Conferences - Annual MESA Conference, 2006

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ILEX Foundation presented a panel at the 40th Anniversary of MESA's annual conference, held in Boston, MA, in November 2006. The ILEX panel was entitled "Cunning Words: Hila or How To Do Things with Tricks."

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Chair

Richard W. Bulliet, Columbia University

Discussant

Louise Marlow, Wellesley College

Paper topics and presenters

Lisa Raphals, University of California, Riverside
Reflections on Les Ruses d'Intelligence

Olga M. Davidson, Wellesley College
Hoary Authorities and Wanton Wiles: Women in Medieval Exempla

Luis M. Girón-Negrón, Harvard University
The Knight and the Go-Between: Arabo-Andalusian Hiyal in Late Medieval Castilian Literature

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