Name: Andy Orchard

Events this person is organising:

Wednesday 20 January 2021

Looking beyond the Lyrical “I”: the Wife’s Lament, Psalm Intertexts and Affective Technologies
Date: 20 January 2021, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Samantha Zacher (Cornell University)
Venue Details: Online: Teams
Organiser: Andy Orchard
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 27 January 2021

Where’s the Point? Beowulf, Analogues, and Örvar-Oddr
Date: 27 January 2021, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Michael Fox (University of Western Ontario)
Venue Details: Online: Teams
Organiser: Andy Orchard
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 3 February 2021

Frithegod and Form
Date: 3 February 2021, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Tristan Major (Qatar University)
Venue Details: Online: Teams
Organiser: Andy Orchard
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 10 February 2021

Deor: A Dark Satanic Scop
Date: 10 February 2021, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Eleni Ponirakis (University of Nottingham)
Venue Details: Online: Teams
Organiser: Andy Orchard
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 17 February 2021

Everything’s Ending Here: Reading The Death of Edward in its Manuscript Context
Date: 17 February 2021, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Francis Leneghan
Venue Details: Online: Teams
Organiser: Andy Orchard
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 24 February 2021

Wolfing it Down: the Motif of the Swallowing Dragon in Early Medieval England and Scandinavia
Date: 24 February 2021, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Claudia Di Sciacca (University of Udine)
Venue Details: Online: Teams
Organiser: Andy Orchard
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 3 March 2021

Fontes Anglo-Saxonici: Source Study in the Twenty-First Century
Date: 3 March 2021, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Christine Rauer (University of St Andrew’s)
Venue Details: Online: Teams
Organiser: Andy Orchard
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 10 March 2021

The Old English Daniel’s Baroque Design
Date: 10 March 2021, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Emily Thornbury (Yale University)
Venue Details: Online: Teams
Organiser: Andy Orchard
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 5 May 2021

‘William Langland’s Apophatic Poetics’
Date: 5 May 2021, 16:30 - 17:30
Speaker : Eric Weiskott (Boston College)
Venue Details: Online: Teams
Organiser: Andy Orchard
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 12 May 2021

‘Quidels and Crotels and “glosing tails”: Attractions and Distractions of Middle English Lexicography’
Date: 12 May 2021, 16:30 - 17:30
Speaker : Paul Schaffner (Editor, The Middle English Dictionary, University of Michigan)
Venue Details: Online: Teams
Organiser: Andy Orchard
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 19 May 2021

‘Error in the Printing House: Sixteenth-Century Scribes, Compositors, and Correctors’
Date: 19 May 2021, 16:30 - 17:30
Speaker : Tamara Atkin (Queen Mary, University of London)
Venue Details: Online: Teams
Organiser: Andy Orchard
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 26 May 2021

‘Old Norse: Trees and Sons; Tears and Time’
Date: 26 May 2021, 16:30 - 17:30
Speaker s: Gareth Evans (University of Oxford), Siân Grønlie (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online: Teams
Organiser: Andy Orchard
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 2 June 2021

‘The Flight of the Spiritual Director from the House of Fame’
Date: 2 June 2021, 16:30 - 17:30
Speaker s: Mishtooni Bose (University of Oxford), Annie Sutherland (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online: Teams
Organiser: Andy Orchard
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 13 October 2021

Hoccleve's Community of Practice: Clerks, Scripts, and London Literature
Date: 13 October 2021, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Professor Sebastian Sobecki (University of Groningen)
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2, Faculty of English, Oxford
Organisers: Daniel Wakelin, Andy Orchard
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 20 October 2021

Richard Methley’s “new Manner of Writing – to the Moment”: Narrative Time and Mystical Theology in Late Fifteenth-Century England
Date: 20 October 2021, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Laura Saetveit Miles (Bergen)
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2, English Faculty
Organisers: Daniel Wakelin, Andy Orchard
Hosts: TBA