Medieval Women Workshop VII: Sisters, Leaders, Writers and Readers

Medieval Women Workshop VII: Sisters, Leaders, Writers and Readers

Please Register by contacting Semira at pims.secretary@utoronto.ca. 

Schedule

Friday, January 31

3:30 - 4:00 p.m.
Tea

4:00 p.m. – 4:10 p.m.
Welcome, Father Augustine Thompson, O.P., PIMS Praeses

4:10 p.m. – 5:10 p.m.
Friday Plenary
Chair: Cameron Wachowich
Ann Dooley, Professor Emerita, Celtic Studies, USMC – “Brigid of Kildare: revisiting the great saint of Spring”

5:10 p.m. – 5:15
Short Break

5:15 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Undergraduate Panel
Chair: Ann Hutchison
Micah Heinricks, Emma Kidd, Katie Maclean, Nora Mezo-Willingham, Tannaz Nabavi

6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Reception

Saturday, February 1

9:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Breakfast

10:00 a.m. – 10:10 a.m.
Welcome
Elisa Brilli, Director, Centre for Medieval Studies

10:10 a.m. – 11:10 a.m.
Teachers
Chair: Emma Gabe
Maureen Boulton, Professor Emerita, University of Notre Dame, Medieval Institute, Associate Fellow, PIMS - “Jean Gerson’s Writings for his Sisters”
Carmen Gudiño, PhD student, CMS - “Gender and morality in Hildegard of Bingen’s Cause et cure”

11:10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Break

11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Sisters
Chair: Darian Trabold
Graham Johnson, PhD Candidate, CMS - “‘I fear that we would be cursed by our successors if we chose a Regular life’: The Case for a Female Author of the Vita Odiliae”
Mark Gibbard, PhD Candidate, CMS – “Nach álaid ad-chíd: the Female Gaze in the Táin bó Froích”

12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Lunch

2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Saturday Plenary
Chair: Isabelle Cochelin
Laura Gathagan, Associate Professor, History, State University of New York, College at Courtland – “An army of saints: Mathilda of Flanders’ relic inventory”

3:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.
Break

3:15 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.
Writers
Chair: Annika Rempel
Sarah Carruthers, PhD student, English - “‘Why thow gost in white clothys?’ Margery Kempe Performing a Non-Cloistered Religious Life”
Hannah Robinson, PhD student, Germanic Languages & Literatures – “Uncovering the Discursive Subject in Die Denkwürdigkeiten von Helene Kottannerin (1439-1440)”

4:15 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Break

4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Readers
Chair: Jeanine Varney
Devon Sherwood, PhD student, History – ‘Pour le salut de leurs ammes’: Saints and Special Prayers in Fifteenth-Century French Women’s Books of Hours"
Lori Walters, Professor Emerita, French, Florida State University; Visiting Scholar, CMS, University of Toronto - “Translating Christine de Pizan’s Harley MS 4431 for the English Court (1425-1478)”

5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
Reception