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. Shazia Jagot (University of Surrey), “Chaucer 3. Marion Turner (University of Oxford), 2. Stephanie Trigg (University of Melbourne), field, Yale University (Isabel Bader and Arabic” “Rethinking Biography” “Emotional Practices: Chaucer, Veronica and Theatre), “The Dream of Language” 3. Candace Barrington (Central Connecticut 4. Sierra Lomuto (University of Pennsylvania), the History of Emotions” 12:00-1:30 Lunch State University), “To Interdisciplinarity “Thinking With and Beyond Chaucer: Adaptations 3. John Fry (University of Texas at Austin), and Beyond” for the Inclusive Classroom” “Hagiography’s ‘Structure of Feeling,’ the 5. Robert J. Meyer-Lee (Agnes Scott College), Legend of Good Women, and the Limits of 1:30-3:00 SESSIONS: GROUP 1 “Loving and Hating Canonicity” Session 2B: Do We Need Periodization? (Position) Martyrdom” Thread: History Now Session 1A: Chaucer Abroad: Who Owns Chaucer Organizer: Katie Little (University of Colorado, Session 1F: Chaucer and Rape: New Directions Session 2G: In the Beginning, She Was: Feminizing Now? (Position) Boulder) (Lightning) Chaucer’s Authority (Paper) Thread: Chaucer Abroad Moderator: Katie Little Organizer: Carissa M. Harris (Temple University) Organizers: Liz Herbert McAvoy (Swansea University); Organizers: Louise D’Arcens (Macquarie University); Room: Victoria College Chapel Jonathan Hsy (Georgetown University) Moderator: Carissa M. Harris Roberta Magnani (Swansea University) 1. Laura Ashe (University of Oxford), “Not Period Moderator: Louise D’Arcens Room: Victoria College 215 Moderator: Roberta Magnani but Process” Room: Emmanuel College 119 1. Rachel E. Moss (University of Oxford), “From Room: Emmanuel College 119 2. Kathy Lavezzo (University of Iowa), “Bad John and Aleyn’s Jape to Brock Turner’s Text: 1. Dorothy Kim (Vassar College), “‘Alt- 1. Elizabeth Watkins (Loyola University New Medievalism” The Homosocial Gaze and Rape” Feminism,’ the Prioress, and Female-Coded Orleans), “The Canterbury Tales in Translation 3. Theresa Coletti (University of Maryland, 2. Nicole Nyffenegger (University of Bern), Epistemologies of Antisemitism in the Philippines” College Park), “Periodization, Temporalities, “Relating (to) the Pain: From Chaucer to 2. Samantha Katz Seal (University of New 2. Ufuoma Overo-Tarimo (University of Iceland), Medieval Drama” Stanford and Back” Hampshire), “Disowning Philippa: The Poetic “Chaucer Makes Sense in Africa” 4. Mike Rodman Jones (University of Nottingham), 3. Alison Gulley (Appalachian State University), Posterity of Chaucer’s Wife” 3. Kathy Forni (Loyola University Maryland), “New Directions in Med-Ren Studies” “Rape Erasure in Chaucer’s Writing: The Cases 3. Diane Watt (University of Surrey), “The Paston “Marketing Chaucer: The Power of the Image” 5. David Matthews (University of Manchester), of Cecilia and Custance” Women and Chaucer: Canon Formation in the “Now What?” 4. Nicole Nolan Sidhu (East Carolina University), 15th Century” Session 1B: The Value of Truth (Position) “Sexual Assault and Religious Difference in Thread: Forming Knowledge Session 2C: Translating the Non-Human (Seminar) the Man of Law’s Tale” Session 2H: Innovations in Access: Using New Media Organizer: Julie Orlemanski (University of Chicago) Thread: Language Contacts 5. Sarah Baechle (University of Mississippi), Tools to Teach Medieval Texts (Paper) Moderator: Julie Orlemanski Organizers: Liam Lewis (University of Warwick), “‘Oure corn is stoln’: Pastoral Discourse and Organizers: Kara Crawford (The Bishop’s School); Room: Victoria College 101 Haylie Swenson (The George Chaucer’s Rape Narratives” John Hoarty (Saint Ignatius College Preparatory) 1. Jessica Henderson (University of Toronto), Washington University) 6. Jessica Rosenfeld (Washington University Moderator: John Hoarty “Truth-Claims in Middle English Medical Moderator: Haylie Swenson in St. Louis), “Chaucer and Consent in the Room: Northrop Frye 113 Writing and the Crisis of Reproducibility” Classroom” Room: Victoria College 215 1. Moira Fitzgibbons (Marist College), “Close 2. Karl Steel (Brooklyn College and The 1. Susan Crane (Columbia University), “Charming: Reading in the Age of Screens: Teaching the Graduate Center, CUNY), “Skepticism: On ‘Mis- How to Talk to Things” Session 1G: Does Formalism Need Poetry? (Paper) Canterbury Tales alongside Graphic Narratives” creaunce’ in Ovidian Metempsychosis” 2. Lara Farina (West Virginia University), “‘Sim- Organizer: Ingrid Nelson (Amherst College) 2. Gina Armstrong (Birmingham-Southern 3. Lee Read (Wilde Lake High School), “The ples’ and the Foliation of Language” Moderator: Ingrid Nelson College), Teresa P. Reed (Jacksonville State Wordes Moote Be Cosyn to the Dede” 3. Megan E. Palmer (Independent Scholar), Room: Victoria College 115 University), “The Place Where You Live: Digital 4. Miriamne Ara Krummel (University of Dayton), “Translating Tracks of Exile: Avian Eloquence 1. Valerie Allen (John Jay College of Criminal Humanities as Accessible Pedagogy” “The Truth is There Some Where: 1255, Belas- in Seafarer and Wanderer” Justice, CUNY), “The Embarrassments of Rhyme” 3. Kenna L. Olsen (Mount Royal University), et, and Hugh of Lincoln” 4. Arthur Russell (Case Western Reserve 2. Katharine Jager (University of Houston, “Emerging Medievalisms: Tweets, Pods, Popular, University), “Field Studies in Mimesis” Downtown), “The Affordance of Memory: ‘The and Popularized - New Medieval Media” Session 1C: Let Us Talk Then, You and I: The Future 5. Rob Wakeman (Mount Saint Mary College), Rebel Letters’ of 1381, Formalism and the with History (Position) “The Simplicity of the Ass” Function of the Lyric” Thread: History Now 6. Andrea Whitacre (Indiana University), “How to Session 2I: The Ars Moriendi and Practices of Care 3. Kara Gaston (University of Toronto), “Forms Organizers: Clementine Oliver (California State Re-Translate a Werewolf” (Lightning) of Constellation” University, Northridge); Elliot Kendall (University of 7. Tom White (University of Oxford), “Written Organizers: Karl Steel (Brooklyn College, CUNY); Exeter); Sebastian Sobecki (University of Groningen) in Trees” Ashby Kinch (University of Montana) Moderator: Paul Strohm (Columbia University) Session 1H: Dreams and the Scientific Imagination Moderator: Ashby Kinch (Paper) Room: Northrop Frye 119 Room: Victoria College Chapel Session 2D: In the Eye of the Beholder? Perfecting Organizer: Charlotte Rudman (King’s College London) 1. Martha Carlin (University of Wisconsin, and Completing MSS and Early Printed Books (Paper) 1. Justin Brent (Presbyterian College), “Ars Moderator: Charlotte Rudman Milwaukee), “John Gower: Loan Shark, Proud Thread: Making the Text Moriendi and Palliative Community” Room: Emmanuel College 302 Husband, and Friend of Richard II’s Murderer? Organizer: Martha Driver (Pace University) 2. Ellis Light (Fordham University), “Deathbed (The Importance of Interdisciplinary Dialogue)” 1. Micah Goodrich (University of Connecticut), Moderator: Martha Driver Biopolitics: Power, Care, and Otherworldly 2. Bruce Holsinger (University of Virginia), “The “‘Or as craft countrefeteth kinde’: Technologies Room: Victoria College 212 Visions in Julian of Norwich” of Counterfeit in the House of Fame” 3. Andrew Kraebel (Trinity University), “Auctor- Forms of Literary History” 1. Hope Johnston (Baylor University), “Perfecting 2. Megan Leitch (Cardiff University), “Chaucer’s itas Moriendi” 3. Steve Rigby (University of Manchester), Imperfect Early Printed Chaucers” Dream Visions and the Science of Sleep” 4. Rebecca F. McNamara (Westmont College), “Chaucer and Ideology” 2. Siân Echard (University of British Columbia), 3. Boyda Johnstone (Fordham University), “The “Impending Death, Experience, and Authority 4. Lynn Staley (Colgate University), “Chaucer’s “‘Imperfect and Valueless’: Early Modern Nature of Healing in Chaucerian Dream Poetry” in Chaucer” History” Transcriptions, Modern Scholars” 5. Devin Byker (College of Charleston), “Appear- 3. Devani Singh (University of Geneva), “Tam- ing, Revealing, Glimmering: Erasmus’s Vivid Session 1D: What Happened to Old English after the Session 1I: The Meaning of Chivalric Violence (Paper) pering or Perfection?: Renaissance Additions Deathbed” Tremulous Hand? (Position) Organizer: Robert Epstein (Fairfield University) to Chaucer’s Early Books” 6. Bridget Whearty (Binghamton University, Thread: Language Contacts Moderator: Robert Epstein SUNY), “Death, Care, and Prayer in the Organizers: Nicholas Watson (Harvard University); Room: Northrop Frye 113 Session 2E: Allegorical Scale (Paper) Fifteenth Century Elaine Treharne (Stanford University) 1. Nicholas Perkins (St. Hugh’s College, Thread: Middle English Literature at Scale Moderator: Elaine Treharne University of Oxford), “Communicating Organizers: Katharine Breen (Northwestern Universi- Session 2J: Vexed