International Medievalisms Conference: Timetable

A PDF version of the timetable is available to download here. All rooms are in the Iontas Building (see map below).

Thursday 27th June
9:00-9:15	Registration		Common Space
9:15-9:45	Opening Remarks		1.33
9:45-11:15	Refugees and Medievalism Chair: Florian Krobb (Maynooth)	– Carolyne Larrington (Oxford): ‘”Green Growing Pains”’: the Green Children of Woolpit and Child Refugees’ – Matthias Berger (Bern): On Pilgrimage Again: Protest, Place and the Nation’s Others in Refugee Tales	1.33
11:15-11:45	Coffee		Common Space
11:45-13:15 Parallel Panels	Approaches Across Borders Chair: Karl Christian Alvestad (South-Eastern Norway)	– Kristina Hildebrand (Halmstad): The Matter of Britain: Roman Scotland and the British Empire – Angela Weisl (Seton Hall) and Robert Squillace (NYU): Global Medievalism as Contested Space	1.33
	Medievalism in Germany Chair: Nicholas Boyle (Cambridge)	– Joseph Haydt (Chicago): Hegel’s Modern 12th Century: The Medievalism of the Lectures on Aesthetics – Florian Gassner (British Columbia): Medievalism & Colonialism: The German Reception of The Tale of Igor’s Campaign in the Nineteenth Century	1.37
13:15-14:00	Lunch		Common Space
14:00-15:30 Parallel Panels	Visual Culture Chair: Andrew Elliott (Lincoln)	– Frank G. Bosman (Tilburg): The Prince and the Garden: Multiple layers of cultural appropriation of the medieval. The case of the Assassin’s Creed series – Laura Harrison (Glasgow): ‘Never take my freedom’: The problem with accuracy in medieval film	1.33
	Medievalism and the City Chair: Karl Kinsella (Oxford)	– Izik Polack (Haifa): To what extent is the layout of the streets of Ottoman Acre in the time of Zahir al-Umar congruent with the layout of the streets of Crusader Acre? – Jorge Fernández-Santos (Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid): Late Mediaeval Visual Exegesis of City and Landscape: The Lasting Appeal of Nicholas of Lyra	1.37
15:45-16:45	Russell Library visit	A visit to Maynooth’s collection of medieval manuscripts, housed in Pugin’s Russell Library. You are requested to sign up in advance (sign-up sheet will be circulated in due course).	Russell Library
17:00-18:00	Plenary Lecture	Andrew Elliott (Lincoln): Who owns the Middle Ages? Participatory Medievalism and Historical Authority.	1.33
18:00-19:00	Drinks Reception		Common Space
19:30	Conference Dinner	Pre-booking necessary. Details will be provided at registration.	O’Neills

Friday 28th June
9:15-10:45 Parallel Panels	Panel: (Re?)interpreting Medieval Figures Chair: Nadia Altschul (Glasgow)	– Karl Christian Alvestad (South-Eastern Norway): Every hero is a Queen and every Queen is a hero: LGBT+ medievalism and the cultural reception of homosocial and lesbian-like behaviour – Kayleigh Ferguson (Long Island): Tuneful Song in the Wild: A Historical Discourse of the Troubadour in Romantic Era Literature	1.33
9:15-10:45 Parallel Panels	Panel: Antipodean Medievalisms Chair: Carolyne Larrington (Oxford)	– Anna Czarnowus (Silesia): Margaret Mahy’s Medieval Inspirations and New Zealand Medievalism in The Changeover. A Supernatural Romance (1984) – Sabina Rahman (Macquarie): Such Was Life: The Re-imagining and Mythologising of Ned Kelly, Australia’s Last Bushranger	1.37
10:45-11:15	Coffee		Common Space
11:15-12:45 Parallel Panels	Panel: Medievalisms, Politics, and Gender Chair: Cordula Boecking (Maynooth)	– Usha Vishnuvajjala (Tulane): Trothe, Women’s Bodies, and Medievalism in Contemporary Politics – Suzanne LaVere (Purdue Fort Wayne): ‘The Great Original Suffragist’: Joan of Arc as a Symbol in the U.S. Women’s Suffrage Movement	1.33
11:15-12:45 Parallel Panels	Panel: International Medievalisms and National Identity Chair: Simon Trafford (IHR)	– Fani Gargova (Vienna): Byzantine Revival Architecture at the 1900 Paris World Exhibition – Michael Makin (Michigan): Inhabiting an Unpredictable Past — the Paradoxes of Russian Cultural Historicism	1.37
12:45-13:30	Lunch		Common Space
13:30-14:30	Plenary Lecture	Nadia Altschul (Glasgow): A Critique of Medieval Contemporaneity: Temporality and Medievalization in Southern America	1.33
14:30-15:00	Coffee		Common Space
15:00-16:30 Parallel Panels	Panel: Viking Medievalisms Chair: Kristina Hildebrand (Halmstad)	– Amy Jefford Franks (Aarhus): Nordic Giants: A Post-Rock Use of Norse Mythology – Simon Trafford (IHR): Blóts on the Landscape: Viking Festivals and International Neo-Viking Performance	1.33
15:00-16:30 Parallel Panels	Panel: Medievalism, Nationalism, and the Landscape Chair: Elizabeth Boyle (Maynooth)	– Felix Taylor (Oxford): Animism and the Arthurian: John Cowper Powys looking towards Celtic Wales – Hannah Armstrong (Independent Scholar): ‘The Northland of Old’: The Use and Misuse of (Medieval) Iceland	1.37
17:00	Recital	We are invited to join the Society for Musicology Conference for a recital in the neo-gothic College Chapel. Registration free, but required. Please sign up here	Chapel

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The International Medievalisms Conference is funded by the Irish Research Council, with additional sponsorship from Maynooth’s Arts and Humanities Institute and School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures, and Medium Ævum, the Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literatures.

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