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
“Reflections on Les Ruses d’Intelligence”
Lisa Raphals, University of California, Riverside
“Hoary Authorities and Wanton Wiles: Women in Medieval Exempla”
Olga M. Davidson, Wellesley College
“The Knight and the Go-Between: Arabo-Andalusian Hiyal in Late Medieval Castilian Literature”
Luis M. Girón-Negrón, Harvard University