Ghent, May 22

11.00-11.15: Registration and coffee
11.15-11.30: Welcome by Marc Boone, Dean of the Faculty of Arts & Philosophy
11.30-11.45: Jeroen Deploige (Ghent University), Introduction

Session 1 – Moderator: Marc Boone (Ghent University)
11.45-12.45: Keith Lilley (Queen's University Belfast), On socio-spatial Othering in the English medieval city
12.45-13.30: Lunch
13.30-14.30: Hélène Noizet (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), Spatialiser pour mieux régner : le roi, l'évêque et les Parisiens d'après la « forma pacis » (1222)
14.30-15.30: Anne Lester (Boulder University, CO), “Susceptio reliquarum” in the cities of North-western France: Sacred geography and civic identity in the aftermath of the Fourth Crusade, 1204-1240)
15.30-15.45: Coffee

Session 2 – Moderator: Frederik Buylaert (Free University of Brussels)
15.45-16.45: Jelle Koopmans (University of Amsterdam), Les jeunes – un critère problématique ou un groupe bien défini?
16.45-17.45: Sarah Rees Jones (University of York), Neighbourhoods, intentional communities and social welfare. The making of utopia in thirteenth-century English cities

Ghent, May 23

Session 3 – Moderator: Jelle Haemers (University of Leuven)
9.30-10.30: Daniel Gerrard (University of Oxford), “Imbued with the spirit of an antique nobility”: The dignity of the city in high medieval England
10.30-11.30: Paulo Charruadas (Université Libre de Bruxelles), Exploring nascent social identity: The Brussels aldermen, between behaviours, representations and perceptions (twelfth-thirteenth centuries)
11.30-11.45: Coffee
11.45-12.45: Ewoud Waerniers (Ghent University), Perception and performance of urban identity during the last decades of the commune in Cambrai (1182-1227)
12.45-13.30: Lunch

Session 4 – Moderator: Wim Blockmans (University of Leiden)
13.30-14.30: Jehangir Malegam (Duke University, NC), The aesthetics of belonging and alienation: Organization of hatred in Northern French communes
14.30-15.30: Jan Dumolyn & Jeroen Deploige (Ghent University), Vengeance as communal custom. The destruction of houses in the medieval Low Countries
15.30-15.45: Coffee
15.45-16.45: Jörg Wettlaufer (Academy of Science and Humanities, Göttingen), The emergence and social usage of shaming punishments in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries in Northwest European cities

17.00-18.45: Guided tour of medieval Ghent by Xavier Baecke, Ghent University

Brussels, May 24

8.15-9.30: Bus trip from Ghent (Hotel Ibis Opera) to Brussels (Academy)
9.30-9.45: Coffee

Session 5 – Moderator: Peter Stabel (University of Antwerp)
10.00-11.00: James Davis (Queen's University Belfast), Urban market regulation and commercial morality in Anglo-Norman England
11.00-12.00: Sethina Watson (University of York), Making polities: revenue and public welfare in English towns, 1170-1240

12.00-13.45: Lunch and guided tour of the subterranean remains of the medieval Coudenberg castle by Bram Vannieuwenhuyze, University of Leuven

Session 6 – Moderator: Rudi Künzel (University of Amsterdam)
13.45-14.45: Walter Simons (Dartmouth College, NH), “Brood omme God”: Religious vagrancy, begging, and labor, 1100-1350
14.45-15.45: Letha Boehringer (Universität zu Köln), Aspiring urban elites and new forms of lay piety – the beguines of Cologne c. 1220-1270
15.45-16.00: Coffee

16.00-16.30: Jeff Rider (Wesleyan University, CT), Conclusions
16.30-18.00: Reception