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Records of Early English Drama/ Victoria College/ 150 Charles Street W Toronto Ontario Canada Phone (416) 585-4504/FAX (416) [log in to unmask] http://www.epas.utoronto.ca:8080/~reed/reed.html => REED's home page http://www.epas.utoronto.ca:8080/~reed/reed-l.html => REED-L's home page ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 08:51:41 -0500 From: Prof. Wm. Bowen <[log in to unmask]> To: Multiple recipients of list FICINO <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Conference Announcement =09ANNOUNCING =09THE MIDDLE AGES IN CONTEMPORARY POPULAR CULTURE =09An Interdisciplinary Conference =09McMaster University =09Hamilton, Ontario, Canada =09March 29-31, 1996 =09Keynote Speaker: Derrick de Kerckhove =09Director of the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology =09University of Toronto This conference will explore the general theme of "The Middle Ages in=20 Contemporary Popular Culture." This theme is intended to be as open-ended= =20 as possible and will be approached from many directions. Topics include,=20 but are not limited to: *Marketing the Middle Ages in music (Gregorian chant, Hildegard of=20 Bingen), novels, movies,TV series, video games and CD-ROM *New Millenarianisms, Satanic cults and witchcraft *The Middle Ages in nationalist ideologies *The Middle Ages as an attraction for tourists: visits to archeological=20 sites, medieval fairs, feasts and pageants. A number of special cultural events are also planned, including musical=20 performances, films, a display of books, videos and interactive=20 multimedia products. To register or receive further information, please contact: Madeleine Jeay=09=09=09=09Susan Fast Department of French=09=09=09School of Art, Drama and Music=20 McMaster University=09=09=09McMaster University Hamilton, On. Canada L8S 4M2=09=09Hamilton, On. =20 Canada L8S 4M2 Tel: (905) 525-9140 ext. 2375=09=09Tel: (905) 525-9140 ext. 23670 =20 e-mail: [log in to unmask]:[log in to unmask] ca =09=09=09FAX: (905) 577-6930 =09=09=09http:\\www.mcmaster.ca Presented by the McMaster Working Group on the Middle Ages and Renaissance ***************************************************************************= ************************************** =09ANNONCE =09LE MOYEN =C2GE DANS LA CULTURE POPULAIRE CONTEMPORAINE =09Conf=E9rence interdisciplinaire =09Universit=E9 McMaster =09Hamilton, Ontario, Canada =0929-31 mars, 1996 =09Intervenant principal: Derrick de Kerckhove =09Directeur du McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology =09Universit=E9 de Toronto La conf=E9rence se penchera sur le th=E8me g=E9n=E9ral: "Le moyen =E2ge dan= s la=20 culture populaire contemporaine". Il s'agit d'un th=E8me ouvert qui sera=20 abord=E9 =E0 partir d'approches aussi diverses que: *La commercialisation du Moyen =E2ge dans la musique (chant gr=E9gorien,=20 Hildegarde de Bingen),le roman, le cin=E9ma, les s=E9ries t=E9l=E9vis=E9es,= les=20 jeux vid=E9os et les CD-ROMs. *Les nouveaux mill=E9narismes, les cultes sataniques et la sorcellerie. *Le Moyen =E2ge dans les id=E9ologies nationalistes. *Le Moyen =E2ge comme attraction pour touristes: visites des sites=20 arch=E9ologiques, f=EAtes m=E9di=E9vales =09et banquets. Sont aussi pr=E9vues au programme les activit=E9s suivantes: performances= =20 musicales, films, exposition de livres, vid=E9os et produits multim=E9dia. Pour vous inscrire ou recevoir plus d'information, veuillez contacter: Madeleine Jeay=09ou=09=09=09Susan Fast D=E9partement de Fran=E7ais=09=09=09School of