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The purpose of the 2009 Müller Colloquium is to generate discussion about artistic collaboration through examples drawn from medieval and sixteenth-century material/literary/musical culture. From the wealth of scholarship on the collaborative enterprise that shaped medieval literary production to recent research on Louise Labé that argues for seeing the poet as a fictional multi-authored construct, the issue of collaborative authorship pervades recent studies of the pre-modern period. As a catch-all term, collaboration covers the relationship between a poet and bookmaker; composer, scribe, and performers; and fellow writers who produce together new works. If we consider collaboration beyond the confines of individuals working together to take into account “collaborative texts,” that is, texts resulting from multiple participants, how might we enhance our definition of collaboration? For instance, is the dual-authored Roman de la rose an example of a collaborative enterprise? What of print editions that incorporate letters and poems of praise for the author by other writers ? Yet another line of inquiry worth pursuing entails questions regarding unwanted collaboration, as when a patron imperiously dictates the contents of a work or a scribe revises the original. We hope that by thinking of collaboration in its most expansive terms, we can begin over the two-day conference to formulate “collaboratively” a working definition that would address questions such as what constitutes collaboration and who are its players? What are the rules of creative cooperation? Is it bound by time constraints? Can collaboration be antagonistic as well as cooperative? What criteria do we use to designate successful versus failed collaboration? How would a theory of collaboration influence present definitions of authorship and elucidate discussions on literary circulation and production?
All lectures will take place in the Auditorium of the Mary and David Harrison Institute for American History, Literature, and Culture / Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia April 17
8:45-9 Opening remarks
9-10:45 Panel: Authority and Its Relinquishment Presider: Lisa Reilly, University of Virginia
10:45-11 Coffee
11-12:30 Adrian Armstrong, University of Manchester Sympoiesis, Rewriting, Materiality: Pre-Modern Cultural Collaboration in Theory and Practice
2:30 - 4:30 Panel: Medium and Method Presider: Corinne Noirot-Maguire, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
4:30 Reception with music by Zephyrus Lower Foyer of the Harrison Institute/Small Special Collections Library
Zephyrus is a non-profit vocal ensemble based in Charlottesville and dedicated to theperformance of music from the medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque eras. Five members of the group will perform a brief program of French chansons from an early published collection of 1535/6, using the tenor partbook recently discovered in the Gordon Collection of the University of Virginia’s Special Collections. Lost to the scholarly community for many years, this partbook is the only known copy, so the performance will include the modern premiere of several pieces.
April 18
10-11:30 Alastair Minnis, Yale University Collaborative commentary: Gloss and Image in Medieval Vernacular Exegesis 1:30-3:30 Panel: Intimate Models of Authorship Presider: Elizabeth Fowler, University of Virginia
3:30-3:45 Coffee
3:45 - 5:00 Concluding roundtable: Amy Ogden, Eric Ramirez-Weaver, Alistair Minnis, Adrian Armstrong, Helen Solterer (Duke University)
5:30 Closing Reception at the University of Virginia Art Museum
Adrian Armstrong specializes in late medieval French poetry, particularly the rhétoriqueurs; the materiality of poetry in manuscript and print; and textual editing. Leah Chang's research interests include book history, female authorship, and politics and sexuality in early modern French culture.
Bruce Holsinger works on literary and musical relations in the Middle Ages. His current project explores the role of liturgy in the shaping of early English writing and literary form. Sarah Kay is co-authoring with Adrian Armstrong Knowing Poetry in France from the Rose to the Rhétoriquers and is also writing a study of quotations from the troubadours.
Alastair Minnis works on medieval scholasticism and its vernacular intersections. His current major project is a book entitled 'Medieval Edens: Sex, Power and Death in Paradise'. Stephen Nichols is Co-PI of the Johns Hopkins Digital Library of Medieval Manuscripts. He is currently completing a book entitled Seeing Voices: on Reading Troubadour Poetry.
After a recent book about the linguistic encoding of subjectivity, Tony Spearing is working on the late-medieval development of writings in and of the first person. Lori Walters is working on a project bearing the provisional title, Books for Once and Future Queens: Christine de Pizan, Jean Gerson, and the Formation of National Identities.
All lectures and receptions are free and open to the public. Location The Harrison Institute is located next to Alderman Library on UVA’s central campus. For directions to and maps of UVA, click here.
Parking Parking is available in the Central Grounds Parking Lot, which is on Emmet Street, just behind the Harrison Institute.
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