Kalamazoo Conference Schedule 2009

For the 2009 Conference, May 7-10, 2009, AVISTA offered sessions on the following topics: Session 74, Thursday, May 7, 1:30 pm, Fetzer 1035 Technologies of the Book I: Organization Organizer: Shana Worthen, University of Arkansas-Little Rock Presider: Steven A. Walton, Pennsylvania State University "Livre or Let Die: The Preservation of Ecclesiastical Engineering in the Portfolio of Villard de Honnecourt," George Brooks, Valencia Community College "Data Visualization and Thematic Mapping in Conrad Buitzruss's Compendium," Elizabeth I. Wade-Sirabian, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh "Numbering by the Books: The Transition from Roman to Hindu-Arabic Numerals in Late Medieval Book Technologies," Stephen Chrisomalis, Wayne State University Session 131, Thursday, May 7, 3:30 pm, Fetzer 1035 Technologies of the Book I: Marking Places Organizer: Shana Worthen, University of Arkansas-Little Rock Presider: Shana Worthen "Technologies for Medieval Readers: The Manufacture and Use of Bookmarks," Heather Blatt, Fordham University "Finding a Plant in an Early Herbal," Karen Reeds, Princeton Research Forum/University of Pennsylvania "Representation of Custom, Globalization and Crisis: The Pearl Poem, Collective News Gift Use, the Pearl-Gawain Manuscript," Martha L. Reiner, Florida International University Session 217, Friday, May 8, 10:00 am, Fetzer 2020 Lines of Thought: Drawing Diagrams and Figures to Think, Analyze and Prove Organizer: Renzo Baldasso, Newberry Library Presider: Paul Strenger, Newberry Library "Drawing and Speaking: On the Interaction of Diagrammatic and Verbal Explanation in Cosmological and Astronomical Treatises of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries," Kathrin Müller, Kunsthistorishes Institut in Florenz "Lines of Time: History-Telling in Diagram and Genealogical Tree," Marigold Anne Norbye, University College, University of London "Chartres Cathedral: A New "Perspective"?," Karen Webb, University of Pittsburgh "Lines of Thought and Thoughts of Lines: Looking Back, Looking Forward," Renzo Baldasso, Newberry Library Session 275, Friday, May 8, 1:30 pm, Fetzer 1055 New Directions in Medieval Architecture I Organizer: Robert Bork, University of Iowa Presider: Robert Bork "The Longue Durée and the Life of Buildings," Nicola Camerlenghi, Louisiana State University "Money, Documents, and Stones: A New Chronology for Saint-Denis?," William W. Clark and Thomas G. Waldman, University of Pennsylvania "Rethinking Medieval Structure," Andrew J Tallon, Vassar College "The Medieval Design Process at Southwell Minster," Lisa Reilly, University of Virginia Session 340, Friday, May 8, 3:30 pm, Fetzer 2020 New Directions in Medieval Architecture II Organizer: Robert Bork, University of Iowa Presider: Virginia Jansen, University of California-Santa Cruz "Connecting the Dots: Towards "Geometrical Connoisseurship," Robert Bork, University of Iowa "The Hand of the Master: Architects and Entrepreneurs in Late Gothic Paris," Abby McGehee, Oregon College of Art and Craft "Old Questions, New Technologies, Different Voices: Finding Directions for the Study of Medieval Architecture," Michael T. Davis, Mount Holyoke College AVISTA Reception - Friday, May 8, 5:00 pm, Fetzer 2020 AVISTA Business Meeting - Saturday, May 9, 12:00 pm, Valley II, Garneau Lounge