Inheritances: Chaucer and Room: Victoria College 212 Violence, or, The Silence of the Limbs” ty); Carolynn Van Dyke (Lafayette College) Boccaccio (Paper) 1. Kathryn A. Lowe (University of Glasgow), “Using 2. Alyssa Coltrain (Rutgers University), Moderator: Carolynn Van Dyke Organizer: The NCS Program Committee Old English after the Conquest: Charter Texts” “‘Weppons wyghtly weld’: Violence and the Room: Emmanuel College 302 Limits of Hagiography in Sir Gowther” Moderator: Richard G. Newhauser (Arizona State 2. Ian Cornelius (Loyola University, Chicago), 1. Danielle Allor (Rutgers University), “Allegorical 3. Ashby Kinch (University of Montana), University, Tempe) “Middle English Verse before 1066” Instability in Piers Plowman’s Tree of Charity” “Practicing Violence: The Manciple’s Room: Victoria College 101 3. Wendy Scase (University of Birmingham), 2. Megan Cook (Colby College), “Very Small Prologue and the Luttrell Psalter” 1. Jennifer Alberghini (The Graduate Center, “Late Medieval Scribes’ Old English” Forms: Heraldry, Allegory, and Scale” CUNY), “Criseyde’s Calculations: Performing 4. Scott Bevill (University of Tennessee), “Copies 3:00-3:30 Break 3. Seth Strickland (Cornell University), Filial Obedience in Il Filostrato and Troilus All the Way Down: The Parkerian Transcriptions “Peace at Peace: Scales of Redemption in and Criseyde” of Bede’s Death Song in CCCC 100” Piers Plowman” 5. Elaine Treharne (Stanford University), Response 2. Frederick M. Biggs (University of Connecticut), “Boccaccio’s Place in the Marriage Group” 2 3. Warren Ginsberg (University of Oregon), 1. Brantley Bryant (Sonoma State University), 5. Miranda Hajduk, (Seton Hall University), Session 4C: “The Marches”: The Cultural and “Frames of Mind: The Decameron and the “The Sea That Greedy Is: Chaucerian Water “’My Sturdy Hardynesse’: The Wife of Bath’s Linguistic Positioning of Border Literature Canterbury Tales” Politics” Antifeminist Satire as Trans Narrative” (Lightning) 5:15-6:00 Members’ Parliament (Isabel Bader 2. Noelle Phillips (Douglas College), “Outside 6. Cai Henderson (Centre for Medieval Studies, Thread: Language Contacts Theatre) the Walled Garden: Nature, Environment, and University of Toronto), “Christine de Pizan’s Organizer: Helen Cushman (Harvard University) 6:00-8:00 Research Expo with Reception at Chaucerian Feminism” ‘droite condicion’: Authorial Construction and Moderator: Helen Cushman Hart House 3. Clare Davidson (University of Western Resonant Reading in Transgender Text” Room: Victoria College 215 Australia), “In Defence of the Cuckoo: Natural 1. Helen Fulton (Centre for Medieval Studies, Selection in the Parliament of Fowls” Session 3I: Literature and Late Medieval Science University of Bristol), “Literary Production on RESEARCH EXPO 4. Gillian Rudd (University of Liverpool), “Time (Paper) the March of Wales” for Trees: How the 2017 Charter for Trees May Organizer: The NCS Program Committee 2. David Callander (University of Cambridge), Hart House Great Hall Help Read Chaucer, and Vice Versa” Moderator: Lisa Cooper (University of Wisconsin, “Teilo Englished: the Middle English Life of St Organizers: 5. Mo Pareles (University of British Columbia), Madison) Teilo and the March” Rebecca F. McNamara (Westmont College); “Eldum swa unnyt: Mining Old English in Room: Northrop Frye 119 3. Simon Meecham-Jones, “Geoffrey Chaucer Anthropocene Canada” Matthew Fisher (University of California, Los Angeles) 1. Matthew Boyd Goldie (Rider University), Regrets ... Gamelyn and the Welsh March” 6. Daniel Remein (University of Massachusetts), “Ground-Level Affordances: Astrolabes, 4. Joseph Taylor (University of Alabama, Huntsville), Anthony Bale (Birkbeck, University of London), “St “Fish Stories” Barbara’s Tower” Quadrants, and Practica Geometriae” “A Coming Community: The Anglo-Scottish 2. David Hadbawnik (American University of March in the Late Middle Ages” Thomas Blake (Austin College), “‘Semyrame Session 3D: Language Contact and Language Kuwait), “‘Ignotum per ignocius’: The Science 5. Andrew M. Richmond (SUNY Oneonta), “A the secounde’: Pantsuits, Power, and the 2016 Change (Paper) of Unknowing in Late Medieval English Land Out of Time: The Role of Anglo-Scottish Presidential Election” Thread: Language Contacts Alchemical Poetry” Border Landscapes in the Late-Medieval Matthew Clancy (Birkbeck, University of London), Organizer: The NCS Program Committee 3. Charlotte Rudman (King’s College London), Romance Imaginary” “Recreating Lost Material Cultures: the Tomb of Moderator: Simon Meecham-Jones (University “The Science of Sound in Chaucer’s Dream Arthur at Glastonbury Abbey” of Cambridge) Vision Poetry” Session 4D: Is There a Text for This Class? Editing Room: Victoria College 212 Emilie Cox (Indiana University, Bloomington), “Medieval Chaucer Now I and Modern ‘Cucks’: Parsing the Misogyny of Chaucer’s 1. T. W. Machan (University of Notre Dame), Session 3J: The Meaning of Religious Violence (Paper) Thread: Making the Text (Position) Fabliaux and Alt-Right Politics” “Writing Linguistic History: The Marches” Organizer: Robert Epstein (Fairfield University) Organizer: Elizabeth Scala (University of Texas 2. Nicholas Myklebust (Regis University), at Austin) Hideshi Ohno (Hiroshima University), “Variation Moderator: Robert Epstein “Anglo-Scottish Borderlands: A Fifteenth- Moderator: Elizabeth Scala among Manuscripts and Editions of the Canterbury Room: Northrop Frye 113 Century Metrical Invention” Room: Victoria College Chapel Tales: With Special Reference to the Use of Personal 1. Shoshana Adler (University of Pennsylvania), 3. Andrew Galloway (Cornell University), and Impersonal Constructions” “Categorical Violence: the Trope of Gog Magog 1. David Lawton (Washington University in St. “Lyric Noise” Louis), “The Norton Chaucer” Emerson Richards (Indiana University Bloomington), and Racialized Formations in Middle English 2. Kathryn Lynch (Wellesley College), “Reader “New Research on John Rylands Research Institute Alexander Literature” Session 3E: Transcription Then (Paper) Friendly Chaucer Editions for an Age of MS Latin 19 (an Illustrated Apocalypse)” 2. Daniel Kline (University of Alaska, Anchorage), Thread: Making the Text “Pedagogical Violence, Levinasian Ethics, and Distraction” Sarah Wilma Watson (University of Pennsylvania), Organizer: Daniel Wakelin (University of Oxford) the Subversive Physical Logic of the Alma 3. Peter Robinson & Barbara Bordalejo “‘Mon seul desir’: French Mottos in Fifteenth-Century Moderator: Daniel Wakelin Redemptoris in Chaucer’s Prioress’s Tale” (University of Saskatchewan & University of England” Room: Emmanuel College 302 3. Maia Farrar (University of Michigan), Leuven), “Many People Making Many Texts Susan Yager (Iowa State University), “DIY Digital 1. Thomas J. Farrell (Stetson University), “Scribal “Testing ‘Treweth’: Systems of Dissent in for Many Purposes” Humanities: Basic Tools for Lexical Study” Accuracy in the Copying of the Reeve’s Tale” the Erle of Tolous” 4. Andrew Taylor (University of Ottawa), 2. Mayumi Taguchi & Satoko Tokunaga (Osaka “Should it be Rawer?: The Future of the 8:00 LGBTQIA+ Get Together at the Glad 10:30-11:00 Break Sangyo University, Keio University), “Tran- Single Manuscript Edition” Day Bookshop 11:00-12:30 Race and Inclusion: Facing Chaucer scription of Printed books: Compositors, Studies, Past and Future (Isabel Correctors and Editors” Session 4E: Chivalric Ideology (Paper) Bader Theatre) Thursday, July 12 3. Akiyuki Jimura (Okayama University of Organizer: The NCS Program Committee Science), “A New Approach to the Manuscripts Moderator: Ruth Evans (Saint Louis University) Moderator: Daniel Kline (University of Alaska, and Editions of the Canterbury Tales” Anchorage) 9:00-10:30 SESSIONS: GROUP 3 1. Anthony Bale (Birkbeck, University of London) 2. Candace Barrington (Central Connecticut Room: Victoria College 101 Session 3A: Border-Crossings: Chaucer’s Italy Session 3F: Imagined Pasts and Possible Futures State University) 1. Marcel Elias (St Catharine’s College, (Lightning) (Paper) 3. Carolyn Dinshaw (New York University) Cambridge), “Chaucer, the Crusades, and Thread: Chaucer Abroad Thread: Middle English Literature at Scale 4. Wan-Chuan Kao (Washington and Lee Chivalric Reform” Organizer: Kathryn McKinley (University of Maryland, Organizer: Jordan Zweck (University of Wisconsin, University) 2. Brian Gastle (Western Carolina University), Baltimore County) Madison) 5. Richard Sévère (Valparaiso University) “Chaucer the Veteran: Translating Violence in Moderator: Kathryn McKinley Moderator: Jordan Zweck the Temple of Mars” 12:30-2:00 Lunch Room: Victoria College 115 Room: Victoria College 215 3. Amy N. Vines (University of North Carolina, 1. Zachary E. Stone (University of Virginia), 1. Cynthia Turner Camp (University of Georgia), Greensboro), “Affect and the Chivalric “Oother art—Chaucer’s Lynyan and