memesak conference on once and future romance
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memesak conference on once and future romance


This year's International Conference of the Medieval and Early Modern English Studies Association of Korea (MEMESAK) took place on October 23, 2010, at Ewha Womans University in Seoul, South Korea. The topic of the conference was "The Once and Future Romance: The Transformation of Romance Tradition in the Middle Ages and Beyond." Please find full program information below:
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? Opening Remarks: Duck-Ae Chung (President of MEMESAK, Ewha Womans Univ.) 

MORNING SESSION
10:30-12:00 
Presider: Nicholas Koss (Professor of Peking Univ. and Fu Jen Catholic Univ.; President
of the Taiwan Association of Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies)
Presenters
? Wen Ting Ting (Providence Univ., Taichung, Taiwan) 
?Imprisoned Heroes, (Un)Fulfilled Wishes?
? Dongill Lee (Professor, Hankuk Univ. of Foreign Studies)
"Implication of Weapon (Sword) in Heroic Poetry"
Commenters: Hyonjin Kim (Seoul National Univ.), Minwoo Yoon (Yonsei Univ.) 

PLENARY SESSION
13:30- 14:30
Presider: Julie Choi (Ewha Womans Univ.)
? Speaker: Richard Utz (Professor & Chair, Dept. of English, Western Michigan Univ.,: "Medievalism and Medieval Romances"

AFTERNOON SESSION I
14:40-16:00 
Presider: Sonjae Ahn (Brother Anthony of Taize; Professor Emeritus, Sogang Univ.)
Presenters
? Emma Lee (Dayeh Univ., Changhua, Taiwan)
?'The token for chivalrous/ Men to know adventure': Chivalry as a Conflicting
Concept in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight?
? Juok Yoon (Yonsei Univ.)
"Maternal Agency: Mother, Daughter, and Marriage in Sir Degrevant"
Commenters: Gwanghyun Shynne (Seoul National Univ.), Jisoo Kang (Inha Univ.)

AFTERNOON SESSION II
16:20-17:40 
Presider: Jongsook Lee (Seoul National Univ.)
Presenters 
? Kyungjin Bae (Inha Univ.)
"Transformation of Courtly Love in Astrophil and Stella"
? Chung-in Im (Seoul National Univ.)
"The Appropriation of Chivalric Romance in The Island Princess"
Commenters: Michael Foster (Korea Univ.), Tai-won Kim (Sogang Univ.)




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