Art,Drama and Music=20 Universit=E9 McMaster=09=09=09McMaster University Hamilton, On. Canada L8S 4M2=09=09Hamilton, On. =20 Canada L8S 4M2 Tel: (905) 525-9140 ext. 23754=09=09Tel: (905) 525-9140 ext. 23670 =20 e-mail:[log in to unmask] e-mail:[log in to unmask] =09FAX: (905) 577-6930 =09http:\\www.mcmaster.ca =09Une pr=E9sentation du Groupe de Travail sur le Moyen age et la=20 Renaissance (McMaster). *********************************************************************** LIST OF PARTICIPANTS AND PAPERS: AVRUTIN Lily=09=09=09=09University of Alberta =09=09=09=09=09The Artist as God's Fool;=20 =09=09=09=09=09The Case of Andrei Roublev=20 =09=09=09=09=09by Andrei Tarkovsky. =09=09=09=09=09=09 B=C9DARD Marie-Christine=09=09=09Universit=E9 Laval, Qu=E9bec =09=09=09=09=09Les M=E9di=E9vales de Qu=E9bec=20 =09=09=09=09=09comme terrain d'exp=E9rimentation=20 =09=09=09=09=09de la communication de l'histoire. BLAIN Jenny=09=09=09=09Dalhousie University =09=09=09=09=09Witchcraft, Magic and=20 =09=09=09=09=09Religion: Some Discursive =09 =09=09=09=09=09Reconstructions of Belief and Practice. BRAY Dorothy=09=09=09=09McGill University, Montr=E9al =09=09=09=09=09The Beowulf Conceit in=20 =09=09=09=09=09Terminators 1 and 2. BRENT Robert=09=09=09=09University of Western Ontario =09=09=09=09=09I'm So Hot for Her and=20 =09=09=09=09=09She Is So Cold: Petrarch and the=20 =09=09=09=09=09Rolling Stones. CAPPS Sandra E.=09=09=09=09University of Tennessee, Knoxville =09=09=09=09=09Glastonbury: Medieval,=20 =09=09=09=09=09Modern and New Age. CASH John=09=09=09=09Indiana University =09=09=09=09=09Structure and Authenticity=20 =09=09=09=09=09in the Current Middle Ages. CHAREST R=E9my=09=09=09=09Universit=E9 Laval, Qu=E9bec =09=09=09=09=09Perceptions et critiques=20 =09=09=09=09=09historiques des "M=E9di=E9vales" dans=20 =09=09=09=09=09les medias. DARRUP Cathy C.=09=09=09=09City University of New York =09=09=09=09=09Did God Paint You? The=20 =09=09=09=09=09Past as African Identity in Robin Hood,=20 =09=09=09=09=09Prince of Thieves. de KERCKHOVE Derrick=09=09=09University of Toronto =09=09=09=09=09The Electronic Middle Ages DUFRESNE Lucy=09=09=09=09Universit=E9 d'Ottawa =09=09=09=09=09Which Witch is Which?=20 =09=09=09=09=09Recasting Historical Nightmares=20 =09=09=09=09=09as Utopian Visions. ERISMAN Wendy=09=09=09=09University of Texas at Austin =09=09=09=09=09For My Lady's Honour:=20 =09=09=09=09=09Gender, Performance and the=20 =09=09=09=09=09Reproduction of Social Power in a=20 =09=09=09=09=09Medieval Re-Creation Society. EVERETT William A.=09=09=09Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas =09=09=09=09=09Images of Arthurian=20 =09=09=09=09=09Britain in the American Musical=20 =09=09=09=09=09Theatre: A Connecticut Yankee=20 =09=09=09=09=09and Camelot.=20 FLINT Catrena=09=09=09=09McGill University, Montr=E9al =09=09=09=09=09Romancing Hildegard: Postmodern=20 =09=09=09=09=09Appropriations of a Medieval Composer.=20 GOLINI Vera=09=09=09=09St. Jerome's College, Waterloo =09=09=09=09=09Petrarch to Elvis: Love=20 =09=09=09=09=09Lyrics Then and Now.=09=09 GREGORY Christine=09=09=09Florida Intenational University, Miami =09=09=09=09=09"So You Thought WE Have=20 =09=09=09=09=09it Bad!" Dysfunctional, Corrupt and=20 =09=09=09=09=09Brutal: Medieval Life in the Lion in=20 =09=09=09=09=09Winter and Braveheart. HARLEY Maria Anna=09=09=09McGill University, Montr=E9al =09=09=09=09=09Romancing Hildegard: Postmodern=20 =09=09=09=09=09Appropriations of a Medieval Composer.=20 JEAY Gr=E9goire=09=09=09=09Orchestre Baroque de Montr=E9al =09=09=09=09=09Concert with Carolyn Sinclair=20 =09=09=09=09=09and the McMaster Dancers.