Thursday, February 7th
Humanities Forum

MASTER-CLASS AND FACSIMILE SINGING WITH THE CLERKS' GROUP
6:30-9:00 p.m.
Amado Hall, Irvine Auditorium, 3401 Spruce Street
[ followed by pizza and drinks ]

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Friday, February 8th
Humanities Forum

COFFEE AND REGISTRATION
9:00 a.m.

INTRODUCTIONS AND WELCOME
9:30-10:00 a.m.
E. Ann Matter, Associate Dean of Arts and Letters (University of Pennsylvania)
Emma Dillon (University of Pennsylvania)

VOCABULARIES; THE LOOK OF SONG
10:00 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
David Wallace (University of Pennsylvania), chair

Emma Dillon and Kevin Brownlee (University of Pennsylvania), ‘Introducing
Medieval Song’

[ coffee break 11:00-11:15 a.m. ]

Elizabeth Poe, (University of Tulane): ‘Segon lo vers del novel chan: the New
Song of the Troubadours’
Agathe Sultan, (Université de Bordeaux): 'Notas ubi non sunt: Reflections on Colored Songs'

LUNCH
12:45-2:30 p.m.

SONG WITHIN SONG
2:30-5:00 p.m.
Michael Solomon (University of Pennsylvania), chair

Suzie Clark (University of Oxford), ‘Overhearing Shepherdesses Sing: Song and
Seduction in the Medieval pastourelle’
Yolanda Plumley, (University of Exeter), ‘Whose Voice is it Anyway?: Songs
within Songs in the Age of Machaut’

[ coffee break 4:00-4:15 p.m. ]

Anne Stone (CUNY), ‘The Story in the Song: Poetic Voice and Reading
Practice in Late Medieval Lyric’

RECEPTION AND MANUSCRIPT VIEWING
Van Pelt Library, Rosenwald Gallery
5:15-7:00 p.m.

CLERKS' GROUP CONCERT
7:30 p.m.
Bodek Lounge, Houston Hall
directed Edward Wickham
Singing from the Source: Poetry, Image, and Music from the Roman de Fauvel
(This event is co-sponsored by the Penn Humanities Forum as part of the 2007-08
lecture series ‘Origins’; with additional support from the University of
Pennsylvania Library, and Lawrence Schoenberg)

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Saturday, February 9th
Humanities Forum

COFFEE
9:30-10:00 a.m.

VOCABULARIES (2)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Emily Steiner (University of Pennsylvania), chair

Jennifer Saltzstein (University of Oklahoma) and Jonathan Hsy (George Washington University), ‘Sound and the Written Song in Machaut’s Voir Dit, The Written Song and Sound in Chaucer’s Troylus and Criseyde: A Collaborative Approach to Medieval Song’

[ coffee break 11:00-11:15 a.m. ]

KEYNOTE LECTURE
11:15 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
Gary Tomlinson (University of Pennsylvania), chair

Bruce Holsinger (University of Virginia), ‘The Trope of Song: On Liturgy and Beauty’

LUNCH
12:45-2:15 p.m.

PERFORMANCE:
SONG AND SELF, SONG AND COMMUNITY
2:15-5:45 p.m.
Emma Dillon (University of Pennsylvania), chair

Carol Symes (University of Illinois), ‘Singing Society: Modes of Collective
Composition and Association in Thirteenth-Century Arras’,
Judith Peraino (Cornell University), ‘The (Re)turn of the tornada’

[ coffee break 3:45-4:00pm ]

Deborah McGrady (University of Virginia), 'Sounding the Siren: Toute-Belle’s Voice and the Performance of Masculinity in Machaut’s Voir dit'
Elizabeth Randell Upton (UCLA), 'Theorizing Musical Repetition in the Medieval Lyric'

[ break 5:45-6:00 p.m. ]

RESPONSE AND CLOSING REMARKS
6:00-7:00 p.m.
Robert Maxwell (University of Pennsylvania), chair

Conference respondent: Ardis Butterfield (University College, London)

DINNER FOR REMAINING DELEGATES
8:00 p.m