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EMPORIA STATE UNIVERSITY

SATURDAY, 17 September 2016

CONFERENCE THEME: OTHER WORLDS

Plenary speaker: Richard Firth Green, Humanities Distinguished Professor,

The Ohio State University

Professor Green’s plenary address will be draw from his recent work on the world of faerie and his forthcoming book, The Bonny Road: Traffic with the Otherworld in the Middle Ages.

“Other Worlds” will encompass many other worlds indeed, spiritual, supernatural, imaginary or fanciful, social, physical, metaphysical, psychological, gendered, ethnic, geographical—with Paradise, Purgatory, Hell, the past, the future, the cloister, the college, the East, Islam, Judaism, social classes other than one’s own, lands other than one’s own, Camelot, Avalon, and faerie, itself, representing only a few of the possibilities.

Mel Storm

Department of English, Modern Languages, and Journalism

Emporia State University

1 Kellogg Circle

Emporia, KS 66801

mstorm@emporia.edu