11:00-1:30

Registration 

University College 225 
(Top of main central staircase)

11:30 - 12:30

Business Meeting 

University College 225A

1:30

Welcome by the Dean of Arts

University College 224 (Conron Hall)

1:45 - 2:45

Plenary Speaker: Douglas Gray (Oxford University)
"Everybody's Robin Hood"

Presenter: Jane Toswell, English, U.W.O.

Conron Hall

2:45 - 3:15

Tea

3:15 - 4:45

Francis Gingras (UWO)
"Le prenom Robin et sa fortune en France aux XIIe et XIIIe siècles" (in English)
Laurence de Looze (UWO) 
"The Outlaw Poet, the Poet Outlaw: The Case of Gisla Saga"
Richard Green (UWO), 
"The Hermit and the Outlaw: New Evidence for Robin Hood's Death" 

Chair:

Universitiy College 201

Stephen Knight (Cardiff University),
"The Sadness of the Shepherd: Ben Jonson and Robin Hood"
Mica Gold (Purdue University), 
"Social Protest and Narrative Technique in Pritchard's Twm Shon Catty"
Tom Hahn (University of Rochester),
"Get a Life: Fiction, History and Robin Hood"

Chair

University College 212

5:00 - 7:30

Opening of Exhibit in Library, followed by reception in Quotes Cafe

9:00 - 10:30

Film: Douglas Fairbanks in Robin Hood (1922)

Conron Hall

8:45-9:15

Coffee and doughnuts

9:15-10:30 

Thomas H. Ohlgren (Purdue University), 
"The Robin Hood Manuscripts" 
Tom Sea (UWO), 
"Joss Fritz, Superpeasant" 

Chair:

University College 202

Marcus Smith (Loyola University, New Orleans),
"Robin Hood and the New World Order" 
Allen Wright (Toronto), 
"The Sherriff of Nottingham: Evil Supervillain or Just Misunderstood?

Chair:

University College 201

10:30-11:00

Coffee

11:00-12:15

John Marshall (Bristol University) and Sally-Beth MacLean (University of Toronto), 
"A proper place for a pleasant pastime: Copland's Robin Hood plays"
Michael A. Cramer (City University of New York Graduate Center), 
"Reconstructing Robin Hood: An Experiment in Transgressive Mayhem"

Chair:

Marcus Smith and Julian Wasserman (Loyola University, New Orleans),
"Rally Round the Pole Boys: Thomas Morton, the Puritans and the 
Image of Robin Hood in America"
Michael Collins (University of Singapore), 
"Ayn Rand's Merry Men" 

Chair:Bryce Traister, English, U.W.O.

12:30 - 2:00

Lunch 
(A meeting of those interested in Robin Hood and creative writing in room 225A)

2:00-3:30 
 

Linda Hutjens (University of Toronto), 
"The Trail-Staff Shoemakers of Bradford in George à Greene, 
the Pinner of Wakefield (play, c. 1590)"
Sara Morrison (UWO) 
"Oliver Cromwell, a Mid-Seventeenth-Century Robin Hood? Cromwell, 
the Royal Forests, and Sherwood."
Deanne Williams (York University), 
"An Outlaw among Inlaws: Shakespeare's King John"

Chair: Richard Hillman, English, U.W.O.

University College 201

David Bentley (UWO), 
"Willie Longstaff: Bliss Carmen's Self-Construction as Merry Man"
David Lampe (Buffalo State College),
"My Hood or Yours: Robin Hood in American and Canadian Narratives"
Helen Phillips (University of Liverpool), 
"Robin and the Serfs: Henry Gilbert's Robin Hood"

Chair: Joe Zezulka, English, U.W.O.

University College 212

3:30-4:00

Tea

4:00-5:00

Plenary Speaker:
Stephanie Barczewski (Clemson University), 
"Images of Robin Hood in Nineteenth-Century Britain"

Presenter: Neville Thompson, History, U.W.O.

Conron Hall

6:30 

Banquet 

3320 Sommerville House

9:00

Performance of Robin Hood and the Friar by the PLS of Toronto and Robin Hood ballads 

Graduate Student Club
19F Middlesex College

8:30-9:00

Coffee and doughnuts

9:00-10:30 

Paula Stemp (UWO) 
"Wayland the Smith: Outcast and Avenger"
Alexander Kaufman (Purdue University), 
"Histories of Contexts: Argument and Ideology in a Gest of Robin Hood"
Chris Chism (Rutgers University), 
"Bringing out the Beast in Me: Masters and Servants in RobinHood and the Monk
and Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne"

Chair:Michael Fox, English, U.W.O.

University College 201

"Sherron Lux (University of Houston, Texas), 
"Picturing Marion: The Maid Marion Illustrations in Juvenile Fiction"
Jonathan Stover (UWO), 
"The Archer Explodes: Green Arrow, Social(ist) Justice, and the Reinvention of 
the Playboy Comic Book Adventurer,1970-1986"
Laura Blunk (Cuyahgoga Community College), 
"Spreading the Tales: North American Fan Fiction and the Transmission of 
Robin Hood Materials through Popular Culture in the Late Twentieth Century"

Chair: 

University College 212

11:00-1:00:
Concurrent
Workshops

1) Robin Hood in Canada (Allen Wright)

University College 201

2) Robin Hood Ballads in Performance (Linda Troost)

University College 224A

3) Robin Hood and Chaucer (Alan Gaylord & Lorraine Stock)

University College 225A

1:00-2:30

Lunch
(Bob Frank will give a performance of the first fit of the Geste in Room 224)

2:30-3:30

Plenary Speaker: Kevin Harty (La Salle University), 
"Unreal 'reel' Robin Hoods"

Presenter: Seth Feldman,Canadian Studies, York University

Conron Hall

4:30
 
 

Trip to The Stratford Festival, (meet at south end of University College)