FRIDAY, 23 SEPTEMBER
9:30am Coach service from downtown Victoria hotels to UVic campus
10:00-11:15am
McPherson Library Special Collections & Archives (LIB A003)
Welcome Reception and Pop-Up Gallery of UVic Medieval Manuscript Holdings
11:30-12:45pm
University Club (Honeysuckle/Salal/Snowberry Room)
Opening Remarks
Keynote 1 Medieval English Rabbis - Image and Self-Image
Pinchas Roth (Bar Ilan University)
12:45-2:00pm
University Club (Honeysuckle/Salal/Snowberry Room)
Lunch (catered)
2:00-3:45pm
University Club (Wild Rose Room)
Session
1 Hebrew and the Making of Early Middle English
Presiding: Meg Worley (Colgate University)
What is Medieval Anglo-Hebrew Literature, and
Why Should We Talk About It Here?
Shamma Boyarin (University of Victoria)
Translatio Studii?: Marie de France and
Berekhiah HaNaqdan on the Routes of Language
Ruth Nisse (Wesleyan University)
Relayed Vernaculars
Jonathan Hsy (George Washington University)
Hebrew and the English Psalter
Damian Fleming (Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne)
University Club (Honeysuckle/Salal/Snowberry Room)
Session 2 Early Middle English Devotion
Presiding: Anna Siebach Larsen (University of Notre Dame)
The Development of the Wooing Group
Prayers
Catherine Innes-Parker (University of Prince Edward Island)
Emotional Vocabulary and the Katherine Group
Jenny C. Bledsoe (Emory University)
Of Mermaids, Feminist Soundscapes, and the
Katherine Group
Dorothy Kim (Vassar College)
3:45-4:00pm Coffee/Tea/Snack Break
4:00-5:30pm
University Club (Wild Rose Room)
Session 3 Latinity and Multilingualism
Presiding: Laura Ashe (University of Oxford)
Godric of Finchale and the Making of Early Middle
English
Heather Blurton (University of California-Santa Barbara)
Unde anglice sic
dicitur: The Dual-Language Texts in Cambridge, Trinity
College B.14.39, fols. 83v-84r
Marjorie Harrington (University of Notre Dame)
Ancrene Wisse and
the Latinity of its Earliest Women Readers
Megan J. Hall (University of Notre Dame)
University Club (Honeysuckle/Salal/Snowberry Room)
Session 4 Where Did You Come From? Where Did You Go?: English Literature of the Twelfth Century
Carla María Thomas(New York University), moderator.
Panel discussion with Leslie Carpenter (Fordham University), Stephen Pelle (University of Toronto), and George Younge (York University).
5:30-5:45pm Coffee/Tea Break
5:45-6:45pm
University Club (Honeysuckle/Salal/Snowberry Room)
Keynote 2 Literacy and the Multilingual Turn
Jennifer Miller (University of California-Berkeley)
7:00pm Coach service to downtown Victoria hotels
SATURDAY, 24 SEPTEMBER
8:30am Coach service from downtown Victoria hotels to UVic campus
9:00-10:00am
Harry Hickman Building (Room 105)
Keynote 3 Negotiating for the British Isles in the Languages of Bede: Multilingualism, Romance, and 'The First English Empire'
Matthieu Boyd (Fairleigh Dickinson University)
10:00-10:30am Coffee/Tea/Snack Break
10:30-12:00pm
Harry Hickman Building (Room 110)
Session 5 Borderlands and Marches
Presiding: Jennifer Miller (University of California-Berkeley)
Sexual Violence and Queer Reproduction in
Middle Welsh and Early Middle English Literatures
Marjorie Housley (University of Notre Dame)
Þa þre boc þrumde to are
: Beating Books Together in Laȝamon’s Brut
Daniel Helbert (University of British Columbia)
Making Early Middle Hiberno-English: Mysteries,
Experiments, and Lyric Survivals
Kathryn Kerby-Fulton (University of Notre Dame)
Harry Hickman Building (Room 116)
Session 6 Troubling the Boundaries: Old English, Semi-Saxon, or Early Middle English?
Presiding: Leslie Carpenter (Fordham University)
The Long Slow Death and Ventriloquistic
Afterlife of cweðan
Mary E. Blockley (University of Texas-Austin)
Fiction from Putrefaction: Hereward in the Wake
of Old English
Joseph Grossi (University of Victoria)
12:00-1:00pm Lunch (catered)
1:00-2:00pm
Harry Hickman Building (Room 105)
Keynote 4 Articulating Saint Edmund the King at Bury St Edmunds
D.W. Russell (University of Waterloo)
2:00-2:15pm Coffee/Tea Break
2:15-3:45pm
Harry Hickman Building (Room 110)
Session 7 French and Multilingualism
Presiding: David Raybin (Eastern Illinois University)
The Matter of Meaning: Cognition, Devotion, and
the Vernacular Miscellany in England
Anna Siebach Larsen (University of Notre Dame)
Crossing Linguistic Frontiers: The Book of John Mandeville’s Journeys from French into Other Languages
Iain Macleod Higgins (University of Victoria)
Crossing the Channel: British Library, Add.
