Programme
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12.30-1pm |
REGISTRATION – Mathias Hall, School of Music, Bangor University |
1pm |
WELCOME - Professor Carol Tully, Pro-Vice Chancellor (Students) and Professor of German (Bangor) |
1.15-2.45pm |
Travelling Mystics: Chair: Laura Kalas Williams (Swansea)
- Kathryn Loveridge (Swansea) ‘The Abject and the Sublime: Audi Fabri & Mechtild of Hackeborn’s responses to Christ’s Wounded Body’
- Liz Herbert McAvoy (Swansea) ‘Textual Phantoms and Spectral Presences: The Coming to Rest of Mechthild of Hackeborn’s Writing in England in the Late Middle Ages’
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2.45-3.15pm |
Tea/Coffee |
3.15-5pm |
Secular Women’s Lives – a post-Brexit Perspective: Chair: Helen Wilcox (Bangor)
- Sara Elin Roberts (Chester) & Ceridwen Lloyd Morgan (IMEMS) ‘In the Undergrowth: Llwyn a Pherth and Sexual Deviancy in Medieval Wales’
- Vicki Kay (Bangor) ‘”I shall send yw money to by such stufe as I wull haue”: The Paston Shoppers’
- Jane Clayton (Surrey) ‘Wills as Life Writing: Widowhood, Marriage, Choice and Power’
- Sue Niebrzydowski (Bangor) ‘”Of our Lady thassumpcion”: A European Context for the Worshipful Wives of Chester’
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5-6pm |
PLENARY I: Elaine Treharne (Stanford University) ‘"Ic þæt secgan mæg”/“I can say that”: The Stories of Women'
Chair: Liz Herbert McAvoy (Swansea) |
6.15pm |
Drinks reception sponsored by the School of Literature and Languages, University of Surrey, on behalf of the Women's Literary Culture and the Medieval Canon network. This will accompanied by a poetry reading of specially commissioned poetry by DeAnn Bell (Bangor). |
9.00-10.45am |
Margery Kempe and the Wider World (session sponsored by the Margery Kempe Society): Chair: Liz Herbert McAvoy (Swansea)
- Diane Watt (Surrey) ’Before Margery: The Book of Margery Kempe and its Antecedents’
- Laura Kalas Williams (Swansea) ‘The Materialisation of Book II: Elements of Margery Kempe’s World’
- Einat Klafter (Tel Aviv) ‘“Not By Way of Ecstasy" - Considering Kempe's Connection to Christ'
- David Carrillo-Rangel (Bergen) ‘Margery Kempe and the Politics of Consent’
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10.45-11.15am |
Tea/Coffee |
11.15-12.15pm |
PLENARY II: Jonathan Hsy (The George Washington University) ‘Globalizing Deafness: Language, Ethnicity, and Teresa de Cartagena’
Chair: Diane Watt (Surrey)
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12.30-1.30pm |
LUNCH |
1.30-3.15pm |
Female Friendships: Chair: Sue Niebrzydowski (Bangor)
- Boyda Johnstone (Borough of Manhattan Community College (CUNY)) ‘Dreaming of Same-sex Relationships in Medieval Arabic Literature’
- Alexandra Verini (Ashoka) ‘Mystical Friendship: Margery Kempe and Mirabai’
- Rhiannydd Hallas (Bangor) ‘The Women of the Visitation’
- Renáta Modráková (National Library of the Czech Republic) ‘Speaking Internationally in Female Communities on the Easter Boarders of Medieval Europe’
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3.15-3.45pm |
Tea/Coffee |
3.45-5.15pm |
Women and Book Ownership/Patronage: Chair: Nancy Bradley Warren (Texas A&M)
- Sarah Watson (Haverford College) ‘Women Book Owners in Late-Medieval Francophone Europe,
1350-1500’
- Theresa Tyers (Swansea) ‘Mahaut the Countess of Artois: Book Lover and Patron of Two Fourteenth Century Manuscripts - Marco Polo’s Romance du Grant Kann or Le Divisement du Monde’
- Michel De Dobbeleer (Ghent) ‘What’s in a Saint’s Name? On Female Saints and their Cultivated Namesakes in Slavia Orthodoxa'
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5.30-6pm |
Women’s Literary Culture and the Canon in the Global Middle Ages – in conversation with Diane Watt, Liz Herbert McAvoy, Corinne Saunders, Nancy Bradley Warren and Sue Niebrzydowski |
7.15pm |
CONFERENCE DINNER (Optional) – Teras Lounge 3 |
8.45-10.15am |
Global Women of Substance: Chair: Diane Watt (Surrey)
- Teresa Pilgrim (Surrey) Eco Feminism: Miracles of monstrosity in the landscapes of women in Beowulf and The Royal Kentish Legend
- Amy Morgan (Surrey) ‘On the Margins? Thinking about Marie de France in a Global Context’
- Nancy Bradley Warren (Texas A&M University) ‘Medieval Afterlives and the Early Modern Women’s Lives in the New World: Catalina de Erauso & Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz’
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10.15-10.45am |
Tea/Coffee |
10.45-11.45am |
PLENARY III: Shazia Jagot (Surrey) ‘Female Sufis, Arabic philosophy, and scientific
transformation’
Chair: Sue Niebrzydowski |
12.00-1.30pm |
Women and Emotion: Chair: Amy Morgan (Surrey)
- Diane Kaiser (Bangor) 'The Virgin Mary, female devotion and the art of the Northern Renaissance'
- Catherine Batt (Leeds) ‘Emotion, Gender and Spiritual Identity in late-medieval Insular Vernacular Prayer’
- Justin M. Byron-Davies (Yonsei University FLI) & Jeonghee Ko (Seoul National University) ‘The Role of Kisaeng Sijo Poets in Medieval Korean Literature
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1.30pm |
CONFERENCE CONCLUSION: Diane Watt, Project Lead, Women's Literary Culture and the Medieval Canon network (Surrey) |