Program

8.30: Coffee, light breakfast, registration, etc.

9.00-9.15: Coffee and Introductions

9.15-10.45: Panel One: The Arragel Bible Project and Spanish Bible Translation Studies
Chair: David Stern (University of Pennsylvania)

Gemma Avenoza (Universitat de Barcelona)

Andrés Enrique-Arias (Universitat de les Illes Balears)

Luis M. Girón Negrón (Harvard)

Francisco Javier Pueyo-Mena (Centro Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid)

Ángel Sáenz-Badillos (Complutense University, Madrid and Outgoing Director of Real Colegio Complutense, Harvard)

10.45-11.15: Coffee/Tea and Fresh Air

11.15-1:00: Panel Two: The History and Current State of British Bible Translation Studies
Chair: Luis Girón-Negrón (Harvard)

Nicholas Watson (Harvard), "The Wycliffite Bible as the 'Earliest English Bible: An Immoveable Paradigm?"

Robert Stanton (Boston College), "Authority and Anxiety in Old English Biblical Translation"

Catherine McKenna (Harvard), "The Medieval Welsh Bible: From the Office of the Virgin Mary to William Morgan's Bible"

Jocelyn Wogan-Browne (Fordham), Thelma Fenster (Fordham), and Delbert Russell (University of Waterloo), "Bible Translations in the French of England"

1:00-2.30: Lunch (recommendations to local restaurants to be provided)

2.30-4.00: Panel Three: What Is Vernacular Bible Translation?
Chair: Michelle De Groot (Harvard)

Ralph Hanna (Radcliffe Fellow), "Preaching the Medieval Bible"

Cristina Maria Cervone (Radcliffe Fellow), "Lyric Subjectivity and Form: 'In a valley of this restless mind'"

Ryan McDermott (University of Pittsburgh), "Miroir/Oeuvre: Arnoul Gréban's Mystère de la Passion as Performed Bible?"

Aden Kumler (University of Chicago), "Painting the Sacred Page: Scripture Beyond the Letter"

4.00-4.30: Coffee/Tea and Fresh Air

4.30-6.00: Panel Four: The Audiences and Social Contexts of Vernacular Bibles
Chair: Nicholas Watson (Harvard)

Geoff Rector (University of Ottowa), "Style and Audience in Anglo-Norman Psalters (1100-1300)

Ryan Szpiech (University of Michigan), "Polemical Romance: Abner of Burgos and Romance Bibles"

Claire M. Waters (University of Virginia), "A Gospel for Learners: Transmitting the Word in Robert of Gretham's Évangiles des domnées"

James Simpson (Harvard), "Sixteenth-Century English Vernacular Bible Reading Culture: Novelty and Persecution"

7.00: Dinner