Conference Programme:
Out of the Margins: New Ideas on the Boundaries of Medieval Studies
University of Cambridge, 19-20 September 2014
DAY 1:
Friday, 19th September 2014
Room GR 06/07, Ground Floor, English Faculty, 9 West Road, Cambridge
8.30 – 9.00 Registration
9.00 – 10.00 Plenary Session
The Peripheral Centre: Writing Literary History on the ‘Celtic Fringe’
Dr Máire Ní Mhaonaigh (Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge)
10.00 – 11.00 Authoritative Margins: The Battle for Ideas
“Margins toward the centre”: Bernard Silvestris and the Exegesis of Natura
Dr Jason Baxter, Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame & Wyoming Catholic College
From Margins to Frames: The Transmission of Visual Formulas in Byzantine Post-iconoclastic Illuminated Books
Dr Giovanni Gasbarri, Postdoctoral Researcher, Sapienza University, Rome
11.00 – 11.30 Tea/ Coffee will be served in the Social Space
11.30 – 1.00 Transgressive Margins: Are they Subversive?
The Margin and Its Commonplaces: Art History, Medieval Marginalia, and the Allure of Transgression
Dr Joana Antunes, Lecturer, University of Coimbra
Mouth as Margin: Orality and Oral-Figuration in English Romanesque Sculpture
Caroline Novak, MA Candidate, York University, Toronto
An ‘Other’ No More? Performative Utterances and the Containment of False Conversion in Chaucer’s ‘Second Nun’s Tale’ and ‘Man of Law’s Tale’
Danielle Sottosanti, PhD Candidate, Fordham University
1.00 – 2.00 Lunch (please list any dietary requirements on your registration form)
2.00 – 3.30 Reading the Margins: Status and Resonance for Interpreters
What is a Medieval Paratext?
Charlotte Cooper, DPhil Candidate, University of Oxford
Seeking the Sacred within the Secular: A Study of the Aspremont-Kievraing Psalter’s Marginalia
Katherine Sedovic, DPhil Candidate, University of Oxford
The Castle of Perseverance’s Stage Plan as a Medieval Concordance Diagram
Elisabeth Trischler, MA Candidate, University of Leeds
3.30 – 4.00 Tea/ Coffee will be served in the Social Space
4.00 – 5.45 Neo-medievalism: The Relationship of the Medieval to the Modern
Greek-style Bindings for Western Collectors: Books on the Edge of Cultural Identity
Anna Gialdini, PhD Candidate, University of the Arts, London
Place, Placement, and Paratextuality in Petrarch’s Avignon
Dr Jennifer Rushworth, Junior Research Fellow, University of Oxford
Swimming With the Mainstream: Some Folkloric Thoughts on the Medieval Mermaid
Dr Seana Kozar, Research Associate, University of Bristol
CGI, Borders and Spaces Between
Dr Lesley Coote, Lecturer, University of Hull
All participants are invited for drinks at: The Anchor Pub Silver Street, CB3 9EL
An informal dinner follows drinks
DAY 2:
Saturday 20th September 2014
Room GR 06/07, Ground Floor, English Faculty, 9 West Road, Cambridge
9.00 – 10.00 Plenary Session
“Chaucer at the Edge: Middle English and the Rhetorical Tradition”
Professor Helen Cooper Faculty of English, University of Cambridge
10.00 – 11.15 Performing the Margins
Just Left of Centre: How Images and Music in the Gradual of Gisela von Kerssenbrock Gave the Nuns of Rulle a Central Role in the Margins
Stephanie Azzarello, PhD Candidate, University of Cambridge
Women in the Margins: Women Singing the Mass in 10th Century Essen
Ekaterina Chernyakova, PhD Candidate, University of Cambridge
Pragmatic Addiciones to a Liturgical Reference Text
Dr Matthew Salisbury, Lecturer, University of Oxford
11.15 – 11.45 Tea/ Coffee will be served in the Social Space
11.45 – 1.00 Women on the Margins: Rethinking Roles
Weaving from the Margins: Self-Image and the Work of Sisters in a Late Medieval Dominican Convent
D. Esther Kim, MA Candidate, University of Leeds
Slippages and Stoppages: Saint Thais and the Problem of Female Embodiment in ‘Ancrene Wisse’
Madeleine Pepe, MPhil Candidate, University of Cambridge
Were women on the margins? Eucharistic Praxis and Female Piety in Medieval Irish Vernacular Hagiography
Julianne Pigott, PhD Candidate, University of Cambridge
1.00 – 2.00 Lunch (please list any dietary requirements on your registration form)
2.00 – 3.30 Geographic and Social Margins: Peoples on the Edge
Comic Narrative and Community Order in ‘The Tale of Colkelbie Sow Pars Prima’
Caitlin Flynn, PhD Candidate, University of St Andrews
Sounds of Silence or Noisy Nonsense? Edgy Laughter in Medieval Scotland
Florence Hazrat, PhD Candidate, University of St Andrews
Saint Maurice and the Other Crusaders: Africa During the Crusades
Adam Simmons, MA Candidate, Kings College London
3.30 – 4.00 Tea/ Coffee will be served in the Social Space
4.00 – 5.00 Making Margins: The Work of Scribes
Into the Margins: Addition and Emendation in the Black Book of Carmarthen
Myriah Williams, PhD Candidate, University of Cambridge
The Lady and the Dog: St Edith of Wilton and the Prancing Quadruped on Folio 49 Verso of MS Vercelli, Biblioteca Capitolare, CX VII
Professor Richard North, University College London
5.00 – 6.00 Plenary Session
“Stylistic Effects and Bodily Health: A more than Marginal Connection”
Professor Mary Carruthers, NYU and All Souls College, University of Oxford
10th Anniversary Marginalia Conference Dinner at: The Michaelhouse Café, Trinity Street, CB2 1SU. Drinks in the Chancel from 6.30 for Dinner at 7.30.
This conference celebrates the tenth anniversary of Marginalia, the journal of the graduate-led Medieval Reading Group at the University of Cambridge. We are generously supported by the Cambridge Faculty of English, St. John’s College, Cambridge, and an AHRC conference grant. To learn more, please visit our website at www.marginalia.co.uk and our conference website www.outofthemargins.co.uk, find us on Facebook at facebook.com/outofthemargins or follow us on Twitter: @ootmargins.
For more information on how to register, see also www.outofthemargins.co.uk
The Department of History of Art wishes to appoint a University Lecturer in Medieval Art and Architecture, and invites applications from candidates with a research focus on any aspect or area of medieval art and architecture in continental Europe and/or the British Isles, c. 1050 to c. 1450. Candidates will be expected to be engaged in high-level research, to publish in their specialist field, to seek opportunities to win external funding for that research, to teach and examine undergraduates, to supervise and examine MPhil and PhD postgraduate work, and to undertake appropriate administrative roles within the Department.
