Friday, August 23
10:00–10:15 Introduction
Morning session chaired by Marek Tamm (Tallinn University)
10:15–11:45 Gadi Algazi (Tel Aviv University). Medieval Gifting Practices: Challenges for Historical Research
11:45–12:15 Coffee break
12:15–13:00 Anna Boeles Rowland (University of Leuven). Performing Marriage: Gifts, Material Culture and Consent in Late Medieval London
13:00–14:00 Lunch
Afternoon session chaired by Gadi Algazi (Tel Aviv University)
14:00–14:45 Sari Katajala-Peltomaa (Tampere University). Votive Offerings as Symbolic Communication: Gift Exchange with Saint Nicholas of Tolentino in the 14th and 15th Centuries
14:45–15:30 Philipp Höhn (University of Halle-Wittenberg). Taken Gifts: The Exhibition of Spoils and the Presentation of Maritime Violence in Urban Spaces (Gdánsk, Hamburg, Lübeck)
15:30–16:00 Coffee break
16:00–16:45 Sabine Sommerer (University of Zurich). Medieval Chairs as Gifts
16:45–17:30 Martina Hacke (University of Düsseldorf). The Gifts of Crowned Popes
Saturday, August 24
Morning session chaired by Miri Rubin
10:00–11:15 Lars Kjaer (New College of the Humanities, London). The Medieval Gift: Between Classical Philosophy and Social Anthropology
11:15–11:30 Coffee break
11:30–12:15 Gustavs Strenga (Tallinn University). Rituals, Symbolical Communication, Gifts and Conflicts: Entrance of Archbishop Silvester Stodewescher in the Riga Cathedral (1449)
12:15–13:00 Ruth S. Noyes (Novo Nordisk Fonden/National Museum of Denmark). “a favoririmi nel desiderio d’una Reliquia...” (Re)moving Relics and Performing Gift Exchange Between Early Modern Florence and Vilnius
13:00–14:00 Lunch
Afternoon session chaired by Lars Kjaer (New College of the Humanities, London)
14:00–14:45 Irena Kozmanová (Charles University, Prague). Christening gifts for princely offspring. A tool to switch over political discourse between the ruler and the estates
14:45 –15:30 Poul Grinder-Hansen (National Museum of Denmark). Giving to the poor after the Lutheran Reformation in Denmark – ideals and reality
15:30–15:45 Coffee break
15:45 –16:30 Miri Rubin (Queen Mary University of London). Concluding remarks and discussion.