CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Tuesday 25th June
8pm Onwards: ‘Meet and Greet’ at the Ship and Castle Pub (All welcome!)
Wednesday 26th June
Location: Main Hall, History and International Politics Building, Penglais Campus, Aberystwyth University
10:30 – 11:15 – Registration (for more information, please see our Registration page)
11:15–11:30 – Welcome and Introduction
11:30-12:30 – Introductory Lecture
Chair: Abby Monk
Time Was, Time Isn’t, Time Shall Be: The Conception of Time in Antiquity – Robert Ireland (Aberystwyth University)
13:00 – 14:00 – Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 – Session 1: Time in Art and Architecture
Chair: Brett Whalen
Mundana casu aguntur omnia: Temporal History and the Wheel of Fortune – Oliver Mitchell (Courtauld Institute of Art)
Representation of Time in the Illustrations of Hildegard of Bingen – Yael Barash (Tel Aviv University)
The Abstraction of Time in Medieval Religious Architecture – Erik Gustafson (Washington & Lee University)
15:30 – 16:00 Break
16:15 – 17:45 Keynote Lecture
Chair: Kiri Kolt
Time and History: ways of implementing time in the chronicles of the early and high Middle Ages – Hans-Werner Goetz (University of Hamburg)
19:30 – Dinner
ByrGyr
Thursday 27th June
9:30 – 11:00 Keynote Lecture
Chair: Caitlin Naylor
Computus, Chronology and the Calculation of Time in Anglo-Norman Chronicles – Anne Lawrence-Mathers (University of Reading)
11:00 – 11:30 Break
11:30-13:00 Session 2: Chronology and Dating
Chair: Björn Weiler
Once Again Some Remarks Concerning Chronology of the Ninth Century Historia Brittonum – Pawel Derecki (University of Warsaw)
Berengaudus’s Expositio Apocalypsis and the Perception of Time in the early Anglo-Norman World – Katie Menendez (University of Toronto)
Lost in Time. Alberic of Trois-Fontaines’ knowledge and use of chronology – Antoni Grabowski (Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw)
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 Session 3: Time and Translatio Imperii
Chair: Hans-Werner Goetz
Ut temporibus, ita locis: Reconsidering a Westward Progression of History in the Twelfth-century – Eric Wolever (University of York)
Why does an account of the Germans pay so much attention to the Franks? Translatio Imperii in Twelfth-Century Origin Stories – Kiri Kolt (Aberystwyth University)
The Translatio Imperii, The Holy Roman Empire and Alfonso X – Elena Álvarez (University of Birmingham)
15:30 – 16:00 Break
16:00 – 17:30 Session 4: Manipulation of Time
Chair: Phillipp Schofield
The Politics of Time in William of Malmesbury’s works – Caitlin Naylor (Aberystwyth University)
A Liturgical Vision of Strife at Kaisheim Abbey: Time, Old Age, and the Visio Rudolphi – Amelia Kennedy (Yale University)
Merging Past with Present: Politics and its Representations in Orderic Vitalis’ Historia Ecclesiastica – Abby Monk (Aberystwyth University)
19:30 Dinner
Olive Branch
Friday 28th June
9:30 – 11:00 Keynote Lecture
Chair: David Lees
Joachim of Fiore and the Apocalyptic Past – Brett Whalen (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
11:00 – 11:30 Break
11:30 – 12:30 Session 5: Memory
Chair: Antoni Grabowski
The Past is a Foreign Country: The Distance of Time and Space in Ibn Fadlan’s Risala – Tonicha Upham (University of Iceland)
Looking at the History with Two Eyes: the Case of the Memoriale – Simonetta Doglione (University of Ferrara)
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:30 Session 6: Texts and Transmission
Chair: Rhun Emlyn
Echoing the Past: Tracing Manuscript Transmission of Early Welsh poetry in the Thirteenth Century – Lucie Hobson (Aberystwyth University)
Remigius’ Churches: Hagiography, Archives and Tradition in the Dispute Between Hincmar of Reims and Hincmar of Laon – Matteo Bagarolo (University of Padua)
14:30- 15:00 Concluding remarks and close
15:00 – Coffee and Cake
19:30 Dinner
Medina