New Chaucer Society 2022 Congress: Wrap Up

by Candace Barrington

Vindolanda: destination for one of three NCS excursions and excellent reminder of the many peoples involved in the Roman colonial project.

The 2022 NCS Congress featured an inspiring number of sessions with a global or multi-cultural perspective. And a good number of presenters were from non-Anglophone backgrounds, though many were unable to attend in person because of visa, funding, and pandemic restrictions.

Because there’s still a chance for you to view the Congress sessions and uploaded presentations–here’s a quick list of the papers/sessions dealing with Chaucer’s reception, global and otherwise, that I attended.

Papers

  • Jacqueline Burek, “Translating Troilus: The Welsh Troelus a Chresyd“
  • Louise D’Arcens, “The Kangaroo Kelmscott: Chaucer’s Sydney Afterlife and Australian Deep Time”
  • Aistė Kiltinavičiūtė, “Reimagining the Dream Poet: Edward Burne-Jones’s Dantean Chaucer”
  • Usha Vishnuvajjala, “Feminist Medievalisms and Chaucer in Jane Austen Fanfiction”
  • Wajid Ayed, “Chaucer in Tunisia: 50 years”
  • Raúl Ariza-Barile “From Southwark to the Citee of Mexico: Producing the First Ever Mexican Translation of The Canterbury Tales”
  • Lian Zhang, “Translation as Remembering: Canterbury Tales in Chinese”
  • Yoshiyuki Nakao, “How to Translate Chaucer’s Multiple Subjectivities into Japanese: Ambiguities in His Speech Representation”
  • Amy Goodwin, “Chaucer in the New York Times”

  • Jonathan Hsy, “Racial Displacements: Chaucerian Poets of Color and Critical Refugee Studies”
  • Jamie Taylor, “Indigenous Studies and a Global Middle Ages”
  • Candace Barrington, “Comparative Translation: Possibilities and Limitations”
  • Jonathan Fruoco, “Is there an Embargo on Chaucer in France?”
  • Marion Turner, “The Wife of Bath’s European Lives”

Plenary Sessions

  • “Where Medieval Studies Joins Up,” a plenary conversation chaired by Jonathan Hsy featuring
    • Anthony Vahni Capildeo
    • Wallace Cleaves
    • Ananya Jahanara Kabir
  • The Refugee Tales, with Patience Agbabi
  • The Polyglot Miller’s Tale Reading

If you were a registered participant at the Congress, you can view the sessions and individual papers.

  • Go to ncs2020.net
  • Click on Attendee Hub and log in just as you did during the Congress
  • Select “All Sessions” on Schedule pull-down menu (upper)
  • Search for the speaker’s name, then follow the links to replay either the session or watch the uploaded presentation.

These links will remain available until mid-October.

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