Conference: Animals: Aspects & Approaches, 2018 Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference, University of Oxford, 28 June 2018

Thursday June 28th, 2018, Harris Manchester College, Oxford.

OMGC 2018 Animals_Programme_1

9-9.20am Registration
9.20-9.30am Welcome
9.30-11am Joint Keynote Address
Humans and Animals: A Defining Relationship?
• Timothy Bourns (St Edmund Hall, Oxford), ‘Animals in Norse Mythology’
• Lesley MacGregor (Oriel College, Oxford), ‘Humans and Animals: Defining the
“Other”’
11-11.30am Break with Hot & Cold Drinks
11.30am-1pm Animals in A Human World – Chair: Claire Macht (Kellogg College,
Oxford)
• Alexander Thomas (University of Bristol), ‘Animals, Archaeology and the Danelaw
Boundary’
• Allison Treese (University of York), ‘Reading the Relationship between Hawk and
Handler in The Boke of St. Albans’
• Tim Wingard (University of York), ‘“By the Temptation of the Devil”: Narratives of
Bestiality in the Registre criminel du Châtelet de Paris’
1-2.15pm Lunch (provided)
2.15-3.45pm Blurring Boundaries – Chair: Emilie Lavallée (St Cross College,
Oxford)
• Amy Brown (University of Geneva), ‘Cross-Dressing and Cross-Species Sex: The
Obscene Spectacle of the Sow and the Lions in the Prose Merlin’
• Maialen Maugars (Warburg Institute), ‘Animal Masks and Costumes in Late Medieval
Court Culture: Exploring the Boundary between Civilisation and Wilderness’
• Alexander Peplow (Merton College, Oxford), ‘Do Animals Have Souls? Adelard of Bath
and non-Aristotelian Natural Philosophy’
3.45-4.15pm Break with Hot & Cold Drinks
4.15-5.45pm Motif and Metaphor – Chair: Susanna Markert (Jesus College, Oxford)
• William Brockbank (Jesus College, Oxford), ‘Wild Weather and Washed-up Whales: The
“Whale on the Beach” Motif in the Íslendingasögur’
• Aylin Malcolm (University of Pennsylvania), ‘“For They Kan Nat the Craft”: Art(ifice)
and Chaucer’s Robotic Horse’
• India Morris (Merton College, Oxford), ‘“As Bartholomew the Bestiary bablith on his
bokes,”: The Sources of the Apian Metaphor in Mum and the Sothsegger’
5.45-6.45pm Keynote Address: Eric Stanley (Professor Emeritus, Pembroke
College, Oxford)
SUCH OLD ENGLISH ANIMALS AS:
docga, frocga, hogga, pic[g]-bred, staggon (acc. pl.), birds sugga and hrucge,
insect wicga.
6.45-7.30pm Drinks Reception at Harris Manchester College (included)
7.30pm Conference Dinner (optional – location tbd)