Prof. Dr. Karl-Heinz Spieß
Monday, 12th July, 2010
9:00 Greetings
„Death at Court in Western Europe“
9:10 Prof. Karl-Heinz Spieß (Greifswald): Introduction and Moderation
9:30-10:15 Prof. Gert Melville (Dresden): „Death and Apotheosis at the Burgundian Court”
10:15-11:00 Prof. Arjo J. Vanderjagt (Groningen): „Descending into the Grave'. The Identification of the Body of Jean sans Peur (1371-1419)”
11:15-12:00 Prof. Werner Paravicini (Kiel): „Theatre of Death. The Transfer of the Remnants of Philip the Good and Isabel
of Portugal to Dijon in 1474”
12:00-12:45 Prof. Scott L. Waugh (California): „Deathbed Scenes in Medieval England”
14:00-14:45 Dr. Immo Warntjes (Greifswald): „Burial Customs of the Nobility in Late Medieval Western Europe”
14:45-15:30 Assistant Prof. Rita Costa Gomes (Towson): „Alfarrobeira: the Death of the Tyrant?"
15:45-16:30 Prof. Hermínia Maria de Vasconcelos Alves Vilar (Évora):
„Between a Lineage and a Territory: Royal Death and Burial at the Portuguese Court”
16:30-17:15 Dr. Klaus Oschema (Bern): „The Cruel End of the Favourite – Clandestine Death and Public Retaliation at Late Medieval Courts in Europe”
20:00 Public Lecture: Prof. Patrick Geary (Los Angeles): „Carolingian Royal Death and Burial”
Tuesday, 13th July, 2010
„Death at Court in Byzantium and Asia“
9.00 Pauline Yu, President of the American Council of Learned Societies (New York): Introduction and Moderation
9:15-10:00 Prof. Claudia Rapp (Los Angeles): „Death at the Byzantine Court. The Emperor and his Family”
10:00-10:45 Prof. Eugene Vance (Seattle): „St. Ambrose's Eulogy of Theodosius the Great and the Ideology of the True Cross“
11:00-11:45 Associate Prof. Ruby Lal (Atlanta): „Invocations of the Dead in the Early Mughal World”
11:45-12:30 Dr. Ali Daud (London): „Aristocratic Cultures and the Memorialization of Battle Death in South India, 700-1300 CE”
12:30-13:15 Prof. Stephan Conermann (Bonn): „The Death of a Mughal Emperor: Chaos at Court or Business as Normal?”
14:15-15:00 Prof. Joe Cutter (Tempe/Arizona): „O Woe! Alas!: Threnodic Writings for Royal Women in Early Medieval China”
15:00-15:45 Prof. David R. Knechtges (Seattle): „Pallbearers’ Songs in Early Medieval China”
15:45-16:30 Prof. Stephen H. West (Tempe/Arizona): „The Documents of Death: Literary Production and the Death of Song
Renzong”
16:45-17:30 Prof. Steven D. Carter (Stanford): „Staying Alive: Poetry and Death in the Late Medieval Japanese Court”
17:30 Conclusion
Wednesday, 14th July, 2010
Excursions: Burial sites of the Dukes of Pomerania