Saturday April 12, 2014
Centre for Medieval Studies
Lillian Massey Building, 3rd Floor, Room 312
125 Queen’s Park, Toronto
No Registration Fee
8:30-9:00 Registration / Coffee, Tea and Muffins
9:00-10:00 Session 1
Welcome: William Robins
Chair: TBD
Helen Cooper (Cambridge): “Not Swerving from Decorum: Chaucer’s Practice of Theory”
10:00-10:15 Coffee and Tea
10:15-11:45 Session 2
Chair: TBD
Frederick M. Biggs (Connecticut): “The Confessio Amantis and Other Sources for the Canon’s Yeoman’s Tale”
Robert Meyer-Lee (Indiana): “What Hoccleve’s Series Tells Us about the Canterbury Tales”
Noelle Phillips (Toronto): “Lydgate’s Verses on the Kings of England and the Social Function of Fifteenth-Century Literary Historiography”
11:45-12:00 Coffee and Tea
12:00-1:00 Session 3
Chair: TBD
Melissa Furrow (Dalhousie): “Philippa of Hainault as English Spectacle”
Lynn Arner (Brock): “Chaucer and Film in Pre-WWII America”
1:00-2:30 Break for Lunch
We will provide participants with suggestions for nearby restaurants and cafés
2:30-4:15 Session 4
Chair: TBD
Kathleen Cawsey (Dalhousie): “Ice Letters, Checkerboard Voices, Broken Wind: The Look of Words in Chaucer’s House of Fame.”
Elizaveta Strakov (Penn): “Sufficient English: Engaging with the French in the Squire’s Tale and the Prologue to the Legend of Good Women”
Fiona Somerset (Connecticut): “Trouble with Consent: Chaucer’s Clerk’s Tale”
4:15-4:30 Coffee and Tea
4:30-5:30 Session 5
Chair: TBD
Warren Ginsberg (Oregon): “The Dancer and the Dance: Tellers, Tales, and Translation in the Canterbury Tales”
5:30 Reception