Engaging with Identities: Medieval Postgraduate Symposium (2 junio, Cardiff)

Engaging with Identities: Medieval Postgraduate Symposium
Cardiff University
2nd june 2012

Conference Outline

This interdisciplinary conference is aimed at postgraduate students exploring medieval topics during the course of their research. Our purpose is to foster communication and share research between postgraduates in a casual and friendly fashion, bringing researchers together under the impetus of the topic of ’medieval identities’

Please see the link below, or on the right-side of the page, for the Engaging with Identities Symposium Programme.

PROGRAMME

10:30-10:50 Registration

10:50-11:00 Introduction

Session 1

11:00-11:30 Dr. Robert Gossedge (Cardiff University)

11:30-11:50 Rachel Jones (Cardiff University)
Mary Magdalene of Barnsdale: The Good Outlaw of
Hagiography?

11:50-12:10 Melissa Julian-Jones (Cardiff University)
Visual Identities of Thirteenth Century Bishops of England

12:10-12:30 Sophia Wilson (King’s College London)
Swithun: Saintly Identity as Quality and Action, as Human
and Non-Human

12:45-1:30 Lunch (Provided)

Session 2

1:30-2:00 Dr. Björn Weiler (Aberystwyth University)

2:00-2:20 Rosie Weetch (University of Reading)
Trading Identities: Exploring the Social Meaning of Brooch
Use across the Southern North Sea Region in the 8th and
9th Centuries

2:20-2:40 Lara Hogg (Cardiff University)
‘I’ve got Soul but I’m not a Soldier’: Social Identities in the
Viking Age North Atlantic

2:40-3:00 Magdalena Domicela Matczak (Adam Mickiewicz
University)
Burial Practices of Healthy and Ill People in the Early
Middle Ages: the Case Study from Culmine (Poland)

3:15-3:30 Coffee Break

Session 3

3:00-3:30 Dr. Dylan Foster Evans (Cardiff University)
4:00-4:20 James Hadyn Jenkins (Cardiff University)
The ‘Welsh’ Cistercians?

4:20-4:40 Paul A. Brazinski (University of Cambridge)
Saint Catherine’s Monastery at Sinai: the Identity of Saint
Catherine in the Sinai Silk Aer and Manuscripts

4:40-5:00 Betty Binysh (Cardiff University)
Considerate Crusaders and Accommodating Ayyubids?
Christian-Muslim Cultural Exchange in the 12th and 13th
Centuries

Speakers

Dr Dylan Foster Evans (Cardiff)

Dr Björn Weiler (Aberystwyth)

Dr Rob Gossedge (Cardiff)

Registration and Location

This symposium is FREE to attend.

A symposium attendance form has been supplied for your convenience, accessed by the link on the right-hand column of the page. .

This symposium will be held in the ground-floor meeting room of the Arts and Social Sciences Library (ASSL) at the main Cardiff University campus.

Please see the links on the right-hand side of the page for maps of the Cardiff University campus as well as directions for travel.

Any queries can be directed to the email address below.

Contact Information and Inquiries

pgmscardiff@gmail.com

Symposium Organisers

Heather Crowley

Mark Truesdale

Hannah Buckingham

Lara Hogg

James Jenkins

Funded by Cardiff University Graduate College

A Welsh translation of the above text can be provided upon request