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Smudging Carter Revard Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library University of Toronto Art Museum E.J. Pratt Library, Victoria College Wednesday, July 11 and his scholarship. Born in 1931, Revard won a Thursday, July 12 carpenter tricked by his savvy teenage wife and her radio quiz scholarship to attend the University of lovers, the play deftly weaves together Chaucerian SMUDGING Tulsa, and continued on to become one of the first MEDIEVALISTS OF COLOR RECEPTION satire with contemporary social commentary and Native American Rhodes Scholars at Oxford before a joyful celebration of the song, dance, and gossip 10:00am, Isabel Bader Theatre AND ETHIOPIAN MSS EXHIBIT completing his PhD at Yale. He taught at Amherst traditions of modern Nigeria, asking bold questions 6:30pm, Art Gallery of Ontario We will be opening the conference with a smudg- College before beginning his prolific career as a about the wahala that unites us all––the fragile ing, which is a purification ceremony performed by poet and medievalist at Washington University in Reflecting NCS 2018’s commitment to investigating human emotions of fear, love, revenge, and our many of the nations that make up the Indigenous St. Louis. questions of race in the field of medieval studies incessant need for gossip. peoples of Canada. A smudging will remove nega- and beyond it, we warmly invite all conference The play premiered in 2012 at the Edinburgh tive energy and cleanse a space, or an endeavour. In HART HOUSE RECEPTION AND attendees to a reception at the Art Gallery of Fringe Festival to critical acclaim, and is being a smudging ceremony, an Elder (someone who has RESEARCH EXPO Ontario, co-hosted by the New Chaucer Society staged July 13 and 15, 2018 as a joint production been recognized as a custodian of knowledge) will 6:00pm, Hart House Great Hall and the Medievalists of Color (MOC). The theme between the University of Toronto and Saga Tiata, light dried plant medicines (sage and sweetgrass of this reception is “From Allies to Accomplices.” There will be an informal reception at University performed by members of the original cast along- among others) until they are smoking. The smoke Please join NCS and MOC in a convivial space for of Toronto’s Hart House on Wednesday, July 11. Hart side actors from the Nigerian and African diasporic will then be spread with a feather around all conversation about the experiences of people of House is one of the earliest student centres in community in Toronto. Undergraduates from the gathered. Those being smudged pull the smoke color in medieval studies, the goal of consistent North America, and was established in 1919. The Department of English and Drama at the University towards them and breathe in. After a smudging, the and meaningful inclusivity in the field, and the reception will take place in the Great Hall, which of Toronto-Mississauga are putting together a crit- Elder will often offer a prayer, and the ashes will be ways that medievalists of color are changing the is immediately to the right of the entryway. Guests ical edition of the play, led by Dr. Jessica Lockhart, returned to the earth. It is important to note that archival, methodological, and theoretical landscape will be alloted one complimentary drink ticket, and which will be on sale during the conference. smudging practices vary across Turtle Island; in the of the profession. then are invited to partake in catered appetizers prairies it is customary to remove your jewelry and Congress registrants are encouraged to visit the and a cash bar. glasses during a smudge as they interfere with the galleries of the AGO during the reception to see Saturday, July 14 Entertainment will be provided by Pneuma cleansing process. works by members of the famous Group of Seven Ensemble, a Toronto-based early music group fo- Our special thanks for his welcome and for as well as the Thomson Collection of European Art, DINNER AND DAME SIRITH — cused on 11th-14th c. medieval monophony (such as performing the smudging ceremony to Elder which includes a magnificent collection of medie- PLAY PERFORMANCE troubador song and minnesang) using historically Grafton Antone. Grafton is from the Oneida of val ivories and boxwood prayer beads. Conference 8:00pm, Victoria College Quad (Burwash Hall in informed performance and medieval instruments. the Thames First Nation. He serves as Urban registrants are also invited to visit a display of case of rain) This reception serves as the formal opening of the Native Outreach Ministry in Toronto, as well as an Ethiopian manuscripts on Friday afternoon. NCS Research Expo, with all poster presenters available The dinner on Saturday night is at the Toronto elder-in-residence at First Nations House, will offer a brochure containing short interpretive to talk about their presentations. Reference Library, which was designed by architect University of Toronto. He teaches the Oneida texts by medievalists of color responding to these Raymond Moriyama, opened in 1977, and is the language. Yaw^’ko, Grafton. LGBTQIA+ GET TOGETHER artifacts and offering questions and thoughts to biggest public reference library in Canada. During provoke further conversation. 