Kalamazoo Papers of Interest

The following papers of relevance to the topic of medieval comics are included in the program for this week's International Congress on Medieval Studies held at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

THURSDAY, 13 MAY 2010

1:30-3:00 PM

SESSION 88: SCHNEIDER 1255

Global Progeny

Sponsor: Scholarly Community for the Globalization of the Middle Ages (SCGMA)

Organizer: Gabriel Gryffyn, Univ. of Minnesota–Twin Cities

Presider: Maria Cecire, Univ. of Chicago/Univ. of Oxford

PAPER 2OF 2: The Percival Complex: Understanding the Role of the Imperfect Hero in the Global Popularity of Juvenile Manga Series

Lorna Wolcott Cooper, Lubbock Christian Univ.

SATURDAY, 15 MAY 2010

3:30-5:00 PM

SESSION 521: SCHNEIDER 1360

Medievalism in Music and the Fine Arts

Sponsor: Studies in Medievalism

Organizer: Richard Utz, Western Michigan Univ.

Presider: Kirsten Yri, Wilfrid Laurier Univ.

PAPER 4 OF 4: Jeff Smith’s “Bone”: Revising Tolkien and Lewis’s Antimodernist Fantasies

Andrew Taylor, Western Michigan Univ.