History and Poetics

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Harvard English Dept. Medieval Colloquium

Organizer Name

Aparna Chaudhuri; Anna Kelner; Stella Wang

Organizer Affiliation

Harvard Univ.; Harvard Univ.; Harvard Univ.

Presider Name

Stella Wang

Paper Title 1

Measuring History with Meter in Middle English Verse Chronicles

Presenter 1 Name

Jacqueline M. Burek

Presenter 1 Affiliation

George Mason Univ.

Paper Title 2

Langland's Encyclopedic Forms

Presenter 2 Name

Bernardo S. Hinojosa

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Univ. of California-Berkeley

Paper Title 3

Collapsing Time and Reimagining Violence: The Politics of Memory and Affect in English Elegies for Welsh Princes

Presenter 3 Name

Georgia Henley

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Stanford Univ.

Paper Title 4

War Memorial: Medieval Siege Poetry and the Onslaught of Time

Presenter 4 Name

Suzanne Conklin Akbari

Presenter 4 Affiliation

Univ. of Toronto

Start Date

12-5-2018 1:30 PM

Session Location

Schneider 1360

Description

This panel focuses on medieval conceptions of time, history, and memory. How did medieval chroniclers, poets, artists, and travelers view the historical process and their place within it? What “pasts” did they recover, and what forms of representation were used to remember, rehearse or reimagine them?

Anna Kelner