Dr. Emma Bérat, University of Bonn
Day 1: Thursday, 31 May 2018
10:30-11:00: Welcome and Introduction (Emma Bérat & Irina Dumitrescu, Univ. Bonn)
Session 1 : Chair, Emma Bérat, Univ. Bonn
11:00-12:15: Lucy Pick (Univ. of Chicago), “Networking Power: Relationships between Women in Eleventh-Century León”
12:15-1:30: Lunch break
Session 2: Chair, Irina Dumitrescu, Univ. Bonn
1:30-2:45: Jitske Jasperse (Humboldt-Univ. zu Berlin), “Matilda Plantagenet´s Material Culture and the Performance of Power”
2:45-4:00: Rebecca Hardie (Univ. Göttingen), “Skin and Blisters: Rethinking the Networks of Anglo-Saxon Sisters”
4:00-4:15: Coffee Break
4:15-5:30: Alyssa Gabbay (Univ. of North Carolina at Greensboro), “Invoking Fatima: Female Kinship and Legitimation in Pre-Modern Iran and Central Asia”
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Day 2: Friday, 1 June 2018
Session 3: Chair, Linda Dohmen, Univ. Bonn
9:30 – 10:45: Roberta Magnani (Swansea Univ.), “Diana and All Her Sect: Virile Women in the works of Geoffrey Chaucer”
10:45 – 12:00: Elizabeth L’Estrange (Univ. of Birmingham), “Kinship, Images, Texts: Networks of Women and their Books at the French court c. 1500”
12:00-1:30: Lunch Break
Session 4: Chair, Rebecca Hardie, Univ. Göttingen
1:30-2:45: Margaux Herman (Debre Berhan Univ.), “Queens and Princesses and Marriages in Ethiopia (16th c.) or How to Contract the Best Alliances to Reach Power”
2:45-4:00: Christopher Baswell (Barnard College/Columbia Univ.), “Disability Networks and Female Power in the Campsey Manuscript Saints’ Lives”
4:00-4:30: Coffee Break and Wrap Up (Emma Bérat, Univ. Bonn)