Philology, History, Theory
An International Conference in Honor of Stephen G. Nichols
Johns Hopkins University
September 11-13, 2008
Program
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Charles Commons, Salons B and C
10:00 – 10:30
Opening and Greetings:
Adam Falk, Dean of Zanviel Krieger School of Arts and Sciences,
David Bell, Dean of Faculty
Presentation of the Colloquium by
Michel Jeanneret, Joachim Küpper and Jacques Neefs
10:30 – 12:00 Session Moderator : Andreas Kablitz (University of Köln) 10:30 – 11:15
- Stephen Nichols (Johns Hopkins University), “New Medievalism: New Challenges”
11:15 – 12:00
- Gabrielle Spiegel (Johns Hopkins University), “Reflections on The New Philology”
12.00 – 2:00 p.m.
- Lunch Time
2:00 – 5:30 Session Moderator: Gabrielle Spiegel (Johns Hopkins University)
2:00 – 2:45 - Gerhard Regn (University of München), “Dante's ‘Perhaps': Mythopoiesis and Cosmogony in the Commedia (Remarks on Inf. XXXIV, 106-126)” 2:45 – 3:30 - Daniel Heller-Roazen (Princeton University), “Dialectic of the Medieval Course”
3:30 – 4:00 : Coffee Break
4:00 – 4:45
- Joachim Küpper (Freie Universität, Berlin, and Johns Hopkins University), “Religious Horizon and Epic Effect. Some remarks on the ‘Iliad', the ‘Chanson de Roland', and the ‘Nibelungenlied'”
4:45 – 5:30 - Marina Brownlee (Princeton University), “Ricoeur and the Retelling of Spain's 711”
Friday, September 12, 2008 Space Telescope Science Institute
9: 15 – 12:00 Session Moderator: Sarah Kay (Princeton University) 9:15 – 10:00
- Andreas Kablitz (University of Köln), “Qu'est-ce que la Renaissance carolingienne?” 10:00 – 10:45 - Jan-Dirk Mueller (University of München), “On material philology (‘Streuüberlieferung')”
10:45 – 11:15: Coffee Break 11:15 – 12:00 - Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet (University of Paris 4), “La pensée du texte au Moyen âge”
12:00 – 2:00
- Lunch Time 2:00 – 3:30 Session Moderator: Wilda Anderson (Johns Hopkins University)
2:00 – 2:45
- Kevin Brownlee (University of Pennsylvania), “History, Fiction, and Truth in the ‘Jehan de Saintré'” 2:45 – 3:30 - Eugene Vance (University of Washington), “Power and the Dynamics of Discourse in Medieval Culture” 3:30 – 4:00 Coffee Break
4:00 – 5:30 Session Moderator: Joan DeJean (University of Pennsylvania)
4:00 – 4:45 - Andrew James Johnston (Freie Universität, Berlin), “Chaucerian ekphrasis” 4:45 – 5:30 - Jack Abecassis (Pomona College and Johns Hopkins University), “Montaigne/Socrates: writing as fantasy”
Saturday, September 13, 2008 Space Telescope Science Institute
9:00 – 9:30
- Bernard Cerquiglini (Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie),
“To Honor Steve Nichols…”
9:30 – 12:00 Session Moderator: Elena Russo (Johns Hopkins University)
9:30 – 10:15 - Ursula Peters (University of Köln), “Medieval text and the ‘Age of Literature'. The Pèlerinage Corpus of Guillaume de Deguileville – a case-study on manuscript transmission as a process of rewriting” 10:15 – 11:00 - Deborah Losse (Arizona State University), “Reframing Medieval Narrative in the Renaissance” 11:00-11:15 : Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:00 - Howard Bloch (Yale University), “The Recollection of the Past is the Promise of the Future: Medievalism and the Ancient Temper” 12:30 – 2:30 p.m. Lunch Time
2:30 – 5:00 p.m.
Walters Museum
(600 North Charles Street)
Round Table: What Future for Medieval Studies ?
Moderators: Michel Jeanneret and Jacques Neefs
Stephen Nichols, Lucas Antoine, Raluca Dragan, Andreea Marculescu, Jeanette Patterson (Johns Hopkins University),
Howard Bloch, Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet, Joachim Küpper
Visit of the Medieval Collections of the Museum, presented by William Noel, Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books at the Walters.
We acknowledge with gratitude the generous support of The French Embassy in the United States, The Fritz Thyssen Foundation, The Mellon Foundation, The Johns Hopkins University