Echoing Anglo-Saxon
The Anglo-Saxon Studies
Colloquium 3rd Annual Graduate Student Conference
Friday February 16, 2007
Maison Française,
The Anglo-Saxon Studies
Colloquium (
Continuities
--Pre and
Post continuities: Anglo-Saxon influences after the Norman invasion,
continuities in pre
and post colonial
--Anglo-Saxon palimpsests in
Middle / Medieval / Renaissance English
--The Circum-Atlantic
Anglo-Saxon World: American racial Anglo-Saxonism,
Jeffersonian Anglo-Saxonism and revolutionary
democracy
--Anglo-Saxon law and polity,
and legal history, evidence and witnessing
-- Icelandic folklore
--The Antiquarian’s Task:
conserving and preserving the Anglo-Saxon archive
Encounters
--Anglo-Saxon readings or
translations of those who came before them (i.e. Classical or Eastern texts /
cultures)
--Anglo-Saxon encounters with
their Scandinavian, European, Eastern or Celtic contemporaries
--Critical theory and
post-colonial studies; theorizing Anglo-Saxon canon, and vice-versa
--Reader responses to
Anglo-Saxon texts from the Old English period to the present
--History of the book and
Anglo-Saxon studies
--Modernity in Anglo-Saxon
texts
--Anglo-Saxon and 20th-century
pedagogy
--Anglo-Saxon texts or
subject matter and modern cinema, theatre, and music
Influence
--Polemics and
politics in modernist translations of early literature
--Anglo-Saxon and
Celtic influence in the visual arts: from the Pre-Raphaelites to the tattoo
parlor
--the Anglo-Saxon
influence on modern authors, including
W.H. Auden Robert Bridges
Robert Graves Thom
Gunn
Gerald Manley Hopkins C.S.
Lewis
Alfred, Lord Tennyson Richard
Wilbur
Walt Whitman
--The impact of
new media on Anglo-Saxon studies and pedagogy
Please submit an
abstract of up to 250 words in length by email attachment to [email protected].
Also include your contact information, including active email address, street
address, and phone number, and any requests for audio-visual equipment. We will
consider all submissions addressing the theme and encourage interdisciplinary
approaches. Submissions must be received by Dec. 1, 2006 to be given full
consideration for inclusion in the program. For more information contact [email protected].