Oblivion: Remembering a Lost England among the Welsh in the Vita Haroldi
  Hannah Johnson, Univ. of Pittsburgh
Possessing Nest: The Anatomy of a Twelfth-Century Welsh-Norman Feud
  Lizabeth Johnson, Univ. of Washington–Seattle
History through Narrative: Reconciling the Rhetoric of Gerald of Wales
  Rachel E. Frier, Catholic Univ. of America Press

The Haskins Society invites proposals for papers to include in its sponsored sessions at the 44th International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, to be held from 7-10 May 2009. Those interested in submitting paper proposals should reach the Society’s Program Director, John Cotts. Please send an abstract and curriculum vitae to John Cotts, Department of History, Whitman College, 345 Boyer Ave., Walla Walla, WA 99362, or by email to cottsjd@whitman.edu. For full details on submissions to Kalamazoo, visit the congress' website.