Conference Next Month

> Word, Text, and Print:
> A Conference in Honor of A.N. Doane
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> May 7–8, 2007
> University of Wisconsin – Madison
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> Monday, May 7
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> 2–2:30 pm. Conference registration and welcome, 7191 Welen C. White Hall.
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> 2:30–4 pm. Session I: Glossed Manuscripts of the Early Medieval Period.
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> Matthew Hussey, Simon Fraser University. “The Other ‘Paris Psalter’ and the End of Old English Psalter Glossing.” Hans Sauer, University of Munich. “Language and Culture: How Anglo-Saxon Glossators Adapted Latin Words and their World.” Discussants: Joshua Goldman and Carole E. Newlands, UW – Madison.
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> 5 pm. Keynote address: Michelle Brown, the British Library. “From Eastern Deserts to Western Isles: Shared Responses to Scripture in the Early Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts of Anglo-Saxon England, Ireland, and the Middle East.”
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> Tuesday May 8
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> 9–10:30 am. Session II: Old English Homilies in Their Manuscript Context
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> Peter J. Lucas, Wolfson College, Cambridge. “The Vercelli Book Revisited.” Jon Wilcox, University of Iowa. “The Blickling Homilies: Some Implications of Manuscript Princeton, New Jersey, Scheide 71.” Discussants: Katie Lynch and John D. Niles, UW – Madison
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> 11–12:30. Session III: On Texts and How (Not?) to Edit Them
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> Patrick W. Conner, West Virginia University. “Historicizing the Beginning, Ending, and Sequencing of Certain Exeter Book Poems.” Tim William Machan, Marquette University. “Choice and Editorial Certainty.” Discussants: Carol Pasternack, UC Santa Barbara, and Kirsten Wolf, UW - Madison.
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> 2–3:30 pm. Session IV: Late Old English
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> Donald Scragg, University of Manchester (Emeritus). “From Manuscript to Print in Eleventh-century English.” Elaine Treharne, Florida State University. “When is a ‘text’ not a text? When it’s Post-Conquest.” Discussants: Jay Gates, UW – Madison, and Shaun Hughes, Purdue University.
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> 4–5:30 pm. Session V: Medieval English Literature in Its Social Dimension
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> Craig R. Davis, Smith College. “A Mother from Hell: Love and Violence in Beowulf.” Ann W. Astell, Purdue University. “Retooling the Instruments of Christ’s Passion: British Library Additional MS. 22,029 and the Techne of Meditation.” Discussants: Sherry Reames and Dick Ringler, UW – Madison.
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> Sponsored by the Department of English with the generous support of the Lectures Committee, the Anonymous Fund, the Program in Medieval Studies, the Department of Art History, and the University of Wisconsin Library.
> For additional information contact Professor John D. Niles, Department of English, at jdniles@wisc.edu.