Alterna- “The ‘Just decimacioun’ of Historical Progress 2:00-3:30 SESSIONS: GROUP 4 Subject” tive Italies” in Lydgate’s ‘Austin at Compton’” 2. Teresa Russo (University of Toronto), “Literary 2. David K. Coley (Simon Fraser University), Session 4A: Medieval Latour (Paper) Session 4F: Monastic Prayer, Monastic Poetics Structure and ‘serial loci’ in Chaucer’s “Back to the Future: Negotiating Traumatic Thread: Forming Knowledge (Paper) Knight’s Tale and Boccaccio’s Teseida” Pasts in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” Organizers: Michelle Karnes (University of Notre Organizer: The NCS Program Committee 3. John Ganim (University of California, Riverside), 3. Darragh Greene (University College Dublin), Dame); Julie Orlemanski (University of Chicago) Moderator: Barbara Zimbalist (University of Texas, “Nice Work If You Can Get It: Poetics and Effort “‘Though I by ordre telle nat thise thynges’: Moderator: Michelle Karnes El Paso) in Boccaccio and Chaucer” Time, Tragedy, and the Monk’s Tale” Room: Emmanuel College 119 Room: Victoria College 212 4. Roberta Marangi (University of Geneva), “Incipit 1. Laura Saetveit Miles (University of Bergen), 1. Fiona Somerset (University of Connecticut), et Explicit Vox Nova: Chaucer’s Narratorial Session 3G: 40 Years of Studies in the Age of Chaucer “Latour’s ‘How Not to Misunderstand the “Religious Poetics: A Fifteenth-Century Voice as Poet” Organizer: Sarah Salih (King’s College London); Science and Religion Debate’: A Useful ‘Reformation in Feeling’” 5. William Caferro (Vanderbilt University), Studies in the Age of Chaucer Philosophy against False Binaries” 2. Ann Killian (Yale University), “Lydgate’s “Chaucer, Hawkwood, Sabraham and the Moderator: Sarah Salih 2. Jessica Rezunyk (Upper Canada College), Marian Macaronics” English Embassy to Milan, 1378” Room: Victoria College Chapel “Latour’s Facing Gaia: Translations of Nature 3. Amanda Joan Wetmore (Centre for Medieval 1. David Matthews (University of Manchester) and Religion” Studies, University of Toronto), “Measure for Session 3B: Fictionality I (Paper) 2. Paul Strohm (Columbia University) 3. Katherine Zieman (Harvard University), Measure: The Poetics of Violence in Lydgate’s Thread: Forming Knowledge 3. Bridget Whearty (Binghamton University, SUNY) “Latour, Technology, and Mediation” The Fifteen O’s of Christ” Organizer: Mary Raschko (Whitman College) Moderator: Mary Raschko Session 3H: Chaucer and Transgender Studies Session 4B: Gendered History, Historicized Session 4G: Politic Translations: English Languages, Room: Victoria College 323 (Lightning) Gender I (Paper) English Books (Paper) 1. Julie Orlemanski (University of Chicago), “Did Organizer: Ruth Evans (Saint Louis University) Thread: History Now Organizer: The NCS Program Committee the Middle Ages Believe in Their Exempla?” Moderator: Ruth Evans Organizer: Elizabeth Robertson (University of Moderator: Heather Blatt (Florida International 2. Taylor Cowdery (University of North Carolina, Room: Emmanuel College 119 Glasgow) University) Chapel Hill), “False Universals in Chaucer’s Moderator: Jennifer Jahner (California Institute of Room: Emmanuel College 302 1. Leanne MacDonald (University of Notre General Prologue” Technology) Dame), “Challenging Normative Notions of 1. Vickie Larsen (University of Michigan, Flint), 3. Katharine Breen (Northwestern University), Room: Victoria College 323 Transidentity in Medieval Studies” “John Dryden’s Wife of Bath’s Tale” “Minimal Fictions” 2. Wan-Chuan Kao (Washington and Lee 1. Holly Crocker (University of South Carolina), 2. Rosemarie McGerr (Indiana University University), “Trans*domesticity” “Feminism Without Gender: Chaucer’s Bloomington), “Latin in The Pilgrimage of Session 3C: Eco-Chaucer: Transhistorical Readings 3. Michelle M. Sauer (University of North Dakota), Legend of Good Women and Late Medieval the Soul: The Politics of Translation in Early of the Sacred, Sovereign, and Secular (Lightning) “Reading the ‘Glitch’: Trans-, Technology, and Literary Studies” Fifteenth-Century England” Thread: History Now Gender in Medieval Texts” 2. Andrew Prescott (University of Glasgow), 3. Sarah J. Sprouse (Texas Tech University), “Brut Organizer: Robert Rouse (University of British Columbia) 4. M. W. Bychowski (Case Western Reserve “Who Was Cecily Chaumpaigne?” Lost? Brut Found: The Curious Case of The Moderator: Robert Barrett (University of Illinois, University), “Transgender Ethics: The Wife of 3. Robert Epstein (Fairfield University), Historie of Cambria” Urbana-Champaign) Bath’s Trans Feminism” “’Wommen for to selle’: Criseyde as Fictitious Room: Victoria College 101 Commodity” 3 Session 4H: Wheels and Fire: Ideas of Language 1. Carissa M. Harris (Temple University), “’A Session 6B: Fictionality II (Paper) 2. Rebecca Huffman (University of Michigan), in Medieval Literature (Process and Technology) drunken cunt hath no porter’: Women, Thread: Forming Knowledge “The Tale of a Manual: Longleat MS 29 and the (Lightning) Alcohol, and Misogyny from the Medieval Organizer: Mary Raschko (Whitman College) Anonymous Parson’s Tale” Organizer: David K. Coley (Simon Fraser University) Alehouse to the Modern College Campus” Moderator: Mary Raschko 3. Daniel Wakelin (University of Oxford), Moderator: David K. Coley 2. Angela Jane Weisl (Seton Hall University), Room: Victoria College 215 “Scribes against Novelty” Room: Victoria College 115 “’Trusteth as in love no man but me’: Mans- 1. Rebecca Krug (University of Minnesota), “Lions 1. Spencer Strub (University of California, plaining and Feminist Resistance” Can’t Eat Virgins? Questions, Propositions, and Session 6H: Surveillance: Guarding Virtue (Paper) Berkeley), “Process” 3. Karen A. Winstead (The Ohio State University), Late Medieval Storytelling” Organizer: Sylvia Tomasch (Hunter College, CUNY) 2. Jeffery G. Stoyanoff (Spring Hill College), “Misogyny, ‘faux feminism,’ and the (Ab)Uses 2. Jessica Lockhart (University of Toronto), Moderator: Sylvia Tomasch “Gower’s ‘Trojan Horse’: Metaphor, Reading, of the Past” “Wonders in the Weir: Chaucer’s Fiction and Room: Northrop Frye 113 4. Sheila Fisher (Trinity College), “Griselda’s Two and Networks” Late Medieval Riddling” 1. Gina A. Dominick (New York University), Faces, or When Hillary Met Melania” 3. Jordan Zweck (University of Wisconsin, 3. Robyn Malo (Purdue University), “Chaucer and “Aesthetics and ‘Surveiaunce’ in the 5. Sara Fredman (Washington University in St. Madison), “Giving Voice to Medieval Sign the Consolation of Narrative” Physician’s Tale” Louis), “’Ye archewyves, stondeth at defense’: Lexica” 2. Jennifer N. Brown (Marymount Manhattan The Clerk’s Tale, Breaking Bad, and Women 4. Kara L. McShane (Ursinus College), “Writing Session 6C: Periodization, “Medieval” to “Renais- College), “Surveillance among Sisters: The Who Persist” as Time-Traveling Technology” sance” (Paper) Case of the Syon Additions” 6. Christine Di Gangi (Dawson Community 5. Jonathan Hsy (George Washington University), Thread: History Now 3. Annette Kern-Staehler (University of Bern), College, Montana University System), “Relay Languages and Visual Vernaculars: Organizer: Kathie Little (University of Colorado, “The Bishop’s Spies: Surveillance in Late “Symbolized Femininity and the State Reading Speech, Writing Gesture” Boulder) Medieval Monastic Houses” at War: Fifteenth-Century Misogyny and Moderator: Theresa Coletti (University of Maryland, 3:30-4:00 Break Contemporary Analogues” College Park) Session 6I: The Expressive Agency of Trees in Room: Victoria College 323 Medieval Literature (Paper) Session 5F: Negative Thinking in Middle English 4:00-5:30 SESSIONS: GROUP 5 Organizer: The NCS Program Committee Romance (Paper) 1. Jeff Espie (University of British Columbia), “Chaucer, Spenser, and the Cut of History” Moderator: Mo Pareles (University of British Columbia) Session 5A: Chaucer’s “Cavillaciouns” (Paper) Organizer: The NCS Program Committee 2. William Revere (University of North Carolina, Room: Northrop Frye 119 Thread: Forming Knowledge Moderator: Amy N. Vines (University of North Asheville), “Imagining Community in Medieval 1. Valerie B. Johnson (University of Montevallo), Organizer: Neil Cartlidge (University of Durham) Carolina, Greensboro) Fictions: Chaucer to More” “Gnarled Rhizome: Chaucerian Forests as Moderator: Neil Cartlidge Room: Victoria College 101 3. Matthew Evan Davis (McMaster University), Networked Objects” Room: Victoria College 115 1. Paul A. Broyles (North Carolina State “The “Tudor” Misnomer: Periodization as 2. Timothy S. Miller (Sarah Lawrence College), University), “Fictions of Possession: 1. Theodore Chelis (Pennsylvania State University), Incidental Side-Effect of Religious Reform” “The Speaking Plant: Translating Vegetal Exchanging the Immaterial in Amadace, “Fraudulent Auctoritates and Inept Sophistry in Languages in Middle English” Cleges, and Gawain” Chaucer’s