The International Congress on Medieval Studies - Western Michigan University - Kalamazoo, MI
Depuis 2002, un an après sa création, la SIAM organise chaque année une session à la grande manifestation médiéviste des USA, qui prend traditionnellement place au début du mois de mai:
2002 - 37th Congress
Merlin's Homologues in the Middle Ages
Presider: Florence Marsal, Connecticut College
• «Devins et enchanteurs dans l'Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César», Marijke de Visser-van Terwisga, Univ. of Amsterdam
• «Les figures merlinesques dans la tradition orale sérère», Marie-Lise Charue, University of Evansville
• «Maugis d'Aigremont, prototype ou épigone de Merlin», Anne Berthelot, University of Connecticut
2003 - 38th Congress
Feminine Figures around Merlin
Presider: Anne Berthelot, University of Connecticut
• «Ladies, Enchantresses, and the Mage: Merlin Surrounded, Reflected, or Just Plain Finished?», Barbara D. Miller, Buffalo State College
• «Demon and Saint: Merlin's Parents», Meriel Wisotsky, Columbia College
• «Virtuous Heritage: The Presence and Character of Merlin's Mother», Kisha G. Tracy, Univ. of Connecticut
• «Les fonctions de Viviane dans le Graal-Théâtre», Florence Marsal, College of the Holy Cross
2004 - 39th Congress
What is Going On around Merlin? Magic, Metamorphosis, and Prophecy
Presider: Wendy Hoofnagle, University of Connecticut
• «The Outer Reaches of Inner Space: Merlin’s Intertextual Appeal», Peter H. Goodrich, Northern Michigan University
• «Merlin as Trickster», Marijke de Visser-van Terwisga, University of Amsterdam
• «Edgar Quinet’s Merlin l’Enchanteur: Mythic or Mystic Autobiography», Tina Isaac, Texas Tech University
2005 - 40th Congress
Intertextual Merlins
Presider: Anne Berthelot, University of Connecticut
• «Magic and Witchcraft in the Merlin and the Premiers faits du roi Arthur», Nathalie Ettzevoglou, University of Connecticut
• «Un Merlin borroméen: topologie des genres et du temps dans Le Chevalier Silence, de Jacques Roubaud», Cristina Alvares, University of Minho and Louisiana State University
• «Merlin, Jacques Roubaud, and the Multiplicity of their Boundless Texts», Florence Marsal, College of the Holy Cross
2006 - 41st Congress
Blaise: Merlin's Master, Merlin's Scribe
Presider: Kisha Tracy, University of Connecticut
• «Blaise and the Anxieties of Authorship in the Middle Ages »,, Keith Russo,Western Michigan University
• «Blaise, Antoine, Tholomeu, and a Few Others», Anne Berthelot, University of Connecticut
• «scribe@logres.com», Florence Marsal, University of Connecticut
2007 - 42nd Congress
«In Memory of Emmanuèle Baumgartner: Merlin or the Remembrance of Things Past and Future.»
Presider: Nathalie Ettzevoglou, University of Connecticut
• «A la Recherche du Temps Retrouvé: The Atemporality and Transhistorical Perceptions of Merlin», Keith Russo, Western Michigan University
• «Future Explored in Aural Prophecies versus Remembrance of the Past in Script Letters?: A Study of an Excerpt (#418) in Gilles Roussineau’s Edition of La suite du Merlin», Laurence E. Cousteix, University of Connecticut
• «Witness for the Prosecution: The Emergence of Legal Person in Henry Lovelich’s Merlin» , Andreea D. Boboc, University of the Pacific
• «A Prophet and a Magician, an Advocate and a Political Counsellor : The Role of Merlin in the Legitimation of Arthur's Birth and Coronation»,Irène Fabry, Univ.ersité de Paris III