Apologies for Cross posting.
For those who have not heard, here are the details for the upcoming
EMERGE conference. Please circulate this information to anyone on
your mailing lists who might be interested.
EMERGE 2000 CONFERENCE
Early Medieval Europe Research Group
Thursday 7th to Saturday 9th September 2000
Heriot-Watt University (Riccarton campus)
Edinburgh
PROGRAMME (booking details follow)
THURSDAY 7 SEPTEMBER
11.30-1.00 Registration and coffee
1.00-2.30 Lunch
2.30-4.00 session 1:
Kevin Uhalde: Penance and the Public in Early Medieval Society
Morgyn Wagner: Demons, sex and sin: ritual impurity and the
Monastery of Tallaght
Michael Meckler: Kinship in Adomnan’s Life of Columba
4.00-4.30 afternoon tea
4.30-6.00 session 2:
Judith Weise: Cautionary Tales for Young Princesses: Mothers in
Beowulf
Deborah Trousdale: The Virgin With a Book in Anglo-Saxon England,
and Beyond
Antonina Harbus: A Cultural Focus on the Mind in Anglo-Saxon England
6.30 reception
7.30 supper
FRIDAY 8 SEPTEMBER
9.30-11.00 session 1:
Jonathan Jarret: The Political Range of Aedán mac Gabráin, King of
Dál Riata
Nicholas Evans: The Early History of the Pictish King-lists
James Fraser: Egberht, Pehthelm and Naiton: The Sources of Bede's
Account of the Conversion of the Picts
11.00-11.30 coffee
11.30-1.00 session 2:
Roger Collins: Rituals of Royalty in Visigothic Spain
Jorge Lopéz Quiroga and José María Gómez Fraile: Indigenismo,
aculturación y tranformación en la génesis de las formaciones
socio-políticas durante la Alta Edad Media.
Jerome Emmanuel Bepoix: The principle of territoriality in the
Visigothic judicial system
1.00-2.30 lunch
2.30-4.00 session 3:
Sarah Foot: English, British, pagans and others: identities among
the tenth-century Anglo-Saxons
Bart Jaski: Hibernia, Ériu, Banba and the Scotti, Féni and Gáedel:
Names for Ireland and the Irish and their implications
Thomas Owen Clancy: The Kingdom of Cumbria: Creation, Continuity and
Cultural Mix
4.00-4.30 tea
4.30-6.00 session 4:
Stuart Airlie: Legitimation, Dynasty and Patrimonial Rule in the
Carolingian Empire
Rob Meens: ‘What is a strangled animal?’ The worries of a king in
the ninth century
Karen Loaiza: Ottonian Abbesses: power and piety
7.30 Conference dinner
SATURDAY 9 SEPTEMBER
9.30-11.00 session 1:
Katja Ritari: The nativities of early Irish saints
Tom Torma: Feasts in the Brigidine Vitae
Hugh Cheape: Searching for a Saint - the Cult of St Finnan
11.00-11.30 coffee
11.30-1.00 session 2:
Simon Coates: Venantius Fortunatus and the Bishops of Sixth-Century
Gaul
Bonnie Effros: Food, Drink and the Expression of Clerical Identity
in Merovingian Gaul
Andrew Gillet: Authors of Concord: Saints as envoys in early
medieval Latin hagiography
1.00-2.30 lunch
2.30-4.00 session 3:
Christina Harrington: The Practice of Magic in Early Medieval
Ireland: Can We Get Beyond Literary Fiction?
Gerd Petterson: Violence, Divination and Gender in the Early Tales
of the Fenian Cycle
4.00-4.30 tea and departure.
BOOKING INFORMATION
Conference Fee: Standard £45.00
Stud./unwaged £20.00
Lunches: Thursday £7.50
Friday £7.50
Saturday £7.50
Dinner: Thursday £8.50
Conference Dinner: Friday £20.00
Accommodation (B&B): Wednesday
Standard £26.00
Double £46.00
En-suite £36.00
Thursday
Standard £26.00
Double £46.00
En-suite £36.00
Friday
Standard £26.00
Double £46.00
En-suite £36.00
Saturday
Standard £26.00
Double £46.00
En-suite £36.00
If you are interested in attending the conference, please print off
this message, circle your requirements, and return, together with
your payment. Payments should be made to EMERGE and booking should
reach us by 25 July 2000.
For further details contact Alex Woolf on [log in to unmask] or at:
Department of Celtic, University of Edinburgh, 19-20 George Square,
Edinburgh EH8 9LD Scotland.
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