Remembering the Middle Ages? Reception, Identity, Politics
London, 5-6 April, 2019
Friday, 5 April, 2019
Sessions before lunch are at KCL; sessions after lunch are at ND
10 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. — Registration
10:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. — Welcome
10:45 a.m. – 11: 45 a.m. — Panel 1: ‘Medievalism in the Classroom’ (Chair: Mimi Ensley)
Kisha Tracy, ‘Premodern Studies — the (Im)Practical, the (Im)Perfect, and the (Un)Necessary’
Hilary Rhodes, ‘Medievalism, Misogyny, and Modern Imagination: Toward a Historical (Re)-Education’
11:45 a.m. – 12 p.m. — Break
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. — Panel 2: ‘Re-imagining Anglo-Saxons’ (Chair: Fran Allfrey)
Alison Killilea, ‘The Legacy of Heorot: The Toxic Appropriation of Beowulf in a Conservative Science-Fiction Adaptation’
Erik Wade, ‘”A Modern Feeling of Guilt”: Outlander, Beowulf, and the Periodization of Colonialism’
Ethan Doyle White, ‘Children of Woden: The Politicisation of Anglo-Saxon Identity among Modern Pagans’
1:30 p.m. – 3 p.m. — Lunch
3 p.m. – 4 p.m. — Panel 3: ‘Imperialism and Nationalism’ (Chair: Fran Allfrey)
Mike Horswell, ‘Crusading Unbound: Probing the Limits of Crusading Through Fantasy After 1900’
Christine Robson, ‘T. H. White’s The Once and Future King and the Rhetoric of War’
4 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. — Break
4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. — Poster Session featuring students from Notre Dame and King’s College, London
6 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. — Poetry Reading featuring Ian Duhig, Vahni Capildeo, and Clare Lees
Saturday, 6 April, 2019
All sessions on Saturday held at ND
9 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. — Panel 4: ‘English Heritage’ (Chair: Beth Whalley)
Mimi Ensley, ‘William Faulkner’s Guy of Warwick’
Andrea Di Carlo, ‘John Milton’s England: The History of Britain and the Plagued Anglo-Saxons’
Helen Young, ‘English Genealogies: Race and the Norman Conquest’
10:30 a.m. – 11 a.m. — Break
11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. — Panel 5: ‘Place, Space, Material’ (Chair: Josh Davies)
Letha Ch’ien, ‘Renaissance Medievalism’
Megan Henvey, ‘The Impact of Ireland’s Religio-Political Situation on the Reception of Its Early Medieval Sculptural Heritage’
David Matthews, ‘Rain, Steam, and Speed: The Medievalism of Industry’
12:30 p.m. – 2 p.m. — Lunch
2 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. — Panel 6: ‘Gender, Poetics, Identity’ (Chair: Ivy Li)
Amy Franks, ‘Nordic Giants: A Left-Wing Post-Rock Use of Norse Mythology’
J.J. McFarlane, ‘Creating Selfhood: The Paston Women’s Letters and a Contemporary Poetic Response’
A.W. Strouse, ‘Medieval Englishes, Trans Poetics’
3:30 p.m. – 4 p.m. — Break
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. — Keynote Panel
Haruko Momma, ‘Boy Meets Girl (?): Pedagogy and the World of Old English Literature’
Sarah Salih, ‘Medieval Aspirations’
5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. — Reception and Thinking Toward the Future