Legend of Cleopatra” Session 6D: Implications of French-English 3. Sarah Breckenridge Wright (Duquesne 2. Paul Gaffney (Hiram College), “Bodily 2. Kathleen Burt (Middle Georgia State University), Bilingualism (Paper) University), “Chaucer’s Apocalyptic Violations as Broken Signifiers in Medieval “Rhetorical Failure and Scientific Fraud in the Thread: Language Contacts Parliament: Eschatological Trees in the English Romance” Canon’s Yeoman’s Prologue and Tale” Organizer: Ardis Butterfield (Yale University) Parliament of Fowls” 3. Grace Timperley (University of Manchester), 3. Helen Cooper (Magdalene College, Cambridge), Moderator: Ardis Butterfield “Unknowing in the Middle English Lybeaus 10:30-11:00 Break “Logic and False Logic in Chaucer’s Balade of Room: Victoria College 212 ‘Fortune’” Desconus” 1. Jonathan Fruoco (Université Grenoble Alpes), “Bilingualism and Social Snobbery in 11:00-12:30 SESSIONS: GROUP 7 Session 5B: Is There a Text for This Class? Editing Session 5G: Parliament, Institutions, Theory: New Cases for Literature and the Law (Paper) Medieval England” Chaucer Now II (Position) Session 7A: The Medieval Elsewhere: Australia, Organizers: Brantley Bryant (Sonoma State 2. Thomas Hinton (University of Exeter), “French Thread: Making the Text Israel, the Americas (Paper) University); Jonathan Forbes (University of Pedagogy in Thirteenth-Century England: Organizer: Elizabeth Scala (University of Texas at Austin) Thread: Chaucer Abroad California, Santa Barbara) Walter de Bibbesworth’s Tretiz” Moderator: Elizabeth Scala Organizer: The NCS Program Committee Moderator: Jonathan Forbes 3. Philip Knox (Trinity College, Cambridge), Room: Victoria College Chapel Moderator: Bruce Holsinger (University of Virginia) Room: Emmanuel College 302 “Multiliteracies: Dialects and Scriptae of 1. Julia Boffey & Tony Edwards (Queen Mary French in Late Medieval England” Room: Victoria College 215 1. Julie Chamberlin (Indiana University Bloom- University of London & University of Kent), 4. Elizaveta Strakhov (Marquette University), 1. Louise D’Arcens (Macquarie University), “Medie- ington), “Posthuman Theory, Prehumanist “The Cambridge Chaucer” “’Cest tout’: French Rubrics for English Poetry valism and the Coeval: Indigenous Cinema and the Tradition: Legal Networks in the Middle Ages” 2. Christopher Cannon (Johns Hopkins University), in Thomas Hoccleve’s Huntington Holograph Narration of Pre-Contact Time” 2. Anya Adair (University of Hong Kong), “Law in “The Oxford Chaucer” Manuscripts” 2. Jonathan Stavsky (Tel Aviv University), “The the Hands of the Scribes: Book-making, Legal 3. Daniel Ransom (University of Oklahoma), “The Parson Goes to Jerusalem: Anti-Orthodox Temporality and the Forest Charter in the Variorum Chaucer: Old Philology and Future Session 6E: Mapping London Textual Production Parody and the Limits of Secularism in Fourteenth Century” Study of Chaucer” (Paper) Shimon Sandbank’s Hebrew Translation of the 3. Craig E. Bertolet (Auburn University), 4. Elizabeth Scala, “Response: The Future of the Thread: Making the Text Canterbury Tales” “Habitus and the City: Reading London’s Civic Chaucer Book” Organizer: Lawrence Warner (King’s College London) 3. Nancy Bradley Warren (Texas A&M University), Documents through the Lens of Bourdieu” Moderator: Lawrence Warner “Hemispheric Medievalisms: The ‘Old Religion’ Session 5C: Doing Things with Latin (Paper) Room: Emmanuel College 119 and the Making of Early Modern America” Organizer: Andrew Kraebel (Trinity University) Session 5H: Scientia, Sapientia, Pedagogia (Paper) Organizers: Nicole D. Smith (University of North 1. Sonja Drimmer (University of Massachusetts, Moderator: Stephanie Batkie (University of the South) Session 7B: Carnal Knowledge (Lightning) Texas); Moira Fitzgibbons (Marist College) Amherst), “‘A Connoisseurship of Words’: Room: Victoria College 212 Thread: Forming Knowledge Moderator: Nicole D. Smith Paleography, Art History, and Manuscripts of 1. Joe Stadolnik (University College London), Organizers: Joe Stadolnik (University College London); Room: Victoria College 215 Middle English Verse” “Henry Daniel’s Latinish” 2. Matthew Fisher (University of California, Los Carissa M. Harris (Temple University) 2. Matthew Day (University of Oxford), “Metrical 1. Jennifer Sisk (University of Vermont), Angeles), “‘Librum meum de Canterbury Tales’: Moderator: Joe Stadolnik Study and Classicizing Style in the Works of “Clergie, Kynde Knowyng, and the Teaching The Chancery and Chaucer’s Other Scribe” Room: Victoria College Chapel of Piers Plowman” John Seward” 3. Sebastian Sobecki (University of Groningen), 1. Helen Cushman (Harvard University), 2. Jessica Hines (Duke University), “Knowing 3. Alex Mueller (University of Massachusetts, “‘George Ashby’s Autograph Hand” “Tangible Knowledge” Suffering: Pity and the Gentle Heart in Late Boston), “Waking the Wordsmith: Ars dictaminis 2. Suzanne M. Edwards (Lehigh University), Medieval Literature” and Alliterative Verse” Session 6F: Chaucer and Rape: The Wife of Bath’s “Apprehending God” 3. Kathryn Vulic (Western Washington University), Prologue and Tale (Lightning) 3. Marian Homans-Turnbull (University of “Scientia and Sapientia in ‘The Thrush and The Session 5D: Affective Spaces, Private to Public (Paper) Organizer: Carissa M. Harris (Temple University) California, Berkeley), “Foreknowledge of Nightingale’” Organizer: Will Rogers (University of Louisiana, Moderator: Samantha Katz Seal (University of Bodies in Chaucer’s Physician’s Tale” Monroe); Christopher Roman (Kent State University) 5:00-6:30 Transition time New Hampshire) 4. Rachel Levinson-Emley (University of Moderator: Christopher Roman 6:30-8:00 Reception at Art Gallery of Ontario, Room: Victoria College Chapel California, Santa Barbara), “Women’s Room: Emmanuel College 119 co-hosted by Medievalists of Color Secrets: Medieval Female Medical Writers 1. Derrick Pitard (Slippery Rock University), and Narrative Medicine” 1. Betsy McCormick (Mount San Antonio College), “Elves, Friars, Folktales, and Lust” 5. Roberta Magnani (Swansea University), “The “Old, Unhappy, Far-Off Things: Solitude, 2. Elizabeth Harper (Mercer University), “’Don’t Friday, July 13 Wife of Bath’s Epistemology of Experience: Loneliness and Memory in Chaucer’s Legend of Be That Knight’: Rape, Rehabilitation, and Spiritual and Carnal Intersections” Good Women” Teaching the Wife of Bath’s Tale” 9:00-10:30 SESSIONS: GROUP 6 6. Mariah Junglan Min (University of Pennsylvania), 2. Gina Hurley (Yale University), “‘Schryue yow 3. William M. Storm (Eastern University), “Speaking “Whither Thou, Ghost: Sir Orfeo and the Knowledge openlye’: Innocence, Guilt, and the Space of on Behalf of the Maiden: The Trauma of Speech in Session 6A: Chaucer and Muslim Readers (Seminar) of Death” Confession in Le Bone Florence de Rome” the Wife of Bath’s Tale” Thread: Chaucer Abroad 7. Carolyn Dinshaw (New York University), Response 3. Helen Hickey (University of Melbourne), Organizer: Candace Barrington (Central Connecticut “Affective Cartography and Aesthetics — State University) Session 6G: New Ideas in Manuscript Studies I Session 7C: Aureation (Paper) London in Medieval Writing” Moderator: Candace Barrington (Paper) Thread: Language Contacts Room: Victoria College 115 Organizer: Thomas J. Farrell (Stetson University) Organizer: Nicholas Watson (Harvard University) Session 5E: Misogynies: Medieval and Modern Moderator: Thomas J. Farrell 1. Sherif Abdelkarim (University of Virginia), “On Moderator: Catherine Sanok (University of Michigan) (Lightning) Room: Victoria College 101 Understanding Chaucer, His Poetry, His World, Organizer: Nicole Nolan Sidhu (East Carolina University) Room: Victoria College 115 and Ours” 1. Stephen Partridge (University of British Moderator: Nicole Nolan Sidhu 1. Amanda Walling (University of Hartford), 2. Burçin Erol (Hacettepe University), “Teaching Columbia), “New Ideas (and Facts) about the Room: Victoria College 323 “Towards an Ethics of the Aureate” Courtly Love to Turkish Students” Part-Divisions in the Man of Law’s Tale”

