THURSDAY 6 JANUARY 2011
12.00
Registration Opens: James Callaghan Basement Foyer
12.50
WELCOME
(James Callaghan Lecture Theatre)
PLENARY SESSION: MEMORY AND LITERATURE
Chair:
1.00
Carole Maddern (Goldsmiths, London), ‘Women, power and magic: the problem of Virgilus’.
1.20
Daisy Black (University of Manchester), ‘A man out of time: Joseph, time and space in the Mystery Cycles’.
1.40
Tania Colwell (Australian National University), ‘Mélusine of Lusignan and Burgundian constructions of the past: dynastic romance, cultural memory, and propaganda’.
2.00
Discussion
2.30
Coffee
SESSION 2A: Queer Time
(James Callaghan Lecture Theatre)
Chair:
3.00
Michelle M Sauer (University of North Dakota), ‘“til that thy lippes be maad like to a reed scarlet hood…”: (re)membering queer time in lesbian encounters with Christ’.
3.20
Jed Chandler (Swansea University), ‘Time out of mind: Merlin, madness and misogyny’.
3.40
Bettina Bildhauer (University of St Andrews), ‘Melancholia, revenge and the gendered stagnation of time’.
4.00
Discussion
SESSION 2B: The Roles of Women
(James Callaghan Conference Suite)
Chair:
3.00
Isabel Davis (Birkbeck College, University of London), ‘The Late Medieval now: women, marriage and the contemporary’
3.20
Ayoush Sarmada Lazikani (Oxford University), ‘Memory and time in the “Wooing Group”’.
3.40
Mudita Agnihotri (Gurukul Kangri University, Hardwar), ‘Power to woman in Indo-Muslim literature’.
4.00
Discussion
4.30
Short break
KEYNOTE LECTURE 1
(James Callaghan Lecture Theatre)
4.40
Diane Wolfthal (David and Caroline Minter Endowed Chair in the Humanities and Professor of Art History, Rice University).
‘Remembering serial marriage in Medieval Europe’.
Wine Reception and Book Fayre, Taliesin Gallery
6.00
FRIDAY 7 JANUARY
SESSION 3A: Women as Witnesses
(James Callaghan Lecture Theatre)
Chair:
9.30
Tom Underwood (Swansea University), ‘Female complainants in the Querimoniae Normannorum’.
9.50
Jamie Page (University of St Andrews), ‘Dubious subjects: prostitute witnesses at an abortion trial in Late Mediaeval Bavaria’.
10.10
Bronach Kane (Queen Mary, University of London), ‘Gender, testimony and memory in the Church Courts of Late Medieval England’.
10.30
Discussion
SESSION 3B: The Passage of Time
(James Callaghan Conference Suite)
Chair:
9.30
William Youngman (Cornell University), ‘A hazy shade of winter: age, time, and gender in The Phoenix’.
9.50
Jennifer Borland (Oklahoma State University), ‘A lifetime in pictures: time and health management in the illustrated Régime du corps’.
10.10
Catharine Ingersoll (University of Texas), ‘The gendered months: issues of gender and time in Late-Medieval calendar images’.
10.30
Discussion
11.00
Coffee
SESSION 4A: Concepts and Conceptualisation of Gender
(James Callaghan Lecture Theatre)
Chair:
11.30
F. Kimberley Cosgrove (Aberystwyth University), ‘The third gender?’
11.50
Hannah Priest (Manchester University), ‘Reading Marie de France’s Muldumarec: blood, masculinity and devotion’.
12.10
Susanne Hafner (Fordham University), ‘Perceval of Galles and the suspension of gender, time and memory’.
12.30
Discussion
SESSION 4B: Women in Middle English Romances
(James Callaghan Conference Suite)
Chair:
11.30
Victoria Turner (University of Warwick), ‘Gender and generation: temporal dislocation in idyllic and epic Romance’.
11.50
Drew Danielle Maxwell (Edinburgh University), ‘Time and punishment: gendered concepts of time in relation to power and punishment in three Middle English Romances’.
12.10
Pinar Tasdelen (University of Hull), ‘Angel maidens and Demon ladies: gender and suffering in Middle English metrical Romances’.
12.30
Discussion
1.00
Lunch
SESSION 5A: Saints and Sainthood
(James Callaghan Lecture Theatre)
Chair:
2.00
Emily Rhodes (University of Bristol), ‘Will the real Catherine please stand up? The three persons of Saint Catherine of Siena’.
2.20
Pam Morgan (Swansea University), ‘Saintly relocations: the rewriting of St Congar’s within the gendered context of Romance narratives’.
2.40
Anne Bailey (University of Oxford), ‘Gendered discourses of time and memory in the cult andmiracula of William of Norwich’.
3.00
Discussion
SESSION 5B: Women in Literature
(James Callaghan Conference Suite)
Chair:
2.00
Kate Ash (University of Manchester), ‘ “Throw wickit langage to be spilt”: Memory and its consequences in Henryson’s Testament of Cresseid’.
2.20
Liz Cox (Swansea University), ‘Ides gnornode/ geomrode giddum; Remembering the role of afriðusibb in the retelling of the Fight at Finnsburgh in Beowulf’.
2.40
Karen Smyth (University of East Anglia), ‘Reckoning time and gender in the Canterbury Tales’.
3.00
Discussion
3.30
Coffee
KEYNOTE LECTURE 2
(James Callaghan Lecture Theatre)
4.00
Elizabeth Robertson
‘Gender, memory, and the translation of culture and empire in Medieval Britain’.
5.30
Close
7.00
Conference Dinner, Miah’s Restaurant
SATURDAY 8 JANUARY
SESSION 6: The Life Cycle
(James Callaghan Lecture Theatre)
Chair:
9.30
Patricia Skinner (Independent Scholar), ‘The medieval female life cycle as an organising strategy: potential and pitfalls’.
9.50
Fiona Harris-Stoertz (Trent University), ‘Remembering birth in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century England’.
10.10
Alison James (University of York), ‘Growing old gracefully? Gentry males, old age and resistance to the passage of time in fifteenth-century Yorkshire’.
10.30
Discussion
11.00
Coffee
SESSION 7: Round Table Discussion
(James Callaghan Conference Suite)
Chair: Dr Liz Herbert McAvoy
11.20
‘Gender, time and memory: (re)membering British women’s writing, 700-1500’.
12.30
GMS Business Meeting
13.00
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