The Network for Medieval Arts and Rituals (NetMAR) is pleased to announce the International Conference on "Rituals of Gender Staging and Performance in the Middle Ages".
Wednesday, 03 May 2023
09:00-09:30 | Welcome Speech and Introduction |
09:30-10:00 | Lauren Van Nest (Virginia): Regina et Regnum: The Coronation of Queen Kunigunde in the Pericopes of Henry II (Clm 4452, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich) |
10:00-10:30 | Rosa Rodriguez Porto (Santiago di Compostella): Staging Queenship in the Libro de la Coronación (Escorial, &.III.3) |
10:30-11:00 | Diana Lucía Gómez-Chacón (Madrid): Fashion, Gender, and Performance in the Fifteenth Century: The Castilian Queens’ Wardrobe as a Case of Study |
11:00-11:30 | Coffee break |
11:30-12:00 | Gustav Zamore (Cambridge): Dancing, Defecating, and Disrupting: Women in High and Late Medieval Sacred Spaces |
12:00-12:30 | Katrina Rosie (Kingston): The “Loom of Life” and the “Baited Snare”: The Paradox of Women’s Bodies in Ritual Contexts |
12:30-13:00 | Davide Tramarin (Padua): Nuns’ Bodily and Sensory Experiences. The Rituals of the Holy Week in Lichtenthal, Between Shared Performance and Individual Meditative Practices |
13:00-14:30 | Lunch break |
14:30-15:00 | Lars Boje Mortensen (Odense): Two Sets of Masculine Values in the 12th century: William of Tyre and Saxo Grammaticus |
15:00-15:30 | Janina Dillig (Bamberg): Rituals of Gender Bending in German Medieval Literature |
15:30-16:00 | Gerlinde Gangl (Bamberg): Squabbling, Gossiping women in the Middle Ages. Carrying Stones as Penalties and Symbolic Ways of Communication |
16:00-16:30 | Coffee break |
16:30-17:00 | Kouadio Kouamé (Bamberg): ‘Blurred Gender’ and Liturgy of Power in the Middle Ages: Eunuchs and Staging of Political Power in Byzantium and in the West African Songhay Empire |
17:00-17:30 | Lora Webb (Istanbul): See from where you assume your rank. The Invisible Power of Eunuchs in Byzantine Ceremony |
17:30-18:00 | Coffee break |
18:00-19:00 | Keynote address by Anne Derbes (Frederick, MD): “Birth and Rebirth in late Medieval Italy: Ritual and Gender in the Baptistery of Padua.” |
19:30 | Dinner |
Thursday, 04 May 2023
09:00-09:30 | Stavroula Constantinou (Zypern): Rituals of Motherhood in Byzantine Hagiography |
09:30-10:00 | Andria Andreou (Zypern): Gender Staging in Byzantine Passions of Spouses |
10:00-10:30 | Andrea-Bianka Znorovszky (Salamanca): Visual Ritual: The Entrance and Exit of Saint Marina the Monk in Manuscript Illuminations |
10:30-11:00 | Coffee break |
11:00-11:30 | Bill Regiber (Halle): Discussions of Women's Issues by Men in Medieval Jewish Magic |
11:30-12:00 | Lilian R. G. Diniz (Berlin): Female Magic and Religious Subversion in Caesarius of Arles |
12:00-12:30 | Fedor Nekhaenko (Potsdam): Witchery Rites Constructed by XIII Century Dominicans |
12:30-14:00 | Lunch break |
14:00-14:30 | Sabina Rosenbergová (Rom): The Berta Evangeliary (10th century, Rome) and its Gender-Specific Ritual Function |
14:30-15:00 | Clara Humrich (Konstanz): Women’s Devotional Fashion in Books of Hours |
15:00-16:30 | Eirini Afentoulidou (Wien): Churching the Child in Byzantine Prayerbooks (Euchologia): Questions of Gender Staging and Ritual Expertise |
16:30-17:00 | Coffee break |
17:00-17:30 | Korinna Gonschorek (München): Differing Sexual Encounters and their Implications on Gender Roles in the Versions of Partonopeus de Blois |
17:30-18:00 | Marion Darilek (Tübingen): Rituals of Female (Dis-)Empowerment: Baptism in the Context of Conversion in Medieval German Literature |
18:00-18:30 | Ingrid Bennewitz (Bamberg): Gone to the Dogs. Gender Constructions in the Context of Human-Animal Relations in Medieval and Early Modern Literature |
18:30-19:00 | Round Table Discussion |
19:30 | Dinner |
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