The New Chaucer Society: Ninth International Congress Program

The New Chaucer Society Ninth International Congress July 23-27, 1994 Trinity College DUBLIN Program Saturday, July 23 1-2 P.M.: Special group meeting *Thomas Hahn (University of Rochester): "The Chaucer Bibliographies" 2-3 P.M.: Special group meeting *Mary Hamel (Mount Saint Mary's College): "New Sources and Analogues" 3-3:30 P.M.: Opening Session Presiding: Jill Mann (Girton College, Cambridge) 3:30-5:30 P.M.: Opening Plenary Session The Stripping ofthe Altars and Late Medieval Literature: A Symposium with Eamon Duffy Thomas Hahn (University of Rochester) Kathleen Ashley (University of Southern Maine) Sarah Beckwith (University of Pittsburgh) Ann Nichols (Winona State University) James Rhodes (Southern Connecticut State College) Miri Rubin (Pembroke College, Oxford) Eamon Duffy (Magdalene College, Cambridge) Sunday, July 24 9-10:30 A.M.: Concurrent paper sessions 1) Chaucer's Poetry, Christian Traditions, Late Fourteenth-Century Culture, and Modern Criticism Presiding: *David Aers (Duke University) Anne Middleton (University of California, Berkeley) Lynn Johnson (Colgate University) Elizabeth Fowler (Yale University) *An asterisk denotes the organizer of a session. 365 STUDIES IN THE AGE OF CHAUCER 2) Audience, Allusion, and Reception: Making Chaucer 'Historical' Presiding: Piero Boitani (University of Rome) Karla Taylor (University of Michigan): "'Daunt in Inglissh' and Chaucer's Early Readers" Rosalind Field (Royal Holloway, London University): "Reading Pavia: Civic Reputation and Critical Response" *Leonard Koff (University of California, Los Angeles): "Where in the World is History? Rethinking Influence and Reception" 3) Feminist Chaucer Studies Presiding: *Elaine Hansen (Haverford College) Jane Chance (Rice University) Susan Crane (Rutgers University) Marilynn Desmond (State University of New York, Binghamton) Laurie Finke (Kenyon College) Karma Lochrie (Loyola University, Chicago) Elizabeth Robertson (University of Colorado, Boulder) 4) Chaucer and Medieval Philosophy Presiding: *Alistair Minnis (University of York) William Courtenay (University of Wisconsin): "The Dialectic of Divine Omnipotence in the Age of Chaucer" James Wimsatt (University of Texas): "Duns Scotus, Charles Pierce, and the Problem of Type in the General Prologue" William Watts (Butler University): "Chaucer's Clerks and the Value of Philosophy" 5) The Social Environment of Chaucer's Complaints Presiding: Andrew Galloway (Cornell University) *Alfred David (Indiana University): "Chaucer, Deschamps, Villon: What Are They Complaining About?" Thorlac Turville-Petre (Nottingham University): "Truth and Gentilerse in the Mellish Psalter" Andrew Galloway (Cornell University): "The Timeliness of Chaucer's Former Age" 1 lA.M.: Biennial Chaucer Lecture 366 "What Can We Know About Chaucer that He Didn't Know About Himself?" Paul Strohm (Indiana University) Presiding: John M. Ganim (University of California, Riverside) NINTH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS PROGRAM 2:30-4:30 P.M.: Concurrent colloquia Cl) Reading Communities: History and Theory Presiding: *Rita Copeland (Universiry of Minnesota) and *David Lawton (Universiry of Tasmania) Steven Justice (Universiry of California, Berkeley): "Theorizing Reading Communities: Some Considerations" Louise D'Arcens (Universiry of Sydney): "Anchoritic Reading Communities" Dyan Elliott (History, Indiana Universiry): "Female Mystics as Literary Agents" Martin Camargo (Universiry of Missouri): "Where's the Brief? The Ars Dictaminis and Reading/Writing Between the Lines" Chris Cannon (Girton College, Cambridge): "Chaucer's Traditional English" Mark Addison Amos (Duke Universiry): "William Caxton's Motley Audience: 'Grete Lordes Gentilmen & Marchauntes'" Ralph Hanna III (Universiry of California, Riverside): "Wrothely, the de Veres, and an Ellesmere Audience" C2) Psychoanalysis and Chaucer: The Next Century Presiding: *R. A. Shoaf (Universiry of Florida) David G. Allen (The Citadel): "Chaucer, Cognitive Psychology, and the Eros of Mind" Margaret Bridges (University of Bern): "Psychoanalytical Contributions Towards a Search for the Victim in Chaucer's Legend of Good Women" James W. Earl (University of Oregon): "Chaucer and the History of the Subject" Teresa Kennedy (Mary Washington College): "He's Talking as Fast as She Can: Anxiety and Pleasure in the Tale ofMelibe,e" Ellen Martin (Vassar College): "Psy-Trek: The Next Generation-The Hope of Melancholy" Greg Roper (Ripon College): "Dropping the Personae and Reforming the Self: The Parson's Tale and the End of the Canterbury Tales" Elizabeth Scala (University of Chicago): "Historicists and Their Discontents" C3) Chaucer and the Discourse of the Fabliau Presiding: *R. W. Hanning (Columbia University) George Economou (University of Oklahoma) 367 STUDIES IN THE AGE OF CHAUCER Mary Agnes Edsall (Columbia Universiry) Priscilla Martin (Universiry of London) Glending Olson (Cleveland State Universiry) Monika Otter (Dartmouth College...