Conference Program
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Sunday, July 28
Conference Opening Reception
5:30 – 7:00 p.m.
Hotel Albuquerque at Old Town, 800 Rio Grande Blvd. NW
Monday, July 29
Session 1
9:00 – 10:30 a.m.
Sculpture, Minting, and Embroidery in the South and South-West: Social and Cultural Contexts
Lobo Room
Presider: Timothy C. Graham, University of New Mexico
The “Dowlish Wake” Sculpture of St. Peter: New Light on Monastic Art in South-West England in the Later Anglo-Saxon Period
Leslie Webster, The British Museum / University College London
Making Money in the South-West: Minting and Society in Late Anglo-Saxon England
Rory Naismith, King’s College London
Southern English Traditions in Early Medieval Embroidery and the Bayeux Tapestry
Alexandra Makin, Independent Scholar
Break
10:30 – 11:00 a.m.
Session 2
11:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Keynote address: How Anglo-Saxon Was the South-West?
John Blair, University of Oxford
Lobo Room
Lunch break
12:15 – 1:30 p.m.
Session 3
1:30 – 3:00 p.m.
3a. What Does “Anglo-Saxon” Mean in the Twenty-First Century?
Lobo Room
Presider: David Wilton, Texas A&M University
What Does “Anglo-Saxon” Mean to You?
Christopher M. Roberts, Regis University
Anglo-Saxonism, la raza Latina, and American Borderlands
Ben Garceau, University of California, Irvine
Anglo-Saxons on Exhibit
Karen Jolly, University of Hawai‘i
3b. Reception and Transmission in Exegesis and Liturgiology
Santa Ana Room
Presider: Jan M. Ziolkowski, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection / Harvard University
Bede, Arator, and Rhetorical Allegoresis
Paul Vinhage, Cornell University
Diatessaron Studies and Some Anglo-Saxon Harmonies of the Passion Gospels
Christopher A. Jones, Ohio State University
Hrabanus Maurus in the West: The De institutione clericorum, Wulfstan’s “Commonplace Book,” and Anglo-Saxon Intellectual Culture in Worcester
Deanna Brook’s, University of Toronto
3c. Home and Away: Real and Imagined Space and Place
Acoma Room
Presider: Nicole Guenther Discenza, University of South Florida
There’s No Place Like eðel: Knowledge, Landscape, and Home in the American Southwest and Anglo-Saxon England
Marjorie Housley, University of Notre Dame
The Mercian Space of the Beowulf-Poet
Maggie Heeschen, University of Minnesota
Unmapping Beowulf: Monster Habitats and Digital Platforms
Alexandra Bolintineanu, University of Toronto
Break
3:00 – 3:30 p.m.
Session 4
3:30 – 5:00 p.m.
Fresh Perspectives on the “Alfredian Canon”
Lobo Room
Presider: Christine Rauer, University of St. Andrews
Was Alfred’s Enchiridion a Source for the Old English Soliloquies? Leslie Lockett, Ohio State University
Crossing Languages: Grammatical Theory and Semiotics in Alfred’s Preface to the Pastoral Care
Rachel Hanks, University of Notre Dame
Comparing the Many Worlds of Orosius: The Old English and Arabic Translations of The History against the Pagans
Patrick Naeve, Cornell University
Tuesday, July 30
Session 5
9:00 – 10:30 a.m.
Comparative Perspectives on Anglo-Saxon Medicine
Lobo Room
Presider: Christina Lee, University of Nottingham
Anglo-Saxon Medicine and Traditional Herbal Medicine in the Southwest
Shirley Kinney, University of Toronto
“Ðis bið god læcedom”: Placebo and Meaning Responses in Old English Medicine
Rebecca Brackmann, Lincoln Memorial University
Ethics and Comparing Indigenous Herbal Medicines
Erin E. Sweany, Vassar College
Break
10:30 – 11:00 a.m.
Session 6
11:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Keynote address: Mythmaking the “Anglo-Saxon”: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and Medieval Heritage Politics
Adam Miyashiro, Stockton University
Lobo Room
Lunch
12:30 – 2:15 p.m.
“The Middle Ages in New Mexico: A Perspective from Chaco Canyon”
Catered luncheon with presentation by Patricia Crown, Leslie Spier Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, University of New Mexico
Ballroom C
Session 7
2:30 – 4:00 p.m.
7a. Conquest, Conflict, and Colonialism: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Lobo Room
Presider: Heather Maring, Arizona State University
Orientalism, Medievalism, and Questioning Essentialism in Old English Literature Studies
Jacob Wayne Runner, University of Nottingham
Emma and the Traumas of Conquest: Reading Vulnerability in the Encomium Emmae
Emily Butler, John Carroll University
Comparative Colonialism: A Parallel Consideration of the Domesday Book and the Dawes Rolls
Tarren Andrews, Conf. Salish and Kootenai Tribes / University of Colorado
7b. New Approaches to Paleography and Diplomatics
Santa Ana Room
Presider: Jonathan Davis-Secord, University of New Mexico
Degenerate Uncial in South-West Anglo-Saxon England
Matthew T. Hussey, Simon Fraser University
The Development of the Anglo-Saxon Boundary Clause Revisited
Amy Williams Clark, University of California, Berkeley
A New Single-Sheet Diploma of King Edgar
Kathryn Lowe, University of Glasgow
7c. Responses to Terrestrial and Celestial Phenomena
Acoma Room
Presider: Roy M. Liuzza, University of Tennessee
“Terraemotus magni erunt per loca et pestilentiae et fames terroresque de caelo et signa magna erunt” (Luke 21:11): Representations of eorðstyrung in Old English Literature
Marilina Cesario, Queen’s University Belfast
The Colours of the Rainbow in Anglo-Saxon Literature
Elisa Ramazzina, Queen’s University Belfast
Comets, Eclipses, and Other Celestial Phenomena in Late Anglo-Saxon England
James Aitcheson, University of Nottingham
Break
4:00 – 4:30 p.m.
