Please feel free to tell us of any other conferences or sessions at conferences which we might include here. We also have an archive of papers which have been presented in sessions sponsored by The Lollard Society in previous years.
For general Calls for Papers in Medieval Studies, see the Calls posted at the Medieval Academy of America. For paper calls, mostly in literary studies but also in other fields, see the searchable directory on the E-server. Another option is the CFP Page at Penn, which both lists paper calls and allows you to subscribe for updates by e-mail.
Session 415, Saturday, 1:30 AM: Reformist Orthodoxies and Unorthodoxies in the Fifteenth Century (Presider: Derrick G. Pitard, Slippery Rock Univ.)
"Groping Thomas and Late Medieval Belief," Valerie Allen, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY
"Bokenham's Legenda Aurea and Fifteenth-century 'Reformist Hagiography,'" Karen Winstead, Ohio State Univ.-Columbus
"Books of Suspicion? The Pricking of Love and Non-Wycliffite Heresy," Allen F. Westphall, Univ. of St. Andrews
Respondent: Vincent Gillespie, Lady Margaret Hall, Univ. of Oxford
Session 469, Saturday, 3:30 PM: Lollardy in Context (Presider: Elizabeth Schirmer, New Mexico State Univ.-Las Cruces)
"On the Six Yokes: Wyclif's Guide for Extemporaneous Teaching," Stephen Lahey, Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln
"Robert Thornton and the Opening of the London Thornton Manuscript: An Orthodox History," Emily Everett, Methodist Univ.
"Another 'Lollere in the Wynd'? The Miller, the Bible, and Nicholas's Door," Christina von Nolcken, Univ. of Chicago
"How Do We Know What the Lollard Canon Is?", Lawrence M. Clopper, Indiana Univ.-Bloomington
Please contact the conference organizer, Fiona Somerset, with any questions.
We are also co-sponsoring two other sessions with the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Research Group from the Univ. of Washington-Seattle and the Yearbook of Langland Studies
Session 284, Friday, 1:30 PM: John Trevisa: Papers in Memory of David C. Fowler (Presider: Miceal Vaughan, Univ. of Washington-Seattle)
"Fowler, Fowler, and Murray: The Problem of Usage in Trevisa," David Greetham, Graduate Center, CUNY
"What Trevisa did to Fitzralph's Defensio Curatorum," T.P. Dolan, Univ. College, Dublin
"Work in Progress: John Trevisa and David C. Fowler," Paul C. Remley, Univ. of Washington-Seattle
Respondent: Charles F. Briggs, Georgia Southern Univ.
Session 338, Saturday, 3:30 PM: Piers Plowman: Papers in Memory of David C. Fowler (Presider: Clinton Atchley, Henderson State Univ.)
"Translation and Manipulation: Understanding the Latin in Piers Plowman," Kisha G. Tracy, Univ. of Connecticut
"The Shifting Cult of Saints in the A, B, and C Texts of Piers Plowman," Tod Rygh, Univ. of Washington-Seattle
"The Demonic Truth in William Langland's Piers Plowman," Natalena Elias, Tel Aviv Univ.
Respondent: Richard K. Emmerson, Florida State Univ.
These two sessions were organized by Jen Gonyer-Donohue, Univ. of Washington-Seattle.
Paper Call: Conference sponsored by Sixteenth Century Society
23-26 October, 2008, Hyatt Regency, St.Louis MO
Session: Wyclif, Lollardy, and the Premature Reformation
Papers are invited on topics associating Wyclif and Lollardy with Early Modernity, broadly construed to include any research connecting Lollardy with historical, literary, and theological interests of scholars of Early Modernity. This is the first session at the SCSC sponsored by the Lollard Society, and scholars interested in exploring the connections between the later Middle Ages and early Modernity are especially encouraged to submit paper proposals. The deadline is March 15th, and proposals should be sent
to Stephen Lahey, Department of Classics and Religious Studies, University of Nebraska.
The Sixteenth Century Society and Conference (SCSC) is a scholarly society that is interested in the early modern era (ca. 1450-ca. 1660). Its geographical scope is as worldwide as its membership. The society welcomes scholars from all disciplines who have an interest in early modern studies. SCSC holds one annual meeting a year with approximately 140 sessions for papers. This annual meeting preferably and traditionally takes place on the last full weekend of October.
Paper Call: After Arundel: Religous Writing in Fifteenth-Century England,
Oxford, April 16-18, 2009.
An international conference organised by the Faculty of English, University of Oxford, in association with the Bodleian Library, marking the 600th anniversary of the publication of Arundel's Constitutions.
Topics include:
Mapping Chronologies
The Dynamics of Orthodoxy
Reform
Humanism & Intellectual History
Literary Self-Consciousness & Literary History
Discerning the Discourse: Language & Spirituality
Heresy & its Textual Afterlife
Plenary speakers: Sarah Beckwith, Jeremy Catto, Anne Hudson, David Lawton and Miri Rubin.
Please send 500 word abstracts by 31st May 2008 to
, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, UK, OX2 6QA.