Pearl-Poet Society

The Pearl-Poet Society is still accepting proposals for, and
volunteers to chair, the following sessions for the Medieval
Institute Congress in Kalamazoo in May, 2010.

I. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the Arthurian Tradition

II. Teaching the Pearl-Poet: Techniques for Survey Courses (Rountable)

III. “Teccheles termes of talkyng noble”: Vows, Courtesy, and Social
Interacions in the Pearl-Poems

IV. Touching the Heart: What Draws Us to the Pearl-Poet?

V. The Post-Medieval Pearl-Poet: Contexts and Continuities of
Cleanness, Patience, Pearl, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Proposals for 20-minute presentations, accompanied by the Congress
participant information form
(http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#PIF),
may be submitted to Adrienne Odasso at ajodasso@googlemail.com NO
LATER THAN SEPTEMBER 15.