Medieval Matters: A Symposium in Honour of Professor Miri Rubin

When: Thursday, June 29, 2023 - Friday, June 30, 2023, 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Where: ArtsTwo Lecture Theatre Queen Mary, University of London 335 Mile End Road, London E1 4FQ

29 June

 

09:00-09:45      Registration and coffee

 

09:45-10:00      Opening Remarks

 

10:00-11:30     Women, Gender and the Body

                             Chair: Bronach Kane (Cardiff)

                            

                             Ruth Mazo Karras (Trinity College, Dublin)

                             Walter Simon (Dartmouth)

                             Delfi Nieto Isabel (QMUL)

 

11:30-11:45     Coffee

 

11:45-13:15     Urban and Intellectual Culture

                             Chair: Ian Wei (Bristol)

 

                             Katalin Szende (CEU)

                             Jan Dumolyn (Ghent)

                             Étienne Anheim (EHESS)

 

13:15-14:30     Lunch

 

14:30-16:00     Jews and Christians

                             Chair: Rosa Vidal Doval (QMUL)

 

                             Deeana Klepper (Boston University)

                             Ephraim Shoham-Steiner (Ben-Gurion University)

                             Elisheva Baumgarten (Jerusalem)

 

16:00-16:30     Coffee

 

16:30-18:00     Visual and Material Culture

                             Chair: Paul Binski (Cambridge) 

 

                             Sara Lipton (Stony Brook)

                             Anne E. Lester (Johns Hopkins)

                             Verena Krebs (Bochum)

 

30 June

 

10:00-11:30     Music, Ritual and Liturgy

                             Chair: Emma Dillon (KCL)

 

                             Iris Shagrir (Open University, Israel)

                             Susan Boynton (Columbia)

                             Cecilia Gaposhkin (Dartmouth)

                             Nils Holger Petersen (Copenhagen)

 

11:30-11:45     Coffee

 

11:45-13:15     Literature (chair: Julia Boffey, QMUL)

 

                             David Wallace (UPenn)

                             Rita Copeland (UPenn)

                             Paul Strohm (Columbia)

 

13:15-14:30     Lunch

 

14:30-16:00     Reform and Resistance

                             Chair: Mishtooni Bose (Oxford)

 

                             Tamar Herzig (Tel Aviv)

                             Sylvain Piron (EHESS)

                             Gabor Klaniczay (CEU)

 

16:00-16:30     Coffee

 

16:30-18:00     Reflections and Final Discussion

                             Chair: John Arnold (Cambridge) 

 

                             Marek Tamm (Tallinn)

                             Ora Limor (Open University, Israel)

                             Daniel Lord Smail (Harvard)

                             Michael Bailey (Iowa State)

 

 

Organising committee:            Matthew Champion (Melbourne)

                                                          Kati Ihnat (Nijmegen)

                                                          Eyal Poleg (QMUL)

                                                          Milan Žonca (Prague)

 

The organisers would like to thank the School of History at QMUL for supporting this event.