4 2. Sarah Star (Kenyon College), “The ‘Almost-Latin’ 2. Aled Roberts (Columbia University), “‘Be war Session 8D: Anglo-Latin (Paper) 1. Andrew Taylor (University of Ottawa), Medical Language of Late Medieval England” from ire’: Air, Ire and Irrationality in Chaucer’s Thread: Language Contacts “Concealing, Revealing, Spying, and Fore- 3. Christopher Cannon (Johns Hopkins University), Summoner’s Tale” Organizer: Andrew Kraebel (Trinity University) seeing in Froissart’s Journey to the Court of “Latin English” 3. Randy Schiff (University at Buffalo, SUNY), Moderator: Andrew Galloway (Cornell University) Gaston Fébus” “Cultivating Empathy through Quiting: The Room: Victoria College 212 2. Matthew Scribner (Carleton University and Session 7D: Scribal Grammar, Scribal Poetics Telling Fury of the Friar and Summoner” 1. Venetia Bridges (Durham University), “Proverbial Algonquin College), “Gender, Hegemony, and (Lightning) Problems: Latin Sapientia or English Wisdom?” Surveillance in the Tristan Romances” Thread: Making the Text Session 7I: Forms of Middle English Prayer I (Paper) 2. Michael Van Dussen (McGill University), 3. Sheila Coursey (University of Michigan), Organizers: Heather Blatt (Florida International Organizers: Taylor Cowdery (University of North “Anglo-Latin Abroad: Richard Rolle in “’And for his sake to help his neighbor’: Nice University); Sarah Noonan (Saint Mary’s College, Carolina, Chapel Hill); Megan Murton (Catholic Central Europe” Wanton and Neighborhood Surveillance” Notre Dame); Aditi Nafde (Newcastle University); University of America) 3. Stephanie Batkie (University of the South), 4. Karma Lochrie (Indiana University Jenni Nuttall (University of Oxford) Moderator: Megan Murton “Let’s Talk Leonines: Listening to Forms in Bloomington), “’Privé or apert’: Domestic Moderator: Jenni Nuttall Room: Northrop Frye 113 Gower’s Vox Clamantis” Surveillance in Late Medieval England” Room: Victoria College 101 1. DeVan Ard (University of Virginia), “Speaker, 1. Colette Moore (University of Washington), Voice, and Pray-er in Harley MS 2253” Session 8E: Transcription Now (Paper) Session 8J: The Squire and His Tale: “Ernest” or “Mise-en-page, Information Structure, 2. Amy Appleford (Boston University), “‘Behold, Thread: Making the Text “Game”? (Position) Information Design” my life is but a distraction’” Organizer: Daniel Wakelin (University of Oxford) Organizer: Robert J. Meyer-Lee (Agnes Scott College) 2. Emily Mahan (University of Notre Dame), “Visual 3. Shannon Gayk (Indiana University Bloomigton), Moderator: Daniel Wakelin Moderator: Robert J. Meyer-Lee Pragmatics of a Multilingual Manuscript: The “Clad in Christ’s Skin: The Haptic Poetics of Room: Emmanuel College 302 Room: Victoria College 115 Scribe’s Stance” Middle English Prayer Rolls” 1. Daniel Sawyer (University of Oxford), 1. Kenneth Bleeth (Connecticut College), “The 3. Ruen-chuan Ma (Utah Valley University), “The “Whittling the Wycliffite Bible: Transcription’s Rhetoric of Narration in the Squire’s Tale” Visual Grammar of the Thebaid Summary in 2. Megan Murton (Catholic University of Session 7J: Making Room for Chaucer in Secondary Sharp Ends” Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde” America), “The Squire’s Tale: ‘Ernest’ Failure as Schools (Seminar) 2. Justyna Rogos-Hebda (Adam Mickiewicz 4. Elon Lang (University of Texas at Austin), Narrative Experiment” Organizers: Jessica Rezunyk (Upper Canada College); University, Poznan), “Toeing the Line: On “Dotting ‘I’s and Taking Names: Punctuators 3. B.S.W. Barootes (University of Toronto), “‘In Lee Read (Wilde Lake High School) Transcribing Horizontal Strokes in English and and Annotators in BL MS Harley 4286” fair and fresche atyre’: The Squire’s Tale as a Moderator: Lee Read Latin MSS of Richard Rolle’s Emendatio Vitae” 5. Mary C. Flannery, ”’Thy wyf I saugh hym…[?]’: Source for the Kingis Quair” Room: Northrop Frye 119 3. Joel Fredell (Southeastern University), Obscenity and Scribal Play in the Hengwrt MS” “Transcribing Middle English for Digital 4. Ruth Nisse (Wesleyan University), “The Last 1. Vincent Lankewish (Professional Performing 6. David Watt (University of Manitoba), “Edifying Display” Ides of March” Verse: Structure and Integrity in Thomas Arts High School), “Chaucer in a New York City 5. Justin Barker (Louisiana School for Math, Hoccleve’s Stanzas” Public High School” Science, and the Arts), “The Squire’s Tale Session 8F: Powers of Speech: Women, Language 2. Mary Kay Waterman (The Lovett School), as a Chaucerian Philosophy of Poetic and Public Culture in Late Medieval England (Paper) Session 7E: Cosmic Scale: Astronomical Thinking “‘Diverse practyk in sondry werkes’: A Shift in Interpretation?” Practice” Organizer: The NCS Program Committee (Paper) 3:30-5:30 Special Event at Art Gallery of Ontario 3. David Raybin (Eastern Illinois University), Moderator: Geoffrey Gust (Stockton University) Thread: Middle English Literature at Scale - Medieval Ethiopian Manuscripts “From High School to College” Room: Northrop Frye 113 Organizer: Kara Gaston (University of Toronto) 5:30-7:00 Transition Time 1. Alastair Bennett (Royal Holloway, University of Moderator: Kara Gaston 12:30-2:00 Lunch 7:00-9:00 Performance of Wahala Dey O! Room: Victoria College 212 London), “The Man of Law and the Art of Prayer” 1. Amanda Gerber (University of California, Los 2. Roger Nicholson (University of Auckland), “In/constant Queens and Consorts: Creating Angeles), “Learning the Tropes: Chaucer’s 2:00-3:30 SESSIONS: GROUP 8 Saturday, July 14 Lesson in Classical Cosmography” and Containing Public Strife in Late Medieval England” 2. William Green (University of British Columbia), Session 8A: Metrolingualism (Lightning) 9:00-10:30 SESSIONS: GROUP 9 “‘Al is thurgh constellacion’: (Re-)Writing the Thread: Chaucer Abroad 3. Lainie Pomerleau (University of Georgia), Heavens in the Late Middle Ages” Organizer: Karla Mallette (University of Michigan) “Commonplaces for the Uncommonly Session 9A: The Woman Question: Chaucer in his 3. David Wilton (Texas A&M University), “The Moderator: David Wallace (University of Pennsylvania) Placed: Medieval English Queens and their European Context (Seminar) Colors of Illusion: Astronomy, Magic, and Room: Victoria College Chapel Books of Hours” Thread: Chaucer Abroad Poetics in the Franklin’s Tale” 1. Emily Dolmans (Exeter College, University Organizers: Betsy McCormick (Mount San Antonio 4. Sheri Smith (Heinrich Heine Universität, of Oxford), “England’s Border Literatures: Session 8G: Practicing Patience in the Middle Ages College); Lynn Shutters (Colorado State University) Düsseldorf), “A Grain of Sand and a Flight Language Between Cultures” (Lightning) Moderator: Lynn Shutters through the Spheres: Poetry as Cosmic 2. Elaine Treharne (Stanford University), “The Organizer: Tara Williams (Oregon State University) Room: Victoria College Chapel Moderator: Tara Williams Disorientation in Chaucer’s House of Fame” Linguistic Cityscape of ‘Mydeel Engelond’ in 1. Glenn Burger (Queens College and The Graduate Room: Victoria College 215 Medieval Leicester” Center, CUNY), “Who Could Tell the Joy That Is Session 7F: Advice from Book Series Editors and 3. Karla Taylor (University of Michigan), 1. Jessica Barr (University of Massachusetts, between a Husband and His Wife: Chaucer and Publishers “Chaucer’s Alibi” Amherst), “How Long, O Lord? Mystical French Conduct Literature for Women” Organizer: The NCS Program Committee 4. Susan Phillips (Northwestern University), “The Impatience and the Will of God” 2. Lucy R. Hinnie (University of Edinburgh), Moderator: Robert J. Meyer-Lee (Agnes Scott College) Shipman’s Tale: A Metrolingual Textbook on 2. Sara Torres (University of Virginia), “Negotiating the Querelle des femmes in the Room: Emmanuel College 119 Late Medieval Debt” “Peace, Patience, and Poetic Vocality in Bannatyne MS c.1568” 1. Anke Bernau, Manchester University 5. David Lawton (Washington University in St. Gower’s Verse” 3. Matthew W. Irvin (University of the South), Press, Manchester Medieval Literature and Louis), “Metronumeracies” 3. Jasmin Miller (University of California, “‘The Temple of Clemency and ‘Verray Wom- Culture Series 6. Susan Nakley (St. Joseph’s College, New York), Berkeley), “The Moral Ambiguity of Griselda’s manhede’” 2. Helen Fulton, University of Wales Press, New “Cruel City: the Prioress Expands Latin Territory” ‘Pacience’” 4. Wendy A. Matlock (Kansas State University), Century Chaucer Series 4. Colin Fewer (Purdue University Northwest), “Ventriloquizing Mothers: Chaucer’s Feminized 3. Caroline Palmer, Boydell and Brewer, Chaucer Session 8B: Medieval Technocultures I (Paper) “Patience and Masculinity in Hoccleve” Latin Sources” Studies Series Thread: Forming Knowledge 5. Elliot Kendall (University of Exeter), 5. Will Rogers (University of Louisiana, Monroe), 4. Fred Unwalla, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Organizers: Jenna Mead (University of Western “Chaucerian Patience and Stephen Hawes “Chaucer’s Woes and Women: Poetic Traumas, Studies Australia); Allan Mitchell (University of Victoria) at Court” European and English” 5. Daniel Wakelin, Cambridge University Moderator: Allan Mitchell 6. Leah Schwebel (Texas State University), Press, Cambridge Studies in Mediaeval Room: Victoria College 323 Session 8H: Reimagining Invention (Lightning) “#Notallwomen: The (In)imitable Griselda” Literature Series 1. Anke Bernau (University of Manchester), Organizer: Steele Nowlin (Pennsylvania State 6. Bonnie Wheeler, Palgrave Macmillan, The “Measuring Entanglements” University) Session 9B: Household Sciences and the Arts of New Middle Ages Series 2. Heidi Støa (Indiana University), “The Squire’s Moderator: