About the event
Join us to explore Chaucer’s world through creative activities, talks and discussion.
- Take a highlights tour of the exhibition Chaucer Here and Now with curator Marion Turner
- Make a moving puppet of Chaucer with Sigi Koerner
- Learn cartoon drawing in a live session with artist Kristen Haas Curtis
- Create your own original traveller’s tale and make a Tabard Inn for its telling
- Take the constellation challenge and discover how horoscopes were read in Chaucer’s day with Shelley Williams
- Make a pilgrim badge as a souvenir of your visit
- Print a Chaucer keepsake
Telling Tales: Marion Turner in conversation with Patience Agbabi, 1.30 – 2pm
Sir Victor Blank Lecture Theatre
Professor Marion Turner, curator of Chaucer Here and Now, talks to prize-winning poet Patience Agbabi, author of Telling Tales, about how and why she created her own versions of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales in forms ranging from rap to sonnets.
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Living Library, 1.30 – 3.30pm
Chat to academics in our ‘Living Library’ and explore topics including:
- Travel and travel writing in the Middle Ages with Professor Anthony Bale
- Chaucer in the nineteenth century with Dr Clare Broome Saunders
- Scribes and readers of Chaucer: the first century with Professor Daniel Wakelin
- Medieval women, modern voices with Dr Laura Varnam
- ‘Hooly blisful martir’: Chaucer’s pilgrims in Canterbury with Dr Alison Ray
- The Medieval in the Modern with Professor Carolyne Larrington
Location
This event takes place in person in Blackwell Hall at the Weston Library.
Weston Library, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG
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Wheelchair access
The Weston Library is wheelchair accessible.
