The New Chaucer Society Nineteenth International Congress July 15–20, 2014 University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland

TUESDAY, JULY 15

9:30–4:45: Graduate Student Workshop (by application only) (Árnagarður 201)

11:00–6:00: Trustees’ Meeting (Hannesarholt)

2:00–7:00: Early Registration (HT upper level)

2:00–5:00: Manuscript Exhibit (Þjóðarbókhlaðan, National Library/University Library)

5:00: Graduate Student Evening (open event) (Stúdentakjallarinn)

WEDNESDAY, JULY 16

8:00–4:30: Registration (HT upper level)

9:00–10:30: Concurrent Sessions, Group 1

Session 1A, Round Table: Ice (1) Theory (HT 103)

(Thread: North 1: Texts)

Session Organizer and Chair: Jeffrey Jerome Cohen

• • “Like Ice/Ice-Like: Fluidity, Solidity, and Reading Metaphor Backwards,” Timothy S. Miller, University of Notre Dame

• • “Icespeak,” Lowell Duckert, West Virginia University

• • “Frost,” Ethan Knapp, Ohio State University

• • “Hugh Willougby Talks to the Seafarer about Ice,” Steve Mentz, St. John’s University

Session1B, Round Table: Not Your Doktorvater’s General Prologue (HT 104)

(Thread: The Ways We Read Now)

Session Organizer and Chair: Peter Travis

• • “Reverse Prosopography,” Monika Otter, Dartmouth College

• • “Transition, Repetition, Substitution, Assimilation and Subversion in The General Prologue,” Warren Ginsberg, University of Oregon

• • “The Plowman’s Creed: Commercial Ideology and Its Discontents in The General Prologue,” Robert Epstein, Fairfield University

• • “‘Whan that they were seeke’: Reading The General Prologue and Chaucer’s Pilgrims through the Lens of Disability Studies,” Samantha Seal, Weber State University

• • “Framing Time in The General Prologue,” Tim Asay, University of Oregon

Session 1C, Round Table: How to Do Things with Form (1) (HT 101)

(Thread: How to Do Things with Texts)

Session Organizers and Chairs: Elizabeth Robertson and Ad Putter

• • “Literary Catalogues and Verse Units,” Kara Gaston, University of Toronto

• • “Rhyme Royal: Embodiment and Rhyme Royal in the Prologues to The Prioress’s Tale and The Second Nun’s Tale,” Elizabeth Robertson, University of Glasgow

• • “French Rhymes in the Chaucerian Stanza,” Ad Putter, University of Bristol

• • Respondents: Sarah Stanbury, College of the Holy Cross; and Jeffrey C. Robinson, University of Glasgow

Session 1D, Paper Panel: Chaucer’s Life, Chaucer’s Libraries (L 102)

Session Organizer and Chair: Orietta Da Rold

• • “Books of Lives, Lives of Books in the Canterbury Tales,” Elaine Treharne, Stanford University

• • “A Reconsideration of Chaucer’s Italian Books,” Michael Hanly, Washington State University

• • “Chaucer and the Private Libraries of Tuscany,” William Robins, University of Toronto

Session 1E, Paper Panel: Edification of the Senses (1) (L 103)

(Thread: The Medieval Sensorium)

Session Organizers: Richard G. Newhauser and Larry Scanlon

Chair: Richard G. Newhauser

• • “The Innovation of the Senses: Restored Receptivity in John of Morigny’s Book of the Flowers of Heavenly Teaching (1301–1315),” Nicholas Watson, Harvard University

• • “Sensory Perception and the Labour of Imagination in Fifteenth-Century Vernacular Theology,” Katie L. Walter, University of Sussex

• • “Water Gazing and Piss Prophets: An Analysis of the Senses and Uroscopy in the Canterbury Tales and Other 14th-Century Middle English Texts,” Mary Rambaran-Olm, University of Glasgow

• • “Erotic Edification: Henry Suso’s Life of the Servant and Its Seduction of the Spirit,” James Staples, University of Pittsburgh

Session 1F, Paper Panel: From Ash Clouds to Grisly Rokkes: Travel Disruptions in Medieval Literature (L 204)

(Thread: Movement, Networks, Economies)

Session Organizers and Chairs: Jessica Lockhart and Anna Wilson

• • “Travel Disruption and Social Reorientation in Medieval Narratives,” Elliot Kendall, University of Exeter

• • “Bounty, Interrupted: Seashores, Shipwrecks, and the Costs of Investment Capital in Middle English Romance,” Andrew Richmond, Ohio State University

• • “The Man Out of Time: King Herla’s Journey and Walter Map’s De nugis curialium,” Kaitlin Heller, University of Toronto

• • “Figures of Geo-Political Spaces in The Man of Law’s Tale,” John F. Plummer, Vanderbilt University

Session 1G, Paper Panel: Inordinate Love (1) (L 205)

(Thread: Handling Sins)

Session Organizers: Robyn Malo and Nicole Smith

Chair: Sylvia Tomasch

• • “Ordering Maternal Love in the Legenda aurea,” Meg Cotter-Lynch, Southeastern Oklahoma State University

• • “Radical Compassion: Restoring Love in Cleanness’s Flood,” Erin Mann, Lindenwood University—Belleville

• • “Pleyndamour: The Poetics of Middle English Romance,” Nicola McDonald, University of York

Session 1H, Paper Panel: Erotic Flesh in Late Medieval Discourse (1) (L 201)

Session Organizers: Virginia Blanton...