British Branch 2013 Conference Details

The International Arthurian Society-British Branch will convene at Bangor University this September (from 9/9-9/11) for a conference that includes a variety of sessions from medieval to modern. Complete details and registration information can be accessed at their website at http://www.internationalarthuriansociety.com/british-branch/events/branch-conference-2013. A draft program is also now online and reproduced below; looks like an interesting event.


The International Arthurian Society

British Branch Annual Conference
9-11 September 2013

(draft programme)

9 September                                       

13.00-14.00 14.00-15.30 15.30-16.00 16.00-17.30 17.30 19.00

Registration; coffee / tea Oliver Goulden (Independent) : ‘A Contribution to the Rhetoric of the Couple in  Chrétien de Troyes: the endings of speech-utterances in Le Chevalier au Lion’ Asdis R. Magnusdottir (University of Iceland): The "door of unhappiness" and the outside world in The Story of the Grail and The Stranger. Leah Tether (Anglia Ruskin University): ‘Revisiting the Manuscripts of Perceval and the Continuations: Paratexts as indicators of authorial transition’ Coffee / Tea Chera A. Cole (University of St. Andrews): ‘Are there fairies in Avalon? Fairyland and Avalon in Middle English romance’ Rebecca Kerry (University of St. Andrews): ‘Temporal and Spatial Horizons in Medieval Romance’ Ralph Norris (Kennesaw State University): ‘The Fair Unknown and the Early Legend of Launcelot’ British Branch committee meeting Dinner

10 September

9.30-10.30 10.30-11.00 11.00-12.00 12.00-13.00 13.15-14.15 14.30-16.00 16.00-16.30 16.30-17.30 18.30-19.00 19.00

Edwin Pace (Independent): ‘Ambrosius, the Accidental Wizard, ‘The Tale of Emrys’ in the Historia Brittonum’ Daisy Le Helloco (Bangor University): ‘Sixteenth-Century Readers of the Prose Brut and the Geography of Arthurian History’ Coffee / Tea Elizabeth Hanna (University of St. Andrews): ‘The Wild Knight: The Arthurian Interests of James IV of Scotland’ Rebecca Lyons (University of York): ‘Mirror for a Queen: Ogier the Dane and Margaret of Anjou’ Lunch Guided visit of the main University building and rare books from the Bangor Archives Linda Gowans (Independent): ‘ “Clothed in White Samite, Mystic, Wonderful”: A Famous Arthurian Image in Tennyson and his Predecessors’ Joshua Bradbury (Milton Abbey): ‘Galahad Reborn: Charles Williams’ presentation of Galahad’ Carlos Sanz Mingo (Cardiff University): ‘Hispanicizing Arthur’ Coffee / Tea Samantha Rayner (University College London): ‘Editing Malory, Text, Editor, Archive’ P. J. C Field (Bangor University): ‘Editing Malory’s Le Morte Darthur’ Reception and book launch Conference Dinner

11 September

9.00-10.30 10.30-11.00 11.00-12.00 12.00-13.00 13.00-14.00

Anastasija Ropa (Bangor University): ‘ The Grail Quest Experienced by a Small Person: Michel Zink’s Déodat, ou la transparence’ Kate Lister (Leeds Trinity University): ‘Standing in the Shadows: Dinah Maria Mulock Craik’s Avillion and Tennyson’s Idylls of the King’ Adele Cook (University of Bedfordshire): ‘The Ideological Relationship between Text and Inter-text: from Malory’s Morte Darthur to Morpurgo’s Arthur, High King of Britain’ Coffee/ tea Postgraduate Forum (organisers: Leah Tether, Anglia Ruskin University and Samantha Rayner, University College London) Annual General Meeting (AGM) Lunch, followed by optional excursion to Beaumaris