News: from the North American Branch

The Round Table NEWS from the North American Branch NAB Officers 2003-2006 (for full addresses see Bibliographical Bulletin of the InternationalArthurian Society [bbias]) President: Susann Samples (Mount St. Mary's College) Immediate Past President: Alan Lupack (U of Rochester) Vice-President: William W. Kiblcr (U ofTexas) Secretary-Treasurer: Logan E. Wbalcn (U of Oklahoma) Bibliographer: Dan Nastali (Independent Scholar) Advisory Committee: Romance Languages: Peggy McCracken (U of Michigan) English: Kathleen Kelly (Northeastern U ) Germanic: David Johnson (Florida State U) Canada: James Noble (U of New Brunswick) Post Medieval: Charlotte A.T WuIf(ViIIaJuMe College) Bonnie Wheelet, Arthuriana Editor (Southern Methodist U, ex officio) IAS Officers 2005 (for full addresses see bbias or http://www.dur.ac.uk/ arthurian.society/) President: Bart Besamusca (U of Utrecht) Honorary President: Jane H. M. Taylor (St. Hilda's College, Oxford U) Vice-President: Petet Field (U ofWales-Bangor) Secretary: Maria Colombo Timelli (U of Milan) Treasurer: Joan Grimbert (Catholic U of America) bbias/bbsia: Editor: Frank Brandsma (U of Utrecht) Back Issues o/bbias tfW Arthuriana: For back issues of bbias through v. 51/1999, contact Joan Grimbert, Dept. ofModern Languages, Catholic U, Washington, DC 20064 (grimbert@cua.edu); for v. 52-53/2000-2001, contact Jean Blacker, Kenyon C, Gambier, OH 43022-9623 (blacker@kenyon.edu). Back issues still available ate v. 25-29 (1973-77) and 31-34 (1979-82), all for $10 each; v. 36-41 (1984-89), 43 (1991), and 45-51 (1993-99) arc $18 each; v. 51-56 (2000-2005) are $20 each. All other volumes are out ofprint. For back issues ofArthuriana, contact Arthuriana, Box 750432, SMU, Dallas, TX 75275-0432 (bwheelet@mail.smu.edu). ARTHURIANA 15.2(2005) 59 6?ARTHURIANA Your bbias Abstracts: Members are reminded that, for inclusion in the society's annual bibliography, they should send bibliographic entries and abstracts for articles or books published in 2004 to Daniel Nastali (nastali@aol.com). Kalamazoo IAS Business Meeting. Friday, 6 May, 12 noon, Fetzer 1005 North American Branch Business Meeting with box lunches. Price to be announced. 1.Adoption of agenda 2.Minutes of 2004 business meeting 3.President's report 4.Secretary/Treasurer's report 5.Bibliogtaphet's report 6.Report from the Editor ofArthuriana 7.Sessions for the 41s1 International Congress on Medieval Studies, 2006 8.21st International Arthurian Society Conference, Utrecht, July 24-31, 2005 9.New business Reception: sponsored by IAS/NAB, Friday, 6 May, 5:15 p.m., Bernhard 107. Various drinkables and hors-d'oeuvres. 21" International Arthurian Society Conference, Utrecht, 24—31 July 2005. For full information see http://www.let.uu.nl/alw/ARTHUR/Arthur2005English.htm Kalamazoo 200$: Sessions sponsored by the Notth American Branch of the International Arthurian Society, Thursday, 5 May to Sunday, 8 May, 2005: Session 102 (Thursday, 5 May, 1:30-3): Bernhard 209 Secrets and Surprises in Arthurian Literatute Sponsor: International Arthurian Society, North American Branch Organizer: Felicia Ackerman, Brown Univ. Présider: Felicia Ackerman 1.Secrets, Surprises, and Conversational Games in Sir Gawain andthe Green Knight Peter R. Schroeder, California State Univ.—San Bernardino 2.Green Turks and English Knights: Sir Gawain, the Green Knight, and the Islamic al-Khidr Kenneth Hodges, Keene State College and Su Fang Ny, Univ. ofOklahoma 3.Didactic Surprises Ann Elaine Bliss, Western Oregon Univ. 4.The Court as Spin Doctor: How Shame and Secrets Ate Interpreted by Arthurian Society Meredith Reynolds, Baylor Univ. Evening session (Thursday, 5 May, 8 p.m.): Fetzet 1005 A Medieval Film Fest: Knights ofthe Round Table Sponsor: Medieval Institute, Western Michigan Univ., and the IAS/NAB Organizer: Alan Lupack, Univ. of Rochester Virginia Blanton, Univ. of MissouriKansas City, and Kevin J. Harty, La Salle Univ. (Présider: Kevin J. Harry) THE ROUND TABLE6l Session 200 (Friday, 6 May, 10-11:30): Fetzer 1005 Screening Malory (!?) Sponsor: International Arthurian Society, North American Branch Organizer: Kevin J. Harty, LaSaIIe Univ. Présider: Kevin J. Harty 1.'Authentic Replica': The Knights ofthe Round Table (1953) Kathleen Coyne Kelly, Northeastern Univ. 2.Sexual Violence in John Boorman's Excalibur Laurie A. Finke, Kenyon College and Martin B. Shichtman, Eastern Michigan Univ. 3.Arthutian Cinema without Malory? Success and Failure in Bruckheimer and...