Seventh International Piers Plowman Society Conference (Miami, April 4-7, 2019).

• Applicants are invited to submit paper abstracts either to the General Call or to an Individual Session.
• Each applicant may submit one abstract.
• All abstracts should be sent to the conference general mailbox [email protected] rather than to session organizers. If you are sending your abstract to an Individual Session, please put the name of the session in the subject line of the email.
• Abstracts should be no longer than 300 words and should include the name and email address of the applicant.
• Questions about particular sessions should be directed to the organizers. If you have more general questions or concerns about the program, please feel free to contact Professor Emily Steiner at [email protected].

List of Individual Sessions (for complete descriptions see http://www.piersplowman.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/IPPS-2019-CFP-2.pdf)

1. Romance in the Age of Langland Organizer: William Biel, University of Connecticut ([email protected])

2. Langland’s Library Organizers: Liam Cruz Kelly, Boston University ([email protected]) and Ann E. Killian, Yale University ([email protected])

3. Copying Piers Plowman in Late Medieval England: In Memory of A. I. Doyle Organizers: Simon Horobin, Magdalen College, Oxford ([email protected]), and Michael Johnston, Purdue University ([email protected])

4. Langland among Lawyers Organizer: Arvind Thomas, UCLA ([email protected])

5. Editing Scribal Texts Organizers: Ian Cornelius, Loyola University ([email protected]), and Jim Knowles, North Carolina State University ([email protected]) 

6. Thinking with Drama and Performance Organizers: Rebecca Davis, UC-Irvine ([email protected]) and Ellen K. Rentz, Claremont McKenna College ([email protected])

7. Medicine and the Body in Piers Plowman: A Roundtable Organizer, Laura Godfrey, University of Connecticut ([email protected])

8. Micro/Macro Langland or Questions of Scale: A Roundtable Organizer: Katharine Jager, University of Houston-Downtown ([email protected])

9. Theology I: Langland’s Theology and the Visual Arts Organizers: Thomas Goodmann, University of Miami ([email protected]) , and Elizabeth Robertson, University of Glasgow ([email protected])

10. Theology II: The Language of Theology in Piers Plowman Organizers: Thomas Goodmann, University of Miami ([email protected]), and Elizabeth Robertson, University of Glasgow ([email protected])

11. A Visio of a Better World: Piers Plowman and Activism Organizers: Micah Goodrich, University of Connecticut ([email protected]); Mariah Min, University of Pennsylvania ([email protected]); and Seth Strickland, Cornell University ([email protected])

12. Queer Langland Organizers: Micah Goodrich, University of Connecticut ([email protected]), and WanChuan Kao, Washington and Lee University ([email protected])

13. Langland’s Manual Labor: Piers Plowman and the Forms of Pastoral Care Organizer: Denise Baker, University of North Carolina at Greensboro ([email protected])

14. Langland and the Fifteenth Century Session Organizer: Elizaveta Strakhov, Marquette University ([email protected])

15. Post-Humanist Langland Organizers: Wan-Chuan Kao, Washington and Lee University ([email protected]), and Adin Lears, SUNY-Oswego ([email protected])

16. Disability in the Age of Piers Plowman Organizer: Rick Godden, Louisiana State University ([email protected])

17. New Directions in Middle English Alliterative Poetics Organizer: Mike Rodman Jones, University of Nottingham ([email protected])

18. Voice Organizers: Katharine Breen, Northwestern University ([email protected]); Tekla Bude, Oregan State University ([email protected]); and Adin Lears, SUNY-Oswego ([email protected])

19. Crowdsourcing Crowley Organizer: Lawrence Warner, King’s College London ([email protected])