Thursday 29 September

[Morning: Pre-symposium event: trip to Winterthur. Transportation, for those already signed up for this event, will leave hotel at 8.30 am., returning by 1.30 pm.]

 Transportation to campus (hotel shuttle and cars) will leave hotel starting at 2pm, with a number of cars going between 2.15 and 2.30 pm.

BAYARD SHARP HALL (DELAWARE AVENUE AND AMSTEL AVENUE)
2-3 pm: Registration
3 pm: Welcomes and 1st paper session: Images of Robin Hood
Chair: Lois Potter
John Marshall, University of Bristol: 'Where did you get that hat?': Depicting Robin
Hood in Early Performance
Thomas Hahn, University of Rochester: Picturing Our Hero: Robin Hood in the 18th and 19th centuries

BLUE AND GOLD CLUB: PRESIDENT'S ROOM, 2ND FLOOR
5.30 pm: Opening Reception, sponsored by the Dean of Arts and Sciences.

LOUDIS CONCERT HALL, UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC (MITCHELL HALL, NORTH GREEN--new location)
8.00 pm The Douglas Fairbanks silent film of Robin Hood (1922), with accompaniment of medieval and Tudor music, performed live by the Early Music Group, Hesperus.

Friday 30 September

MORNING SESSIONS IN CLASS OF 1941 LECTURE ROOM, MORRIS LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE LIBRARY
8.15 am: shuttle and cars to campus from hotel. Coffee will be available in the Library Commons from 8.30.
9 am 2nd paper session: Douglas Fairbanks
Chair: Thomas Leitch, U. of Delaware
John Tibbetts, U. of Kansas, and James Welsh, Salisbury U.: A Dance of Free Men in a Forest: The Douglas Fairbanks Robin Hood Romp
10 am refreshment break and time to view book exhibition

10.30 am 3rd paper session: Howard Pyle and Other Illustrators.
Chair: Alan Gaylord, Dartmouth College; Respondant: Marcus Smith, Loyola University
Jill May, Purdue University: Robin Hood in Visual Representations for American
Readers: Howard Pyle, Louis John Rhead and N. C. Wyeth
Alan Gaylord, Dartmouth College: "'There was something about him that spoke of other things than rags and tatters": Howard Pyle and the language of Robin Hood."
Henry Griffy, Ohio State U.: The Work of Robin Hood Art in an Age of Mechanical Reproduction: a Case Study

12 noon Lunch break. Visit to N. C. Wyeth painting of Robin Hood and Little John, in Hullihen Hall (5 minutes' walk).

AFTERNOON SESSIONS WILL TAKE PLACE IN UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC (AMY E. DUPONT BLDG)

1.30-2.45 pm: 4h and 5th paper sessions
4th paper session: Myth and Language (in Lecture Room)
Chair: TBA
Helen Phillips, University of Wales at Cardiff: "Merry" and "Greenwood": a Brief History
Lisa Lettau, University of Delaware: An Honest Thief: Robin Hood as Medieval Messiah Figure
Stuart Kane, Stonehill College: "The Outlaw's Song of Trailbaston" and the Deleuzian Machine of Faciality

OR

5th paper session: Maid Marian and Transgression (in Choral Room) Chair: Frances Shirley (Wheaton College)
Mikee Delony, University of Houston: Performing Gender in Thomas Love Peacock's Maid Marian
Allison Thibert-Bragg, University of Delaware: "Chiefe Lady of the Game": The Tradition of Maid Marian as Huntress in the Early Modern Period
Sherron Lux, Southeastern Medieval Association: Maid Marian, Illustrated

2.45-3.15pm: refreshment break

3.15-4.30 pm: 6th paper session: Robin Hood in Music and Drama (Lecture Room)
Chair: Russell Murray, University of Delaware Music Dept.
Laura Blunk, Cuyahoga Community College: Twisting the Lion's Tail in Transcendental New England: George Edward Rice's Blondel: A Historic Fancy
Stephen D. Winick, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress: Reynardine and Robin Hood: Echoes of an Outlaw legend
Tina Chancey, Hesperus Early Music Group: Henry VIII and Robin Hood: Shepherd, Yeoman and Musical Myths

4.30-4.40 pm: very short break

4.40-5.55 pm: 7th paper session: Reginald de Koven (in Lecture Room)
Chair: Linda Troost, Washington and Jefferson College
Orly Krasner, City College, CUNY: To Steal From the Rich and Give to the Poor: Reginald de Koven, Robin Hood, and the Development of American Comic Opera.
Lorraine Stock, University of Houston: Reconstructing the Text and Performance History of De Koven's 'Lost' Operetta Maid Marian

6pm Shuttle to hotel for those who want it; otherwise, walk or get lift to Ali Baba

6.30 pm dinner at Ali Baba, 175 East Main Street.

