Symposium: ‘Medieval Matters: A Symposium in honour of Professor Miri Rubin’, 29-30 June 2023, QMUL School of History, London

Register for tickets here. Please see the full agenda for both days below. You are welcome to attend one of the days, or both – please book your tickets accordingly.

Organising committee: Matthew Champion (Melbourne), Kati Ihnat (Nijmegen), Eyal Poleg (QMUL), Milan Žonca (Prague)


Thursday 29 June 2023

9:00 AM – 9:30 AM

Registration and Coffee

9:30 AM – 10:00 AM

Opening Remarks

10:00 AM – 11:30 AM

The City (chair: Ian Wei, Bristol)

Katalin Szende (CEU) Mario Ascheri (Rome) Jan Dumolyn (Ghent) Étienne Anheim (EHESS)

11:30 AM – 11:45 AM

Coffee break

11:45 AM – 1:15 PM

Women, Gender and the Body (chair: Bronach Kane, Cardiff)

Ruth Mazo Karras (Trinity College, Dublin) Walter Simons (Dartmouth) Delfi Nieto Isabel (QMUL)

1:15 PM – 2:30 PM

Lunch

2:30 PM – 4:00 PM

Jews and Christians (chair: Rosa Vidal, QMUL)

Deeana Klepper (Boston) Ephraim Shoham-Steiner (Ben Gurion) Elisheva Baumgarten (Jerusalem)

4:00 PM – 4:30 PM

Coffee break

4:30 PM – 6:00 PM

Visual and Material Culture (chair: Paul Binski, Cambridge)

Sara Lipton (Stony Brook) Anne E. Lester (Johns Hopkins) Verena Krebs (Bochum)


Friday 30 June 2023

10:00 AM – 11:30 AM

Music, Ritual and Liturgy (chair: Emma Dillon, KCL)

Iris Shagrir (Open University, Israel) Susan Boynton (Columbia) Cecilia Gaposchkin (Dartmouth) Nils Holger Petersen (Copenhagen)

11:30 AM – 11:45 AM

Coffee break

11:45 AM – 1:15 PM

Literature (chair: Julia Boffey, QMUL)

David Wallace (UPenn) Rita Copeland (UPenn) Paul Strohm (Columbia)

1:15 PM – 2:30 PM

Lunch

2:30 PM – 4:00 PM

Reform and Resistance (chair: Mishtooni Bose, Oxford)

Tamar Herzig (Tel Aviv) Sylvain Piron (EHESS) Gabor Klaniczay (CEU) Lyndal Roper (Oxford)

4:00 PM – 4:30 PM

Coffee break

4:30 PM – 6:00 PM

Reflections and final discussion (chair: John Arnold, Cambridge)

Marek Tamm (Tallinn) Ora Limor (Open University, Israel) Daniel Lord Smail (Harvard) Virginia Reinburg (Boston)


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Dr Roisin Astell has a First Class Honours in History of Art at the University of York, an MSt. in Medieval Studies at the University of Oxford, and PhD from the University of Kent’s Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies.

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