Session 8
4:30 – 5:45 p.m.
Project Reports
Lobo Room
The Dictionary of Old English
Stephen Pelle, University of Toronto
Curating “Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms” at the British Library
Claire Breay, The British Library
The Beowulf’s Afterlives Bibliographic Database
Britt Mize, Texas A&M University
Reception
6:00 – 7:30 p.m.
Maxwell Museum of Anthropology
Wednesday, July 31
Excursion to Acoma Pueblo
Thursday, August 1
Session 9
9:00 – 10:30 a.m.
Connections and Interconnections in Old English Poetry
Lobo Room Presider: Hugh Magennis, Queen’s University Belfast
Poetry South-West: Craft Poets and the New Poetry Flourishing in and around Wessex ca. 940–980
John D. Niles, University of Wisconsin
Deserving Time: Calendrical Poetics, Temporality, and the Old English Elegies
Mary Kate Hurley, Ohio University
Toward the Limits of Imagination: Narrative Movement and Stasis in Soul and Body
Evelyn Reynolds, Indiana University
Break
10:30 – 11:00 a.m.
Session 10
11:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Keynote address: Wayward Tongues: Disciplining Speech in the Anglo-Saxon South-West and Elsewhere
Katherine O’Brien O’Keeffe, University of California, Berkeley
Lobo Room
Lunch break
12:15 – 1:30 p.m.
Session 11
1:30 – 3:00 p.m.
11a. Winchester, the Benedictine Reform, and the Arts
Lobo Room
Presider: Rebecca Stephenson, University College Dublin
Performing Reform
Erica Weaver, University of California, Los Angeles
Winchester Tropes and the Poetics of Intercalated Form
Max Stevenson, University of California, Berkeley
The Sight of Sin in the Anglo-Saxon Psychomachia Illustrations
Benjamin A. Saltzman, University of Chicago
11b. Body and Belief in Anglo-Saxon Medical Culture
Santa Ana Room
Presider: Renée R. Trilling, University of Illinois
Fertility, Childbirth, and the Textual Body of the Anglo-Saxon Woman
Dana Oswald, University of Wisconsin, Parkside
Whole, Holy, Healthy: The Poetics and Cultural Context of Metrical Charm 7
Caroline Batten, University of Oxford
Heavenly Pity: Plague in Bede’s Ecclesiastical History
Amanda Kenney, University of Missouri
11c. Early Modern Connections and Collections
Acoma Room
Presider: Johanna I. Kramer, University of Missouri
John Heywood’s Early Modern Proverb Poetry and the Rhetorical Use of Proverbs in the Exeter Anthology of Old English Verse
Brian O’Camb, Indiana University Northwest
The Post-Medieval Anglo-Saxon Glossaries in the Bodleian Library, Oxford
Dabney A. Bankert, James Madison University
The Junius Manuscripts: A Reconstruction of the Original Collection
Kees Dekker, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Break
3:00 – 3:30 p.m.
Session 12
3:30 – 5:00 p.m.
Project Reports
Lobo Room
Cambridge Elements: The Anglo-Saxon World
Emily Thornbury, Yale University
ECHOE: The Electronic Corpus of Anonymous Homilies in Old English
Thomas N. Hall and Grant Leyton Simpson, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Andvari: Portal to the Visual World of Early Medieval Northern Europe
Lilla Kopár, Catholic University of America
AncientBiotics: What Next?
Christina Lee, University of Nottingham
Friday, August 2
Session 13
9:00 – 10:30 a.m.
Celtic Connections
Lobo Room
Presider: Carol Neuman de Vegvar, Ohio Wesleyan University
Anglo-Saxon England and South-West Ireland: Cultural Interconnections in the Inscription on the Eighth-Century Ardagh Chalice
Bernard Meehan, Trinity College Dublin
Irish Cosmology in the Court of King Alfred
Joey McMullen, Indiana University
Meteorology and Hydrology in Anglo-Saxon Biblical Exegesis
John Gallagher, University of St. Andrews
Break
10:30 – 11:00 a.m.
Session 14
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Constructions of Race in Text and Image
Lobo Room Presider: Robin Norris, Carleton University
Polychromatic Cham
Jill Fitzgerald, United States Naval Academy
Racial Essentialism in Cynewulf’s Elene
Eduardo Ramos, Pennsylvania State University
Jews, Gender, and Disability in the Old English Elene
Heide Estes, Monmouth University
Lunch break
12:30 – 1:45 p.m.
Session 15
1:45 – 3:15 p.m.
15a. Anglo-Latin of the Eighth Century: Rhetoric, Reception, Transmission
Lobo Room
Presider: Damian Fleming, Purdue University Fort Wayne
Competing Rhetorics: Literacy, Latinity, and Realpolitik at the Synod of Nidd
Gerard Lavin, University of New Mexico
With One Voice, in One Tomb: Memorializing Friendship
Lisa Weston, California State University, Fresno
A New Manuscript of Aldhelm’s Carmen de virginitate
Colleen M. Curran, University of Oxford
15b. Ælfric and His Impact
Santa Ana Room
Ælfric’s Chronology and Canon
Aaron J. Kleist, Biola University
Ælfric’s Lives of Saints and the Rise of Romance
Evan Wilson, University of California, Berkeley
Translating Ælfric in the Seventeenth Century: London, British Library, Harley MS 438
Tristan Major, Qatar University