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Friday 3rd April 2009

9am—10am: Registration

10am—11am: Session One: Games of Love
Anne Baden-Daintree (University of Bristol): Fortune's Games: Loss and Recovery in Fortunes Stabilnes
Lewis Beer (University of Warwick): The Love Poet as Gambler: Boethian Ethics in Machaut's Remede de Fortune

11am—12.30am: Session Two: Playing with the Margins
Tom Birkett (St Cross College Oxford): Fooling Around with Runes—Scribal Antics or Runic Edification in the Exeter Book?
Sabina Zonno (Università degli Studi di Padova): Chance or Skill? Games in Medieval European Illuminations
Virginia Langum (Magdalen College Cambridge): The Lyric as Diversion: Reading Secular Poetry in Two Late Medieval Student Notebooks

12.30pm—2.00pm: Lunch

2.00pm—3.00pm: Dr Tom Betteridge (Oxford Brookes University): John Heywood's Pley of the Wether

3.00pm—3.30pm: Coffee

3.30pm-4.30pm: Session Three: Playing with Power
Erin Goeres (Lincoln College Oxford) - Battle Play and Battle Pleasure: Female Agency in Early Norse Words for War
Rob Avis (St John's College Oxford): Power Games: Confronting the Colonial in Einars þáttr Skúlasonar

4.30pm-5.00pm: Medium Ævum Annual General Meeting

5.00pm-6.00pm: Medium Ævum Annual Lecture
Dr Alixe Bovey (University of Kent)
Ludic Margins: the Gravity of Play in Gothic Manuscripts

6.30pm—7.00pm: Wine Reception, followed by Dinner in Corpus Christi College.

Saturday 4th April 2009

9.00am—9.45am: Prof. Nicholas Orme (University of Exeter)
Medieval Play: Problems and Possibilities

10am—11am: Session Four: Playing with Words

Sarah Wood (University College London): 'Playing with Patience': Word Games and the Text of Piers Plowman
Alexander Vaughan Ames (Georgia Institute of Technology): "He could mouchil of game:" Linguistic Playfulness throughout The Tale of Gamelyn

11.00am-11.30am: Coffee

11.30am—12.30pm: Session Five: Knowing Games
Julie Orlemanski (Harvard University) The Play of Healing and Violence: Satirizing Medical Expertise in Henryson's Sum Practysis and The Croxton Play of the Sacrament
David Baker (University of Durham): Logicians at Play: Fourteenth Century Sophismata and Literature

12.30pm—2.00pm: Lunch

2.00pm—3.30pm: Session Six: Playing with the Church

Juliana Dresvina (St Edmund's College Cambridge/King's College London): Laughter and Game in the Context of Late Middle-English Religious Writings
Yoshihiro Wajimoto (Kitasato University, Japan): The Rules of the Game: The 'Play' Elements in Mankind
Vicki Blud (King's College London): 'Now heaven and earth is made through me...': The Performance of the Unspeakable in Medieval Mystery Plays

3.30pm—4.00pm: Coffee

4.00pm—5.00pm: Session Seven: Playing in the (Other)World
Meic Hughes: The Meaning and Significance of the Game 'gwyddbwyll' in Medieval Welsh Prose Tales
Patrick O'Brien (NUI, Dublin) - "Parod"-ize Lost: The Problem of Forbidden Fruit in a Folk Paradise, The Land of Cokaygne

5.15pm-6.00pm: Closing Paper, Prof. Eric Stanley (Pembroke College Oxford) followed by closing remarks.