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Room 625/626, Kislak Center, Van Pelt Library [clear filter]
Thursday, March 7
 

3:00pm EST

Session I.01 - Digital Skin: The Future(s) of the Digital Manuscript
  • Organizer and Chair: Johanna M.E. Green, University of Glasgow
  • Escaping the Limits of the Screen: Experiencing and Studying Manuscripts through Virtual Reality (William Endres, University of Oklahoma)
  • 'A Book By Any Other Name': What We Call Digitised Manuscripts and Why It Matters (Dot Porter, University of Pennsylvania)
  • Unpeeling the Layers (Andrew Prescott, University of Glasgow)
Organizer
JM

Johanna M.E. Green

University of Glasgow

Speaker
WE

William Endres

University of Oklahoma
DP

Dot Porter

University of Pennsylvania
AP

Andrew Prescott

University of Glasgow

Thursday March 7, 2019 3:00pm - 4:30pm EST
Room 625/626, Kislak Center, Van Pelt Library
  Session

5:00pm EST

Session II.02 - Creating and Keeping Medieval Scholarship: A Consideration of Digital and Traditional Methods (Roundtable)
  • Organizer: Laura K. Morreale, Independent Scholar
  • Chair: Dot Porter, University of Pennsylvania
  • Best Practices for Archiving Digital Productions (Clifford Anderson, Vanderbilt University)
  • Launching Medieval Object Lessons: A Prospective Test Case for the DDP (Sean Gilsdorf, Harvard University)
  • Creating and Keeping Medieval Scholarship: A Consideration of Digital and Traditional Methods  (Laura K. Morreale, Independent Scholar)
  • Response: Documentation as We Enter the Digital Dark Age (Nancy Partner, McGill University)
Organizer
LK

Laura K. Morreale

Independent Scholar

Chair
DP

Dot Porter

University of Pennsylvania

Speaker
CA

Clifford Anderson

Vanderbilt University
SG

Sean Gilsdorf

Harvard University
LK

Laura K. Morreale

Independent Scholar

Respondent
NP

Nancy Partner

McGill University

Thursday March 7, 2019 5:00pm - 6:30pm EST
Room 625/626, Kislak Center, Van Pelt Library
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Friday, March 8
 

9:00am EST

Session III.02 - Digitization of Manuscripts and Manuscript Cataloguing
  • Organizer and Chair: Matthew James Driscoll, University of Copenhagen
  • Is a Picture Worth a Thousand Words? Digital Facsimiles vs. Digital Catalogues of Manuscripts (N. Kıvılcım Yavuz, University of Copenhagen)
  • Digital Cataloguing of Manuscripts as Artefacts and Quantitative Analysis of Manuscript Descriptions (Katarzyna Anna Kapitan, University of Copenhagen)
  • Incorporating Catalogue and Edition: An Online Collection of Danish Charters (Seán Vrieland, University of Copenhagen)
Organizer
MJ

Matthew James Driscoll

University of Copenhagen

Speaker
KA

Katarzyna Anna Kapitan

University of Copenhagen
SV

Seán Vrieland

University of Copenhagen
NK

N. Kıvılcım Yavuz

University of Copenhagen

Friday March 8, 2019 9:00am - 10:30am EST
Room 625/626, Kislak Center, Van Pelt Library
  Session

2:15pm EST

Session IV.09 - Medieval Ethiopian Christian Culture in Comparative Perspective
  • Organizer and Chair: Samantha Kelly, Rutgers University
  • Of Cannibals and Abbesses: Ethiopian Marian Miracle Tales in Comparative European and Middle Eastern Context (Wendy Belcher, Princeton University)
  • The Social Lives of Ethiopian Psalters (Steve Delamarter, Portland Seminary at George Fox University)
  • Celebrating the Bodily and the Beautiful: Mälkəᶜ in the Ethiopian Liturgy (Habtemichael Kidane, Independent Scholar)
Organizer
SK

Samantha Kelly

Rutgers University

Speaker
WB

Wendy Belcher

Princeton University
SD

Steve Delamarter

Portland Seminary at George Fox University
HK

Habtemichael Kidane

Independent Scholar

Friday March 8, 2019 2:15pm - 3:45pm EST
Room 625/626, Kislak Center, Van Pelt Library
  Session

4:15pm EST

Session V.10 - Ars/Arts: Intersections across Disciplines and Borders
  • Chair: Nicholas Herman, University of Pennsylvania
  • 'Beyond the ‘Bacini’ Phenomenon: Indo-Mediterranean Trajectories regarding the Incorporation of Imported Artifacts into the Built Environment in Medieval Italy and along the Swahili Coast (Vera-Simone Schulz, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut)
  • The Early Medieval Sword: Tracing Advancements in Metallurgy and Mining (James R. Neal, Independent Scholar)
  • Staging Islamic Romanitas: Texts and Objects (Shirin Khanmohamadi, San Francisco State University)
Chair
NH

Nicholas Herman

University of Pennsylvania

Speaker
SK

Shirin Khanmohamadi

San Francisco State University
JR

James R. Neal

Independent Scholar
VS

Vera-Simone Schulz

Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut

Friday March 8, 2019 4:15pm - 5:45pm EST
Room 625/626, Kislak Center, Van Pelt Library
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Saturday, March 9
 

9:00am EST

Session VI.02 - The Liber ordinarius of Nivelles: Piety and Politics under the Aegis of St. Gertrude
  • Organizer: Jeffrey Hamburger, Harvard University
  • Chair: Felicitas Schmieder, FernUniversität Hagen
  • The Codicology, Content and Date of the Liber ordinarius of Nivelles (Jeffrey Hamburger, Harvard University)
  • Gertrude of Nivelles, as Reconstructed from Houghton Library, MS Lat 422 (Margot Fassler, University of Notre Dame)
  • Bitter Enemies – a Manuscript (MS Lat 422) tells Hidden History (Eva Schlotheuber, University of Düsseldorf)
Organizer
JH

Jeffrey Hamburger

Harvard University

Chair
FS

Felicitas Schmieder

FernUniversität Hagen

Speaker
MF

Margot Fassler

University of Notre Dame
JH

Jeffrey Hamburger

Harvard University
ES

Eva Schlotheuber

University of Düsseldorf

Saturday March 9, 2019 9:00am - 10:30am EST
Room 625/626, Kislak Center, Van Pelt Library
  Session

1:45pm EST

Session VII.02 - The Post-Medieval Lives of Manuscripts: Tracing the Manuscript Trade and Cultural Importance in the U.S., British Isles, & Europe
  • Organizer and Chair: Emerson Storm Fillman Richards, Indiana University, Bloomington
  • Collecting and Annotating Medieval Manuscripts in the 17th Century: Political and Cultural Stakes Through a Case Study (Sébastien Douchet, Université Aix-Marseille)
  • The Transatlantic Trade in Medieval Books in Antebellum America (Scott J. Gwara, University of South Carolina)
  • The Manuscript Collection of Charles William Dyson Perrins and Twentieth-Century Values (Laura Cleaver, Trinity College Dublin)
Organizer
ES

Emerson Storm Fillman Richards

Indiana University, Bloomington

Speaker
LC

Laura Cleaver

Trinity College Dublin
SD

Sébastien Douchet

Université Aix-Marseille
SJ

Scott J. Gwara

University of South Carolina

Saturday March 9, 2019 1:45pm - 3:15pm EST
Room 625/626, Kislak Center, Van Pelt Library
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