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  • The New Chaucer Society Seventeenth International Congress July 15–19, 2010 Università per Stranieri di Siena

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 14

13:00–19:00 Early Registration

11:00 Trustees’ Meeting

13:00–19:30 Graduate Workshop 13:00–14:00

Opening and students’ presentations on their research

14:00–14:30 Elaine Treharne, Florida State University, on manuscript descriptions

14:30–15:00 Break

15:00–16:30 Orietta Da Rold, University of Leicester, on materials, Alexandra Gillespie, University of Toronto, on bindings, and Jessica Brantley, Yale University, on illuminations

16:30–17:00 Afternoon Tea

17:00–18:30 Simon Horobin, Magdalen College, Oxford, on scribal hands, Kathryn A. Lowe, University of Glasgow, on language, Toshiyuki Takamiya, Keio University, on collecting manuscripts

18:00–19:30 Roundtable discussion

THURSDAY, JULY 15

8:00–13:00 Registration

9:00–10:30 Concurrent Sessions, Group 1 (1–6)

Session 1: Chaucer and the Traditions of Medieval Authorship (Thread C)

Session Organizer and Chair: Robert R. Edwards, Pennsylvania State University

  • • “Authorial Arrogance: Criseyde, the Miller, and Chaucerian Sprezzatura,” Wolfram R. Keller, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin [End Page 465]

  • • “Hagiography and the Invention of the Author,” Jennifer L. Sisk, University of Vermont

  • • “Revisionary Poetics, Problematic Bodies, and the Body of Literature,” Robert M. Stein, Purchase College and Columbia University

Session 2: Common Languages: Linguistic Hierarchies in the Fifth Century (Thread I)

Session Organizer and Chair: Ardis Butterfield, University College London

  • • “Chaucer and the Claims of Language,” Tim Machan, Marquette University

  • • “Code-Switching in the Linguistic Hierarchy: Three Bureaucrats and Their Texts,” Rebecca Fields, Exeter College, Oxford

  • • “Lending Authority? Reconsidering the Latin Marginal Glosses in Hoccleve's Regiment of Princes,” Elisabeth Kempf, Freie Universität Berlin

  • • “Words and War in Accounts of the Conflict Between England and France, 1337–1453,” Joanna Bellis, Pembroke College, Cambridge

Session 3: How to Talk About God (Thread R)

Session Organizer and Chair: Sarah Beckwith, Duke University

  • • “Faith and Conversion in the Second Nun's Tale,” Kate Crassons, Lehigh University

  • • “Julian of Norwich and Boethius,” Eleanor Johnson, Columbia University

  • • “Faith in Chaucer: The Friar, the Prioress, the Experts,” Claire M. Waters, University of California Davis

Session 4: Bodily Boldness in Women (Thread B)

Session Organizer and Chair: Alcuin Blamires, Goldsmiths College, University of London

  • • “Mulier Ludens,” Nicola McDonald, University of York

  • • “‘What, may I nat stonden here?’ The Heroine's Body in Troilus and Criseyde and The Testament of Cresseid,” J. Seth Lee, University of Kentucky

  • • “Bold Bodies and Emergent Minds: Narrating Suicide and Chaucer's Lucrece,” Corinne Saunders, University of Durham

  • • “The Touch of Class: What Nice Girls Don’t Do in Chaucer,” Sheila Fisher, Trinity College, Hartford [End Page 466]

Session 5: Animals and the Human Social Order (Thread A)

Session Organizer: Lisa Kiser, Ohio State University

Chair: Gillian Rudd, Liverpool University

  • • “‘Grete kyndenes ys in howndys’: The Ways of Dogs and Men in Three Middle English Romances,” Harriet Hudson, Indiana State University

  • • “Judicial Violence, Biopolitics, and the Bare Life of Animals,” Robert Mills, King's College London

  • • “Animal Debates: Chaucer's Parliament of Fowls and Lydgate's The Horse, The Goose, and The Sheep,” Wendy Matlock, Kansas State University

  • • “Uxor Noe and Animal Inventory,” Sarah Elliott Novacich, Yale University

Session 6: The Materials of Manuscript Production (Thread D)

Session Organizer and Chair: Alexandra Gillespie, University of Toronto

  • • “Rethinking the Fascicle: Booklet 3 of the Auchinleck Manuscript as Fragment and Assemblage,” Arthur W. Bahr, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • • “From Treasured Text to Binder's Scrap: The Fragmentary Survival of Medieval Literature,” Ann Higgins, Westfield State College

  • • “Paper Chaucer Manuscripts: What Can the Physical Evidence Tell Us and Why Should That Be Important?” Daniel W. Mosser, Virginia Tech

  • • “Analyzing the Material Structure of Manuscripts,” Estelle Stubbs, University of Sheffield

10:30–11:00 Morning Tea

11:00–12:30 Concurrent Sessions, Group 2 (7–12)

Session 7: Chaucer and Adaptation (Thread M)

Session Organizers: Carolyn Dinshaw, New York University, and Bruce Holsinger, University of Virginia

Chair: Dana Symons, Buffalo State College

  • • “Chaucer in Danish: Adapting an Adaptation,” Ebbe Klitgård, Roskilde University

  • • “Chaucer on Dickens's Hearth,” David Raybin, Eastern Illinois University

  • • “Pornographic Chaucer,” George Shuffleton, Carleton College [End Page 467]

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