Steele Nowlin Conduct (Lightning) Tale of Attraction” Room: Northrop Frye 119 Thread: Forming Knowledge Session 7G: Affect Matters: Historicizing Feeling in 3. Kathleen Tonry (University of Connecticut), 1. Kara Crawford (The Bishop’s School), Organizers: Rory Critten (University of Lausanne), the Age of Chaucer II (Paper) “Agency and Instrumentality: The Debate of “Unauthorized Inventions” Arthur Russell (Case Western Reserve University) Organizer: Glenn Burger (Queens College and The the Carpenter’s Tools” 2. Orietta Da Rold (St John’s College, Cambridge), Moderator: Arthur Russell Graduate Center, CUNY); Holly Crocker (University “’Right as our first letter is now an A’: Invention Room: Victoria College 115 of South Carolina) Session 8C: Chaucer and Church History (Paper) in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde” 1. Katelyn Jaynes (University of Connecticut), Moderator: Glenn Burger Thread: History Now 3. Chad Schrock (Lee University), “Chaucer’s “Real or Ideal? Agricultural Manuals and the Room: Victoria College 323 Organizers: James Simpson (Harvard University); Biblical Invention” Late Medieval Household” 1. Sarah McNamer (Georgetown University), Zachary E. Stone (University of Virginia) 4. Jacqueline M. Burek (George Mason University), 2. Hannah Bower (University of Oxford), “’Critical Feeling’ as Chaucerian Affect” Moderator: Zachary E. Stone “Historiographical Invention” “Inadequate Guides and Troublesome 2. Ryan Smith (University at Buffalo), “Chival- Room: Victoria College 101 5. Samuel F. McMillan (Pennsylvania State ‘Bokes’: Intertextual Voices in Vernacular University), “The Unreasonable Invention of Verse Herbals” rous Fulfillment: Knightly Subjectivity and 1. Andrew Lynch (University of Western the Roman de la Rose” 3. Chelsea Silva (University of California, Clerical Form” Australia), “Chaucer as Catholic ‘Child’ in 6. Juliette Vuille (University of Lausanne), Riverside), “(Im)practical Magic: Middle English Nineteenth-Century England” “Chaucer’s Metapoetic Messengers and Recipe Collections and Everyday Recreation” Session 7H: Anger and the Summoner’s Tale (Paper) 2. Chase Padusniak (Princeton University), Poetic Inventio” 4. Mary Beth Long (University of Arkansas), “To Pray Organizer: The NCS Program Committee “Chaucer’s Pardoner: Life, Death, Ecclesia” or Knot: Stitching Feminine Authority into An ABC” Moderator: John F. Plummer (Vanderbilt University) 3. Lora Walsh (University of Arkansas), “Defying 5. Lynn Arner (Brock University), “Eating like Room: Emmanuel College 302 Periodization: Literary Representations of Session 8I: Surveillance: Narratives (Paper) a Dog: Dining Etiquette and Socioeconomic ‘Church History’ in Trans-Reformation England” Organizer: Sylvia Tomasch (Hunter College, CUNY) 1. Thomas Goodmann (University of Miami), “The Moderator: Sylvia Tomasch Stratification in Medieval England” Fraternal Paradox: Limning the Friars” Room: Emmanuel College 119 5 Session 9C: The Object in/of History (Paper) Session 9H: On and Off the Page: Reading Chaucerian 3. Jenni Nuttall (University of Oxford), “Were 1. J. D. Sargan (University of Oxford), “’Cultural Thread: History Now Women (Paper) There English Rhétoriqueurs?” Graphology’ and Creative Reading: Derrida, Organizers: Kara McShane (Ursinus College); Organizer: The NCS Program Committee 4. Jaclyn Rajsic (Queen Mary University of Fleming, and Reading Practice in Late Medie- Jeffery G. Stoyanoff (Spring Hill College) Moderator: Sarah Baechle (University of Mississippi) London), “Reading Genealogical Rolls across val Manuscripts” Moderator: Jeffery G. Stoyanoff Room: Emmanuel College 302 the Channel: Anglo-French during the Reign 2. Ann Higgins (Westfield State University), Room: Victoria College 101 1. Kara Doyle (Union College), “The Game of Love: of King Henry VI” “Manuscript as Fetish, Manuscript as Text: 1. Heather Blatt (Florida International Women Readers and the French Backdrop of 5. Misty Schieberle (University of Kansas), “Harley Ignoring the Argument of the Physical Object” University), “Textuality and Object-Object Fairfax 16” 219’s Epistre Othea and the Rise of English” 3. Lawrence Warner (King’s College London), Material Meaning” 2. Amy Goodwin (Randolph-Macon College), “Scribe D, John Marchaunt, and the Dilemma 2. Richard H. Godden (Louisiana State University), “Fashioned in France: Griselda’s Readers” Session 10E: Inhabiting Inhuman Times (Seminar) of Identity” “Material Selves: Impairment and the Ecology 3. Molly Martin (University of Indianapolis), Thread: Middle English Literature at Scale 12:30-2:00 Lunch of Objects in Saints’ Lives” “Grisilde’s Lonely Spaces” Organizer: Susan Crane (Columbia University) 3. Alan S. Montroso (George Washington University), Moderator: Susan Crane “‘Hir eyen caste she ful lowe adoun’: Peering into Session 9I: Dramatic Bodies (Paper) Room: Victoria College 323 2:00-3:30 SESSIONS: GROUP 11 the Subterranean Archive with Diana’s Statue in Organizer: The NCS Program Committee 1. Evelyn Reynolds (Indiana University Bloom- the Knight’s Tale” Moderator: Suzanne M. Edwards (Lehigh University) ington), “Rethinking the Temporality of Joy in Session 11A: Chaucer on Islam and the East (Paper) Room: Northrop Frye 113 Pearl’s Heaven” Thread: Chaucer Abroad Organizers: David Hadbawnik (American University Session 9D: Engaging with Old English in Late 1. Jennifer Garrison (St. Mary’s University, Calgary), 2. Tara Williams (Oregon State University), “Whale Medieval England (Lightning) Time and the Poetics of Wonder in Patience” of Kuwait), Susan Nakley (St. Joseph’s College, “Mankind and the Gender Transformations of New York) Thread: Language Contacts Medieval Confession” 3. Richard Firth Green (The Ohio State University), Organizer: Thomas Hinton (University of Exeter) “Heterochronology in Sir Gawain and the Green Moderator: David Hadbawnik 2. Jesse Njus (Virginia Commonwealth University), Room: Emmanuel College 119 Moderator: Thomas Hinton “The Authority of Experience: Moms Mabley, the Knight” Room: Emmanuel College 119 Wife of Bath, and the Narrative Female Voice” 4. Elizabeth Allen (University of California, 1. Gabriel Ford (Converse College), “Arabic 1. Carla Maria Thomas (Independent Scholar), 3. Sylvia Tomasch (Hunter College, CUNY), Irvine), “Hiding in Holes: Sanctuary and Time” Frametales and Chaucerian Fabliaux: A “Poetic Mutation: Old English Content in “Jewface and Medieval Drama” 5. Catherine Sanok (University of Michigan), Reassessment” Latin Form” “The Inhuman Day” 2. Leila K. Norako (University of Washington), 10:30-11:00 Break 2. Alexandra Reider (Yale University), “Older 6. Carolynn Van Dyke (Lafayette College), “‘Each “Chaucer’s Spectrum of Otherness” English Wisdom: Alfred, Bede, and Proverbial in Its Kind’: Composing Species Time” 3. Radhika Koul (Stanford University), “The Antiquing in the Thirteenth Century” 7. Christine Chism (University of California, Los Canterbury Tales in Light of the Kathasari- 11:00-12:30 SESSIONS: GROUP 10 3. Susanna Fein (Kent State University), Angeles),“Vaster than Empires and More Slow: tasagara: A New Perspective from the East” The Trees of Time in the Alexander Romance” “Hagiographical Continuities” Session 10A: Reassessing Boundaries: Chaucer and 4. Stephen M. Yeager (Concordia University, Medieval European Literatures (Paper) Session 11B: Marginal Figures in Late Medieval Montréal), “Charters and the Chaucerians” Thread: Chaucer Abroad Session 10F: Five Easy Pieces: Augmented Teaching Society and Its Texts (Paper) Organizer: Shazia Jagot (University of Surrey) of Texts, Temporalities, and Fields (Lightning) Thread: History Now Session 9E: Uncritical Editions (Paper) Moderator: Shazia Jagot Organizer: Thomas Goodmann (University of Miami) Organizer: Roger Nicholson (University of Auckland) Thread: Making the Text Room: Victoria College 101 Moderator: Thomas Goodmann Moderator: Roger Nicholson Room: Emmanuel College 302 Room: Victoria College 101 Organizer: Megan Cook (Colby College) 1. Michelle Karnes (University of Notre Moderator: Megan Cook Dame), “Babylon” 1. Leah Haught (University of West Georgia), 1. Rebecca Menmuir (University of Oxford), Room: Victoria College 212 2. Anna Wilson (Harvard University), “Cannibalizing Chaucer Twice Over” “Interpreting Letters: Ovid’s Abandoned 1. Simone Celine Marshall (University of Otago), “Historical Geographies in Late Medieval 2. Ben Joy Ambler (Dwight Englewood High Women in Chaucer” “Mixing Modern and Middle English: John Pilgrimage Guides” School), “Incubating Interdisciplinarity” 2. Erica Weaver (University of California, Los Urry’s 1721 Edition and the 1807 Chaucer” 3. Emily Houlik-Ritchey (Rice University), 3. Sarah Noonan (Saint Mary’s College, Indiana), Angeles), “Dear X: Liminal Affects” 2. Jennifer Jahner (California Institute of “Mediterranean Contexts in Floris and “Beyond the Single-Author Edition: Anthologizing 