Jörg Bölling, Seminar für Mittlere und Neuere Geschichte, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Sunday, October 4th
14.00-14.20 Hedwig Röckelein and József Laszlovszky: Introduction
14.20-14.50 Prof. József Laszlovszky, PhD, CEU Budapest: “Monastic regions as monastic landscapes? Monasticism, mission and rulers”
14.50-15.20 Edit Sárosi, PhD student, CEU Budapest - Cultural Heritage Office: “Early Monastic Complexes in the Danube-Tisza Interfluve Region in Hungary: Problems of Identification and Localization”
15.20-15.50 Coffee break
16.20-16.50 Prof. Peter Aufgebauer, PhD, University of Göttingen, Institute for Regional History: "The Handbook of Lower-Saxon Monasteries and the Dynamic of Monastic Landscapes"
16.50-17.20 Ulrike Matzke, M.A., University of Göttingen, Doctoral Program of the State of Lower Saxony in cooperation with the Ducal Library Wolfenbüttel: “Convent life and princely rule in Late Medieval
Lower Saxony: Fifteenth-Century Monastic policy in the Harz Region”
17.20-17.50 James Bond, B.A., F.S.A., M.I.F.A., Visiting Fellow, University of Bristol: "Premonstratensian houses in England with a comparative view to the continent"
18.30 Dinner at Brunshausen
Monday, October 5th
09.00-09.10 Hedwig Röckelein: Introduction
09.10-09.40 Matthias Zirm, Dipl.Ing., M.Sc., University of Halle-Wittenberg, Doctoral student of the Research Program Frauenstift Gandersheim: “New methodological approaches to the archeological ceramics of the Brunshausen monastery – a Reevaluation”
09.40-10.10 Christian Popp, PhD, Germania Sacra at the Academy of
Sciences Göttingen, Post-Doc of the Research Program Frauenstift Gandersheim: “Relics and Saints of the Gandersheim Convent”
10.10-10.40 Coffee break
10.40-11.10 Maria Julia Hartgen, Göttingen University, Assistant of the Research Program Frauenstift Gandersheim: “Elisabeth Ernestine Antonie von Sachsen-Meiningen (1681–1766), 51th abbess of the house of canonesses in Gandersheim“
11.10-11.40 Inke Beckmann, M.A., Göttingen University, Assistant of the Research Program Frauenstift Gandersheim: “The digital reconstruction of material remains of the religious house in Gandersheim with the inventory system OPAL (Online Portal of
Digitized Cultural Assets of Lower Saxony)"
11.40-13.10 Lunch at Brunshausen
13.20 Excursions to Gandersheim, Medieval Canonesses' Church and
Baroque Abbesses' House; Brunshausen, Museum in the Gothic Monastery Church; Clus, Rural domain and Convent Church Dinner at Brunshausen or Gandersheim
Tuesday, October 6th
09.00-09.10 Introduction (Hedwig Röckelein)
09.10-09.40 (em.) Prof. Michael Richter, PhD, Berlin (formerly University of Konstanz): “The early medieval Irish monastic landscape: a world without Benedict”
09.40-10.10 Marianne Sághy, Associate Professor, CEU Budapest: “Monks to Hermits: Saint Günther and the Eremitic Revival in 11th-century Hungary”
10.10-10.40 Mircea Dulus, PhD student, CEU Budapest: “Norman Kingship and Monastic Orders in Sicily: Roger II (1130-1154), Benedictines and the Foundation of San Salvatore in Messina”
10.40-11.10 Coffee break
11.10-11.40 Alison Beach, PhD, actually at the University of Trier: "The Reform of Petershausen in a Changing Religious Landscape"
11.40-12.10 Fiona Griffiths, PhD, New York University: "Inseparable
Companions. Women and the Apostles in the Twelfth Century"
12.10-13.40 Lunch at Brunshausen
13.40-14.10 Thomas Labusiak, PhD, Director of “Portal zur Geschichte” (Bad Gandersheim), Post-Doc of the Research Program Frauenstift Gandersheim: “Illustrations in Benedictine rules”
14.10-14.40 Eszter Czoma, M.A., Museum of Fine Arts Szépmüveszeti Múzeum) Budapest: “The sculpture program of the cloisters Ss. Pietro et Orso in Aosta”
14.40-15.10 Béla Zsolt Szakács, Associate Professor, CEU Budapest: “Regional aspects of romanesque monastic architecture in Hungary”
15.10-15.40 Coffee break
15.40-16.10 Katharina Mersch, M.A., University of Göttingen, former doctoral student of the International Max-Planck Research School
Göttingen: “Baptismal fonts in benedictine nunneries and canonesses houses in 12th century Germany: Liturgy, objects and social meaning”
16.10-16.40 Stanislava Kuzmova, PhD student, CEU Budapest: “The Holy Bishop, the Monks and the Canons. The Cult of St. Stanislaus of
Cracow in a Monastic Landscape”
16.40-17.10 Hedwig Röckelein and József Laszlovszky: Conclusion
Dinner for those who are staying another night at Gandersheim
Wednesday, October 7th
Morning: Transfer to Wolfenbüttel (with an excursion to Goslar) for those who are participating in the Conference at the Ducal Library from october 7-9th