Daily Archives: 10 September 2012

Canterbury Tales exhibition

The University of Canterbury and Canterbury Museum have today launched a joint exhibition, Canterbury Tales. This exhibition brings together key books and documents from the University Library’s special collections and carefully selected items from the Museum’s rich and varied holdings.

The Canterbury Tales exhibition includes late medieval and early modern content, and is focused on the reception of these and other items in 19th c. settler society.

A physical exhibition featuring items from Canterbury Tales will run in the James Hight Building (see map) on the University of Canterbury’s Ilam Campus, from 10 September – 2 November 2012.

A virtual exhibition of the items on display is also available online: http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/canterburytales/

As part of the Canterbury Tales exhibition, Dr Chris Jones and Sarah Murray co-curators of the exhibition, will be giving a free public lecture: What if we could find new ways to explore our heritage? For details, and to register your attendance at this lecture, please follow this link.

The Five Senses in Medieval and Early Modern Cultures – Call For Papers

The Five Senses in Medieval and Early Modern Cultures: Literature and Language
University of Bern
7–8 June, 2013

Conference Website

The study of the historical and cultural formation of the senses has attracted increasing scholarly interest in recent years. We invite abstracts for 20-minute papers from medievalists and early modernists (in English literary and cultural studies or in linguistics). Topics may include but are not limited to

  • sensory environments
  • sensory metaphors
  • sensory hierarchies
  • sense impairments
  • gender and the senses

Papers might explore:

  • how sensory experiences are expressed and ordered by language
  • how literature grows out of and evokes sensory experiences
  • how sensations were interpreted in the late medieval and early modern periods
  • how the meanings of sensory terms have changed with time
  • how the knowledge of sense perception was transmitted 

To maximise the interaction among the conference participants, there will be no parallel sessions. The concluding session of the conference will include a panel discussion of the outstanding problems in the fields and the trends for future research.

Confirmed keynote speakers:

  • Professor Vincent Gillespie, University of Oxford 
  • Dr Farah Karim-Cooper, King’s College London 
  • Professor Richard Newhauser, Arizona State University 

Please send an abstract (max. 250 words) and a bio-note by 15 February 2013 to annette.kern-staehler@ens.unibe.ch