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UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
INSTITUTE OF ENGLISH STUDIES
SCHOOL OF ADVANCED STUDY
Lomers Seminar Programme

The Fifth Lomers Annual Symposium

* Welshness(es) and Middle English Literary Culture
Saturday 19 June 2004

This is the first of a tripart programme; in June 2005 our topic is Scottishness(es) and Middle English Literary Culture; in June 2006 it is Irishness(es) and Middle English Literary Culture. The aim, after we have had our fun, is to bring out a book on the Celtic fringe with Palgrave-MacMillan.

Programme
10.00-10.20 Registration.

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

10.30-11.35 Simon Meecham-Jones (University of Cambridge)
“Where was Wales? The Erasure of Wales in Medieval English Culture”

Dianne Myers (University of Sydney)
“Why marry an English Girl? The Marriage of Llywelyn ap Iowerth and Joan of England”

11.35-11.55 Coffee

11.55-12.55 William Marx (University of Wales, Lampeter)
“English Language Texts and Welsh Contexts”

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

2.00-3.00 Helen Fulton (University of Sydney)
“Class and Nation: defining the English in the poetry of Dafydd ap Gwilym”

3.00-4.00 Geraint Evans (University of Sydney)
“William Salesbury and Welsh Printing in London, 1546-1553'”

4.00-4.15 Tea and close

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Fees: £25.00 Standard £15.00 IES Members and Concessions

Conference Registration Form / Conference Registration Form (Word.doc)

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

Booking, Venue and Enquiries: Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, Senate House (3rd floor), Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU (No Smoking Building), Tel: 020 7862 8675; Fax: 020 7862 8672; email: ies@sas.ac.uk For the latest information and updates to all Institute events, visit us at www.sas.ac.uk/ies
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Local Information and How to reach Senate House

 

London Old and Middle English Research Seminar  
Programme 2003-4

ALL WEDNESDAY EVENTS ARE FREE AND HELD at 5.00pm in 

ALL MEDIEVALISTS ARE WELCOME

Wednesday 8 October 2003 
Room 349

Alfred Hiatt (University of Leeds)

“Literary approaches to medieval maps”


Wednesday 26 November 2003
Room 349

Anthony Edwards (University of Victoria)

“Deconstructing Skelton”


Wednesday 21 January 2004
Room 349

Alison Wiggins (Queen Mary, University of London)

“Reading and writing romance: towards a context for a fifteenth-century
version of Guy of Warwick

 


Wednesday 17 March 2004
Room 349

Elizabeth Leach (Royal Holloway, University of London)

“Debating Birds and Dogs as a Mirror for Princes”

 


Wednesday 28 April 2004

Graduate Seminar

Stephanie Gibbs (Pennsylvania State University/KCL) and

Melanie Heyworth (University of Sidney/RHUL).

 


 SATURDAY SYMPOSIUM:  SATURDAY 19 JUNE 2004

“Welshness(es) and Middle English Literary Culture”

This is the first of a tripart symposium on Welsh, Scots and Irishness(es) and Middle English Literary Culture, to be held in June 2004, 2005 and 2006 respectively.  Several speakers are already booked. Programme details above.


Proposed dates for 2004/5 are:
6 October 2004, 1 December 2004, 26 January 2005, 16 March 2005 and 18 June 2005. Venues and speakers to be confirmed.


Organiser:
Dr Ruth Kennedy

Department of English
Royal Holloway University of London
Egham
Surrey TW20 OEX
Tel: 01784 443214
email r.kennedy@rhul.ac.uk


Venue and Enquiries: Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, Senate House (3rd floor), Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU (No Smoking Building), Tel: 020 7862 8675; Fax: 020 7862 8720; email: ies@sas.ac.uk For the latest information and updates to all Institute events, visit us at www.sas.ac.uk/ies