Anglo-French Imagining
A conference on early modern French and English literature
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October 4th, 2008Glendon College (York University)
9:00 a.m. - 9:15 a.m. Opening Remarks by Conference Organizers [Glendon Hall 102]
9:15 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. Key Note Address [Glendon Hall 102]
- Mary Catherine Davidson (Glendon College, York University, Canada): “Hengist's Tongue: Medievalism and Anglo-French Language Attitudes in Early Modern England.”
10:15 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Coffee Break [Glendon Hall Ballroom]
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. 1st Panel (in French) [Glendon Hall 105]
Title: Le passé partagé dans les lettres franco-anglaises.
Chair: Lidia Radi
- Mathilde Regent, (Ecole Normale Supérieure de la rue d’Ulm Paris) : « Le roman arthuréen en partage : la parodie de la propagande politique anglaise dans la littérature rabelaisienne « populaire » (l’exemple des Grandes Chroniques gargantuines et du Vroy Gargantua) ».
- Irène Salas (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris) : « Le bestiaire médiéval chez François Rabelais et William Shakespeare ».
- Vincent Masse, (University of Toronto, Canada) : « Sources françaises d'imprimés géographiques de langue anglaise, 1481-1555 ».
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Buffet Lunch [Glendon Hall Ballroom]
1:30 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. 2nd Panel (in English) [Glendon Hall 102]
Title: Reading and Dramatizing the Other
Chair: Igor Djordjevic
- Jennifer Roberts-Smith (University of Waterloo, Canada): “Henry, Katherine, and the Dauphin: French kissing in Shakespeare and his source.”
- Suha Kudsieh (Trent University, Canada): “William Caxton’s Les Eracles: Englishing and Nationalizing French Worthies.”
- Susan Bond, (University of Toronto, Canada): “She-Wolves of France: Scheming French Queens of England on the Early Modern English Stage.”
- Valerie Dionne, (Colby College, USA): “Imagining the Essays: Bacon reading Montaigne.”
3:45 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Closing Remarks [Glendon Hall 102]
6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Dinner for presenters only (location TBA, restaurant in downtown)
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