Networks and Neighbours III: 2015
3-4 July 2015 @ University of Leeds, UK
Program
Day 1 (3rd July)
9:00am-9:30am: Registration, Coffee and Opening Remarks
9:30am-10:45am: Cultural Memory I
Ioannis Papadopoulos (University of Leeds)
- ‘Future Perfect: Late Roman Attempts of Utopian Establishments’
Chair: Alaric Hall (University of Leeds)
10:45am-11:00am: Coffee
11:00am-12:15pm: Cultural Memory II
Catalin Taranu (University of Leeds)
- ‘True Franks and Teutons: The Social Life of Germanic Heroic Poetry in Carolingian Francia’
Chair: Alaric Hall
12:15pm-1:45pm: Lunch
1:45pm-3:00pm: Western Knowledge of the East I
Tamar Rotman (Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)
- ‘Between Hagiography and Practice: Eastern martyrs in the hagiographical corpus of Gregory of Tours’
Chair: Erin Dailey (Independent Scholar, Leeds)
3:00pm-3:15pm: Coffee
3:15pm-4:30pm: Western Knowledge of the East II
Tom MacMaster (University of Edinburgh)
- ‘Justinian’s mistress, Anaulf’s wife: Eastern gossip and knowledge in the Chronicle of Fredegar’
Chair: Erin Dailey
4:30pm-4:45pm: Wine
4:45pm-6:00pm: Keynote Paper
Professor Ian Wood (University of Leeds)
- ‘The Transformation of Late Antiquity, 1971-2015’
Chair: Richard Broome (University of Leeds)
7pm: Dinner
Day Two (4th July)
9:30am-10:00am: Coffee
10:00am-11:15am: Non-Human Agents I
Andrea Maraschi (University of Iceland)
- ‘Signs in the early Medieval skies. Why, what…and who?’
Chair: Aleks Pluskowski (University of Reading, UK)
11:15am-11:30am: Coffee
11:30am-12:45pm: Non-Human Agents II
Muriel Araujo Lima (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil)
- ‘The Silos Beatus: Angels, Beasts and Men at the End of Time’
Chair: Aleks Pluskowski
12:45pm-2:15pm: Lunch
2:15pm-3:30pm: Circulation and Renewal I
Bruna Bengozi (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil)
- ‘Reform and Renewal in Rodulfus Glaber’s Histories: some remarks’
Chair: Ainoa Castro (University of Toronto, Canada)
3:30pm-3:45pm: Coffee
3:45pm-5:00pm: Circulation and Renewal II
Francisco Alvarez Lopez (King’s College London, UK)
- ‘Circulation and Use of Iberian Texts in Anglo-Saxon England’
Chair: Ainoa Castro
5:00pm: Concluding Remarks
Michael J. Kelly (University of Leeds)
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