Blood, Sex, Malory conference programme
Friday 24th April
11.00-11.45Registration (Stamford Hall Ante Room)
12.00Welcome
12.05-13.00Plenary Lecture I Elizabeth Archibald (University of Bristol) ‘Malory on Sex: the Possible Influence of the Post-Vulgate Cycle’
All sessions take place in Stamford Hall Games Room.
13.00-14.00Lunch
Lunch is served in Stamford Hall Dining Room
14.00-15.15Session I
a) Christina FRANCIS (Bloomsburg) ‘Malory’s Bloody Bedrooms’
b) Megan LEITCH (Cambridge) ‘(Dis)Figuring Transgressive Desire: Blood, Sex, and Stained Sheets in Malory’s Morte Darthur’
c) Helen PHILLIPS (Cardiff) ‘Bewmains: the threat from the kitchen’
15.15-15.30Refreshments
Tea/coffee and homemade cake are served in Stamford Junior Common Room
15.30-16.30Session II
a) Carolyne LARRINGTON (Oxford) ‘Malory’s Bands of Brothers (and their Sisters)’
b) Lydia FLETCHER (Independent scholar) ‘Treason and the Orkney brothers’
16.35-18.00New Directions Panel and Discussion
Chair and Respondent: Nicola Royan (Nottingham)
a) Ayoush Sarmada LAZIKANI (Oxford) ‘Mothers in Malory’s Morte Darthur’
b) Jeannette NG (Durham) ‘Transgressive magic and female users in Malory’
c) Nicola ROYAN ‘Teaching Arthurian Literature: New Directions’
18.00-19.00John Foster Hall Bar is open. Check-in available.
19.00-20.30Conference Dinner
Four-course dinner with wine is served in John Foster Hall Dining Room
20.30-23.59John Foster Hall Bar is open
Saturday 25th April
08.00-09.00Full English Breakfast in John Foster Hall Dining Room
09.15-10.15Plenary Lecture II Catherine La Farge (NUI, Galway) ‘Lancelot in Compromising Positions in Malory’s Tale of Sir Launcelot du Lake’
10.15-10.30Break-out space.
Time to stretch your legs and chat about the lecture.
10.30-11.30Session III
a) Caitlyn SCHWARTZ (Independent scholar) ‘Palomydes the Saresyn’
b) Maria CECIRE (Oxford) ‘Barriers Unbroken: The Sexual and Social Frustration of Sir Palomydes in Le Morte D’Arthur’
11.30-11.45Refreshments
Tea/coffee and homemade biscuits are served in Stamford Junior Common Room
11.45-13.00Session IV
a) Diane PURKISS (Oxford) ‘Love relics: the desire for the knight and erotic devotion to the dead’
b) Zoe ENSTONE (Leicester) ‘Morgan le Fay, Violence, Magic and Transgression’
c) Anna CAUGHEY (Oxford) ‘Virginity, sexuality, repression and return in The Tale of the Sankgreal’
13.00-14.00Lunch in Stamford Junior Common Room.
14.00-15.30Session VSpecial Manuscript and Print session commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the discovery of the Winchester Manuscript.
a) Takako KATO (Leicester) ‘The Story behind the “Roman War”: Past and Present of Editing Malory’
b) Orietta DA ROLD (Leicester) 'Chasing Paper: Writing Malory'
c) A.S.G.EDWARDS (De Montfort) ‘From Print to Manuscript to Print: the Genesis of Vinaver’s Edition’
15.30-16.00Refreshments
Tea/coffee and homemade cake are served in Stamford Junior Common Room
16.00-17.30Round Table Discussion
Chair: Carolyne Larrington (St John’sCollege, Oxford)
The Round Table will begin with discussion of ‘The Tragedy of the Honourable Society’ as a tribute to the life and work of the late Derek Brewer. A copy of the article can be downloaded from the website.
17.30-19.00Concluding Remarks and Wine Reception in Stamford Hall gardens.
End of conference