Kalamazoo Conference Schedule 2008

For the 2008 Conference, May 8-11, 2008, AVISTA offered sessions on the following topics: Session 219, Friday, May 9, 10:00 am, Schneider 1220 Villard de Honnecourt I: 150 Years of Facsimiles Organizer: Carl Barnes, Jr., Oakland University Presider: Richard A. Sundt, University of Oregon "The 1858 Lassus Facsimile: the Start of It All," Carl F. Barnes, Jr., Oakland University "Villard Bound and Unbound(ed): The 1935 Hahnloser Facsimile and the Bauhüttenbuch Style," Katherine Morris, Columbia University "The Portfolio of Villard de Honnecourt by Carl Barnes," Nancy Wu, The Cloisters, New York Session 275, Friday, May 9, 1:30 pm, Schneider 1220 Villard de Honnecourt II: Artistic Matters Organizer: Carl Barnes, Jr., Oakland University Presider: Carl Barnes, Jr., Oakland University "Taking Villard’s Lion at Face Value," Jean Givens, Univ. of Connecticut "Architectural Style and Villard's Drawings," Ellen M. Shortell, Massachusetts College of Art & Design "Villard de Honnecourt: Master Carpenter of the Gothic Era," George Brooks, Valencia Community College Session 328, Friday, May 9, 3:30 pm, Schneider 1220 Villard de Honnecourt III: Architecture and Mechanics Organizer: Carl Barnes, Jr., Oakland University Presider: Carl Barnes, Jr., Oakland University "Villard de Honnecourt and His Cistercian Plan of Squares," Nigel Hiscock, Oxford Brookes University "Villard’s Perpetuum Mobile," Steven A. Walton, Pennsylvania State University "Tracing Tracery and Related Details: Villard's Architectural Drawings and Their Graphic Sources," Katherine Baker, Emory University Session 525, Sunday, May 11, 8:30 am, Fetzer 1010 New Methods in the Study of Medieval Architecture I Organizer: William W. Clark, Queens College and Graduate Center, CUNY, and Robert Bork, University of Iowa Presider: William W. Clark "Old Wine in New Bottles: The Interrelation of Ritual and Architecture in Byzantium," Vasileios Marinis, Queen's College, NY "The Sculpted Capitals of Wells Cathedral," Matthew M. Reeve, Carleton University "Rethinking medieval structure," Andrew J Tallon, Vassar College Session 575, Sunday, May 11, 10:30 am, Fetzer 1010 New Methods in the Study of Medieval Architecture II Organizer: William W. Clark, Queens College and Graduate Center, CUNY, and Robert Bork, University of Iowa Presider: William W. Clark "Thinking and Building the Early-Gothic Chevet: Applied Science in the Twelfth Century," Stefaan Van Liefferinge, University of Georgia "New Methods, New Insights at Auxerre Cathedral," Harry Titus, Wake Forest University "Narrating Gothic," Stephen Murray, Columbia University AVISTA Business Meeting - Friday, May 9, 12:00 pm, Schneider 1220 AVISTA Reception - Friday, May 9, 5:30 pm, Bernhard Faculty Lounge

Kalamazoo Conference Schedule 2007

For the 2007 Conference, May 10-13, 2007, AVISTA offered sessions on the following topics: Session 140 - Schneider 1140 - Thursday 3:30-5:00 pm From Field to Table: Technologies of Food Organizer: Shana Worthen, University of Arkansas-Little Rock Presider: Eileen Kim, University of Toronto "The Invention of Agriculture," Shana Worthen, University of Arkansas-Little Rock "Ad amorem: Magical Confections, Perceptions, and Efficacy," Elisabeth Carnell, Western Michigan University Followed by...5:15 pm - Valley III 312 "Medieval Flavors: A Demonstration," Janice Safran, Independent Scholar Session 230 - Schneider 1140 - Friday 10:00-11:20 am De Aedificatione I - Towers Organizer: Abby McGehee, Oregon College of Art and Craft Presider: Ellen Shortell Massachusetts College of Art "Constructing Salisbury Cathedral's Spire," A. Richard Jones, AVISTA "Late Gothic Tower Construction in Paris: Symbol and Function," Abby McGehee, Oregon College of Art and Craft "The Geometry of Tower Planning for Ulm Minster," Robert Bork, University of Iowa Session 301 - Bernhard 208 - Friday 1:30-3:00 pm De Aedificatione II - Planning and Marking-out Organizer: William W. Clark, Queen's College, CUNY Presider: William W. Clark "Laying Out Reims After Lunch," Nancy Wu, The Cloisters; The Metropolitan Museum of Art "Patrons, Builders, and the Laying Out of Architecture: How Regular Did Pier Spacing Have to Be?" Nigel Hiscock, Oxford Brookes University "Unitary Measure at Saint-Martin-aux-Bois," Chris Henige, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Session 346 - Schneider 1140 - Friday 3:30-5:00 pm De Aedificatione III - Making the Idea Real Organizer: William W. Clark, Queen's College, CUNY Presider: William W. Clark "The Production and Representation of Space in the Romanesque Churches of the Bourbonnais," Stephen Murray, Columbia University "The Readiness is All: evidence for standardization in limestone sculpture production in Twelfth-Century France," Janet Snyder, West Virginia University "Kimpel, la taille en série, and medieval mass-production revisited," Vibeke Olson, University of North Carolina-Wilmington Session 613 - Bernhard 208 - Sunday 10:30 am -12:00 pm (Re)Build It and They Will Come: Reconstructing Medieval Technology Organizer: Steven A. Walton, Penn State University Presider: Paul Gans, NYU "Maulnes: Archéologie et architecture d'un château de la Renaissance," Stéphane Büttner and Fabrice Henrion, Centre d'études médiévales, Auxerre "Reconstructing the "War-Wagons" of Guido da Vigevano," George W. Brooks, Valencia Community College "Tilting at Windmills: the promise and peril of campus construction projects," Steven A. Walton, Penn State University AVISTA Reception - Fetzer 1045 - Friday 5:30 pm AVISTA Business Meeting - Valley II Stinson Lounge - Saturday, Noon

