Friday, May 20th 2016
1.00- 1.15 pm
Introduction: Dr. Annalena Müller (Basel)
1.15- 4.30 pm
I Death and Commemoration
Chair: Caroline Schärli, MA (Basel)
Dr. Mads Heilskov (Aarhus University), From Gown to Chasuble: The Donation and Transformation of Gendered Objects in Late Medieval Denmark
Dr. Miguel García Fernández, MA (Santiago de Compostela)
The Memory of noblewomen in Northwest Spain during the Late Middle Ages: Chronicles, Documents and Tombs
Coffee Break
Dr. Sonsoles García (University College London), Women as Memory Keepers in the Kingdoms of Asturias and León (10th-13th c.)
Dr. Patricia Stoop (Antwerp/ Utrecht) Dutch Collections of Sermons as Tools for Commemoration of the Death (c. 1450–1650)
Discussion & Break
5.00 pm Keynote: Prof. Dr. Alison Beach (Ohio State)
Monastic Necrologies and the Politics of Female Memory in the Central Middle Ages
ca. 7 pm Conference Dinner
Saturday, May 21st 2016
09.30 – 10.00 am Coffee and Tea
10.00-12.00
II Creation of Origin Narratives
Chair: Prof. Dr. Claudia Opitz-Belakhal
Jirki Thibaut, MA (Ghent), Remembering Female Monastic Origins in Tenth-Century Metz
Dr. Kirsty A. Day (Leeds), Rethinking the Origins of the Franciscan Nuns in Wrocław
Prof. Doris Bieñko (Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia), Our Mothers' Writings. The Seventeenth-Century Mexican Nuns' Manuscripts and their Cultural Background
ca. 12.30 Lunch
2.00 - 5.00 pm
III Material Culture and Memory
Chair: Dr. Mercedes Pérez Vidal (Padua)
Dr. Stefanie Seeberg (Cologne/ Städel Museum) Commemorative Function of Art in the Female Monastery of Altenberg under Gertrud of Thüringen (1227-1297)
Dr. Anja Rathmann-Lutz (Basel): Books of Hours as Melting Pots of Devotion, Memory and Wishes in 14th-Century France
Discussion
Closing Remarks by Laura Cayrol Bernardo, MA (EHESS)