Friday

FRIDAY 28th JUNE 2019 9.30-10.00 – Registration Farringdon Room 10.00-10.15 – Welcome Bridewell Hall

• Clare Lees (Institute of English Studies) 10.15- 11.15 – Plenary Lecture Bridewell Hall Chair: Hetta Howes (City, University of London) David Wallace (University of Pennsylvania): ‘Italy Made Me: Chaucer and Europe’ 11.15-11.45 – Refreshments Farringdon Room 11.45-13.15 – Parallel sessions 1. Chaucer and Boccaccio Salisbury Room

World Map by Ranulf Higden (1400) British Library, Royal MS. 14 C.IX, ff. 1v-2

BIENNIAL LONDON CHAUCER CONFERENCE: CHAUCER AND EUROPE St Bride’s London, 28th-29th June, 2019

Hosted by the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of

London

Sponsored by the New Chaucer Society

Chair: Julia Boffey (Queen Mary, University of London)

• Kara Gaston (University of Toronto): ‘Bad Students and Slow Learning in the Griselda Story’

• Leah Schewbel (Texas State University): ‘“Oon seyde that Omer made lyes”: Chaucer’s Intertextual Poetics’

• K.P. Clarke (University of York): ‘Medieval humanism and vernacular poetics: Chaucer, Ovid, and Ceffi’

2. Science and Music Passmore Room Chair: Alfred Hiatt (Queen Mary, University of London)

• Marilyn Corrie (UCL): ‘Chaucer’s Parisian Magic: the Speculum Astronomiae and the Franklin’s Tale’

• Gillian Adler (Sarah Lawrence College): ‘Temporal Peregrinations: Dante’s Virgil, Chaucer’s Host, and the Art of Time-Keeping’

• Steven Breeze (Independent Scholar): ‘Chaucer's Subversion of the Artistry Theme’ 13.15-14.00 – Lunch Farringdon Room 14.00-15.30 – Parallel Sessions 3. Chaucer and Machaut Salisbury Room Chair: Mike Bintley (Birkbeck, University of London)

• Rebecca Menmuir (University of Oxford): ‘Writing to Order: Machaut Reading Ovid, Chaucer Reading Ovid’

• Juliette Vuille (University of Lausanne): ‘French Kissing and Ménage à Trois: Machaudian Influences on Chaucer’s Metapoetic Pandarus’

• David Lavinsky (Yeshiva University): ‘European Peripheries: Machaut and the Monk’s Tale’

4. Diplomacy, Patronage, and Transmission Passmore Room Chair: Lawrence Warner (King’s College London)

• William T Rossiter (University of East Anglia): ‘Chaucer, Lydgate, and the Diplomatic Turn’

• Julia Boffey (Queen Mary University of London) and A.S.G. Edwards (University of Kent): ‘Contextualizing The Legend of Good Women: Some Possible Bohemian Perspectives’

• Mary Wellesley (British Library): ‘Geoffrey Chaucer: Who He? What Two Late Fifteenth century Chaucer manuscripts tell us about authorial value’

15.30-17.00 – Parallel Sessions

5. Global Chaucers: A Roundtable Salisbury Room Organised by Candace Barrington (Central Connecticut State University) Chair: Sarah Salih (King’s College London)

• Ana Sáez Hidalgo (University of Valladolid): ‘Early Spanish Chaucers: Assimilating the Dissimilar’

• Candace Barrington (Central Connecticut State University): ‘Czech Chaucer: the Chaucerian Persona in Tomáš Zmeškal’s Love Letter in Cuneiform’

• Lydia Zeldenrust (University of York): ‘Chaucer in Friesland: The Kenterboarger Teltsjes and Marginal Literary Cultures’

• David Wallace (University of Pennsylvania): ‘Continuing the conversation on Chaucer’s European reception’

6. Dreaming in Europe Passmore Room Chair: Natalie Jones (UCL)

• David Rollo (University of Southern California): ‘To Be a Proper Man: The Pardoner, Holy Bollocks and Reading the Roman de la Rose’

