[SCA-BMDL] Summer Seminar In Anglo-Saxon (fwd)

[Jennifer Strobel]

This is a fantastic opportunity for some intensive academic information on
the Anglo-Saxon Culture and I encourage anyone who can attend to attend.

Odriana
your friendly, neighbourhood A&S Minister

"Do not dismiss the dish saying that it is just, simply food. The blessed thing is an entire civilization in itself!"
- Abdulhak Sinasi


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Subject: Summer Seminar In Anglo-Saxon

The Department of English, the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences,
and
West Virginia University present the 2006 Summer Seminar:

Things to Do with Old Poems
Interpretation and Anglo-Saxon Culture
Seminar Leader: Clare Lees , King's College, London
Dates: June 1-4, 2006

This seminar examines how to do new things with old poems using the
methods of contemporary critical theory. We will examine how and to
what
extent early English poetry makes sense in the light of modern
preoccupations with modes of perception and interpretation, identity,
space and time. The seminar will offer insights into contemporary
Anglo-Saxon studies and--more broadly--its relation to modern and
postmodern discourses as well as poetries. All old poems will also be
available in modern English translation, and the seminar will also
offer
an opportunity to think about some modern Anglo-Saxon poems.

Clare Lees is Professor of Medieval Literature and History of the
Language at King's College London. She has published widely on
Anglo-Saxon litereature, gender, and culture and is the author of
Tradition and Belief: Religious Writing in Late Anglo-Saxon England
(1999) and co-author, with Gillian Overing, of Double Agents: Women
and
Clerical Culture in Anglo-Saxon England (2001). She is the editor of
Medieval Masculinities: Regarding Men in the Middle Ages (1994) and
co-editor, with Thelma Fenster, of Gender and Debate from the Middle
Ages to the Renaissance (2002). With Gillian Overing, she has also
co-edited Gender and Empire in the Early Medieval World for the
Journal
of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2004) and A Place to Believe in:
Locating Medieval Landscapes (2006).

Further information at
http://www.as.wvu.edu/engl01/www/summer_seminar/index.html