The New Chaucer Society
Program Overview
Tuesday 10 July
Graduate Student Workshop (by application only)
Teacher's Workshop
Trustees' Meeting
Mentoring Dinners
Wednesday 11 July
10:00-10:30 Welcome + First Nations Smudging Ceremony (Isabel Bader Theatre)
10:30-11:00 Readings by Professor Emeritus Carter Revard, Washington University in St Louis (Isabel Bader Theatre)
11:00-12:00 Presidential Lecture - Professor Ardis Butterfield, Yale University (Isabel Bader Theatre)
12:00-1:30 Lunch (boxed or own arrangements)
1:30-3:00 Session 1
3:00-3:30 Coffee break (Victoria College Foyer)
3:30-5:00 Session 2
5:00-5:15 Transition time
5:15-6:00 Members Parliament (Isabel Bader Theatre)
6:00-8:00 Research Expo and Reception (Hart House)
Thursday 12 July
9:00-10:30 Session 3
10:30-11:00 Coffee break (Victoria College Foyer)
11:00-12:30 Plenary Session - Race and Inclusion: Facing Chaucer Studies, Past and Future (Isabel Bader Theatre)
12:30-2:00 Lunch (boxed or own arrangements)
2:00-3:30 Session 4
3:30-4:00 Coffee break (Victoria College Foyer)
3:30-5:30 Session 5
5:30-6:30 Transition time
6:30-8:00 Reception (Art Gallery of Ontario)
Friday 13 July
9:00-10:30 Session 6
10:30-11:00 Coffee break (Victoria College Foyer)
11:00-12:30 Session 7
12:30-2:00 Lunch (boxed or own arrangements)
2:00-3:30 Session 8
3:30-5:30 Special Event at Art Gallery of Ontario - Medieval Ethiopian Manuscripts
5:30-7:00 Transition time
7:00-9:00 Performance of Wahala Dey Oh! (Isabel Bader Theatre)
Saturday 14 July
9:00-10:30 Group 9
10:30-11:00 Coffee break (Victoria College Foyer)
11:00-12:30 Group 10
12:30-2:00 Lunch (boxed or own arrangements)
2:00-3:30 Group 11
3:30-4:00 Coffee break (Victoria College Foyer)
4:00-5:30 The Biennial Chaucer Lecture, Professor Maura Nolan, University of California Berkeley (Isabel Bader Theatre)
5:30-6:00 Transition time
6:30-10:00 Conference Dinner + Performance of Dame Sirith
Sunday 15 July
9:00 Six Nations of the Grand River Reservation - Visit and Lunch
10:30 Niagara Wine and Grape Tour and Lunch
12:30 Toronto Ward's Island - Walk and Lunch