Programme
Friday 11th January
From 12pm-1.15pm Registration [Venue: G17, Adam Ferguson Building, George Square]
1:45 Welcome [Venue: Boardroom, National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge]
2:00 – 3:00 Keynote speaker: Carol Braun Pasternack, UC Santa Barbara, “Ruling masculinity: from Adam to Apollonius of Tyre in Corpus 201.” (Chaired by Sarah Salih, King’s College, London)
3:00 – 3:30: Tea
3:30 – 5:00: Session 1: Saints and Holy Families: Depicting Gender in Visual and Textual Sources (Chaired by Monica Azzolini, University of Edinburgh)
Jennifer Scammell, Glasgow University, “Mary and Joseph: Christian depictions of gender and social difference in the late medieval period.”
Sam Riches, Lancaster University, “Virtue and violence: saints, monsters and sexuality in medieval culture.”
Christina V. Cedillo, Texas A & M University, “La poverella: St Francis and the gendering of androgyny.”
[There will be a display of medieval manuscripts in the NLS Board Room for you to look at.]
6:00 – 7:00: Public lecture sponsored by the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the University of Edinburgh
Professor Elizabeth Ewan, University of Guelph, Canada, “Brave-hearted Women and Men: Gendering the Scottish Middle Ages.”
[Venue: DHT Lecture Theatre B, George Square]
7:00 – 8:00: Reception [Venue: DHT Conference Room, George Square]
8:00 onwards: Dinner [Vittoria, George IV Bridge]
Saturday 12th January [Venue: New College, The Mound]
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9:30 – 11:00 Session 2a [Lecture Theatre 1, New College]: Masculinity, Religion and Warfare: Reading Masculinity in 9th to12th century texts (Chaired by Kirsten Fenton, University of Edinburgh)
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Session 2b [Martin Hall, New College]: The Male “Other” in Medieval Romances (Chaired by Susannah Chewning, Union County College, NJ)
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Rachel Stone, King’s College, London, “In what way can those who Have left the world be distinguished? Masculinity and the differences Between Carolingian men.”
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Ásdís Egilsdóttir, University of Iceland, “The male Cinderella in medieval Icelandic romances.” |
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Bill Aird, University of Cardiff, “The tears of Bishop Gundulf.” |
Rachel Moss, University of York, “Boys in the woods: Outsiders and the search for masculine identity in Middle English romance.” |
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Simon Yarrow, University of Birmingham, “Gender and difference In the crusade narratives of Orderic Vitalis.” |
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11:00 – 11:30 Coffee [Rainy Hall, New College]
11:30 – 12:30: Keynote speaker [Lecture Theatre 1: Steven F. Kruger, Queens College and CUNY, USA “Medieval Jewish/Christian debate and the question of gender” (Chaired by Isabel Davis, Birkbeck College, London)
12:30 – 2:00 Lunch [Rainy Hall]
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2:00 – 3: 30 Session 3a [Lecture Theatre 1]: Sexuality and Difference from Anglo-Saxon Penitentials to Late Medieval Literary and Legal Sources (chaired by Liz Herbert McAvoy, Swansea University)
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Session 3b [Martin Hall]: Women, Work and Faith in Medieval Europe (chaired by Cordelia Beattie, University of Edinburgh)
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Michelle Sauer, Minot State University, “Uncovering Difference: Reconfiguring homoerotic desire within the Medieval English eremitic tradition.” |
Hannah Meyer, Queens College, Cambridge, “Wives, Mothers, Moneylenders: An exploration of Jewish female business activity in Thirteenth-century Exeter.” |
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David Clark, University of Leicester, “Self-abuse: Blurring/defining Sexual Difference in Medieval Texts.” |
Elizabeth Hutchin, University of St Andrews, “Los que estauan En su casa: The Interfaith interaction of women within late medieval Castillian households.” |
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Bronach Kane, University of York, “Impotence and Virginity in the Late Medieval Church Courts of York.” |
Megan Moran, Vanderbilt University, Tennessee, “Gendered Perceptions of Honour in Late Medieval Florence.” |
3:30 – 4:00 Coffee [Rainy Hall]
4:00 – 5:00: Keynote speaker [Lecture Theatre 1]: Sara Lipton, SUNY, USA, “Becoming Visual: The Emergence of the Visible Jewess in Later Medieval Art” (chaired by Bettina Bildhauer, University of St Andrews)
5.00 – 6.00 GMS Business Meeting [Lecture Theatre 1; All Welcome]
Conference Dinner: 8pm Baraka, 3-5 Infirmary Street
Sunday 13th January [Venue: New College]
9:30 – 11:00 Session 4 [Lecture Theatre 1]: Monstrous Femininities (chaired by Sam Riches, Lancaster University)
Sylvia A. Parsons, Louisiana State University, “Monstrous femininity in Joseph of Exeter’s Ylias.”
Katherine Heavey, University of Durham, “ Managing the monstrous: representing Medea in middle English literature.”
Bonnie Miller, Castle College, Nottingham, “Femininity, monstrosity and the loathly lady.”
11:00-11:30 Coffee [Rainy hall]
11:30 – 12:30 Keynote speaker [Lecture Theatre 1]: Juliette Dor, Liège University, Belgium, “Chaucer’s Viragos and Saints of Love. A Postcolonial Engagement?” (chaired by Sarah Carpenter, University of Edinburgh)
12.30 Close of Conference
[Following a break for people to find themselves lunch there will be an optional tour of the medieval exhibits in the National Museum of Scotland, Chambers Street, 2-3pm, led by Dr James Fraser (Scottish History/Celtic, University of Edinburgh). It will include the stone sculpture used as the conference image. We suggest that attendees make a donation of £5 towards the Kate Westoby Travel Fund.]