Following the Chaucer: Here and Now exhibition (2023-2024) at the Bodleian Library, this conference - sponsored by the Modernités Médiévales association and the New Chaucer Society - aims to continue the reflection on the medievalist dimension of Geoffrey Chaucer's work and its persistent influence in contemporary culture.

Presentation

Far from being confined to his era, Geoffrey Chaucer's work continues to resonate through the ages, inspiring a multitude of post-medieval representations. The poet himself remains a regularly invoked figure, sometimes even without direct connection to his texts, suggesting an autonomous legacy of Chaucer both as a man and an artist. Whether through the prism of cinema, music, theater, television, poetry, or other artistic forms, the poet remains an endless source of inspiration and reinterpretation. This conference invites us to question how adaptations and reinterpretations of Chaucer and/or his work by artists from diverse cultural backgrounds enrich our understanding of his legacy. His various incarnations over the centuries raise fascinating issues regarding intercultural dialogue, the politics of memory, and the evolution of popular culture.

Programme

Thursday 13th, November 2025 

• 9h Welcome | Accueil
• 10:00 Welcome and introduction | Mot d’accueil et introduction scientifique Justine Breton et Jonathan Fruoco, au nom du comité scientifique et Presentation by New Chaucer Society President | Mot de la présidente de la New Chaucer Society Candace Barrington (Central Connecticut State University)

• 10h15 Keynote conference – The Idea of Fiction: Medieval and Modern Marion Turner (J.R.R. Tolkien Professor of English, Oxford)

Session 1 – Geoffrey Chaucer All Around the World

Moderation: Jonathan Fruoco

• 11:30 Changing the Ever-Changing: Translating Chaucer Candace Barrington
• 12:00 Chaucer, Godofredo Chaucer, héros espagnol ! Camille-Apollonia Narducci (Université d’Aix-Marseille)

12:30 Lunch | Déjeuner pour les intervenants

Session 2 – Reading Chaucer in the 19th and 20 th Centuries

Moderation: Aude Martin

• 14:30 The Tenderness of Youth: Reading the “Prioress’s Tale” in Nineteenth-Century England Daniel Najork (San Diego State University)
• 15:00 Deux performances médiévalistes : J.R.R. Tolkien et Pier Paolo Pasolini, ou comment trouver Chaucer à son pied Hugo Lacoue-Labarthe (Université de Paris 3 – Sorbonne Nouvelle)

15:30 Pause | Coffee break

Session 3 – Chaucer on the Big Screen

Moderation: Justine Breton

• 15:45 A Poet Errant Danko Kamčevski (Metropolitan University in Belgrade)
• 16:15 Geoffrey Chaucer and Spike Lee: The Pardoner’s Tale and Da 5 Bloods Larry Scanlon (Rutgers University)

16:45 Pause | Coffee break

• 17:00 Screening of A Knight’s Tale (2001) Projection commentée du film Chevalier (2001) en VO Justine Breton (Université de Lorraine)

20:30 Dinner / Dîner pour les intervenants

Friday 14th, November 2025 | Vendredi 14 novembre 2025

• 10:00 Welcome | Accueil
• 10:15 Chaucer’s Shadow, Gower’s Voice: A Video Interview with Bruce Holsinger Bruce W. Holsinger (University of Virginia) Jonathan Fruoco (Université Paris Nanterre)

Session 4 – What Remains of Chaucer Today?

Moderation: Candace Barrington

• 11:00 Here, There, and Everywhere: Chaucer’s Afterlife in Paul McCartney’s Work. Jonathan Fruoco
• 11:30 Workshop | Atelier Buying Chaucer: Medieval Literature as Another Product Justine Breton

12:00 Lunch | Déjeuner pour les intervenants

Session 5 – Reading Chaucer with Gender Studies

Moderation: Fabien Bièvre-Perrin

• 14:00 ‘The dirtiest story I know’: Chaucerian Obscenity, Chrononormativity, and The Big Bang Theory Lucy Fleming (Université de Bern)
• 14:30 Chappell Roan, The Wife of Bath, and the Politics of Cunt Christina Carlson (Iona University)
• 15:00 Chaucer mis à nu… Le recyclage des Contes de Canterbury dans les cinémas érotique et pornographique Yohann Chanoir (EHESS)

15:30 Pause | Coffee break

• 15:45 Closing remarks | Conclusions et perspectives
• 16:00 End of congress | Fin du colloque