Wednesday, June 24, 2015

IARHS 2015, Doncaster: Outlaws in Contex


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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