THE GASCOIGNE SEMINAR 2009

There are only a few places left for the Gascoigne Seminar on Friday 18th September at Lincoln College, Oxford.

These include three places reserved for postgraduates, with the conference fee generously funded by the Society for Renaissance Studies (SRS), so if you are a postgraduate and would like to come please email Gillian Austen off-list (g.austen@bristol.ac.uk). For everyone else, the fee is £35, or £30 for members of the SRS, which just covers costs, but includes a good lunch, teas and coffees throughout the day and the private viewing at the Bodleian. Please email Gillian as soon as possible to book your place as spaces are extremely limited.

The speakers are Susan C Staub, Rob Maslen, Elizabeth Heale, Jayne Archer, Syrithe Pugh, David Trim, Andy Kesson and John Burton. Other participants, some of whom will be session chairs, include Arthur Kinney, Roger Pooley, Cathy Shrank, Elizabeth Goldring, Katharine Wilson, and Mike Pincombe.

PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME

9.30 - 10.00 Registration and coffee

10.00 - 10.15 Introduction and Welcome by Dr Gillian Austen (University of Bristol)


SESSION ONE. Chair: TBC

10.15 - 10.45 Dr Jayne Archer (University of Wales at Aberystwyth):
"'A notable kinde of rime': Gascoigne's Certayne Notes of Instruction and Theories of Metrical Composition in Elizabethan England"

10.45 - 11.15 John Burton (University of Wales at Lampeter):
"'Sorted', 'Wrote', 'Compiled'; Gascoigne as Father of the Sonnet Sequence"


11.15-11.45 COFFEE BREAK


SESSION TWO. Chair: TBC

11.45 - 12.15 Dr Syrithe Pugh (University of Aberdeen):
"Gascoigne's Ovidian Masks"

12.15 - 12.45 Dr Elizabeth Heale (University of Reading):
"Spenser and Gascoigne"

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12.45 - 1.30 BUFFET LUNCH

From 1.30pm-2.15pm there is a private viewing at the Bodleian Library of selected Elizabethan editions of Gascoigne's work, including Gabriel Harvey's copy of the Posies(1575).

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SESSION THREE. Chair: TBC

2.15 - 2.45 Andy Kesson (University of Kent):
"Palaces, adventures and anatomies: Gascoigne, Lyly and print story-telling in the 1570s"

2.45 - 3.15 Prof Susan C Staub (Appalachian State University):
"'Pretty conceits as pleased her peevish fantasy': the 'Manling'
Secretary in The Adventures of Master F.J."


3.15 - 3.45 TEA BREAK


SESSION FOUR. Chair: TBC

3.45 - 4.15 Dr Robert Maslen (University of Glasgow):
"Gascoigne, Piccolomini, and the Demilitarisation of the Siege of Troy"

4.15 - 4.45 Dr David Trim (Newbold College):
"Gascoigne the soldier: reality and rhetoric"


4.45 - 5.30 CONCLUDING DISCUSSION/FAREWELL