32125 and the English Reception of French Prose Romance
Nicole Eddy (University of Notre Dame and Arc Humanities Press)
Harry Hickman Building (Room 116)
Session 8 Early Middle English Bodies
Presiding: Jennifer Jahner (California Institute of Technology)
'Like an innocent lamb led to the
slaughter': Queering the Child of the Medieval Blood-Libel
Tradition
Theresa Faulder (University of Victoria)
Imagining the Body Dead in The Owl and the Nightingale
Micah Goodrich (University of Connecticut)
'We se othir than
we wende': Epistemology and Gender Identity in the Life of Saint Pelagiain the
Northern Homily Cycle
Leanne MacDonald (University of Notre Dame)
3:45-4:00pm Coffee/Tea/Snack Break
4:00-5:30pm
Harry Hickman Building (Room 110)
Session 9
Early Middle English and Englishness
Presiding: Heather Blurton (University of California-Santa Barbara)
Lands of our Mothers: Unpacking Nation in Early
Middle English Romance
Robert Rouse (University of British Columbia)
English is a Trap: Myths, Languages and
Politics around 1200
Thomas O'Donnell (Fordham University)
Arthur, Richard I, Charlemagne and the
Auchinleck Manuscript: Constructing English National Identity in Early Middle
English
Larissa Tracy (Longwood University)
Harry Hickman Building (Room 116)
Session 10 Learning Early Middle English
Dorothy Kim (Vassar College), moderator.
Panel discussion on the use and impact of Early Middle English courses in the undergraduate curriculum, featuring University of Victoria students: Catriona Duncan, Ravana Eagleheart, Megan Kazakoff, Iona Lister, Luke Oldfield, Sydney Terepocki, and Katie Yakovleva.
5:30-5:45pm Coffee/Tea/Snack Break
5:45-6:45pm
Harry Hickman Building (Room 105)
Keynote 5 Eruptions, Collisions, and Colloquies: Early Middle English Where You'd Least Expect It
Susanna Fein (Kent State University)
7:00pm Coach service to downtown Victoria hotels
8:15pm Banquet Dinner @ Hotel Grand Pacific, South Pender Island Ballroom (doors and cash bar open at 7:45)
SUNDAY, 25 SEPTEMBER
9:00am Coach service from downtown Victoria hotels to UVic campus
9:30-10:30am
Harry Hickman Building (Room 105)
Keynote 6 Twelfth-Century Transformations
Laura Ashe (University of Oxford)
10:30-11:00am Coffee/Tea/Snack Break
11:00-12:30pm
Harry Hickman Building (Room 110)
Session 11 Christian-Jewish Polemics and Representations
Presiding: Damian Fleming (Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne)
Beards and Blood: Rethinking Medieval Bible
Translation with the Old English Leviticus
Mo Pareles (University of British Columbia)
Voice, Silence, and Truth in Medieval Boy
Martyr Narratives
Lynnea Ness (University of Victoria)
The Medieval Anglo-Jewess: Is There a
Stereotype?
Adrienne Williams Boyarin (University of Victoria)
Harry Hickman Building (Room 116)
Session 12 Havelok the Dane and Romance Pedagogy
Presiding: Elizabeth J. Bryan (Brown University)
Teaching Havelok the
Dane in Secondary Schools
Andrea Lankin (Newark Academy - Livingston, NJ)
Paper delivered by videoconference.
The Danish Connection: Havelok the Dane's Multicultural
Inheritance
Shay Hopkins (University of California-Santa Barbara)
Gender and Mapping Havelok Scholarship
Rachel Ludwig (Vassar College)
12:30-1:30pm Lunch (catered)
1:30-3:00pm
Harry Hickman Building (Room 110)
Session 13
Ars
Poetica and Early Middle English
Presiding: Susanna Fein (Kent State University)
Thirteenth-Century Artes Poeticae and their
Middle English Disciples
Rebecca Hill (University of California-Los Angeles)
Paper delivered by proxy.
Spectral Empires and Language Politics:
The Case of Richard of Alemaigne
Jennifer Jahner (California Institute of Technology)
Lineating Verse in Early Middle English
J.D. Sargan (University of Oxford)
Harry Hickman Building (Room 116)
Session 14
Afterlives of Early Middle English
Presiding: Adrienne Williams Boyarin (University of Victoria)
John Selden's Early Middle
English
Sjoerd Levelt (Bilkent University)
Paper delivered by videoconference.
Chess and Fablis: Cursor Mundi as a Source for Chaucer's
Book of the Duchess
Benjamin S.W. Barootes (University of Toronto - Centre for Medieval Studies)
The Anchorhold as Relic and Reliquary, Medieval
& Modern
Michelle M. Sauer (University of North Dakota)
3:00-3:15pm Coffee/Tea/Snack Break
3:15-4:15pm
Harry Hickman Building (Room 105)
Closing Presentation The Archive of Early Middle English and the Future of Digital Scholarship
Scott Kleinman (California State University-Northridge), Dorothy Kim (Vassar College), and Meg Worley (Colgate University)
Closing Remarks
4:30pm Coach service to downtown Victoria hotels
