The Seventh Annual ASSC Graduate Student Conference

The Anglo Saxon Studies Colloquium
announces

The Seventh Annual ASSC Graduate Student Conference

*"Crises of Categorization****"** *
* University of Toronto*

*Saturday, February 12, 2011 *

*Conference Program*

All events to be held at the Centre for Medieval Studies (third
floor, 125 Queen’s Park) unless otherwise noted.

9:00 Breakfast & registration

9:45 Welcome

10:00 Session I: Transhistorical Anglo-Saxon England

Eric Weiskott (Yale University): “Where They Please: the punctuation
of Old English poetry”
Respondent: Patrick Meusel (University of Toronto)
Sarah Miller (Trent University): “The Battle of Maldon: A Medieval Screenplay”
Respondent: Kathleen Ogden (University of Toronto)
Stephen Pelle (University of Toronto): ““The Fifteen Signs before
Doomsday” and Post-Conquest English Identity”
Respondent: Carla Thomas (New York University)
Camin Melton (Fordham University): “Vernacular Authority in a
Materialized God: Reading the Text of Christ’s Body in Old and Middle
English”
Respondent: Emma Gorst (University of Toronto)

12:00 Lunch

1:00 Session II: Storms Within and Without
Paul Langeslag (University of Toronto): “Winter: Landscape and Season”
Respondent: Josephine Livingstone (New York University)
James Paz (King’s College London): “Internal/External Interactions in
the Exeter Book ‘Storm’ Riddles”
Respondent: Alex Fleck (University of Toronto)
David Lennington (Princeton University): “The Anglo-Saxon Death
Lists: Crisis and Categorization”
Respondent: Julia Bolotina (University of Toronto)

2:30 Coffee break

3:00 Session III: Sex and Magic in Anglo-Saxon England
Grant Leyton Simpson (Indiana University): “Crises in the Pronoun
Paradigm and the Transgendered Body: Crossdressing in the Old English
Saints’ Lives of Euphrosyne and Eugenia”
Respondent: Kristen Mills (University of Toronto)
Richard Shaw (University of Toronto): “At the Borders of Medicine and
Magic: A New Work by Ælfric?”
Respondent: Jessica Lockhart (University of Toronto)
Leif Einarson (University of Western Ontario): “Sex and the Smithy:
(mis-)representations of sexuality in Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse
narratives of metalworkers”
Respondent: Elizabeth Walgenbach (Yale University)

4:30 Coffee break

5:15 Tour of the Dictionary of Old English
Hosted by Professor Antonette diPaolo Healey
Robarts Library, University of Toronto
130 St. George Street

6:00 Dinner & reception
Hosted by Professor Andy Orchard
Provost’s Lodge, Trinity College
6 Hoskin Avenue

Conference Website: http://medieval.utoronto.ca/events/ASSCGC/about.html