Conferences Archive
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Networking Scribes
Posted on May 5, 2013 | No CommentsThis was the keynote paper given at the Celtic Studies Association of North America Annual Conference at the University of Toronto April 18 - 21, 2013. -
Welsh Poetry and the War of the Roses
Posted on May 5, 2013 | No CommentsThis is a brief summary of a paper on Welsh poetry, patronage and politics. It was given at the Celtic Studies Association of North America Annual Conference at the University of Toronto April 18 - 21, 2013. -
Bite Me: Rude Food and the Anglo-Saxon Riddle Tradition
Posted on May 3, 2013 | No CommentsAndy Orchard, one of the world's leading experts in Old English literature, presented on the tradition of early medieval riddles, and how the themes of food and sex can be found in these works. -
Rhetoric and Ethnicity in Gerald of Wales
Posted on May 3, 2013 | No CommentsThis paper was given at the 2013 Celtic Studies Association of North America Annual Meeting at the University of Toronto. -
‘Fromm thennes faste he gan avyse/This litel spot of erthe’: GIS and the General Prologue
Posted on May 2, 2013 | No CommentsThis paper was given at the Canada Chaucer Seminar on April 27, 2013. -
Call for Papers: Light in the Religions of the Book: A Multidisciplinary Approach
Posted on May 1, 2013 | No CommentsUpcoming Conference at the University of Balamand in Lebanon, December 13-15, 2013 -
Pleasurable Forms and Forms of Pleasure in the Pages of the Pearl – manuscript
Posted on April 30, 2013 | No CommentsBahr discussed the poem, Pearl, jokingly termed, 'a formalists wet dream', and focused on its implied relationship between pleasure and form and how it explored the relationship between desire and fruitfulness. -
Reconstructing a Late Medieval Irish Library
Posted on April 20, 2013 | No Comments'It is a tricky thing to discuss a library that has not existed for 350 years.' -
“Becoming Mary of the Gael”
Posted on April 19, 2013 | No CommentsThis paper focused on the comparison of St. Brigit and the Virgin Mary in early Irish texts. -
Call for Papers: The Archaeology of Gatherings Conference
Posted on April 8, 2013 | No CommentsWith 2013 being the year of 'The Gathering' this theme was chosen to examine why people over millennia have come together, often in large numbers, for religious assemblies, social interaction, to exchange commodities and ideas, along with other reasons such as farewells, wakes, political opposition, inaugurations etc. -
Revealing the Early Renaissance: Stories and Secrets in Florentine Art
Posted on March 29, 2013 | No CommentsA symposium held at the Art Gallery of Ontario offered new insights into the artistic community of 14th-century Florence. -
Celtic Search Talk III: Irish Classical Studies and the Irish History of Troy
Posted on March 8, 2013 | No CommentsThis was part of a series of papers given at the University of Toronto in competition for a position in the Celtic Studies department. This paper focused on the reception of literature and the reception of the classics in medieval Ireland. -
Moors at the Court of James IV, King of Scots
Posted on March 7, 2013 | No CommentsWere sub-Saharan Africans part of the court of a medieval Scottish king? -
Conference: ‘In the hands of God’s servants’ The Power of the Bishop in Western Europe (1000-1300)
Posted on February 13, 2013 | No CommentsConference at Cardiff University, on 23-24 May 2013 -
The Progression of the Fork: From Diabolical to Divine
Posted on February 10, 2013 | No CommentsThis paper is about 'Design and the Tools of the Table, 1500–2005' curated as part of the Cooper Hewitt exhibit on utensils. -
Medievalists @ Penn: 5th Annual Graduate Conference
Posted on February 8, 2013 | No CommentsConference taking place at University of Pennsylvania, on February 15, 2013 -
Medieval Europe in Motion International Conference
Posted on February 8, 2013 | No CommentsConference taking place in Lisbon, Portugal, from April 18-20, 2013 -
Ten papers to look forward to at the International Medieval Congress 2013
Posted on January 24, 2013 | No CommentsPleasure will be theme at this year's International Medieval Congress, which will be held at the University of Leeds from July 1-4 -
Ten papers to look forward to at the 48th International Congress on Medieval Studies
Posted on January 19, 2013 | No CommentsWestern Michigan University has released a sneak preview of the schedule for this year's International Congress on Medieval Studies. -
Stasis in the Medieval World Conference
Posted on January 7, 2013 | No CommentsApril 13-14, 2013, at The Institute of Archaeology, University College London -
Call for Papers: Ethics in medievalism
Posted on December 29, 2012 | No CommentsWhat role do ethics play in post-medieval responses to the Middle Ages? -
Beowulf and Boyology: The Processes of Medievalism
Posted on December 8, 2012 | No CommentsBetween 1870 and 1914 more than twenty children's versions of Beowulf were published, with twenty more done in rest of 20th century. -
Tasting Histories Lecture: “Seasonal and Local Dining in the Middle Ages”
Posted on November 30, 2012 | No CommentsThis was a paper given at the University of Toronto by Yale Professor, Paul freedman, on food during the Middle Ages and Early Modern period. -
Call for Papers: 2013 Edinburgh University Seventh-Century Colloquium
Posted on November 30, 2012 | No CommentsThe Seventh Century: Continuity or Discontinuity? - 2013 Edinburgh University Seventh Century Colloquium, 28 – 29 May 2013. -
Lay Initiative in the Early Peace of God Movement
Posted on November 28, 2012 | No CommentsMary Skinner argues in her paper that that the laity were fully involved agents that supported the peace councils, and often took the initiative in trying to limit warfare.
