The Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium, in conjunction with the Columbia Graduate Student Advisory Council, announces

The 3^rd Annual Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium Graduate Student Conference:

Echoing Anglo-Saxon England: Continuities, Encounters, Influence

Friday Feb. 16, 2007 from 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Columbia University Morningside Campus, Maison Française

Program

9:30 – 10:00 Breakfast

10:00 – 10:15 Welcome

10:15 – 11:45 Language, Law and Identity

Stephen Yeager, University of Toronto

“Anglo-Saxon Law Codes and the Piers Plowman Tradition: A Preliminary Investigation”

Hannah Crawforth, Princeton University

“The Role of the Anglo-Saxon Language in Richard Verstegan’s Rewriting of History”

Sam Truitt, SUNY Albany

“Heidegger, Caedmon, and the Nature of Thought”

11:45 – 12:00 Break (lunch set-up)

12:00 – 1:00 Lunch

1:00 – 2:20 Pedagogical Alterity: Teaching Another

Beth Bonnette, Columbia University

“Eternal Knowledge, Earthly Temporality: Apocalypticism in the Old English Vision of St. Paul”

Denis Ferhatović, Yale University

“Egyptian Plunder and the Shape-Shifting Pillar in the Old English Exodus”

Holly Wendt, Binghamton University

“Colonizing the Comitatus: From Beowulf to The Pelagius”

Irina Dumitrescu, Yale University

“Aelfric Bata’s Cruel School”

2:30 – 3:50 Uhtne gehwelce: The New Frontiers of Old English

Erica Levy, Yale University

“Robert Lowell’s ‘Beowulf’”

Lisa Molnar, McMaster University

“Earle Birney’s ‘Anglosaxon Street:’ The Dialogical Relationship of Past and Present”

Paul Thifault, Fordham University

“Wringing Lilies from the Acorn: Pound’s Fashioning of a Modernist Identity in ‘The Seafarer’”

Lytton Smith, Columbia University

(Title TBA)

Lynne Schneider, Binghamton University

“Ubi Sunt on the Idealized American Frontier”