• Kevin Brownlee (University of Pennsylvania) ‘Chaucer’s Early and Late Uses of the Two French Rose Authors’

• Philip Knox (University of Cambridge) ‘The Romance of the Rose in England and in Europe’

17.00-18.00 – Plenary Lecture Bridewell Hall Chair: Alastair Bennett (Royal Holloway, University of London) Laura Kendrick (University of Versailles): ‘Chaucer and Deschamps’ 18.00-19.00 – Drinks reception Bridewell Hall Sponsored by LOMERS – The London Old and Middle English Research Seminar

SATURDAY 29th JUNE 2019 9.30-10.00 – Refreshments Farringdon Room 10.00-11.30 – Medieval English Travel: Where Are We? Bridewell Hall A roundtable celebrating the publication of Medieval English Travel: A Critical Anthology, ed. by Anthony Bale and Sebastian Sobecki (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019)

Speakers: Sebastian Sobecki, Anthony Bale, Julia Boffey, A.S.G. Edwards, Joanna Bellis and Alfred Hiatt. 11.30-13.00 – Parallel sessions 7. European Devotion Salisbury Room Chair: A. S. G. Edwards (University of Kent)

• Mary Dzon (University of Tennessee): ‘The European Sources of the Bow and Arrow Imagery in Chaucer’s “ABC”’

• Charles Roe (University of Leeds): ‘The Pastoral Work of the Parson’s Tale’ • Rafael Jaime (UCLA): ‘The Price of Admission: Value and Confession in Pearl’

8. Senses and Emotions Passmore Room Chair: Catherine Nall (Royal Holloway, University of London)

• Mickey Sweeney (Dominican University): ‘Political Bodies in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Chaucer’s Franklin’s Tale’

• Stephanie Trigg (University of Melbourne): ‘“‘Cloudes of sorwe’: emotion, gender, sensibility and the weather in Chaucer’s Boece”

• Eleanor Myerson (Birkbeck, University of London): ‘Mamlūk Spices and Medieval Digestion’

• Yating Zhang (Shaanxi Normal University): ‘From Orpheus to Orfeo: Visual Landscape and Soundscape in Sir Orfeo’

13.00-14.00 – Lunch Farringdon Room 14.00-15.00 – Patience Agbabi: Europe and Multiculturalism in Telling Tales and The Refugee Tales Bridewell Hall Sponsored by City, University of London Chair: Hetta Howes (City, University of London) The poet, performer and writer Patience Agbabi will discuss themes of multiculturalism in her work, read some samples of her writing, and then take questions at the end of the session. 15.00-16.30 – Parallel sessions 9. European Afterlives Salisbury Room Chair: Isabel Davis (Birkbeck, University of London)

• Eduardo Correia (King’s College London): ‘'Memory and Identity: Hybridity and Nation in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's A Canterbury Tale'

• Lotte Reinbold (University of Cambridge): ‘“A diluted drink”: Dreaming Troilus and Criseyde’

• Sarah Salih (King’s College London): ‘Reading Refugee Tales Reading the Man of Law’s Tale’

10. Translating Europe Passmore Room Chair: Jaclyn Rajsic (Queen Mary, University of London)

• Clare Fletcher (Trinity College Dublin): ‘“He which ferst the lettres fond”: the Origin of the Written Word in John Gower’s Confessio Amantis’

• Casey Ireland (University of Virginia): ‘“Bettir knowyng of all countreez and of all passagez”: Translation and Adaptation in The Master of Game’

• Lucie Kaempfer (University of Oxford): ‘The Multilingual Language of Love’s Joy in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde’

16.30-17.00 – Refreshments Farringdon Room 17.00-18.00 – Plenary Lecture Bridewell Hall Chair: Alastair Bennett (Royal Holloway, University of London) Marion Turner (University of Oxford): ‘Chaucer: A European Life’