8:30pm, Glad Day Bookshop the dinner there will be a performance of Dame CARTER REVARD Sirith. Dame Sirith is a very short, very silly comic After the Wednesday night reception, all LGBTQIA+ 10:30am, Isabel Bader Theatre medieval play for four actors: a randy priest, the and allies are welcome to join for drinks and The smudging will be followed by a discussion of Friday, July 13 gullible woman he lusts after, the old “witch” Dame mingling at Glad Day Bookshop. Glad Day is located what it means to be guests on the sacred land on Sirith, and the narrator / puppeteer who also plays on Church Street in the heart of Church-Wellesley which the university operates: the territory of the THE MILLER’S TALE: WAHALA DEY O! a dog. It will be performed by the University of Village, long recognized as the heart of the LGBTQIA+ Huron-Wendat and Petun First Nations, the Seneca, 7:00pm, Isabel Bader Theatre Toronto’s Poculi Ludique Societas, who sponsor community in Toronto. Glad Day is an independent and most recently, the Mississaugas of the Credit productions of early plays, from the beginnings of book store that specializes in LGBTQIA+ literature The Miller’s Tale: Wahala Dey O! is a Nigerian play River; and a meeting place for many Indigenous medieval drama to as late as the middle of the and is the oldest surviving bookstore in North Amer- adaptation of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Miller’s Tale, people from across Turtle Island. The ceremony seventeenth century. For more than four decades ica specializing in queer literature. Originally opened written and directed by Ufuoma Overo-Tarimo. will be followed by readings by Native American PLS has performed vivid, powerful, and popular in 1970 by Jay Moldenhauer, Glad Day has come under Performed in English and Nigerian Pidgin, and Chaucer scholar Carter Revard of his own, theatre for the people of Toronto and beyond. new management and now offers food and drinks Wahala Dey O! brings to life Chaucer’s medieval modern Indigenous, and Middle English poetry. in addition to hosting events, readings, and other pilgrimage transposed to a prayer retreat in Revard, who grew up on the Osage Reservation in cultural events for Toronto’s LGBTQIA+ community. present-day Lagos, Nigeria. As a drunken miller Oklahoma, is well-known for his political poetry tells of the wahala (trouble) of a wealthy Urhobo THOMAS FISHER RARE BOOK LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO ART MUSEUM E.J. PRATT LIBRARY, VICTORIA COLLEGE The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library will be featuring The University of Toronto Art Museum will be The E. J. Pratt Library at Victoria College and the Wednesday, July 10 — a special monthly highlights exhibit called “The open from 12:00-5:00 pm for the duration of the affiliated Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Fisher’s Tale: Modern and Early Modern Settings of conference. The Malcove Collection will be of Studies Library is open for visitors to view their Friday, July 13 Chaucer’s Works at the University of Toronto.” The particular interest to conference goers; it features Early Modern astrolabe, Wednesday-Friday. Please library is open to the public 9:00 am-5:00 pm. medieval art and objects that are frequently used check in at the front desk and proceed to the 4th for classroom teaching in Toronto. floor. Wednesday, July 11 Session 1E: Loving and Hating Chaucer in the 21st Session 2F: Affect Matters: Historicizing Feeling in Century (Position) 3:30-5:00 SESSIONS: GROUP 2 the Age of Chaucer I (Paper) 9:00 Registration opens (Foyer, Victoria Thread: Making the Text Organizers: Glenn Burger (Queen’s College and The Session 2A: Chaucer “And”: Methods of Inter- College “Old Vic”) Organizer: Patricia Clare Ingham (Indiana University Graduate Center, CUNY); Holly Crocker (University disciplinarity (Paper) 10:00-10:30 Welcome + First Nations Smudging Bloomington) of South Carolina) Thread: Forming Knowledge Ceremony (Isabel Bader Theatre) Moderator: Patricia Clare Ingham Moderator: Holly Crocker Organizer: Michelle Karnes (University of Notre Dame) 10:30-11:00 Readings by Professor Emeritus Room: Victoria College 323 Room: Victoria College 323 Moderator: Michelle Karnes Carter Revard, Washington University 1. R. D. Perry (New Chaucer Society Postdoctoral Room: Victoria College 115 1. Siobhain Bly Calkin (Carleton University), in St Louis (Isabel Bader Theatre) Fellow), “Done with the Canterbury Tales” “Affect and the Construction of Religious Introduction: Susanna Fein (Kent 1. Ingrid Nelson (Amherst College), “Thinking 2. Katie Little (University of Colorado, Boulder), Identity: Tales of Christians, Saracens, and State University) (with) Media” “Chaucer and the Crisis of the Humanities” Cross Relics in the Age of Chaucer” 11:00-12:00 Presidential Lecture: Ardis Butter- 2.
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