2016 Haskins Conference

(with suggestions for presenters)


8:30-11:30	Business Meeting for Officers and Councilors of the Society
9:30	Registration Opens
10:00-11:00	New Research Forum (Bagels and coffee provided) Presiding: Nicholas Paul, Fordham University Spirituality and Corporality in Eleventh and Twelfth Century Inventiones from Southern Italy and England Bridget Riley, University of Toronto A Case of “Foreign” Rule? Charles of Anjou and the Nobility of Frankish Syria Jesse Izzo, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities The Campaigns against Heresy and Usury in Early Thirteenth-Century Toulouse Deborah Gail Shulevitz, Columbia University
12:00-12:15	Welcome
12:15-1:15	C. Warren Hollister Lecture Presiding: Heather Tanner, The Ohio State University, Mansfield Succession and Interregnum in the English Polity: The Case of 1141 Stephen Church, University of East Anglia
1:15-1:30	Break
1:30-3:00	Session 1 — In the Shadow of the Conquest: Adaptation in the Anglo-Norman Church Chair: Jennifer Paxton, Catholic University of America The Abbot, the Monks, and the Cheese: Standardization and Memorialization in Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman Abingdon Daniel O’Gorman, Loyola University, Chicago The Codex Wintoniensis: Re-ordering the Past at Twelfth-Century Winchester Jennie England, University of York Controlling Political Communication in the Early Anglo-Norman Realm Jeffrey Wayno, Columbia University
3:00-3:15	Break
3:15-4:45	Session 2 — Scottish Charters and Cartularies: New Approaches Chair: Austin Mason, Carleton College The Models of Authority project: An Overview Dauvit Broun, University of Glasgow Diplomatic Models in the Charters of Melrose and Holyrood Abbeys John Reuben Davies, University of Glasgow Manuscript Growth in Scotland’s Earliest Cartularies Joanna Tucker, University of Glasgow
4:45-5:00	Tea/Coffee Break
5:00-6:30	Session 3 — Foreign Bishops: Transplanted and Diasporic This session sponsored by EPISCOPUS Chair: Kathryn E. Salzer, Pennsylvania State University, University Park The Strange Journeys of Thiemo of Salzburg: Exile, Martyrdom, and Memory John Eldevik, Hamilton College The Outsider’s Advantage of Bishop Zoen of Avignon Christine Axen, Plymouth State University The Norwegian Bishops of Fourteenth-Century Iceland Michael Frost, Aberdeen University
6:30-7:30	Reception

8:30-10:00	Session 4 — Living in a Material World: Royal Women and Material Culture Chair: Amy Livingstone, Wittenberg University The Afterlife of Theophanu’s Marriage Charter: Opera, Ottonian Queens, and the Early Modern Imagination Laura Wangerin, Seton Hall University Forming Alliances through Material Culture: The Eisiterioi of Agnes of France Erin Jordan, Old Dominion University Clothing the Priestly Body: Royal Women and Liturgical Textile Donations in the Eleventh Century Laura L. Gathagan, SUNY Cortland
10:00-10:15	Break
10:15-11:45	Session 5 — Documentary Culture in Medieval England Chair: Sally Shockro, Merrimack College A Domesday Microcosm: Lessons from the Burton Abbey Survey, 1094-1114 Carol Symes, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Documentation in the Works of Matthew Paris Laura Cleaver, Trinity College, Dublin Visions of the Antique Past: Inscribed Gems in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century England John McEwan, Saint Louis University
11:45-12:45	Lunch
12:45-1:45	Featured Speaker Presiding: Richard E. Barton, University of North Carolina, Greensboro Revolution(s) in Writing in the Middle Ages: Between Myth and History Paul Bertrand, Université catholique de Louvain
1:45-2:00	Break
2:00-3:30	Session 6 — Divinity and Its Discontents in Crusade Sources Chair: Marcus Bull, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill St. Bernard and the Second Crusade: The Long-Term Effects of Miraculous Failure Jay Rubenstein, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Earthly Kings, Heavenly Jerusalem: Ralph Niger’s Political Theology and the Third Crusade John D. Cotts, Whitman College A Swift Answer: Wind in the Sources of Crusades Elizabeth Lapina, University of Wisconsin, Madison
3:30-3:45	Tea/Coffee Break
3:45-4:45	Session 7 — Monastic Constructions of Lay Power in the Empire and Beyond Chair: Thomas McCarthy, New College of Florida Monastic Liberties, Lay Transgressors: The Cases of Tegernsee and Bury St. Edmunds Jonathan Lyon, University of Chicago Monastic Memorializing of Martial Prowess: Wiprecht of Groitzsch, Henry IV, and Pegau Lisa Wolverton, University of Oregon
4:45-5:00	Break
5:00-6:30	Session 8 — Exon Domesday Chair/Introduction: Julia Crick, King’s College London The Content of Exon Domesday Chris Lewis, King’s College London The Writing of Exon Domesday Julia Crick and Francisco Álvarez López (in absentia), King’s College London and University of Exeter The Purpose of Exon and Domesday Stephen Baxter, St Peter’s College, Oxford William the Conqueror’s Property in Normandy and England Alex Dymond, Corpus Christi College, Oxford
7:30	Party at William North’s House

8:30-10:00	Session 9 — Medieval Violence Enacted and Remembered Chair: Steven Isaac, Longwood University Between Justice and Taboo: Punitive Blinding from Winchester to Byzantium Jake Ransohoff, Harvard University Crusading Participation in Normandy and Its Borderlands: The Evidence of French Traditions of the First Crusade Simon Parsons, Royal Holloway, University of London Mercenaries, States, and Organized Violence: North Africa and Europe, c.1100-1500 Michael Lower, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
10:00-10:15	Break
10:15-11:45	Session 10 — Discourses of Power in Medieval Genoa and Norman Italy Chair: Victoria Morse, Carleton College The Holy Heritage of the North: Authority and Identity in Norman-Italian Hagiography, 1060-1110 Devon R. Bealke, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities “The Luxuriant Southern Scene”: Textiles as Reflections of Power in the Norman Kingdom of Southern Italy and Sicily Joanna Drell, University of Richmond Genoa and the Institutionalization of Popular Law John Manke, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
11:45-12:00	Break
12:00-1:00	Featured Speaker Presiding: William North, Carleton College Specific Fuzziness: Of Lines Drawn in the Sand and Water William Ian Miller, University of Michigan Law School
1:00-2:00	Lunch

A gentle reminder for those giving papers:

The point of giving a talk is as much about the questions and the conversation that arise during the Q&A period, as it is about the paper itself. Because of this, you are asked to stick closely to your allotted paper-giving time of 20 minutes. A 20-minute paper is generally a 10-page, 12-point-font typescript. Please be courteous to your fellow panelists and come prepared to give a paper of this length. Panel Chairs will be instructed (with, of course, a couple of minutes grace) to keep their panelists to time. We would all like to hear your conclusions, but will be robbed of the pleasure, if you have been dragged off the podium by your Chair.

For those using A/V:

The conference venue is equipped with a computer, connections for a laptop, a document camera, and a digital projector. If you are using a standard powerpoint presentation (Powerpoint, Keynote), please make sure that you have it downloaded on a flash drive to expedite panel set up. We can also accommodate presenters using their own laptop. Please email conference organizers by October 15 (haskinsconference@gmail.com) regarding your use of A/V; if you are not using A/V no reply is necessary.

Handouts:

You will need to bring copies of any handout with you to the conference. Eighty copies should suffice.