Tuesday 16 September 2014

SASMARS 22nd BIENNIAL CONFERENCE, 2014



Southern African Society for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

28–31 August 2014, Mont Fleur, Stellenbosch, 
South Africa

The Art of Reading in the Middle Ages and Renaissance



CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

THURSDAY 28 AUGUST 2014

Thursday afternoon: Arrival and Registration

19:00 Dinner

FRIDAY 29 AUGUST 2014

08:00 Breakfast


09:00–10:30 


Henry Woudhuysen

KEYNOTE ADDRESS: 
Henry Woudhuysen, Lincoln College, University of Oxford
‘Resonant near-nonsense’: Reading and Hearing Natural Sounds in King Lear



10:30–11:00 Morning Tea

11:00–12:30 
1) Derrick Higginbotham (UCT)
Reading Backwards: Prodigality and Queer Politics in Shakespeare’s Richard II
2) David Schalkwyk (QML)
Reading Shakespeare’s Voice
3) Victor Houliston (WITS)
Persons’s Displeasure with the Commonwealth of England: Exile Propaganda in Print, 1584–1592
13:00–14:00 Lunch

14:00–15:30 
1) Catherine Addison (UniZulu)
Chamberlayne’s Pharonnida (1659): A Reading of the Ancient Greek Novel
2) Michèle du Plessis-Hay (NWU)
‘Strike in thy proper strain’: Ben Jonson’s Sejanus His Fall and the Reading Audience
3) Tara Leverton (UCT)
Disability and Villainy in John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi
15:30–16:00 Afternoon Tea

16:00–17:30 
1) Efi Zacharopoulou (UJ)
The Black Saint Maurice of Magdeburg and the Latin World’s Attitude towards the African Christian Kingdoms in Nubia and Ethiopia in the 13th century
2) Sandra Young (UCT)
The ‘Secrets of Nature’ and Early Modern Constructions of a Global South
3) Tony Voss (NMMU)
Donne and the Open Library
19:00 Dinner

SATURDAY 30 AUGUST 2014

08:00 Breakfast

09:00–10:30 
1) Katharine Geldenhuys (NWU)
Reading or Feeding? Creative Representation and Literary
Comprehension in John Capgrave’s Life of Saint Katherine of Alexandria
2) Tycho Maas (VU University Amsterdam)
Rereading the past. Medieval adaptations of Vergil’s Aeneid: A case study of Jacob van Maerlant’s Istory van Troyen (ca. 1264)
3) Savvas Kyriakidis (UJ)
Why was it important for the Byzantines to read Latin? The Views and Work of Demetrios Kydones (1324–1398)
10:30–11:00 Morning Tea

11:00–12:30 
1) Jenna Barlow (Independent / US)
The Six Wives Genre: Reading Tudor Women in the Twenty-First Century
2) Natalia Brzozowska (Adam Mickiewicz University)
Reading Politics in Monarchic Verse: The Poetic Power Struggles of Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots
3) Sikhumbuzo Mngadi (UJ)
Homage and/as Appropriation: Thomas Wyatt’s ‘Reading’ of Petrarch
13:00–14:00 Lunch

14:00–15:30 
1) Antony Goedhals (UP)
Auctour and auctoritee in Chaucer’s Book of the Duchess 
2) Idette Noomé (UP)
An ABC to the 14th century? Teaching Chaucer’s ABC poem
3) Retha Knoetze (UNISA)
The Wife of Bath and Medieval Marriage Sermons
15:30–16:00 Afternoon Tea

16:00–17:30 
1) Sonia Fanucchi (WITS)
Who am I? Medieval Drama, Identity, Roles and Theatricality in the Theo-Drama of Hans Urs Von Balthasar
2) Brian Lee (UCT)
Readers’ Block: Some Pitfalls for the Medieval Reader
3) Andrew Nicholson
Throwing Down the Gauntlet: Medieval Literature as a Test Case for Intentionalist Theories of Literary Interpretation
17:30–18:30 SASMARS Biennial General Meeting.

19:00 “Lewis Carroll’s Alice in a Middle English Wondyr Lond,”  
an illustrated presentation by Brian S. Lee


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19:30 Conference Dinner

SUNDAY 31 AUGUST 2014

08:00 Breakfast

09:00–10:30 
1) George King
Beyond Enchantment: Reading Gregorian Chant Notation for Performance Today
2) Margaret Raftery (UFS)
Reading The Nun’s Priest's Tale
10:30–11:00 Morning Tea

11:00–12:00 Free time

12:00–13:00 Lunch


George King: 'The Art of Medieval Snooker and its
Modal Relationships in Quadruple Organum'





A true symposium, lots of drinking -- and playing.


Brian Lee's impressons:

Thursday at eve — ah! bitter chill fell hail!
For all his blankets Ken complained of cold,
But hall-fires blazed their welcome as of old,
Hot viands steamed and glasses clinked wassail.
Downstairs at snooker George did not prevail,
But yet his music rang out loud and bold;
While Henry’s keynote howls brought manifold
Delight to all who heard him tell his tale.
We missed our chairman, Victor reigned instead;
Derrick agreed next conference he’d convene
Where mountain proteas beautify the scene
And the approach road’s all there is to dread.
We left in glorious sunshine, and concur
Of this world’s Wondyr Londs best is Mont Fleur!
BSL