Time for the Middle Ages
Provisional Program
Program Schedule
*Subject to change
Time |
Session |
9:00 | Welcome from Medieval Studies Program Director |
9:15 | Dr. Joseph Grossi, Department of English and Medieval Studies, UVic Eternal Curses: When Time Meets Place in Medieval English Charters |
9:45 |
Dr. Alan Mitchell, Department of English, UVic |
10:15 |
Musical Interlude |
10:30 | Morning Break |
10:45 | First Keynote speaker: Dr. Marina Rustow, Princeton University Did Medieval People Know What Day of the Week It Was? Mismeasure and Imprecision in Cairo Geniza Documents |
11:45 | Dr. Trish Baer, Medieval Studies, UVic Library exhibition - Vanquished Viking Gods |
12:00 |
Lunch break |
1:00 |
Dr. Shamma Boyarin, Department of English and Medieval Studies, UVic |
1:30 | Musical Interlude Early Music Society of the Islands |
1:45 |
Afternoon break |
2:00 |
Dr. Evanthia Baboula, Art History and Visual Studies, UVic |
2:30 | Second Keynote speaker: Eldon Yellowhorn, Simon Fraser Univeristy Understanding Antiquity on the Northern Plains during the Medieval Warm Spell |
3:30 |
conclusion |
Student work from 2022-23
We have some wonderful posters and a final report from some of our students who took Dr. Adrienne Williams Boyarin's class last term.
There will be a presentation on these during the conference, but please feel free to look at the posters and read the paper below.
Poster: "Marginalia in a Fiftheenth-Century Confessional" by Kiarra Burd
Poster: "Mistakes: The (Manuscript) world is Full of them!" by Lilian Goy
Poster and written report:"Early Modern English Wax Seals in the Brown Collection" by Eleanor Shippin