Virtually Sacred: Pilgrimage and Memory in the Internet Age Dr. Maryellen Collett (Theology) Chaucer's Pilgrimage: Remembering Canterbury Dr. Dawn Walts (English) Ancient Pilgrimage Narratives Dr. Clare Rothschild (Theology) Consciousness and Memory in the Modernist Novel Dr. Michael Cunningham (English) Dr. Nancy Workman (English) Dr. Wallace Ross (English) Mythical Memories of Immigration: The Collective Amnesia of the Americas Dr. Eileen McMahon (History) Southern Response to Civil Rights in the 1960's: Memory and Memorial Dr. Cathy Ayers (Communication) Armenia in Turkish Collective Memory and View from the Left and Right in Guatemala Dr. William Malone (History) Dr. James Tallon (History) Hiroshima, Mon Amour [film] Dr. Christopher Wielgos (English) A Psychological Perspective on the Experience and Meaning of Memory in a Case of Childhood Abuse Dr. Clare Lawlor (Psychology) Recovering Family History through Memories Br. Joseph Martin (President's Office) Last Year at Marienbad [film] Dr. Christopher Wielgos (English) MusicBYTES: Memory Dr. Mike McFerron (Music) Night and Fog Dr. Christopher Wielgos (English) Remembering Heroes and Heroines: Telling Their Stories Br. Armand Alcazar (Theology) Monumental Memory: Ethnicity in Chicago Dr. Patricia Mooney-Melvin (Loyola University Chicago, History)
This presentation examines Chaucer’s use of a pilgrimage to Canterbury as the framing device for his tales. On the one hand, this device evokes a sense of community united by remembering the martyrdom of Thomas a Becket. On the other, the device actively seeks to undermine that memory and presents a community rife with division and class struggle.