Robin Hood Spotlight

Programme of the Third Biennial Robin Hood Conference (2001)

Information Preserved by Allen W. Wright

Key graphic from the 2001 Robin Hood Conference

Introduction

After the 2001 Robin Hood conference at the University of Western Ontario shut down their website, I preserved a copy on my website.

In 2026, I've updated the pages to conform with the mobile-friendly look of the rest of my site.

Please note the information from the Conference Website might not match the true event. And also, the information on the website was incomplete in regards to the chair or room of some paper sessions.

Click here if you want to see Western's original version of this page preserved on the Internet Archive

Click here the main page on the Third Biennial Robin Hood Conference.

Thursday, May 31, 2001

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

3:15-4:46: Papers (In two different rooms)

1. University College 201, Chair: ?

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"

2. University College 212, Chair: ?

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"

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

Friday. June 1, 2001

8:45-9:15: Coffee and Doughnuts

9:15-10:30: Papers (Two different rooms)

1. University College 202, Chair: ?

Thomas H. Ohlgren (Purdue University),
"The Robin Hood Manuscripts"

Tom Sea (UWO),
"Joss Fritz, Superpeasant"

2. University College 201, Chair: ?

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?

10:30-11:00: Coffee

11:00-12:15: Papers (Two different rooms)

1. Chair:?

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"

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

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"

12:30-2:00: Lunch
(A meeting of those interested in Robin Hood and creative writing in room 225A)

2:00-3:30: Papers (Two different rooms)

1. University College 201, Chair: Richard Hillman, English, U.W.O.

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"

2. University College 212, Chair: Joe Zezulka, English, U.W.O.

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"

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

Saturday, June 2, 2001

8:30-9:00: Coffee and doughnuts

9:00-10:30: Papers (Two different rooms)

1. University College 201, Chair: Michael Fox, English, U.W.O.

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 Robin Hood and the Monk and Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne"

2. University College 212, Chair: ?

"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"

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)
[Note from 2026: The most notable and lasting thing to come out of this conference was Bob Frank's version of the Gest. To see it listed as a secondary aspect to lunch really undersells its importance and impact.]

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)

Where to go from here:

THE THIRD BIENNIAL ROBIN HOOD CONFERENCE - the main index page
SPEAKERS AT THE CONFERENCE - An alphabetical list of the conference participants
PHOTO GALLERY - When I first preserved the conference website I added a collection of photos from it
IARHS - THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR ROBIN HOOD STUDIES - An overview of the group who sponsor this and other conferences
A LITTLE GEST OF ROBIN HOOD BY BOB FRANK - A look at the modern adaptation of the Gest first performed at this conference
THE SHERIFF OF NOTTINGHAM: EVIL SUPERVILLAIN OR JUST MISUNDERSTOOD? - The paper I delivered at the conference

If you enjoyed this Spotlight, check out the following:

THE FIRST ROBIN HOOD CONFERENCE (ROCHESTER, 1997) and ROBIN HOOD IN POPULAR CULTURE EDITED BY THOMAS HAHN - A look at the first of the biennial conferences for Robin Hood scholars and the proceedings volume that emerged from it
THE SECOND ROBIN HOOD CONFERENCE (NOTTINGHAM, 1999) - The Conference Programme for this scholarly event which conference caused controversy by a one sentence joke about Robin Hood being gay
THE FOURTH ROBIN HOOD CONFERENCE (YORK, UK 2003) - A look at the events of the second conference to be held in the UK
THE HIDDEN GROVE - A section of my site that I originally created for charity which features my 2001, 2003 and 2005 conference papers along with more in-depth articles on Robin Hood and related topics