6.0254 Conference: Computer Based Chaucer Studies (1/198)
Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Wed, 30 Sep 1992 18:18:07 EDT
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 6, No. 0254. Wednesday, 30 Sep 1992.
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 09:21:25 -0400
From: ian@epas.utoronto.ca (Ian Lancashire)
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CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT
Of Remembrance the Keye:
Computer-Based Chaucer Studies
Sponsored by the Centre for Computing in the Humanities
and the Department of English,
University of Toronto
Friday November 6, 1:30-5:00 pm, and
Saturday November 7, 9:00 am-5:00
Location: Room 140, University College
15 King's College Circle
St. George Campus
University of Toronto
(entrance at Wellesley (east),
College (south), St. George
(west) or Harbord (north) Sts.)
Programme Committee
Thomas H. Bestul (Nebraska)
Patricia Eberle (Toronto)
John F. Leyerle (Toronto)
Ian Lancashire (convenor: Toronto)
Stephen R. Reimer (Alberta)
Keynote Address: Larry Benson (Harvard)
on a new lemmatized
Chaucer concordance
Speakers
Karen Arthur (University of Toronto) on
`Troilus and Criseyde'
Larry Benson (Harvard University) on a new
lemmatized Chaucer concordance
Thomas H. Bestul (University of Nebraska) on
the sources of `The Monk's Tale'
David Burnley (University of Sheffield) on
Chaucer's word associations
Donald Chapman (University of Toronto) on
neologisms in Chaucer's `Boethius'
Patricia Eberle (University of Toronto),
responding to the speakers' papers
Ian Lancashire (University of Toronto) on
Chaucer's phrasal repetition
Willard McCarty (University of Toronto) on
printed and electronic concordances
Murray McGillivray (University of Calgary) on
electronic presentation of Chaucer's
manuscripts
Stephen R. Reimer (University of Alberta) on
Chaucer and Lydgate
Peter Robinson (Oxford University) on the text
of `The Wife of Bath's Prologue'
Software will also be shown and demonstrated at the conference.
Registration: Regular ($25) or Full ($75),
at the door (registration limited to
75 persons), or send the form below,
with cheque, to
Chaucer Conference,
Centre for Computing in the Humanities,
Robarts Library, 14th Floor,
University of Toronto,
Toronto M5S 1A5, Ont. CANADA
REGULAR registration includes a
wine-and-cheese reception on Friday at
5:00 pm. Registrants will be listed in
in the conference proceedings.
FULL registration includes, in addition,
a copy of the published proceedings
(scheduled spring 1993).
Students will be admitted free, in
addition to the Regular and Full
registrants.
Further information:
Voice: (416) 978-6391 (Claire Smith
or Elke Rudman)
(416) 978-8279 (Ian Lancashire)
FAX: (416) 978-6519
E-mail: cch@epas.utoronto.ca
ian@epas.utoronto.ca
REGISTRATION FORM
The Keye to Remembrance:
Computer-Based Chaucer Studies
November 6-7, 1992
University of Toronto
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and double occupancy, plus taxes. Reserve by
October 19. (Specify `Computer-Based Chaucer
Studies Conference')
Subject: Geoffrey Chaucer (ca 1340/45-1400), the first
great English poet and one of the wellsprings
of the English language itself, is best known
for the fragmentary `Canterbury Tales' and the
epic romance `Troilus and Criseyde'. It would be
hard to find a writer who has more loyal,
loving readers.
In `The Legend of Good Women', Chaucer invites
his readers to believe things that they have
never seen with their own eyes, especially what
old books reveal, because `yf that olde bokes
were aweye, Yloren were of remembraunce the keye'.
The papers at this conference show how
computer technology assists in many fields
within Chaucer studies: editing and textual
criticism, thematic analysis, his use of English,
his style, and his sources and influences.
As old books are the key of remembrance to our
past, so computers are proving themselves a
key to a full understanding of the written
memories in those books.
Sponsor: The Centre for Computing in the Humanities was
founded in 1986 within the Faculty of Arts and
Science as a result of a co-operative agreement
between the University of Toronto and IBM
Canada Ltd. Besides providing facilities and
services to teachers, researchers and students
in the humanities, CCH offers non-credit courses
and workshops, sponsors conferences, and publishes
a series of working papers on computer-assisted
research, a series of electronic texts, and
text-analysis software such as MTAS, STRAP and
TACT.
Proceedings:
CCH Working Papers is a series about
computer-assisted research in textual studies.
General Editor: T. R. Wooldridge
Department of French, University of Toronto
Vol. 1: A TACT Exemplar (1991; $18.50)
Vol. 2: Historical Dictionary Databases
(1992; $35.00)
Vol. 3: Of Remembrauce the Keye: Computer-Based
Chaucer Studies (1993).