International Conference: "Rituals of Gender Staging and Performance in the Middle Ages" (University of Bamberg, 03-04 May 2023)
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