The theme of the third London Chaucer Conference will be 'Chaucer and Time'. The conference will be held 19 – 20 APRIL 2007 at Senate House, University of London, Malet Street.

Following the success of the First and Second London Chaucer Conferences, and in response to the encouragement of the participants, the occasion is intended as an opportunity to meet and share ideas, for London medievalists, for those in other UK universities, and for colleagues from further afield, too, especially other European universities. Papers are invited on all topics related to the topics of Chaucer and Time.

Relevant topics include

* Chaucer and history
* The past, present and future of Chaucer studies
* Narrative time
* Technologies of time
* Metre
* Historicisms
* Medievalism
* Presentism
* Philosophies of time
* The calendar and the seasons
* Anachronism
* Nostalgia
* Teleology and eschatological time
* Liturgical time
* Lifespan and life-cycle

Papers will be limited to 20 minutes. Abstracts of approximately 200 words should be submitted by 1 December 2006, together with any special requests for audio-visual requirements. A second call for papers, including registration details, will be issued in due course. We look forward very much to hearing from you. Details about the programme and registration will be circulated at a later date. In the meantime, please address any queries or send proposals for papers (either hard copy or as an email attachment) with an abstract to:

Anthony Bale, email: a.bale@bbk.ac.uk or at School of English and Humanities, Birkbeck, University of London, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HX (Tel. +44 (0)20 7631 6081); or Alcuin Blamires, email: ens01ab@gold.ac.uk or at Department of English and Comparative Literature, Goldsmith's College, University of London, New Cross, London, SE14 6NW Tel. +44 (0)20 7919 7430; or Rosalind Field, email: r.field@rhul.ac.uk, or at English Department, Royal Holloway, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX (Tel. +44 (0)1784 434455).