ALL TIMES ARE IN BRITISH SUMMER TIME (UTC +1hr)
Wednesday 5 October
12:45–13:00
Welcome
Euan McCartney Robson and Simon John
13:00–14:45
Session 1: Monumental Medievalism in Modern Japan
Chair: Simon John, Swansea University, UK
Sven Saaler (Sophia University, Japan): The medieval roots of imperial loyalty: the cult of Kusunoki Masashige in modern Japan
Judith Vitale (University of Zurich, Switzerland): The “Movement for the Establishment of a Monument for the Mongol invasions”
Ran Zwigenberg (Pennsylvania State University, USA): Date Masamune: In (and off) the Saddle of History on Japan’s Periphery
Oleg Benesch (University of York, UK), A Japanese Monument to Global Medievalism: The Origins of the Yasukuni Shrine Yushukan Military Museum
14:45–15:15 BREAK
15:15–16:15
Session 2: Encountering the Middle Ages through Monuments: approaches and debates
Chair: Euan McCartney Robson, Paul Mellon Centre, UK
Laura S. Harrison (Independent Scholar, UK) & Andrew B.R. Elliott (University of Lincoln, UK): “Set in Stone”: The Participatory Function of Medieval Statues
Sarah Gordon (Utah State University, USA): “Tear it Down”: Controversial Statues of Medieval Figures in the US (Joan of Arc and St. Louis)
16:15–17:15 BREAK
17:15–18:45
Session 3: Monuments and the Medieval Past in Ukraine and Russia
Chair: Leonie Exarchos, University of Mainz, Germany
Emma Louise Leahy (Independent Scholar, Germany): The Kyivan Rus’ as Origin Story in Soviet and National Historiographies: The Changing Meanings of Medieval Images in the Monumental Mosaic Art of Ukraine (1960s to 2010s)
Anastasija Ropa (Latvian Academy of Sport Education, Latvia), Edgar Rops (Independent Scholar, Latvia), and Maria Inês Bolinhas (Catholic University of Portugal): The Contested Statue of Knyaz Vladimir/Volodimir
Aleksandr Vitalievich Rusanov and Olga Alekseevna Makridina (both National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia): Russian monumental medievalism: cases of Moscow and Ryazan
Thursday 6 October
12:00–13:30
Session 4: Monuments, Medieval History and Nation-Building
Chair: Christoph Laucht (Conflict, Reconstruction and Memory research group, Swansea University)
Anna Lidor-Osprian and Romedio Schmitz-Esser (both Heidelberg University, Germany): Between Medievalism and Baroque Maternalism: The Multifaceted Historical Monumentalism of nineteenth-century Austria
Len Scales (Durham University, UK): Unsettled Memories: Henry I (r. 919–936) in Quedlinburg
Tommaso Zerbi (Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max Planck Institute for Art History, Italy): A Tale of Two Monuments: Making, Remaking, and Unmaking the Myth of Amadeus VI of Savoy from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century
13:30–14:00 BREAK
14:00–15:00
Session 5: National Histories and the (ab)uses of the Middle Ages
Chair: TBA
Gethin Matthews (Swansea University, UK): The use and abuse of the medieval past in Wales in the age of the Great War
Omer Merzić (Institute of Historical Research, UK): The use and misuse of medieval monuments in Bosnia and Herzegovina
15:00–15:30 BREAK
15:30–17:00
Session 6: Monumental Women
Chair: TBA
Julia Faiers (University of St Andrews, UK): The invention and reinvention of Clémence Isaure in modern Toulouse
Christopher Crocker (University of Manitoba, Canada): Ásmundur Sveinsson’s “The First White Mother in America”: Guðríðr Þorbjarnardóttir as a (white-) feminist icon
Caroline Bourne (University of Reading, UK): The Gwenllian Monument at Kidwelly: Issues of Gender and a Contested Landscape in Commemorating Medieval Welsh History
17:00–17:30 BREAK
17:30–19:00
Session 7: The Monumental Heritage of the Middle Ages
Chair: TBA
Teresa Soley (Columbia University, USA): Sculpting Portugal’s Golden Age: Tombs and the Image of the “Age of Discovery”
Jessica Barker (The Courtauld Institute, UK): Anachronic Empire: The Afterlives of the Padrões of Diogo Cão
Ethel Sara Wolper (University of New Hampshire, USA): Lessons from Mosul: ISIS, UNESCO, and the Spectacle of Definition
19:00 Concluding remarks