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CONSIDERATIONS OF AUDIENCE
IN MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN STUDIES
The Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Studies,
University of Kent is delighted to host a one day colloquium with
Dr Racula Radulescu of Bangor as the keynote speaker.
It is a jam packed day of really exciting papers given by postgraduates from around the country addressing an issue
that cuts across discipline and period.
SATURDAY 6TH DECEMBER 2008
9.15– 5.00
THE PETER BROWN ROOM, DARWIN COLLEGE
KENT UNIVERSITY CAMPUS
CANTERBURY
CONSIDERATIONS OF AUDIENCE
IN MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN STUDIES
Besechying yow that ye audience therof not disdeigne
But consider the trew intent of my hert in euery veyne
This postgraduate interdisciplinary colloquium aims to explore the nature and character of audience across a wide spectrum of genre and broad time span. It offers the opportunity of bringing postgraduates together from a wide range of experiences in order to share the concepts of audience and methods of researching audience.
Provisional Programme
9.15 REGISTRATION
Coffee and welcome
10.00 SESSION ONE:
Louise Wilson, University of Cambridge:
'Observing the miraculous: considerations of audience in the Miracles of St Frideswide'
Rebecca Pinner, University of East Anglia:
'Text and Context: Author and audience in John Lydgate’s Life of St Edmund'
Justine Williams, University of Warwick:
'James Shirley and the audience of the Werburgh Street Theatre'
11.30 COFFEE
12.00 SESSION TWO:
Megan Cook, University of Pennsylvania:
'Paul Greaves’ Vocabula Chauceriana and the making of medieval English: a case study in early modern lexicography'
Meredith Bacola, University of Durham:
'Heaven forbid! Wider Audiences of Anglo-Saxon Saints’ Lives??'
1.00 LUNCH
2.00 SESSION THREE:
Scott Stephen, University of Aberdeen:
'“Some will judge too trivial, some too grave”: Audience and Interpretation in Thomas Heywood’s A Woman Killed with Kindness'
Thomas Gobbitt, University of Leeds:
'Audience and Amendment of Cambridge, Corpus Christi College (CCCC) 383 in the First Half of the Twelfth Century'
Sarah de Haas, University of Oxford :
'Audience and the Middle English Prose Brut'
3.30 TEA
4.00 KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
Dr. Raluca L. Radulescu, University of Bangor. 'Penitential Romance and Political Martyrs in 15th Century England' .
5.00 CLOSE
Further Information and Registration
You can download a registration form from here. If you wish to pay by credit card please contact Claire Taylor via email C.L.Taylor@kent.ac.uk or call her on 01227 823140
The full registration fee of £20.00 includes coffee, tea and a sandwich lunch, but we also welcome partial registrations as detailed below:-
A full day without lunch at £15.00
A half / part day at £7.50
Dinner: In the evening following the colloquium all attendees are warmly invited to dinner at a local restaurant. The cost of the dinner is not included in the registration fee and needs to be pre-booked at the time of registration.
Location: The colloquium will be held in The Peter Brown Room located in the Missing Link building, behind Darwin College. Maps of the campus and surrounding area are available http://www.kent.ac.uk/maps/canterbury/find-campus.html . The University is approximately 20 minutes’ walk from Canterbury West Station and 35 minutes’ walk from Canterbury East Station. There are regular buses from the central Bus Station to the campus.
Accommodation: There is no accommodation available on campus, but there are numerous hotels and guest houses in Canterbury. Further details are available:
http://www.kent.ac.uk/hospitality/staff-student/accommodation/offcampus/guesthouses.htm
Download poster here
Contact details:
Claire Taylor, Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Studies, Rutherford College, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, CT2 7NX. Telephone Number 01227 823140. Email c.l.taylor@kent.ac.uk
Gaynor Bowman. Email gb212@kent.ac.uk
Julia Cruse Email jcc25@kent.ac.uk
This event is being supported by School of English, University of Kent.