The Sixth LOMERS Annual Conference

"WELSHNESS(ES) AND MEDIEVAL ENGLISH LITERARY CULTURE II

Friday 17 June 2005

The second Conference of a tripart programme.

Scottishness(es) and Middle English Literary Culture follows on Saturday 18 June.

In 2006 Irishness(es) and Middle English Literary Culture will be preceeded by Scottishness(es) II;
In 2007 Cornishness(es) and Middle English Literary Culture will be preceeded by Irishness(es) II;
In 2008 our subject will be Studies in the Auchinleck Manuscript.

Programme

10.00-10.20 Registration.

10.20-10.30 Ruth Kennedy (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Welcome and Opening Remarks

10.30-11.30 Tony Davenport (Royal Holloway, University of London)

"Wales and the Welsh in Middle English Romance"

11.30-11.50 Coffee

11.50-12.45 Mark Smith (University of Cardiff)
English and Welsh Texts of The Voyage of the Wandering Knight

12.45-2.00 Lunch: own arrangements.
(Order a sandwich lunch at £4.00 from r.kennedy@rhul.ac.uk)

2.00-3.00 Peter Robson (Corpus Christi College Oxford)
will lead a Round Table on Exeter Book Riddle 12: Fotum ich fere . . .

Please bring your ideas.

3.00-4.00 John Hines (University of Cardiff)
"Gereint's visit to Cardiff: new modes in Welsh life and literature "

4.00-4.15 Tea and close

Fees: £25.00 Standard £15.00 IES Members and Concessions

Organiser : Dr Ruth Kennedy, Royal Holloway, University of London

Booking, Venue and Enquiries : Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, Senate House (3 rd floor), Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU (No Smoking Building), Tel: 020 7862 8675; Fax: 020 7862 8672; email: ies@sas.ac.uk