The Canada Chaucer Seminar will take place on Saturday, 27 April 2013 at the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto.

Below is the program.

9:00-9:30 Registration Coffee, Tea and Muffins
Welcome: William Robins

9:30-10:30 Session 1

Chair:
ARDIS BUTTERFIELD (Yale): “Writing Chaucer’s Life: The Evanescence of the Archive”

10:30-10:45 Coffee and Tea

10:45-11:45 Session 2 Re-appropriating Performative Speech Acts – Chaucer before Austin

Chair:
KATHY CAWSEY (Dalhousie): “Doing – and failing to do – things with words in Book of the Duchess and Parlement of Foules”
ELIZABETH EDWARDS (King’s College): “Speech as Action and the progress of Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde.”

11:45-12:00 Coffee and Tea

12:00-1:00 Session 3

Chair:
LEAH SCHWEBEL (University of Connecticut): “Not Another ‘Olde Story’: The Rhetoric of Erasure in Chaucer’s Thebes”
LAURENCE DE LOOZE (University of Western Ontario): “Misconception in Chaucer’s Merchant’s Tale”

1:00-2:30 Break for Lunch
We will provide participants with suggestions for nearby restaurants and cafés.

2:30-3:30 Session 4

Chair:
JOHN GECK (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies): “‘from thennes faste he gan avyse/ This litel spot of erthe:’: GIS and the General Prologue”
TIMOTHY MILLER (Notre Dame): “Retraction History: A History of License in Chaucerian Interpretation”

3:30-3:45 Coffee and Tea

3:45-4:45 Session 5

Chair:
ARTHUR BAHR (MIT): “Pleasurable Forms and Forms of Pleasure in the Pages of the Pearl-Manuscript”
ROBERT EPSTEIN (Fairfield University): “The Wife of Bath and the Gender of the Gift”

4:45-5:00 Coffee and Tea

5:00-6:00 Session 6

Chair:
JAMES WELDON (Wilfrid Laurier): “O word er I go: Grisilde and Closure in the Naples Manuscript”

6:00-7:30 Reception in Honour of James Weldon, Great Hall

Hosted by the Centre for Medieval Studies, the Canadian Society of Medievalists, Wilfrid Laurier University

All sessions are held in Room 310
Registration and Breaks are held in the Great Hall
Centre for Medieval Studies, Lillian Massey Building,
125 Queen’s Park, University of Toronto

For more information see the event website.

On Friday May 3rd, the Centre hosts the Toronto Old English Colloquium 2013. The speakers include Joyce Hill (Leeds), Andy Orchard, Peter Buchanan, David Wilton, Manish Sharma (Concordia). Please see the program for more details about this upcoming event. The colloquium is organized by Megan Cavell and Fabienne Michelet.

The Celtic Studies Association of North America (CSANA) will hold its annual meeting in Toronto on 18-21 April, cohosted by the Centre for Medieval Studies and the Celtic Studies Program at St. Michael’s College. The conference will feature thirty-five papers by scholars from Canada, the United States, Ireland, and the UK, including two sessions honouring the retirements of Prof. Ann Dooley and Prof. David Klausner. Keynote addresses will be given by Brynley Roberts of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and Mairin Ni Dhonnchadha of the National University of Ireland, Galway. Prof. Michael Newton of Cape Breton University will lead a seminar on a late eighteenth-century Scots Gaelic poem written in Glengarry, Ontario.  Further information is contained on the CSANA website.

Our 2012-2013 CMS/PIMS Distinguished Visiting Scholar Dr. Stella Panayotova (Keeper of Manuscripts, Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge) will hold a series of events during her term at the University of Toronto. She will give a lecture and three master classes.

The lecture “Illuminated Manuscripts: Science and Art” will be held on Friday, March 8, 4pm in Alumni Hall 100, 121 St. Joseph Street. The lecture is free and open to the public. If you have an accessibility or accommodation need for this event, please contact the Centre for Medieval Studies (email hidden; JavaScript is required) or 416 978 4884

The three master classes (January 25, February 1, March 22) will be dedicated to the making and meaning of Medieval and Renaissance illuminated manuscripts. Enrollment is limited and graduate students interested in attending should email to Grace Desa (email hidden; JavaScript is required) as soon as possible.

Click here to download a poster for these events.

The 2012 J.R. O’Donnell Memorial Lecture in Medieval Latin Studies will be presented by Carmela Vircillo Franklin (Columbia University) on Friday, November 30, at 4:10 in the Great Hall of the Centre for Medieval Studies. The topic of Prof. Franklin’s talk is “History and Rhetoric in the 12th-Century Redaction of the Liber Pontificalis”.

The talk is followed by a reception in the Laurence K. Shook Common Room, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 59 Queen’s Park Crescent East.

The event is jointly sponsored by the Centre for Medieval Studies and the Journal of Medieval Latin.

A workshop on Hildemar of Corbie’s ninth-century commentary on the Rule of Benedict, will take place on November 23rd from 1:00 to 5:00 pm in the Great Hall of the Centre for Medieval Studies (Lillian Massey Building, room 312). The workshop is intended to introduce the ongoing collaborative translation project and to provide an opportunity for scholars working on the project to discuss translation issues. See also the project website at: www.hildemar.org.

Speakers include Julian Hendrix (Carthage College), Albrecht Diem (Syracuse University), Jesse Billett (Faculty of Divinity), and Corinna Prior (History) on topics of Carolingian monasticism, textual composition, and liturgy within the Commentary.

The poster for this event can be found here.

The Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, the Centre for Medieval Studies, and the program in Book History and Print Culture at the University of Toronto announce a cluster of lectures exploring the textual cultures of medieval Britain that will take place in November 2012.

The University of Toronto Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy 2012 will be held on September 21 and 22. Speakers include Charles Manekin, Eileen Sweeney, Stephen Dumont, Nate Bulthuis, JT Paasch, and Matthew Siebert.
All sessions are free and open to the public. For more information check the colloquium website.