Keynote Lecture –\u00a0“Medieval Muteness: Disability, Objects, and Animals”
\nDr. Karl T. Steel\u00a0Associate Professor of English, Brooklyn College, CUNY
\nApril 14, 2017 –\u00a0Union South TITU – 4pm – 5:30pm<\/p>\n

For medieval writers, \u201cmuteness\u201d might mean the absence of sound, but it just as well might mean a senseless sound. My paper builds out from this observation to explore three aspects of muteness: mute people, mute objects, and mute animals, and three possible responses to each. The first, a “liberal” approach, explores the schoolboy “muteness” of Aquinas; the second, the “posthuman” approach, Augustine’s commentary on the voice of mute stones; and the third, a disability and ecological studies approach, the gestures of noisy birds in a story of Saint Cuthbert and the ravens. Ultimately, thinking with the work of Mel Y. Chen and Rosamarie Garland-Thomson, I will argue for “misfit ecology” that decenters questions of muteness and agency in favor of an imperfect making do.<\/p>\n

Part of the\u00a0Fourth Annual Medieval Studies Colloquium
\nPresented by the Graduate Association of Medieval Studies<\/p>\n

April 14, 2017
\nUnion South TITU
\nUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison<\/p>\n

9AM Coffee and Conversation
\n10AM – 11:30AM Morning Panel: Survival and Afterlife
\n12PM – 1:30PM Lunchtime Workshop (by RSVP)*
\n2PM – 3:30PM Afternoon Panel: History and Culture
\n4PM-5:15PM Keynote Lecture followed by Q&A, Dr. Karl Steel, Associate Professor of English, Brooklyn College, CUNY, “Medieval Muteness: Animals, Disability, and Objects”
\n5:15PM-6PM Reception<\/p>\n

*RSVP to Maxwell Gray at mgray5\u00a0(at)\u00a0wisc\u00a0(dot)\u00a0edu for a seat at the workshop and to receive the readings<\/p>\n

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