DRAFT
Wednesday 29 June
11.15-11.30 Welcome and Introduction
11.30-13.00 First Keynote Lecture
Polity before the State: Multiple kingship, shared kingship and divided kingship in the Medieval North – Alex Woolf (St Andrews)
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.30 Session 1: Space and Identity
Physical Space and Proto-National Sentiment at Sycharth: Intersections of Archaeology and Poetry in Examining Welsh Identity – Leah Hennick (St Andrews)
Making a territory in thirteenth century Piedmont: Space, history and civic identity in the Liber Alfieri (1292-4) – Susannah Bain (Oxford)
Borders in Matthew Paris – Bethany Summerfield (Aberystwyth)
15.30-16.00 Break
16.00-17.30 Session 2: Writing identity
Donato Sitaro Dialectical patterns of historical identity: Ethnogenesis and Schismogenesis in Gildas and Bede – Donato Sitaro (Naples)
Narratio Fabulosa: Romanness in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s De Gestis Britonum – Matthew Clayton (Durham)
Thursday 30 June
9.30-11.00 Session 3: Linking communities
The Perception of Core and Periphery in Early Medieval England – Andrew Holland (Oxford)
Networks of Merchants in 14th Century Zadar – Filip Vukusa (Bielefeld)
Chronicler and his home: Cistercian historiography towards the Cistercian communities – Antoni Grabowski (Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw)
11.00-11.30 Break
11.30-13.00 Session 4: Othering
From the Phrygian cap to the turban: An impact of the Crusades on representation of Otherness – Tina Anderlini, (Centre d’Etudes Supérieures de Civilisation Médiévale, Poitiers)
Caught among the barbarians: the construction of communal sanctity at Llanthony Priory – Huw Jones (Oxford)
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.30 Second Keynote Lecture
Multicultural Britain and Ethnic National Identities 1100-1300 – Hugh M. Thomas (Miami)
15.30-16.00 Break
16.00-17.30 Session 5: Forging identities
A shared landscape: Examining the interactions between the Welsh and Anglo-Norman communities of Gower during the twelfth century – Caroline Bourne (Reading)
The Barons of Leinster: tenantry assimilation in English Ireland 1170-1245 – John Marshall (Trinity College, Dublin)
In our parts: Elite identity in twelfth-century Cornwall – David Lees (Aberystwyth)
Friday 1 July
9.00-10.30 Session 6: Religious communities
What makes a martyr? Self-provoked death as community binding element within dissident religious networks – Delfi Nieto-Isabel (Harvard)
Monks vs Demons. How ‘byses’ (demons) assisted Kyiv Pechersk Lavra to become a holy place – Andrii Kepsha (Uzhhorod National University, Ukraine)
10.30-11.00 Break
11.00-12.30 Third Keynote Lecture
Writing history, creating communities: Making use of the uses of the past – Gerhard Lubich (Bochum).
12.30-12.45 Concluding remarks