=20 KENDRIS Theodore=09=09=09Universit=E9 Laval, Qu=E9bec =09=09=09=09=09Merlin, Sherlock Holmes and Mr. Spock: The Three=20 =09=09=09=09=09Wise Men of Western Culture. KERSLAKE Geoffrey P.=09=09=09University of Guelph =09=09=09=09=09Popular Culture's Ignored=20 =09=09=09=09=09Genre: The Middle Ages in=20 =09=09=09=09=09Role-Playing Games KNIGHT Graham=09=09=09=09McMaster University, Hamilton =09=09=09=09=09High-Tech Feudalism: =20 =09=09=09=09=09Warrior Culture and Science=20 =09=09=09=09=09Fiction Televison.=20 KOLOZE Jeff=09=09=09=09Cleveland State University =09=09=09=09=09Male "Bondage" or "Bonding": Malory's=20 =09=09=09=09=09Depictions of Men and their=20 =09=09=09=09=09Relationship to Men of Today. KREUZIGER-HERR Annette=09=09=09University of Hamburg, Germany =09=09=09=09=09The Presence of the Past=20 =09=09=09=09=09in the Present; Medieval=20 =09=09=09=09=09Music in the Twentieth Century. LEWIS David Charles=09=09=09University of Toronto =09=09=09=09=09The Return of Charlemagne;=20 =09=09=09=09=09The Middle Ages, the European=20 =09=09=09=09=09Idea and the European Right. LIFSCHITZ Felice=09=09=09Columbia University =09=09=09=09=09Welcome to Medieval Life:=20 =09=09=09=09=09Crafts, Dungeons and Instruments=20 =09=09=09=09=09of Torture in Sunny Florida. MARKEWITZ Darrell=09=09=09The Wareham Forge =09=09=09=09=09Historical Interpretation=20 =09=09=09=09=09and Experimental Archeology=20 =09=09=09=09=09in the Society for=20 =09=09=09=09=09Creative Anachronism. MULHBERGER Steven=09=09=09Nipissing University =09=09=09=09=09The Middle Ages As They=20 =09=09=09=09=09Were or As They Should Have Been?=09=09 NEWMAN Sharan=09=09=09=09Michigan State University =09=09=09=09=09Beyond Camelot and=20 =09=09=09=09=09Chretien de Troyes: A Social=20 =09=09=09=09=09Historian's Use of the Novel to=20 =09=09=09=09=09Teach the Middle Ages. NOBLE James=09=09=09=09University of New Brunswick =09=09=09=09=09The Realm of King Arthur=20 =09=09=09=09=09in the Silly Season. PEDERSON Kristen=09=09=09University of Toronto =09=09=09=09=09Magic, Power and Women's=20 =09=09=09=09=09Sexuality in Medieval Scandinavia. RABINOVITCH Shelley=09=09=09Universit=E9 d'Ottawa =09=09=09=09=09Which Witch is Which?=20 =09=09=09=09=09Recasting Historical Nightmares=20 =09=09=09=09=09as Utopian Visions. RIBORDY Genevi=E8ve=09=09=09Universit=E9 Laval, Qu=E9bec =09=09=09=09=09Le guide: un trait=20 =09=09=09=09=09d'union entre la culture=20 =09=09=09=09=09savante et la culture populaire. ROCHER Marie-Claude=09=09=09Universit=E9 Laval, Qu=E9bec =09=09=09=09=09F=EAtes populaires et histoire. SAMPLASKI Artie=09=09=09=09University of Indiana =09=09=09=09=09The Middle Ages, Our=20 =09=09=09=09=09Current Age and the Current=20 =09=09=09=09=09Middle Ages. SCHUBERT Linda=09=09=09=09University of Michigan =09=09=09=09=09Plainchant for the=20 =09=09=09=09=09Pictures: The Use of the=20 =09=09=09=09=09"Dies Irae" in Film Scores. SHARP Michael D.=09=09=09University of Michigan =09=09=09=09=09Adventures in the=20 =09=09=09=09=09Hypermasculine: Medieval=20 =09=09=09=09=09Scotland Goes to the Movies. VALOIS Jeanne=09=09=09=09Universit=E9 Laval, Qu=E9bec =09=09=09=09=09La communication de=20 =09=09=09=09=09l'histoire par le biais=20 =09=09=09=09=09de la f=EAte m=E9di=E9vale. WILLARD Tom=09=09=09=09University of Arizona =09=09=09=09=09Alchemical Gold: Worth=20 =09=09=09=09=09More Than Ever. WILSON Robert=09=09=09=09City University of New York =09=09=09=09=09English Storytelling --=20 =09=09=09=09=09Beowulf and Rap.