Our program is now available (2016 SEMA Program – pdf). There will be AV (computer & projector) set up in every room.
Please note that there have been a few changes since we sent the program to press. The corrections are listed here:
SEMA 2016 Corrigenda
Session 10 (Thursday):
Presider: Joseph B. Trahern, Jr., University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Session 11 (Thursday):
Withdrawn: “Saying ‘I do’: Legitimizing Marriage in Middle English Romances” – Christine Kozikowski, The College of the Bahamas
Added (Moved from Session 22): “Women at the Feast in Medieval British Literature: A Reassessment” – Melissa Ridley Elmes, Lindenwood University
Session 19 (Thursday):
Withdrawn: “William Langland’s Piers Plowman: Nature Methodized, Improved, Always Problematic” – Daniel F. Pigg, The University of Tennessee, Martin
Session 22 (Thursday; Cancelled):
Withdrawn: “From Boudoir to Amazonia: Female Empire-Building in Medieval Romance” – Misty Urban, Muscatine Community College
Moved to Session 11 (Thursday 2:00-3:15 pm): “Women at the Feast in Medieval British Literature: A Reassessment” – Melissa Ridley Elmes, Lindenwood University
Withdrawn: “Josian and Floripas: Middle English Romance Heroines in the Masculine Space of Chivalry” – Debra Best, California State, Dominguez Hills
Friday Job Market Mentoring
9:30-10:45 in Tenase; 11:00-12:30 in the Boardroom; 12:30-4:45 in Tenase
Session 28 (Friday):
Moved to Salon D (from Sequoyah 2)
Session 32 (Friday):
Withdrawn: “Shooting the Sheriff: Costume, Character, and the Identity of the Sheriff in Robin Hood films and TV Settings” – Gloria J. Betcher, Iowa State University
Replaced by: “Mirroring Maid Marian: Film Costume and Character” – Sherron Lux, San Jacinto College
Session 33 (Friday):
Laine Doggett, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, will be one of the roundtable panelists
Session 35 (Friday):
Withdrawn: “Bede’s Words for Places of Power and the Passing of Time” – Melanie C. Maddox, The Citadel
Session 37 (Friday):
Withdrawn: “Norman Rulers in Sicily and Cultural Fusion in Religious Spaces” – Brittany Claytor, Purdue University
Session 41 (Friday):
Moved to Salon ABC (from Hiwassee)
Session 42:
Withdrawn: “Norman Rulers in Sicily and Cultural Fusion in Religious Spaces” – Brittany Claytor, Purdue University
Session 46 (Friday):
Presider: Thorsten Huth, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Withdrawn: “Go Set a Watchman” – Elizabeth Duchovni, Hunter College
Session 47 (Friday):
Moved to Tenase (from Smoky C)
Session 48 (Friday):
Withdrawn: “Legal Authority and Sanctity in the Cult of Raimondo Palmerio” – Shane MacDonald, The Catholic University of America
Session 57 (Friday):
Title Change: “Objects of Translation in the Crusader Period: The Curious Case of the Saracen Besant” – William S. Murrell, Vanderbilt University
Session 60 (Friday):
Presider: Amy N. Vines, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Session 68 (Saturday):
Withdrawn: “Widow(er), Step-, and In-Law” – Peter L. Larson
Session 70 (Saturday):
Withdrawn: “To Be Emperor: The French-German Rivalry in the Franco-Italian Epic Huon d’Auvergne” – Shira Schwam-Baird, University of North Florida