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  • The New Chaucer Society Twentieth International Congress July 10–15, 2016
    Queen Mary University of London, Mile End

SUNDAY, JULY 10

9:30–5:15: Teachers' Workshop (Arts 2, Rms. 316, 317, 320)

9:30–10:00: Morning Coffee

10:00–11:30: Round Table (Susanna Fein, David Raybin, John Fyler, Candace Barrington, Isabel Davis, David Wallace, Kara McShane, Leah Haught)

11:30–12:45: Business Meeting

12:45–1:45: Lunch

2:00–3:30: Relevance/Difference—Both? (Sally Frostic, Mary Kay Waterman, Mark Randolph, Cristin VanderPlas, Timothy Cox, Jaclyn Silvestri)

3:30–3:45: Coffee

3:45–5:15: Reading Medieval Today (Ruth Lexton, Karen Patton-McShane, Lori Ayotte, Lisa Warman)

10:00–4:00: Graduate Student Workshop (by application only) (Bancroft, David Sizer)

10:00–10:45: London Scribes and Scripts (Simon Horobin)

10:45–11:00: Coffee

11:00–11:45: Correcting (Daniel Wakelin)

11:45–12:30: Illumination and Reading Practices (Jessica Brantley)

12:30–1:30: Lunch

1:30–2:15: Paper and Materials (Orietta Da Rold) [End Page 463]

2:15–3:00: Binding (Alexandra Gillespie)

3:00–3:15: Tea

3:15–4:00: Print (Alexandra da Costa)

10:00–5:00: Trustees' Meeting (Arts 2, Rm. 217)

1:00–5:00: Early Registration (Arts 2 Lobby)

12:45: Lunch for Trustees and Teachers (Arts 2, Rm. 317)

5:30: Wine Hour for Trustees and Teachers (Arts 2 Lobby)

7:30: Evening Gathering for Graduate Students at Bancroft Arms, 410 Mile End Road

MONDAY, JULY 11

8:30–4:30: Registration (Arts 2 Lobby)

9:30–10:30: Business Meeting (Arts 2 Lecture Theatre)

10:30–11:00: Coffee Break

11:00–12:30: Welcome and Plenary Session (People's Palace Theatre)

Moderator: Paul Strohm (Emeritus, Columbia University)

"Did Shakespeare Live in Chaucer's London?"

Discussants: Helen Barr (Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford), Farah Karim-Cooper (Shakespeare's Globe), Bruce Holsinger (University of Virginia), Gordon McMullan (King's College London)

12:30–2:00: Lunch

2:00–3:30: Sessions: Group 1 [End Page 464]

Session 1A, Round Table: Queer Manuscripts: The Textuality of Error (1) (Bancroft 1.13) (Thread: Error)

Organizers: Roberta Magnani (Swansea University) and Diane Watt (University of Surrey)

Chair: Diane Watt

  • • "Temporal Orifices in the Huntington MS HM 114 Troilus," Sara Petrosillo, University of California, Davis

  • • "The Queer and Broken Text: The Rhetoric of Fragmentation in Fifteenth-Century Manuscript Compilations of The Canterbury Tales," Samantha Katz Seal, University of New Hampshire

  • • "Marginalia as Cop: Policing Queer Temporality in Harley 2382," Miriamne Ara Krummel, University of Dayton

  • • "Queer Margins and the Hermeneutics of Manuscript (Non-) Conformity," Catherine S. Cox, University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown

  • • "Cecilia among the Saints: William Cotson, the Queerness of Print and the Autumn of the Middle Ages," Zachary E. Stone, University of Virginia

Session 1B, Round Table: Chaucer and the Digital Age (Bancroft 1.13a) (Thread: Medieval Media)

Organizer and Chair: Kara Crawford (The Bishop's School)

  • • "Tools for 'best sentence and moost solaas': Using Digital Tools to Introduce Chaucer," Lee Read, Wilde Lake High School

  • • "Teaching Writing through Chaucer: A Lesson on Plagiarism and Source Integration," Jennifer Alberghini, CUNY Graduate Center

  • • "The Variant Archive: Mining Manly and Rickert," Andrew Kraebel, Trinity University

  • • "Geoffrey Chaucer, Game Designer?" Betsy McCormick, Mount San Antonio College

Session 1C, Seminar: Popularizing Pedagogy in the Late Middle Ages (Skeel Lecture Theatre) (Thread: Scientiae)

Organizers: Susan Phillips (Northwestern University) and Claire Waters (University of California, Davis)

Chair: Claire Waters [End Page 465]

  • • "Personification as Pedagogy," Katharine Breen, Northwestern University• "Schooling Synonymy," Irina Dumitrescu, University of Bonn

  • • "'A suffisant Astrolabie': Pedagogy and the Poetics of Know-How," Lisa H. Cooper, University of Wisconsin-Madison

  • • "Vernacular Confession as Pedagogical Innovation? Confessional Formulas and the Manuscript Anthology," Robyn Malo, Purdue University

  • • "Robert Grosseteste and the Castle of Love: 'English Theology' through the Ages," Ryan McDermott, University of Pittsburgh

  • • "'A Christian Mannes Bileeve,' Women Readers, and Vernacular Theology," Nicole D. Smith, University of North Texas

    Pre-circulated materials for this seminar can be found at http://newchaucersociety.org/hub/entry/1c-popularizing-pedagogy-in-the-late-middle-ages.

Session 1D, Paper Panel: The East of England (Bancroft 1.15) (Thread: Chaucerian Networks)

Organizer and Chair: Stephen Partridge...

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