Care in the Age of Chaucer

Premodern care across political, ethical, religious, medical, environmental discourses. Gender, conduct, and responsibility. Consolation and therapy. Justice and reparation. (Un)caring acts and affects. Pastoral, non-Foucauldian, Lordean paradigms. Self and community. Please submit 250-word abstracts to Wan-Chuan Kao…[Read more]

What are/should be Chaucerian scholarship’s ethical commitments? What is/could be its relation to Chaucerian adaptations in various media? Gender, sexuality, race, and class; politics of Chaucer scholarship and amateur or creative Chauceriana. 250-word abstracts for roundtable presentations by March 15 to Catherine Sanok (sanok@umich.edu) and C…[Read more]

What can/should be the role of the premodern in the transhistorical history of race? Chaucer/Shakespeare’s entanglements in the history of racialization; the history of race before race. Please submit 250-word abstracts of roundtable-length papers by March 1 to Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Northwestern U (susie-phillips@northwestern.edu) and M…[Read more]

What makes a wall medieval? Chaucerian walls as physical, political, phenomenological, and psychic structures. Porosity and impenetrablity. Demarcation and enfoldment. Polity and publicity. Privacy and voyeurism. Classical echoes and contemporary resonances. 250-word abstracts by March 15 to Wan-Chuan Kao, Washington and Lee U (kaow@wlu.edu) and…[Read more]

THE SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL PIERS PLOWMAN CONFERENCE

April 4-7, 2019

University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida (Co-sponsored by the University of Miami and Florida International University)

The Programming Committee invites you to submit Session Proposals by May 15, 2018. Please send proposals (150-300 words) to ippsmiami2019@gmail.com

Session…[Read more]