EVENING EVENTS TAKE PLACE IN THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT BUILDING, MEMORIAL HALL, WHICH IS ABOUT A 15-MINUTE WALK  FROM ALI BABA. TRANSPORTATION WILL BE PROVIDED FOR THOSE WHO WANT IT.

8.15 pm Room 127 Memorial Hall: Howard Pyle Robin Hood tales, by Michael Boudewyns of First State Children's Theatre. Transportation to hotel will be available after this event. For those still eager for more, we offer:

9.00 - midnight (in Memorial Hall): Screenings of Robin Hood videos OR (if there is enough interest) a playreading of a shortened version of Anthony Munday's The Downfall of Robert Earl of Huntington.
Transportation to hotel will be available at the end of the evening.

Saturday 1 October (ALL SESSIONS WILL TAKE PLACE IN MEMORIAL HALL)

8.15 Bus to Memorial Hall from hotel (because of a College Admissions event this day, delegates are strongly urged not to bring their cars to campus).

9 am - 10.30: 8th and 9th paper sessions
8th paper session: Medieval Contexts
Chair: TBA
Jim Dean, University of Delaware: Friar Tuck's Barbed Eloquence
Alex Kaufman, Purdue University: The Potter and the Charcoal Disguise in the Medieval Outlaw Tradition
Kimberly Thompson, Ohio State U.: Robin Hood and Economic Tricksterism in Late Medieval England
Macklin Cowart, Georgia State U.: Identity Representation and Repression in A Gest of Robin Hode

OR
9th paper session: Sexual Outlawry
Chair: TBA
Judy McInnis, U. of Delaware: Don Juan as Outlaw Figure
Melissa Thompson, Royal Holloway College, U. of London: The Cultural and Ideological Legacy of the Heroic Outlaw Tradition in Victorian Representations of Dick Turpin the Highwayman.
Candace Gregory, California State, Sacramento: Queer Eye For Sherwood Forest: Sexual Ambiguity and the Male Gender in the Cinematic Robin Hood

10.30 am refreshment break

11 am: Keynote lecture. Stephen Knight, University of Wales at Cardiff: Robin and Arthur: a Dialectical Comparison
Chair: Jim Dean, U. of Delaware

12 pm: lunch on your own

1.30 - 2.45 pm 10th and 11th paper sessions

10th paper session: Post-medieval Robin Hood
Chair: Sayre Greenfield, U. of Pittsburgh at Greensburg
Michael Wheare, Queen Mary College, University of London: 'From the Castle hill they came with violence': attempts at the suppression of Robin Hood games in the Scottish reformation.
Christine Maffucio, U. of Maryland: "Against all proportion of subjection": Henry V and the Elizabethan Robin Hood
Marcus Smith, Loyola University, New Orleans: Buying Land From The Devil: Robin Hood in the 17th Century American Colonies
Kevin Burke, U. of Delaware: Saint Robin: The Outlaw as Spiritual Seeker in Munday and Noyes

OR

11th paper session: Robin Hood in Young People's Literature
Chair: TBA
Patricia Yongue, University of Houston: The Play's the Thing: Tom Sawyer Re-enacts Robin Hood
Michael Evans, University of Reading: 'A Song of Freedom': Geoffrey Trease's Bows against the Barons
Allen Wright, Mohawk College: Robin Hood Comic Books From the 1970s to the Present

2.45 pm Short break

3 - 4.15 pm: 12th and 13th paper sessions

12th paper session: International Robin Hood Figures
Chair: TBA
Jianguo Chen, U. of Delaware: Between Ethics: Romantic Bandits and Gentleman Outlaws: A Study of the Images of Banditry in Root-Searching Literature
Yoshiko Ueno, Tokyo Metropolitan University: Male Cross-Dressing in Kabuki: Benten the Thief
Kevin J. Harty, La Salle University: Robin Hood: Cinema's Empty Signifier

OR

13th paper session: Other Medieval Outlaws
Chair: Thomas Ohlgren, Purdue University
Mica Gould, Purdue University: Subjectivity and Cultural Rebellion in Two Welsh Outlaw Tales
Dean A. Hoffman, U. of North Carolina at Charlotte: The Medieval Outlaw Tale and Picaresque Myth: An Introduction
Tim Jones, Augustana College: Neglected Medieval Outlaws and Why They Matter

4.30 pm: A reading of Daniel Hoffman's poem, A Little Geste, first published 1960. Readers: Daniel Hoffman, Michael Boudewyns, ?Sara Valentine,

5.30 pm: Bus back to hotel (other transport available by car later if necessary).

6.45 pm: Bus etc. from hotel to Gore Hall.

EVENING EVENTS IN GORE HALL
7 pm: Drinks, followed by
7.30 pm: Medieval Banquet. Music provided by members of the University of Delaware Music Department (and by symposium participants?).

Sunday 2 October

9 am: transportation leaves for Brandywine River Museum and Longwood Gardens (optional trips).