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IMBAS 2010: Representations: word, image, artefact

Programme for Imbas 2010, November 12-14th, which took place in the Moore Institute Seminar Room, NUI Galway, Ireland

Friday, November 12th

12.45-1.15 Registration

1.30-3.00  Representing identity: cannibals, corporeality and class

Chair: Professor Máirín Ní­ Dhonnchadha

Jeroen Wijnendaele,  "Exquisite cannibalism": the representation of the Irish in St Jerome's Adversus Jovinianum, University College Cork

Peter Kelly,  Resonances within ï¿½â‚¬ï¿½The House of Fame':  comparing voice and identity in Chaucer and Ovid, NUI Galway

Dagmar Haunold,  Self-portrayal and identification in the Táin Bó Cúailnge, NUI Maynooth

3.00-3.30 Coffee break

3.30-5.00  Beyond the veil:  costume, marriage and Bibical symbolism

Chair: Dr. Catherine La Farge

Elysse T. Meredith,  Beyond records and remnants: discussing literary costume, University of Edinburgh

Laura Carlson,  For answers, see appendix: Theodulf of Orleans and Carolingian Biblical symbolism, Oxford University

Ben Ambler,   Reading the Writing on the Walls: Gaze and Ekphrastic Prescription towards a Spiritual Household, Western Michigan University

5.00-5.45 Wine reception

6.00-7.00 Keynote speech, Professor Michelle P. Brown,  Words to be seen and Images to be read - Adventures in the Medieval Book, University of London

Saturday, November 13^th

9.30-11.00  Murder, marriage and mystery: mayhem in the middle ages

Chair: Dr. Kim Lo Prete

Kate Hammond,  �€�Brother shedding the blood of brother': Orderic Vitalis' representation of the Anglo-Norman fraternal conflict of 1106, University of St Andrews

Hanne-Mette Alsos Raae,  A tripartite classification of marriages in Medieval Europe, NUI Galway

Sandra Hartl,  Anglo-Saxon motifs in J.R.R. Tolkien's works, University of Wurzburg

11.00-11.30 Coffee Break

11.30-1.00  A bishop, a pastor and a teacher go into a bar: power, persuasion and the Apocalypse

Chair: Professor Dáibhí Ó Cróinín

Andrea Puglia,  Between form and representation: Episcopal power in western Tuscany, University of Siena

Shane Lordan,  �€�Sweeter than honey to the needy': the proverbial �€�spoonful of sugar' as the mark of a good teacher in the early Hiberno-Latin sources, University College Cork

Dáithí Ó Mathghamhna, �€� However small their house may be ' : Bede and the lay pastor, University College Cork

1.00-2.15 Lunch

2.30-4.00  Stranger without: devils, heretics and mad poets

Chair: Dr. Pádraic Moran

Owen Roberson,  Seeming and Being: the representation of Satan in Genesis B, University of Leicester

Mairead Keane,  Arius and Cologne: the presence of Arius' Epistola ad Eusebium Nicomediensem  in  Köln , Donbibliothek, Codex 54, NUI Galway

Mona Jacob,  Suibhne Geilt: a Green Man with a knack for words? NUI Galway

4.00-4.30 Coffee Break

4.30-6.00  X marks the spot: high crosses and gravestones in early medieval Ireland

Chair: Dr. Amanda Kelly

Hayley Humphrey,  The fall of Simon Magus: an Apocryphal Legend on the Irish High Crosses, NUI Galway

Valerie Kelly,  The Burren and the Tau: Eastern symbolism in a Western context, NUI Galway

Doireann Denehy,  Legacies in stone at Clonmacnoise: the Meic Cuinn na mBocht gravestones, NUI Galway

7.00-7.30 Drinks reception, Harbour Hotel

7.30 Conference Dinner, Harbour Hotel

Sunday, November 14^th

9.30-11.00  Reading between the lines: maps, manuscripts and marginalia

Chair: Dr. Mark Stansbury

Nóirín Bride Ní­ Bheaglaoi,  Exploring the relationship between text, image and artefact in manuscripts of Gerald of Wales' Topography of Ireland, University College Cork

Ivana Dobcheva,  The shifting shapes of constellations: between the texts and images of the Aratean Corpus , Central European University, Budapest

Cyndy Johnston,  Lines of Influence: the development of the flourished margin and its impact on the thirteenth-century Mise-en-Page, University of London

11.00-11.30 Coffee Break

11.30-1.00  Venerable Verbiage: more than words

Chair: Dr. Jacopo Bisagni

Esther Le Mair,  Words describing the Divine? NUI Galway

Jason O'Rorke,  The subcategorisation of verbal diathesis in the Ars Grammatica  of Diomedes, NUI Galway

Eibhlín Ní­ Fhallamhaín,  Psalmist and Exorcist in Old Irish: salmcétlaid, glantaid, astarceist, esorcist and exarcistid, NUI Galway

1.00-1.30 Coffee break (sandwiches will be provided)

1.30-3.00  Revision in the text: re-presentations and altered narrative

Chair: Dr. Frances McCormack

Lauren Doughty,  Securing a legacy: the Normans' use of propaganda to usurp the right of succession in Post-Conquest England, Louisiana State University

Deborah Thorpe,  Representations of �€�Worship': the portrayal of Sir John Fastolf by his servants, University of York

Marina Ansaldo,  Translating the representation of Fortune: Criseida, Criseyde and the Lady of the Wheel, NUI Galway

Close of Conference

 

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