REED Announcement and Call for Papers:
For the International Medieval Congress at Leeds University
8-11 July 2002
REEDıs participation in the International Medieval Congress at Leeds
University in 2002 is designed to celebrate and evaluate the projectıs work
as it marks its 25th anniversary. We hope that a reception open to
conference participants and the performance of a play (staged with reference
to aspects of REED research) will also be included.
Overall, the sessions will encompass the concept that underlies the project,
the projectıs performance (relative to research, publications and scholarly
contribution to date) and its destination (an informed prediction as to
REEDıs eventual achievement in various contexts, and an introduction to a
new generation of researchers). An additional open discussion with topics
introduced by panelists is also planned as a less formal evening event.
Each 1 and 1/2 hour session, with the exception of the first and last, will
feature an invited keynote speaker, followed by two papers and discussion.
1. In Concept (the opening session) Sandy Johnston, Sally-Beth MacLean and
Abigail Young will outline the origin and development of the project as an
introduction to the substance of the critique component that follows.
2. Performance (3 sessions) will provide analysis of REEDıs achievement to
date, based on its current publications and allied research projects:
I. Method (research, preparation and publication of materials)
II. Drama (topics related to early theatre traditions and performance)
III. Dramatic Activity (topics related to a cultural, historical, political
or other perspective, drawing on the allied but wider range of materials
uncovered by REED)
3. Destination (2 sessions) will seek to predict the nature of REEDıs
ultimate contribution to scholarship:
I. Achievement (eg, How viable a research tool might a project of this
nature eventually prove to be -- can future refinements already be glimpsed?
How might its findings go on to stimulate revision of broad aspects of
English cultural history and/or provide a fruitful basis for the development
of different forms of interdisciplinary scholarship?)
II. REED - The Next Generation, a contribution from three young scholars,
with markedly different resources and training, who have worked with REED on
various projects.
Papers, timed for a 20-minute delivery, are now invited for Performance
I-III, and Destination I. Preferably, papers submitted should make a number
of wide-ranging points within an overall delineated field since the aim of
the sessions is to invite a broad critique of REEDıs achievement rather than
the customary detailed research into one or more topics.
The deadline for submissions is 15 September/01.
Abstracts of papers (or any other correspondence) should be forwarded to
Audrey Douglas at [log in to unmask] until 31 July/01 (note: this
e-mail address will not be operative after the end of July); thereafter to
Sally-Beth MacLean at [log in to unmask]
