Conference Program
Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference, 21.-22. June 2019
9:30
Prof. Dr. Maarten J. F. M. Hoenen (Basel): Welcome Address
10:00-11:00
Chair: Eric Wolever
Matthias Meier (Zürich)
Ein Kloster, zwei Gründungsgeschichten – Erinnerungen an die frühe Geschichte des Klosters Muri in Quellen des 12. Jahrhunderts
Raoul du Bois (Zürich)
Mnemonic Concentration: Calendar Rhymes from the 14th to the 16th Centuries
11:00-11:30
Coffee Break
11:30-12:30 Uhr
Chair: Maria Tranter
Lauren Ottaviani (Durham)
«Teach me to forget myself!»: Collective Memory and Female Identity in Shakespeare’s First Tetralogy
Sarah Jeanne Parker (York)
Politically Correct: the Emmae Encomium and Queen Emma’s Alternative Narrative
12:30-13:30
Lunch Break
13:30-15:00
Chair: Eric Wolever
Fabienne Schwizer (Basel)
Created to be Conquered: Gerald of Wales’ Creation of an Origin Myth for Ireland
Giles Conolly (Birmingham)
Taking Back Control: Subverting the Memory of Thomas Becket and Henry II
Abby Monk (Aberystwyth)
Creating a Communal Memory: Orderic Vitalis’ Historia Ecclesiastica
15:00-16:00
Coffee Break & Poster Session (BA Students)
16:00-17:30
Chair: Balduin Landolt
Alisa Valpola-Walker (Cambridge)
Reconstructing Legendary Geography in Göngu-Hrólfs saga
Thomas Ireland-Delfs (Reykjavík)
Illt es ýtum / elli at bíða – Age Related Memory Loss in the Icelandic Sagas
Lilli Hölzlhammer (München)
Creating a Link to a Pagan Literary Past in the Byzantine Empire: Strategies of Remembrance in the Romances of the Komnenian Era (1081-1185)
Keynote Lecture
17:45-18:45
Prof. Dr. Kate Heslop (Berkeley)
Bodies build places. Making Memory in Old Norse kviðuháttr Poetry
9:00-10:30
Chair: Madita Knöpfle
James Kawalek (Birmingham)
Narrative and Memory in the Historia Compostelana
Lukas Grunwald (München)
translatio terrae sanctae? Zur Darstellung, (Re-)Konstruktion und politischen Nutzbarmachung des Falls von Akkon in Ottokars Steirischer Reimchronik und der Kronike von Pruzinlant des Nikolaus von Jeroschin
Lieke Kamphuis (Nijmegen)
Saint Francis and the Sultan: An Apostle of Peace Preaching against the Crusades
10:30-11:00
Coffee Break
11:00-12:00
Chair: Fabienne Schwizer
Alicia Lohmann (Berlin)
Das «Liber Memorialis» Kaiser Friedrichs III. Ein bewusst strukturiertes Zeugnis für die Nachwelt?
Tonicha Upham (Reykjavík)
Don’t You (Forget About Me): Editorial Choices in the Recording of Ibn Fadlan’s Risala
12:00-13:00
Lunch Break
13:00-14:30
Chair: Kirstin Bentley
Balduin Landolt (Basel)
Remembering, Imitating, Archiving. Old Icelandic Marian Miracles in Post-Reformation Denmark
Madita Knöpfle (Basel)
Wie viel Mittelalter verbirgt sich in post-reformatorischen Sagas?
Lea Grosen Jørgensen (Aarhus)
The North Remembered and Reconstructed: Romantic Vinland Vikings in Denmark and America
14:30-15:00
Coffee Break
15:00-16:00
Chair: Ina Serif
Paul Schweitzer-Martin (Heidelberg)
tot volumina in lucem prodeunt. Reflections on New and Recollected Knowledge in Incunabula Dedications
Lysander Büchli (Basel)
Humanistische Mnemotechnik & drucktechnisches Potential. Wechselwirkungen um 1500
Keynote Lecture
16:15-17:15
Dr. Charlie Rozier (Durham)
Merging Memories: the Appropriation of Memorial Traditions in Historical Writing at Durham, c.1090-1130
The Program can be downloaded as PDF here.