UWP Lecturers Medievalism Colonialism Nationalism Symposium Update Program Fri-Sat Nov 7-8

[John Ganim]

   Medievalism, Colonialism, Nationalism: A Symposium
University of California, Riverside
Humanities 1500

Day I: Friday, November 7

9:15  Welcome and Introduction:
Charles Louis, Vice Chancellor for Research, UCR
John M. Ganim, Professor of English, UCR

Session I:   Opening Lectures:  Heather Blurton, UCSB, Moderator

9:30-10:15: Andrew Lynch, University of Western Australia
"Arthur, Empire and Australia" (45 min.)

10:15-11:00: Carol Symes, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana 
and Harvard University
"At War with the Past:  The Medieval Battlegrounds of the Western 
Front" (45 min)

11:00- 11:15: Session I Questions and Discussion

11:15-11:30: Coffee and Break

Session II:  Andrea Denny-Brown,  UCR, Moderator

11:30-12:05: Seeta Chaganti,  University of California, Davis
"Raymonda: A Medieval Past in Nineteenth-Century Motion" (35 min)

12:05-12:15: Session II Questions and Discussion

12:15-1:30: Lunch Break

Session III: Matthew McGraw, UCR, Moderator

1:30-2:05:  Louise D'Arcens, University of Wollongong, Australia
"Life on the Murrumbidgee: Medieval Legacies in the Novels of Mark 
Twain and Joseph Furphy" (35 min)

2:05-2:40: David Marshall, California State University, San Bernardino
"Hrothgar, Heorot, and Colonialism in Popular Culture" (35 min)

2:40-2:55: Session III Questions and Discussion

3:00-3:45  Tea in Special Collections and Viewing of Displays Curated 
for the Symposium

Session IV:

4:00-4:35:  Piotr Gorecki, UCR, Moderator
Brenda Schildgen, University of California, Davis
"Medievalism and Post-Revolutionary France: Making the French Nation" (35 min)

4:35-4:45: Session IV Questions and Discussion





Day II: Saturday, November 8

Session V: Day 2 Opening Lecture. Megan Stein, UCR, Moderator

9:30-10:15 : Aranye L. O. Fradenburg, University of California, Santa Barbara
"(Dis)Continuity:  A History of Dreaming" (45 min)
10:15-10:25: Session V Questions and Discussion

Session VI: Michael Calabrese, California State University, Los 
Angeles, Moderator:

10:25-11:10: Thomas Prendergast, College of Wooster
"Medievalism and the Uncanny: A Fantasy of History" (45 min)

11:10-11:20: Session VI Questions and Discussion

11:20-11:30 Coffee and Break

Session VII: Scott Kleinman, California State University, Northridge
11:30-12:05: Elizabeth Allen, University of California, Irvine
"Perkin Warbeck and the Pretenses of the Past" (35 min)
12:05-12:15: Questions and Discussion

Session VIII: Leonard Koff, UCLA, Moderator
12:15-12:50: Stephanie Trigg,  University of Melbourne, Australia
"The Republican Robin Hood: Ned Kelly, Medievalism and 
Anti-Medievalism" (35 min)
12:50-1:00: Session VII Questions and Discussion

1:00-2:00 Lunch

Session IX:  Leona Fisher, UCR

2:00-2:25: Kristin Noone, University of California, Riverside
"'Coming home without a head is not very delightful': J.R.R. Tolkien 
and the Battle of Maldon." (25 minutes)

2:25-2:50: Anne McKendry, University of Melbourne, Australia
"Celts, Saxons and Detectives:  The Political Medievalism of Peter 
Tremayne" (25 Minutes)

2:50-3:00  Session VIII Questions and Discussion

3:00-3:15 Coffee and Break

Session X: Sherri Johnson, UCR, Moderator
3:15-4:00 David Lawton, Washington University, St Louis
"Blasphemy in the Twenty First Century" (45 minutes)
4:00-4:15  Session IX Questions and Discussion

Session XI:  Andrea Denny-Brown, UCR Moderator
4:15-4:45  John M. Ganim, UCR
Concluding Remarks and Discussion

Attendance is free. Parking is available on campus for a fee. The 
conference has been organized by Professor John Ganim, Department of 
English at UCR, and is sponsored by the University of California 
Humanities Research Institute, the Center for Ideas and Society at 
UCR, the UCR Department of English, the Australian Research Council 
and the Mellon Workshop on Medieval Cultures. For information contact 
Laura Lozon, 951-827-1555, <mailto:laura.lozon at ucr.edu>laura.lozon at ucr.edu.

For a description of the conference see 
http://newsroom.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/display.cgi?id=1959



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