3. Jeremy DeAngelo (Carleton College), “Legal Technology), “Thomas Wright’s Republic of Blancheflour and the Crónica de Flores y to Illustrate Chaucer’s Intellectual and Literary Outlawry and Fictional Heroism in the Tradition Letters: Editing the Multilingual Middle Ages Blancaflor” Foundations” of Hereward the Wake” in Nineteenth-Century London” 4. Thomas Hahn (University of Rochester), 4. Leah Pope Parker (University of Wisconsin, “Praxis vs. Perfection: The Middle English Madison), “A Poetics of Neurodiversity in 3. Simon Horobin (Magdalen College, Oxford), “Henry Session 10B: Medieval Technocultures II (Paper) Texts Series” Hoccleve’s Compleinte” Bradshaw and the Clarendon Chaucer Edition” Thread: Forming Knowledge 5. William Rhodes (University of Pittsburgh), 4. Elizabeth Melick (Kent State University), “Late Organizers: Jenna Mead (University of Western “Telling Different Stories” Nineteenth-Century Uncritical Editions and Australia); Allan Mitchell (University of Victoria) Session 11C: Language Contacts in Manuscript the Digital Age: Sidney Herrtage’s Editions of Moderator: Jenna Mead (Paper) the Otuel-Cycle Charlemagne Romances” Room: Emmanuel College 119 Session 10G: Forms of Middle English Prayer II Thread: Language Contacts (Paper) Organizer: Claire M. Waters (University of California, 1. Tekla Bude (Oregon State University), “Hap, Organizers: Taylor Cowdery (University of North Davis) Session 9F: Queer Ruptures to Normative Time Hasarde, Aventure, Assurance: Medieval (Lightning) Carolina, Chapel Hill); Megan Murton (Catholic Moderator: Claire M. Waters Technologies of Risk” University of America) Room: Victoria College 212 Thread: Middle English Literature at Scale 2. Patricia Clare Ingham (Indiana University Organizer: Miriamne Ara Krummel (University of Dayton) Moderator: Taylor Cowdery 1. J. R. Mattison (University of Toronto), Bloomington), “Dead Metal” Room: Northrop Frye 113 Moderator: Miriamne Ara Krummel 3. Emily Steiner (University of Pennsylva- “Managing French with English: Reading the Room: Victoria College 323 nia), “Sydrac and Bokkus and Vernacular 1. Anne Baden-Daintree (University of Lancelot-Grail in Fifteenth-Century England” 1. Theresa Tinkle (University of Michigan), Information” Bristol), “Prayerful Reading in the Domestic 2. Emily Ulrich (Yale University), “Cumulative “Temporal Polemics in the York Corpus Household” Semantics: Trilingual Reading Practices in 2. Nicole D. Smith (University of North Texas), McClean MS 123” Christi Play” Session 10C: Gendered History, Historicized “Praying the Apostles’ Creed: ‘A Christian 3. Barbara Zimbalist (University of Texas, El Paso), 2. Kristi J. Castleberry (Lyndon State College), Gender II (Paper) Mannes Believe,’ Lyric, and the Thinking Heart” “Multilingual Devotion in Fifteenth-Century “‘Yeres and dayes fleet this creature’: Floating Thread: History Now 3. Gabriel Haley (Concordia University, Nebraska), Manuscripts” Outside of Time in Chaucer’s Man of Law’s Tale” Organizer: Elizabeth Robertson (University of “Contemplative Ductus as Lyric Aesthetic” 3. Emma Lipton (University of Missouri), “The Glasgow) Asynchronous Temporal Scales of Medieval Moderator: Jennifer Jahner (California Institute of Session 11D: Manuscript and the Print Devolution Drama” Technology) Session 10H: Institutional Affects (Paper) (Lightning) 4. Robert Barrett (University of Illinois, Room: Victoria College Chapel Organizers: Thomas A. Prendergast (College of Thread: Making the Text Urbana-Champaign), “Fruit in Due Season: Wooster); Stephanie Trigg (University of Melbourne) Organizer: Zachary Hines (University of Texas at 1. David Wallace (University of Pennsylvania), Vegetal Temporality in the Legend of the Moderator: Thomas A. Prendergast Austin) “Giovanni/Giovanna: Boccaccio and Chaucer Wood of the Cross” Room: Victoria College 215 Moderator: Zachary Hines Revisited” 5. Catherine S. Cox (University of Pittsburgh, Room: Emmanuel College 302 2. Michelle Ripplinger (University of California, 1. Jessica Chace (New York University), “‘Should Johnstown), “Transtemporal Otherness and Berkeley), “Chaucer’s Unanticipated Female I Talk About My Depression?’: Melancholia and 1. Aditi Nafde (Newcastle University), “Reading the Queering of Faith” Readers” Hoccleve in the Classroom” the Printed Book in Manuscript” 2. George Shuffelton (Carleton College), 2. Mimi Ensley (University of Notre Dame), Session 9G: Carnal Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde (Paper) “Mixed Feelings: The Emotional Life of the “Inscribing the Tradition: A Recusant Catholic’s Session 10D: Late Fifteenth-Century Anglo-French Organizers: Joe Stadolnik (University College Medieval University” Romance Manuscripts” (Lightning) London), Carissa M. Harris (Temple University) 3. Jamie Taylor (Bryn Mawr College), “Chaucerian 3. Martha Driver (Pace University), “From Public Thread: Language Contacts Moderator: Suzanne Akbari (University of Toronto) Anger: Frustration, Outrage, and Literary to Private: MSS on the Move” Organizers: R. D. Perry (New Chaucer Society Post- Room: Victoria College 215 Analysis in the Canterbury Tales” 4. Thomas Sawyer (Washington University in St. doctoral Fellow, Saint Louis University); Spencer 4. Paul Megna (University of Western Australia), Louis), “Apocalipsis Libri Impressi” 1. Richard Sévère (Valparaiso University), Strub (University of California, Berkeley) “Christ’s Whip: Anti-Institutional Affect and 5. Carl Kears (King’s College London), “Franciscus “Understanding Chaucer’s Carnal Friendships: Moderator: R. D. Perry Divine Violence in the Chester Mystery Cycle” Junius: Making Networks Through Manuscript Exploring, Exploiting and Extolling Bodies in Room: Victoria College 212 Troilus and Criseyde” Books” 1. Rory Critten (University of Lausanne), 2. Timothy Arner (Grinnell College), “Trojan Session 10I: New Ideas in Manuscript Studies II “Palsgrave’s Examples” Nobodies: Uncarnal Knowledge in Troilus (Paper) Session 11E: Scale Jumping (Paper) 2. Catherine Nall (Royal Holloway, University and Criseyde” Organizer: Thomas J. Farrell (Stetson University) Thread: Middle English Literature at Scale of London), “Books of Consolation and of 3. Dana M. Roders (Purdue University), “Love Moderator: Thomas J. Farrell Organizer: Matthew Boyd Goldie (Rider University) Comfort: Responding to Defeat at the End of Hurts: Lovesickness as Disability in Chaucer Room: Victoria College 115 Moderator: Matthew Boyd Goldie the Hundred Years War” and Henryson” Room: Northrop Frye 113 6 1. Erika Harman (University of Pennsylvania), Egils saga Skallagrímssonar” 3. Olivia Robinson (University of Fribourg), “The Session 11I: The Language of Birds (Paper) “Answers for Every Question: Encyclopedic 2. Michael Wehrman (Frostburg State University), Medieval Convent Drama Project: Gender, Organizer: David K. Coley (Simon Fraser University) Dialogues in Late Medieval England” “‘Meche memory and muddling was mellyd Performance and Research” Moderator: David K. Coley 2. Paul Holchak (Queens College, CUNY), to-geder’: Bede’s Two Erkenwalds and Their 4. Tricia Postle (University of Toronto), “Travels Room: Victoria College 115 “Scales of Performance in the Monastic Roles in St. Erkenwald” with a Werewolf: Performing the Lai de 1. Christopher Roman (Kent State University), Divine Service” 3. Jill Hamilton Clements (University of Bisclaveret” “The Sounds of Chaucer’s Dreamscapes” 3. Joseph Morgan (Indiana University Bloomington), Alabama, Birmingham), “Remembering in 5. Kyle A. Thomas (University of Illinois, 2. Liam Lewis (University of Warwick), “Quacking “Scale Jumping with Julian: Cosmic Collapse as Runes: The Written Body and the Illegible Urbana-Champaign), “Medieval/Postmodern and Trapping: Mastering the Sounds of Birds Proof of Divine Love” Dead in St. Erkenwald” Performance: Approaches to a Performance in Bibbesworth’s Tretiz” 4. Steven F. Kruger (Queens College and The 4. Jordan Kirk (Pomona College), “Roynyshe of the 12th-Century Play of Adam” 3. Sarah Stanbury (College of the Holy Cross), Graduate Center, CUNY), “Scale Jumping and Resounes: St. Erkenwald on the Caracter” “Birdsong and the Noises of Home in the Non-Comparative Comparison in Medieval Session 11H: Newer Materialisms (Paper) Manciple’s Tale” Dream Vision” Session 11G: Living Research: Drama and Performance Organizer: Taylor Cowdery (University of North 3:30-4:00 Break in Practice (Lightning) Carolina, Chapel Hill) 4:00-5:30 Biennial Lecture and Closing : Session 11F: Digging up the Past: Memorialization, Organizer: Matthew Sergi (University of Toronto) Moderator: Taylor Cowdery Maura Nolan, University of California, Inscription, and St. Erkenwald (Paper) Moderator: Matthew Sergi Room: Victoria College Chapel Berkeley (Isabel Bader Theatre), “The Organizers: The NCS Program Committee Room: Victoria College 323 1. Myra Seaman (College of Charleston), “Not Invention of Style” Moderators: Jordan Zweck (University of Wisconsin, 1. Ernst Gerhardt (Laurentian University), Aloof but OOF: Feminist Object Studies” 5:30-6:30 Transition Time Madison) “Playing with Food: The Towneley First 2. Kellie Robertson (University of Maryland), 6:30-TBD Dinner Room: Northrop Frye 119 Shepherds’ Play in Performance” “The Origins of Poetic Materialism” 1. Sif Rikhardsdottir (University of Iceland), 2. Andrew Albin (Fordham University), “Frustrating 3. Lisa H. Cooper (University of Wisconsin, “Death as Remembrance: Time, Memory and Performances: Fordham Medieval Dramatists’ Madison), Response the Sense of Pastness in St. Erkenwald and Antichrist and the Language of Game”

LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT The NCS18 Graduate Workshop Organizer was Kao, Washington and Lee University; Dorothy Kim, from Victoria University. At the tri-campus Uni- Kara Gaston, University of Toronto, with instruction Brandeis University; Shyama Rajendran, University versity of Toronto we have received kind support We wish to acknowledge the land on which the Uni- from Suzanne Akbari, University of Toronto; Orietta of Wyoming; Cord Whitaker, Wellesley College; from the Centre for Reformation and Renais- versity of Toronto operates. For thousands of years Da Rold, St. John’s College, University of Cambridge; Mariah Min, University of Pennsylvania; and Nahir sance Studies; the Centre for Medieval Studies; it has been the traditional land of the Huron-Wen- Sonja Drimmer, University of Massachusetts Otaño Gracia, Beloit College. St. Michael’s College; Trinity College; University dat, the Seneca, and most recently, the Mississau- Amherst; Carissa M. Harris, Temple University; Simon College; Massey College and the Book History gas of the Credit River. Today, this meeting place Horobin, Magdalen College, University of Oxford; NCS and Print Culture Program; University of Toronto is still the home to many Indigenous people from Jeannie Miller, University of Toronto; Daniel Wakelin, Libraries; the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library; across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the President 2016-18: Ardis Butterfield, Yale Univer- St. Hilda’s College, University of Oxford; the Teachers’ the Department of English; the Department for opportunity to meet and work on this land. sity; Executive Director: Ruth Evans, Saint Louis Workshop Organizers were Kara Crawford, The University; Administrative Assistant: Jessica Rezunyk, the Study of Religion; the Department of Spanish NCS18 @ UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO Bishop’s School, La Jolla, CA and Candace Barrington, Upper Canada College; Trustees 2014-18: Candace and Portuguese; the Department of Art; the Anne Central Connecticut State University, with Michael Barrington; Alexandra Gillespie; David Matthews, Uni- Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies; the Centre Local Organizer: Alexandra Gillespie; Local Host: Kuczynski, Tulane University. The organizers of the versity of Manchester; Trustees 2016-2020: Anthony for Comparative Literature; the Department William Robins, President, Victoria University; NCS18 Mentorship Program were: Tom Hahn, Univer- Bale Birkbeck College, University of London; Simon of History; the Emilio Goggio Chair in Italian Project Managers: Laura Mitchell; Julia King; Ara sity of Rochester; Shazia Jagot, University of Surrey; Horobin; Patricia Ingham, Indiana University, Bloom- Studies; the Canada Research Chair in Medieval Glenn-Johanson; Designer: Margaux Parker; Local and Sierra Lomuto, Macalester College, organized the ington; Emily Steiner, University of Pennsylvania Philosophy; the Department of Near and Middle Committee: Suzanne Akbari, Jonathan Brent; Kara NCS18 Mentorship Program. Thanks to all of them. NCS18 Program Chairs: Robert J. Meyer-Lee, Agnes Eastern Civilizations; and the Centre for Drama, Gaston; Cai Henderson; Jessica Lockhart; Matt Sergi; Thanks also to Fiona Somerset, University of Scott College, and Claire M. Waters, University of Theatre and Performance Studies. We are grateful Graduate Student Volunteers: Julianna Chianelli; Connecticut for running errands magnificently; California, Davis; NCS18 Program Committee: Louise to the Department of English and the Office of Brianna Daigneault; Jessica Henderson; Julie Mat- James Dylan Sargan, University of Oxford, and D’Arcens, Macquarie University; Jonathan Hsy; Elliot the Vice-Principal, Research at the University tison; Morgan Moore; Katheryne Morrissette; Jack Anna Wilson, Harvard University, for their work Kendall, University of Exeter Sebastian Sobecki, of Toronto Scarborough; and, at the University Twosmokes; Undergraduate Student Volunteers: on the LGBTQIA+ Get Together; Sasha Suda, Art University of Groningen of Toronto Mississauga, to Theatre Erindale, the Alaheh Amini; Batool Amiree; Mussié Berhane; Gallery of Ontario, and Seeta Chaganti, Uni- Department of English and Drama, the Department Shawna Browarsky-Quigley; Mahera Islam; Amanda versity of California Davis, for their work on ACKNOWLEDGMENTS of Language Studies, and the Department of Visual Stasiuk; Julia Toljagic; with kind assistance from: the AGO-MOC Reception, with help from other Studies for support. We are also grateful to the Pearce Carefoote, Julia Culpeper, Robert Eberts, and Medievalists of Color: Sierra Lomuto; Jonathan We are grateful for the support we have received Art Gallery of Ontario for the use of their spaces Merrylee Greenan. Hsy, George Washington University; Wan-Chuan from the University of Toronto, most especially events and exhibits.

The New Chaucer Society values diversity, and is The main buildings for the sessions and plenaries are to street level. It is a six-minute walk from the QUIET ROOM committed to building a supportive and positive wheelchair accessible; we will post signs by campus conference venue. Room 108 in Emmanuel College will be available professional environment for the participants at buildings and have volunteers on hand to guide for attendees to use as a quiet space. our 2018 Toronto Congress. We will strive to ensure conference attendees to the appropriate entrances. FAMILY ROOM that all our members feel included, and that every- The Northrop Fry Centre in Victoria College will PRAYER ROOMS one is treated fairly and with courtesy according to ACCESSIBLE TRANSIT be available to attendees as a family room. There There is a dedicated Muslim Prayer Space downstairs our statement of ethics: If you plan on travelling via public transit we are no sinks, but it will have a diaper changing in Emmanuel College, room 006. There are Ablution The Society endorses the highest standard of recommend that you consult the TTC’s Handbook station and tables and chairs as well as WiFi. Facilities in EM 004. There is a multi-faith prayer professional ethics. We are committed to defending for Accessible Travel before arriving in Toronto. Attendees can use it as a rendezvous room for space in EM 005. academic freedom, acknowledging and crediting prior The handbook has information on wheelchair partners and kids, or a place to relax with a tired research by others, and conducting our professional accessible stops and includes an accessible route child. The room is intended as a place where you ACCESSIBLE SEATING lives with personal dignity and respect for others. planner. Not all the subway stops on the TTC are can feel more comfortable; especially too, where There will be marked, dedicated accessible seating Members are advised to consult the MLA’s Statement wheelchair accessible yet, including Museum partners or baby-sitters can wait without feeling in the front row of every session room. If you wish to of Professional Ethics, which NCS endorses. Station, which is the closest subway stop to the out of place at the conference. use this seating and would like a blue identification If you wish to talk about an incident of bullying, conference venue. It has two exits, both of which sticker to attach to the back of your nametag, they harassment, discrimination, or disrespectful behavior require climbing stairs. The closest TTC stop with LACTATION ROOM will be available at the registration desk. at the Congress, please contact Ruth Evans (ruth. a wheelchair accessible entrance/exit is Bloor/ Room 206 in Victoria College will be available for Please vacate these seats for anyone who needs [email protected]), Ardis Butterfield (ardis.butter- Yonge Station. It is a ten-minute walk from Vic- attendees to use as a lactation room. them, regardless of whether or not they present a [email protected]), Alex Gillespie (alexandra.gillespie@ toria University. Bay St Station is not wheelchair blue sticker. utoronto.ca), or Anthony Bale ([email protected]). accessible, but has escalators from the platform

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