Kalamazoo Conference Schedule 2006

For the Conference at Kalamazoo, May 4-7, 2006, AVISTA offered the following sessions: Thursday, 10:00 a.m. Session 52 Sangren 2212 The Art, Science, and Technology of Medieval Travel I: Medieval Vehicles and Logistics Sponsor: AVISTA: The Association Villard de Honnecourt for the Interdisciplinary Study of Medieval Technology, Science, and Art Organizer: Robert Bork, Univ. of Iowa Presider: Robert Bork Charlemagne and Early Carolingian Logistics Bernard S. Bachrach, Univ. of Minnesota–Twin Cities Everything Is a Compromise: Mediterranean Ship Design, Thirteenth to Sixteenth Centuries John E. Dotson, Southern Illinois Univ.–Carbondale Brick on Water: The Possible and the Impossible David H. Kennett, Stratford-upon-Avon College Thursday 1:30 p.m. Session 87 Fetzer 1060 The Art, Science, and Technology of Medieval Travel II: Medieval Journeys, Charted and Uncharted Sponsor: AVISTA: The Association Villard de Honnecourt for the Interdisciplinary Study of Medieval Technology, Science, and Art Organizer: Evelyn Edson, Piedmont Virginia Community College Presider: Kristen M. Figg, Kent State Univ.–Salem Rethinking the Peutinger Map Emily Albu, Univ. of California–Davis The Gough Map: Britain’s Oldest Road Map or a Statement of Empire? Nick Millea, Bodleian Library Traveling between Two Maps: Petrarch’s Journey to the Holy Land Evelyn Edson Thursday, 3:30PM. Session 157 Bernhard 204 The Art, Science, and Technology of Medieval Travel III: Medieval Travel in Theory and Practice Sponsor: AVISTA: The Association Villard de Honnecourt for the Interdisciplinary Study of Medieval Technology, Science, and Art Organizer: Abby McGehee, Oregon College of Art and Craft Presider: Abby McGehee The Voices of Those Not Present: Speaking the Hereford Map Dan Terkla, Illinois Wesleyan Univ. Mapping the Macrocosm: Christian Platonist Thought behind Medieval Maps and Plans Nigel Hiscock, Oxford Brookes Univ. Carriage to Coach: What Really Happened? Julian Munby, Oxford Archaeology Friday 10:00 a.m. Session 253 Bernhard 210 The Art, Science, and Technology of Medieval Travel IV: Medieval Travel and the Fine Arts Sponsor: AVISTA: The Association Villard de Honnecourt for the Interdisciplinary Study of Medieval Technology, Science, and Art Organizer: Andrea Kann, Univ. of Iowa Presider: Andrea Kann Spiritual Pilgrimage in the Psalter of Bonne of Luxembourg Annette Lermack, Illinois State Univ. The Path of the Missionary: Visual Narratives of Martyrdom and Travel in Fourteenth-Century Siena Anne McClanan, Portland State Univ. Pilgrims and Portals in Late Medieval Siena Michelle Duran-McLure, Univ. of Montevallo Friday 1:30 p.m. Session 325 Sangren 2301 The Art, Science, and Technology of Medieval Travel V: Medieval Navigational Instruments Sponsor: AVISTA: The Association Villard de Honnecourt for the Interdisciplinary Study of Medieval Technology, Science, and Art Organizer: Richard A. Paselk, Humboldt State Univ. Presider: Richard A. Paselk Decoding Astrolabes: From Cistercian Ciphers to Piero’s Flagellation David A. King, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Univ. Frankfurt am Main An Experiment with the Establishment: Construction and Use of the Tide Dial J. E. Harvey, II, Horai Center Astrolabes and the Medieval Traveler Sara J. Schechner, Harvard Univ. AVISTA Reception with cash bar Friday 5:30 p.m. Fetzer 1045 AVISTA Business Meeting Saturday 12:00 p.m. Bernhard Faculty Lounge

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