Conference Programme (provisional)

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Tuesday 1 July 2008: arrival and registration from noon until 2.30pm at the front entrance to Gregynog. A minibus has been arranged to bring people from Newtown Station to meet the 12.06pm and 2.06pm trains (from Birmingham and Shrewsbury).

Tuesday 1 July

2.45pm: Welcome and introductory remarks: Raluca Radulescu (Bangor, University of Wales).

 

3.00-4.15pm: Keynote Lecture: Chair: Erik Kooper

Elizabeth Bryan (Brown University): 'La3amon's Brut and the Vernacular Text: Widening the Context'

4.15-4.30 pm: Tea/coffee break

4.30-6.00pm First session: Chair: Rosamund Allen

Judy Weiss (Robinson College, Cambridge), 'From Wace to Lawman via Waldef: a missing Anglo-Norman link?'

Jean Blacker (Kenyon College), 'Arthur and Gormund: Domination and Assimilation in Wace’s Roman de Brut.'.

6.30pm Dinner

Wednesday 2 July

9.00-10.30am Second session: Chair: Judith Weiss

Joe Parry (Brigham Young University), 'The Future of the Past: Historicity and Faith in Lawman's Brut'

Carole Weinberg (University of Manchester, UK), 'The Language of History in La3amon's Brut'

10.30-11.00am Tea/Coffee break

11.00-12.15pm Keynote Lecture: Chair: Eric Stanley

Neil Cartlidge (University of Durham): ‘La3amon and Epic’

12.30pm Lunch

Afternoon: coach excursion to Areley Kings, the living held by La3amon in 13th century: organised by Andrew and Mary Wehner. Coach departs at 1.30pm prompt. A meal will be supplied at Areley Kings.

Thursday 3 July

9.00-10.30am Third session: Chair: Daniel Donoghue

Kenneth Tiller (University of Virginia’s College at Wise), 'La3amon's Leir: Succession, Language, and History'

Jonathan Watson (Manchester College, USA), 'Layamon's Icelandic Kings and Kin'

Sarah Baccianti (Lincoln College, Oxford), ‘Translating England in Medieval Iceland: Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia Regum Britanniae and Breta sögur.’

10.30-11.00am tea/coffee break

11.00-12.30pm Fourth session: Chair: Charlotte Wulf

Gail Ivy Berlin (Indiana University of Pennsylvania), 'Tonwen's Gesture'

Fiona Tolhurst (Universität Basel), Translating Female Power and Powerlessness: Geoffrey, Wace, and La3amon'

Lucy Perry (University College Dublin), 'Are women different in the Otho La3amon?'

1.00pm Lunch

2.00-3.30 pm Fifth session: Chair: Carole Weinberg

Tamar Drukker (School of Oriental and African Studies, London), 'Beyond the enemy line'

Debbie Marcum (Cornell University), 'The Language of Law: lond and hond in Layamon's Brut'

Elina Harjula (Bangor University), 'Layamon's Round Table and Feast of Origin'

3.30-4.00pm tea/coffee break

4.00-5.30pm Sixth session: Chair: Kenneth Tiller

Scott Kleinman (California State University, Northridge), 'La3amon and the Legacy of Bishop Wulfstan of Worcester'

Daniel Donoghue (Harvard University), 'Slavery and Lawman's Brut'

Margaret Lamont (UCLA), 'When are Saxons 'Ænglisc'?  Language and Readerly Identity in La3amon's Brut'

6.00pm: Dinner

Evening: Practice for those wishing to take part in the Reading on Sunday.

Friday 4 July

All day reserved for excursion to Worcester

Breakfast at 7.00am, depart 8.00am

Saturday 5 July

9.00-10.30am Seventh session: Chair: Jonathan Watson

Christine Elsweiler, neé Manka (Erlangen, Germany), 'The word field "warrior" in La3amon's Brut – a comparative analysis of MS Cotton Caligula A ix and MS Cotton Otho C xiii'. (This paper will be read in Dr Elsweiler’s unavoidable absence.)

Gareth Griffith (Bristol University), ‘“Nu wit scullen þis lond dalen”: Reading La3amon's
Symbolic Landscapes.’

Haruko Momma (New York), 'Brut as Saxon Literature: Early Reception of Lawman up to Madden'

10.30-11.00am Tea/Coffee break

11.00-12.30pm Eighth session: Chair: Fiona Tolhurst

Irène Fabry (University of Paris), 'Consecration and dissolution of Arthur's wedding with Guinevere: matrimony and politics in the Old French Brut (Wace) and the Lancelot Grail Cycle'

Charlotte Wulf (Villa Julie College, MD), 'The Coronation of Arthur and Guenevere in Lawman's Brut'

John Brennan (Purdue University), 'Marriage, Dynasty, Myth: Unearthing Buried Metaphors in Brut'

1.00pm Lunch

2.00-3.30pm Ninth session: Chair: Neil Cartlidge

Eric Stanley (University of Oxford), 'The Scansion of La3amon's "Brut": A Historical Sketch'

Erik Kooper (University of Utrecht), 'Layamon's prosody: Caligula and Otho - metres apart'

3.30-4.00pm Tea/Coffee break

4.00-5.:30pm Tenth session: Chair: Lucy Perry

Andrew Wehner (Areley Kings), 'The Severn: barrier or highway?'

Ian Kirby (Lausanne, Switzerland), 'Winchester and London in La3amon's Brut'

Matthew C. Gertken University of Texas-Austin), 'Horn, Cornwall, Corineus: Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Middle English King Horn'

6.00pm Conference dinner

Sunday 6 July

9.00am Round Table: reading The Brut aloud!

10.30-11.00am Coffee/tea

11.00-11.30am Business Meeting of the Lawman Society.

12 noon Lunch

Conference Ends