London Old and Middle English Research Seminar

LOMERS

ALL MEDIEVALISTS ARE WELCOME!!

Lomers is a good London forum for scholars of Old and Middle English who wish to present their work in progress and get useful feedback. It takes place in the Institute of English Studies in the School of Advanced Study at Senate House in Central London. The seminars are twice termly in Autumn and Spring, on Wednesdays at 5.00, when papers are given by London medievalists or distinguished guest speakers.

Early in the Summer Term we hold a graduate seminar when two research students (who are normally attached to London colleges and are well on the way to completion) give short papers. In June there is a whole day Saturday symposium on a special topic (in 2000 it was John Trevisa; in 2001 and 2002 it was 'Literature of the Reign of Henry II', Parts I and II . In 2003 it was 'Lyric', and in 2004 'Welshness(es) and Middle English Literary Culture, part of a six to eight-part series on relations with the Celltic fringe; see further below.

Graduate students: you are particularly welcome to stay for the drink (£1.00) and come to the inexpensive meal (currently at Pizza Paradisjo in Store Street), as this is how we hope to make you part of our London Medievalists' culture.

The London Chaucer Conference, which was a great success in 2003, was inaugurated under the LOMERS umbrella. See www.londonchaucer.org.uk. Eventually it should run alternatively with the biennial congresses of the New Chaucer Society.

ARCHIVE: LOMERS PROGRAMME 2002-2003

ALL WEDNESDAY EVENTS ARE FREE AND HELD AT 5.00pm IN SENATE HOUSE
Always on the third floor. The room number is posted up at the porter's desk and on the third floor landing on the day.

• Wednesday 9 October 2002
  Eric Stanley (Pembroke College Oxford)
  "Did the Anglo Saxons Have a Social Conscience Like Us?"
• Wednesday 4 December 2002
  Ardis Butterfield (University College London)
  "Articulating the Author: Gower and the French Vernacular Codex"
• Wednesday 22 January 2003
  Bella Millet (University of Southampton)
  "'Scribe versus author?': thinking about the textual transmission of medieval works"
• Wednesday 12 March 2003
  John Thompson (Queens University Belfast)
  "Irishness(es) and Middle English Literary Culture"
• Wednesday 30 April 2003
  Graduate Seminar
  Anne Goble (Royal Holloway UL)
  "'Who yaf me drynke?': the role of the female attendant in Troilus and Criseyde" &
• Danielle Westerhof (University of York)
  "Incised bodies and reshaped identity: the case of Gwaynes and Roland in a
  Middle English Otuel and Roland"

SATURDAY SYMPOSIUM: SATURDAY 21 JUNE 2003
The Fourth Lomers Annual Symposium
"MEDIEVAL LYRIC"
Senate House, Room 265

Programme
10.00 - 10.20 Registration.
10.20-10.30 Ruth Kennedy (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Welcome and Opening Remarks
10.30-11.15 Peter Orton (Queen Mary, University of London)
"The Old English Lyric: Oral or Literate?"
11.15-11.30 Coffee
11.30-12.15 Simon Meecham-Jones (University of Cambridge)
"The Poetics of Loss in Abelard's Lyrics"
12.15-1.00 Julia Boffey (Queen Mary, University of London)
"The Role of Lyrics in Manuscript Anthologies"
1.00-2.00 Lunch: own arrangements.
2.00-2.50 Lucy Lewis (University of Cambridge)
"Reading between the Lines: A Macaronic Lyric and its
Context"
2.50-3.10 Tea
3.10-4.00 John Scattergood (Trinity College Dublin)
"Lyrics in Romance: Of Arthour and of Merlin and Kyng Alisaunder"

 

LOMERS PROGRAMME 2003-04

Wednesday 8 October 2003
Alfred Hiatt (University of Leeds)
"Literary approaches to medieval maps"

Wednesday 26 November 2003
Anthony Edwards (University of Victoria)
"Deconstructing Skelton"

Wednesday 21 January 2004
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
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, at KCL)
Melanie Heyworth
(University of Sidney, at RHUL)

SATURDAY SYMPOSIUM: SATURDAY 19 JUNE 2004
Room 365 Senate House

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

11.55-12.50 William Marx (University of Wales, Lampeter)
"English Language Texts and Welsh Contexts"

12.50-2.00 Lunch: own arrangements.

2.00-3.00 Helen Fulton (Visiting Fellow, Institute of English Studies)
"Class and Nation: defining the English in the poetry of Dafydd ap Gwilym"

3.00-4.00 Geraint Evans (Clare College, University of Cambridge)
"William Salesbury and Welsh Printing in London, 1546-1553'"

4.00-4.15 Tea and close.

*CALL FOR PAPERS*
The great success of the Welshness(es) day has brought about a second day on this. For the next three or four years there will be a rolling programme of two-day symposia., starting June 17th 2005 with Welshness(es) II (speakers include John Hines, Jason O'Rourke and Steve Kelly); June 18th Scottishness(es) (speakers include R.D. Lyall and Sally Mapstone). June 2006: Scottishness(es) II and Irishness(es). June 2007: Irishness(es) II and Cornish and Bretonness(es).

Details are available for archived lomers information on symposia on 15th June 2002 on Literature of the Reign of Henry II, Part II and 16th June 2001 on Literature of the Reign of Henry II (pdf files).

For details contact:
Joanne Grubb, Room 304 (3rd Floor), Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU, Tel: 0207 862 8676 ies@sas.ac.uk
or
Ruth Kennedy Dept English, RHUL, Egham, Surrey TW20 OEX
r.kennedy@rhul.ac.uk. Tel: 01784 443214

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