NetMAR International Conference
Rituals of Gender Staging and Performance in the Middle Ages
University of Bamberg, 03-04 May 2023
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Wednesday, 03 May 2023
Location: An der Universität 5 (r. 02/22)
09:00-09:30 | Welcome Speech by Christine Gerhardt (Vice President for Diversity and International Affairs, Bamberg) Introduction by Ingrid Bennewitz (Head of ZeMas, Bamberg) and Michaela Pölzl (Scientific Project Manager, NetMAR) |
09:30-11:00 | Rosa Rodriguez Porto (Santiago di Compostella): Staging Queenship in the Libro de la Coronación (Escorial, &.III.3) Clara Humrich (Konstanz): Women’s Devotional Fashion in Books of Hours Diana Lucía Gómez-Chacón (Madrid): Fashion, Gender, and Performance in the Fifteenth Century: The Castilian Queens’ Wardrobe as a Case of Study |
11:00-11:30 | Coffee break |
11:30-13:00 | Gustav Zamore (Cambridge): Dancing, Defecating, and Disrupting: Women in High and Late Medieval Sacred Spaces Katrina Rosie (Kingston): The “Loom of Life” and the “Baited Snare”: The Paradox of Women’s Bodies in Ritual Contexts Davide Tramarin (Padua): Nuns’ Bodily and Sensory Experiences. The Rituals of the Holy Week in Lichtenthal, Between Shared Performance and Individual Meditative Practices |
13:00-14:30 | Lunch break |
14:30-16:00 | Lars Boje Mortensen (Odense): Two Sets of Masculine Values in the 12th century: William of Tyre and Saxo Grammaticus Janina Dillig (Bamberg): Rituals of Gender Bending in German Medieval Literature Gerlinde Gangl (Bamberg): Squabbling, Gossiping Women in the Middle Ages. Carrying Stones as Penalties and Symbolic Ways of Communication |
16:00-16:30 | Coffee break |
16:30-17:30 | Kouadio Kouamé (Bamberg): ‘Blurred Gender’ and Liturgy of Power in the Middle Ages: Eunuchs and Staging of Political Power in Byzantium and in the West African Songhay Empire Lora Webb (Istanbul): See from where you assume your rank. The Invisible Power of Eunuchs in Byzantine Ceremony |
17:30-18:00 | Coffee break |
18:00-19:00 | Keynote address by Anne Derbes (Frederick, MD): Birth and Rebirth in Late Medieval Italy: Ritual and Gender in the Baptistery of Padua |
19:30 | Dinner |
Thursday, 04 May 2023
Location: An der Universität 5 (r. 02/22)
09:00-10:30 | Stavroula Constantinou (Cyprus): Rituals of Motherhood in Byzantine Hagiography Andria Andreou (Cyprus): Gender Staging in Byzantine Passions of Spouses Andrea-Bianka Znorovszky (Salamanca): Visual Ritual: The Entrance and Exit of Saint Marina the Monk in Manuscript Illuminations |
10:30-11:00 | Coffee break |
11:00-12:30 | Bill Rebiger (Halle): Discussions of Women’s Issues by Men in Medieval Jewish Magic Lilian R. G. Diniz (Berlin): Female Magic and Religious Subversion in Caesarius of Arles Fedor Nekhaenko (Potsdam): Witchery Rites Constructed by XIII Century Dominicans |
12:30-14:00 | Lunch break |
14:00-15:30 | Lauren Van Nest (Virginia): Regina et Regnum: The Coronation of Queen Kunigunde in the Pericopes of Henry II (Clm 4452, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich) Sabina Rosenbergová (Rom): The Berta Evangeliary (10th Century, Rome) and its Gender-Specific Ritual Function Eirini Afentoulidou (Vienna): Churching the Child in Byzantine Prayerbooks (Euchologia): Questions of Gender Staging and Ritual Expertise |
15:30-16:00 | Coffee break |
16:00-17:30 | Korinna Gonschorek (Munich): Differing Sexual Encounters and their Implications on Gender Roles in the Versions of Partonopeus de Blois Marion Darilek (Tübingen): Rituals of Female (Dis-)Empowerment: Baptism in the Context of Conversion in Medieval German Literature Ingrid Bennewitz (Bamberg): Gone to the Dogs. Gender Constructions in the Context of Human-Animal Relations in Medieval and Early Modern Literature |
17:30-18:00 | Round Table Discussion |
19:00 | Dinner |