Medieval Matters: A Symposium in honour of Professor Miri Rubin

29-30 June 2023

Symposium

 

 

 

Présentation

Medieval Matters has been organised in honour of Professor Miri Rubin at QMUL, School of History, London. It will be held on 29-30 June and includes papers on the Jews by Deeana Klepper, Ephraim Shoham-Steiner and Elisheva Baumgarten.

Organising committee: Matthew Champion (Melbourne), Kati Ihnat (Nijmegen), Eyal Poleg (QMUL), Milan Žonca (Prague)

 

Programme et réservation

Please see the full agenda for both days below. You are welcome to attend one of the days, or both – please book your tickets accordingly.

Thursday 29 June 2023

9:00 AM – 9:30 AM – Registration and Coffee

9:30 AM – 10:00 AM – Opening Remarks

10:00 AM – 11:30 AM – The City (chair: Ian Wei, Bristol)

Katalin Szende (CEU) Mario Ascheri (Rome) Jan Dumolyn (Ghent) Étienne Anheim (EHESS)

11:30 AM – 11:45 AM – Coffee break

11:45 AM – 1:15 PM – Women, Gender and the Body (chair: Bronach Kane, Cardiff)

Ruth Mazo Karras (Trinity College, Dublin) Walter Simons (Dartmouth) Delfi Nieto Isabel (QMUL)

1:15 PM – 2:30 PM – Lunch

2:30 PM – 4:00 PM – Jews and Christians (chair: Rosa Vidal, QMUL)

Deeana Klepper (Boston) Ephraim Shoham-Steiner (Ben Gurion) Elisheva Baumgarten (Jerusalem)

4:00 PM – 4:30 PM – Coffee break

4:30 PM – 6:00 PM – Visual and Material Culture (chair: Paul Binski, Cambridge)

Sara Lipton (Stony Brook) Anne E. Lester (Johns Hopkins) Verena Krebs (Bochum)

Friday 30 June 2023

10:00 AM – 11:30 AM – Music, Ritual and Liturgy (chair: Emma Dillon, KCL)

Iris Shagrir (Open University, Israel) Susan Boynton (Columbia) Cecilia Gaposchkin (Dartmouth) Nils Holger Petersen (Copenhagen)

11:30 AM – 11:45 AM – Coffee break

11:45 AM – 1:15 PM – Literature (chair: Julia Boffey, QMUL)

David Wallace (UPenn) Rita Copeland (UPenn) Paul Strohm (Columbia)

1:15 PM – 2:30 PM – Lunch

2:30 PM – 4:00 PM – Reform and Resistance (chair: Mishtooni Bose, Oxford)

Tamar Herzig (Tel Aviv) Sylvain Piron (EHESS) Gabor Klaniczay (CEU) Lyndal Roper (Oxford)

4:00 PM – 4:30 PM – Coffee break

4:30 PM – 6:00 PM – Reflections and final discussion (chair: John Arnold, Cambridge)

Marek Tamm (Tallinn) Ora Limor (Open University, Israel) Daniel Lord Smail (Harvard) Virginia Reinburg (Boston)

Lieu

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335 Mile End Road
London E1 4FQ
United Kingdom