Saturday, April 28, 2012

Kalamazoo 2012

This year's Societas Daemonetica session at the International Congress on Medieval Studies is simply titled "Hell Studies" and features three excellent papers! Hope to see you there! Details below:


Hell Studies


Sponsor: Societas Daemonetica

Date/Time: Saturday, May 12, 10:00am

Location: Fetzer 2040

Organizer: Richard A. Burley, Boston College

Presider: Nicole E. Ford, Boston University

“I drede we cannot be glad”: Sympathizing with the Rueful Devil: Messenger of Hope and Mirror of Humanity in Medieval and Elizabethan Drama
Brenda Carr, University of Toronto

In a Corporeal Flame: The Development of the Materiality of Hellfire before the Resurrection in Western Eschatology
Michael D. Barbezat, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto

The Evolution of Hell as a Home for Satan
Henry Ansgar Kelly, University of California–Los Angeles