- The Round Table
NEWS from the North American Branch
NAB Officers 2009-2011 (for full addresses see Bibliographical Bulletin of the International Arthurian Society [BBIAS])
President : Kevin J. Harty (La Salle University)
Immediate Past President: William W. Kibler (University of Texas-Austin)
Vice President: Joan Tasker Grimbert (Catholic University of America)
Secretary-Treasurer: : K. Sarah-Jane Murray (Baylor University)
Advisory Committee:
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Romance Languages: Carol Dover (Georgetown University)
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English: Michael Twomey (Ithaca College)
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Germanic: Siegfried Christoph (University of Wisconsin-Parkside)
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Post-Medieval: Susan Aronstein (University of Wyoming)
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Canadian Representative: Kevin Whetter (Acadia University)
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ARTHURIANA Editor (ex officio): Dorsey Armstrong (Purdue University)
IAS Officers 2009-2011 (for full addresses see BBIAS)
President : Christine Ferlampin-Acher (Université Rennes 2)
Immediate Past President: Peter Field (University of Wales-Bangor)
Vice President: Keith Busby (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Secretary: Maria Colombo Timelli (Università di Milano)
Bibliographical Secretary: Frank Brandsma (University of Utrecht)
Treasurer: Joan Tasker Grimbert (Catholic University of America) [End Page 122]
Honorary Presidents:
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Bart Besamusca, University of Utrecht
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Peter Field, University of Wales-Bangor
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Anna Maria Finoli, Università di Milano
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Norris J. Lacy, Pennsylvania State University
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Rita Lejeune, Université de Liège
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Philippe Ménard, Université de Paris-Sorbonne
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Jane H.M. Taylor, University of Durham
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Friedrich Wolfzettel, Universität Frankfurt/Main
Past issues of BBIASand ARTHURIANA: For back issues of BBIAS through vols. 54/2002, contact Joan Grimbert, Dept. of Modern Languages, Catholic University of America, Washington, DC 20064 USA (grimbert@cua.edu); for vols. 55–59/2003–2007, contact K. Sarah-Jane Murray, One Bear Place # 97144, Baylor University, Waco TX USA (SJ_Murray@baylor.edu). Back issues still available are vols. 25–29 (1973–77), 31–34 (1979–82), 36–41 (1984–89), 43 (1991), 45–60 (1993–2008), all for $40 each. All other volumes are out of print. For back issues of ARTHURIANA, contact ARTHURIANA, English Dept, Purdue University, 500 Oval Dr, West Lafayette, IN 47907 USA (sarmstr@purdue.edu).
Your BBIASAbstracts:
Members are reminded that, for inclusion in the society's annual bibliography, they should send bibliographic entries and abstracts for articles or books published in 2008 to Anne Berthelot (anne_berthelot@hotmail.com).
45th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan May 13-16, 2010
Kalamazoo IAS/NAB Business Meeting: Friday, May 14, 12:00 noon, Fetzer 1005. North American Branch Business Meeting with box lunches, $10. (It would be a great help if you could bring the exact amount.)
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1. Adoption of agenda
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2. Minutes of 2008 meeting (as printed in ARTHURIANA 19.4)
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3. President's report
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4. Secretary/Treasurer's report (including CFP for Bristol 2011)
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5. Bibliographer's report
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6. Report from the General Editor of Arthuriana
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7. Sessions proposed for the 46th International Congress on Medieval Studies, 2011
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8. New business [End Page 123]
Reception: Sponsored by IAS/NAB, Thursday, May 13, 5:15 p.m., Bernhard 158. (Cash bar.)
Sessions sponsored by the North American Branch of the International Arthurian Society at the 45th International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 13-16, 2010):
Film: The Last Legion, Thursday, May 13, 7:30 p.m., Fetzer 1005.
Session 126 (Valley I 109): FOOD AND DRINK IN THE ARTHURIAN TRADITION
Organizer: Felicia Nimue Ackerman, Brown Univ.
Presider: Susan Butvin Sainato, Kent State Univ.
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1. Malory's Mealtime Miracles
Amy S. Kaufman, Wesleyan College
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2. 'How vertuously she has chaunged': Fasting and Penance in Malory's Morte Darthur
Felicia Nimue Ackerman
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3. Sustenance in the Morte Darthur
Ann Elaine Bliss, Western Oregon Univ.
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4. 'And the food he ate....'
Carol R. Dover, Georgetown Univ.
Session 206 (Fetzer 1005): THE YOUNG(ER) KING ARTHUR
Organizer: Roberta Davidson, Whitman College
Presider: Kevin J. Harty, La Salle Univ.
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1. Knight Terror: King Arthur and America's 'Boy Problem'
Laurie A. Finke, Kenyon College, and Martin B. Shichtman, Eastern Michigan Univ.
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2. When Good King Arthur Ruled This High School: Meg Cabot's Avalon High
Ann F. Howey, Brock Univ.
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3. Arthur and Galahad as Models for Youth
Alan Lupack, Univ. of Rochester
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4. Not Your Boys' King Arthur
Janina P. Traxler, Manchester College [End Page 124]
Session 389 (Valley I 107): THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS IN THE ARTHURIAN TRADITION
Organizer: Susann...