Gottschalk Memorial Lecture and subsequent conference go medieval

Cornell's Department of English will present the annual Gottschalk Memorial Lecture, delivered by Anne Middleton, professor of English at the University of California-Berkeley, Thursday, Oct. 2, at 4:30 p.m. in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium of Goldwin Smith Hall on campus. Middleton's talk is titled "Piers Plowman From A to Z: An Experiment in Literary History."

The Gottschalk Memorial Lecture is being held in conjunction with a conference titled "Making the Text: Medieval, Renaissance and Beyond," starting Friday, Oct. 3, at 3 p.m. and reconvening Saturday, Oct. 4, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Kaufmann Auditorium of Goldwin Smith Hall. The lecture and the conference sessions are free and open to the public. The conference, organizers say, seeks in each of its sessions to combine papers on medieval and Renaissance materials and topics in order to provoke thought about making literary history, as well as the making and remaking of its artifacts.

The following is a list of conference speakers and topics to be covered:

Friday

• Rayna Kalas, Cornell, "Thomas Nashe's Empty Frame, 'a new stamp on judgment.'"
• Penn Szittya, Georgetown University, "'Making' Trouble: Illicit Conventicles and Ruling Class Ideology in the Late Fourteenth Century."
• Masha Raskolnikov, Cornell, "Translating Susannah in the Garden, Faithful and Faithless."
• Timothy Murray, Cornell, "Baroque Folds and Digital Thresholds."

Saturday

• Lynn Enterline, Vanderbilt University, "The Art of Loving Mastery: Affect and Eros in Elizabethan Pedagogy."
• David Johnson, Florida State University, "Why Ditch the Dialogues? Reclaiming an Invisible Text."
• Christopher Pye, Williams College, "Shakespeare Distracted."
• Mark Hazard, Bates College, "The True Tale in Land's Speech and Small Words: English Bible Paraphrases and the Self-Explaining Text."
• William Flesch, Brandeis University, "'Shake quoth the dovehouse': What Shakespeare Thought About Editing."
• Alice Sheppard, Pennsylvania State University, "Disabling Saints, Rethinking Miracles."
• Timothy Billings, Middlebury College, "Fausse French Enough: Shakespeare's French and the Texts of Henry V."

For a complete conference schedule, with times and locations, visit the Web site: http://www.arts.cornell.edu/english/making-text.html, or contact Marianne Marsh at Cornell's English department, 255-6799, e-mail: mrm4@cornell.edu. For further information about the conference, contact Andy Galloway, Cornell associate professor of English, at 255-2325, e-mail: asg6@cornell.edu; or Scott McMillin, Cornell professor of English, at 255-4740, e-mail: hsm3@cornell.edu.

The Gottschalk Memorial Lecture was established in memory of Cornell Professor Paul Gottschalk, scholar of British Renaissance literature and author of The Meanings of Hamlet (1972). He died in 1977 at the age of 38.