Outlaws in Context
(IARHS 2015)
Programme of Events
Day One (Tuesday 30th June)
15.00 onwards: Registration
[You may register later, after the walk, if you wish. Registration is available each day]
15.30
Campus walk with 16.00 tea
17.00
Welcome to Doncaster
Lesley Coote/Michelle Denby
Session One: Contemporary Outlaws
Mikee Delony – Jamie
Frasier: A Scottish Robin Hood in Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander Novels
Michael Eaton – Notes from Sherwood
19.30
Bar meal
Day Two (Wednesday 1st July)
8.00-9.00
Breakfast
9.30-10.45
Session
Two: Robin Hood in Medieval Texts
Presider: Lesley
Coote
Kristin Bovaird-Abbo – Harts, Hounds, Humans: Hunting in A
Lytell Geste of Robin Hode
Alexander Kaufman – Rhetorical and Ideological Contexts of
the Prefatory Letter of the Gesta Herewardi
Valerie Johnson -- What’s in a Name? Naming, and the Early
Outlaw Tradition
10.45
Coffee
11.15-12.30
Session Three: Laws and Outlaws
Presider: Mikee
Delony
Antha Coton-Spreckelmeyer– From Lawbreaker to Lawmaker: Robin Hood in the Context of English Land Law
Lorraine Stock – The Impact of Joseph Ritson’s 1795 Robin
Hood upon Later Constructions of the Outlaw’s
Legend
David Crook – The Novelist, the Artisan, and the Banker: The
Emergence of the Robin Hood Legend at Edwinstowe, Nottinghamshire, c.1818-1849
12.30
Lunch
13.45
Trip to
Kirklees (with ‘high tea’ provided at the priory)
Bus arrives 13.30, for 13.45 departure
[You will need ‘sensible shoes’ at Kirklees, as the walking
is somewhat rough. If it has rained, or
is raining, there will be mud. A gradient
is involved in the walk; a ‘round trip’ of the site takes about an hour. The weather can be changeable, so bring
waterproofs]
Back around 18.30
19.30
Dinner
20.30
Screening – Lindsay Anderson and Robin Hood (Michael Eaton MBE)
Day Three (Thursday 2nd July)
8.00-9.00
Breakfast
9.30-10.45
Session Four: History, Society and Story
Presider: Lesley Coote
David Hepworth – An Exploration of Cambridge University
Manuscript Oo.6.115: A Tale of Norfolk Family Ties
Alice Blackwood - Robin Hood Ales and Parish Politics: the
Administrative Context
Helen Phillips – Nut Brown Maidens
10.45
Coffee
11.15-12.30
Session Five: Genre, Rhetoric and Resistance
Presider: Thomas Rowland
Mark Truesdale – King and Commoner Genre: “Þe best archer of
ilkon, / I durst mete hym with a stone”
Sabina Rahman – Robin Hood and Surveillance: Ballad to
Film
Jonathan Bishop – Godliness to Anonymous: Anti-Establishment
Rhetoric in Robin Hood Ballads and Contemporary Media Texts
12.30
Lunch
13.15-14.15
Session Six: Highway Men
Presider: Alexander
Kaufman
Gillian Spraggs – “A Second Robin Hood”: John Nevison, the
Yorkshire Highwayman
Stephen Basdeo – Robin Hood the Brute: The Outlaw in
Eighteenth-Century Criminal Biography
14.15
Free time with tea from 15.30/ St James’s Church, High
Melton open to view, by kind permission of the churchwardens
[The church is very small and insignificant-looking from the
outside, but the stained glass dates from the late fourteenth to the nineteenth
century, and is very well worth seeing, in addition to the other features
listed in the guide pamphlet. Tea is
flexibly timed.]
16.15-17.40
Session Seven: Robin Hood and Contemporary Media Texts
Presider: Mikee Delony
Laura Blunk – “Are You Now or Have You Even Been an Outlaw
in Sherwood?: Ring Lardner, Jr. and Ian McClellan Hunter’s Robin Hood
Jason Hogue – Behind Zorro’s Mask: The Mythic Afterlife of
Joaquin Murieta, California’s Robin Hood
Thomas Rowland – Robin Hood of the West: Transforming the
Greenwood Outlaw into an American Icon: 1938-1960
19.00
Reception
19.30
Dinner, news, farewells
End of conference
[If you are staying in the Hall, Friday breakfast will be
8.00-9.00, checkout is by 10am]
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