Thursday, 30 November
13:00 – 13:15 – Welcome and Introduction. Greeting from Elke Brüggen (Vice-chair of SFB 1167)
Chair: Emma O’Loughlin Bérat (Universität Bonn)
13:15 – 14:30: Irina Dumitrescu (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn), “Charismatic Properties in Medieval Literature”
14:30 – 15:45: Gaia Gubbini (Freie Universität Berlin), “Fantastic, Fantasmatic, Supernatural: The Imaginary Woman in Langue d’Oc and Langue d’Oïl Literatures”
15:45 – 16:00: Coffee break
16:00 – 17:15: Nicola McDonald (University of York), “Romance Antinomies: The Good, The Bad and Beulybon”
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Friday, 1 December
Chair: Ricarda Wagner (Universität Bern)
9:30 – 10:45: Emma O’Loughlin Bérat (Universität Bonn), “Charismatic childbirth and female genealogies in late medieval romance”
10:45 – 12:00: Stavroula Konstantinou (University of Cyprus), “The Charisma of the Mother Martyr: Motherhood and Self-Sacrifice in the Passion of Perpetua and Felicity”
12:00 – 13:30: Lunch
Chair: Emma O’Loughlin Bérat (Universität Bonn)
13:30 – 14:45: Katherine Jansen (Catholic University of America), “Constructing the Charisma of Saint Catherine of Siena: Is Gender a Useful Category of Analysis?”
14:45 – 16:00: Peggy McCracken (University of Michigan), “The Charisma of Stone: Pygmalion’s It Girl”
16:00 – 16:30: Coffee break
16:30 – 17:45: Stephen Jaeger (University of Illinois), “Eros and Charisma”
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Saturday, 2 December
Chair: Linda Dohmen (Universität Bonn)
9:30 – 10:45: Clare Lees (King’s College London), “The Allure of Anonymity in the Early Middle Ages”
10:45 – 12:00: Elisabeth Dutton (Université de Fribourg), “Theatrical Women Beyond the Bible. Women in non-scriptural drama in the late-medieval period.”
12:00 – 13:30: Lunch
Chair: Irina Dumitrescu (Universität Bonn)
13:30 – 14:45: Racha Kirakosian (Harvard University), “The Last Empress. Saint Richgard and the End of the Carolingian Dynasty”
14:45 – 16:00: Roland Betancourt (University of California, Irvine), “Slut-Shaming an Empress: Shame and Historiography in Byzantium”
16:00 – 16:30: Coffee break
16:30 – 17:45: Theresa Earenfight (Seattle University) Dynastic Power, Charisma, and the Exotic Foreign Spanishness of Catherine of Aragon
17:45 – 18:15: Wrap up, Irina Dumitrescu (Universität Bonn)