Friday, 16 July
19:00-20:30 CONFERENCE OPENING & launch of two new books:
Computus and its Cultural Context in the Latin West, AD 300‒1200. Proceedings of the First International Conference on the Science of Computus in Ireland and Europe, Galway 14‒16 July, 2006 (eds. Immo Warntjes & Dáibhí Ó Cróinín; Turnhout, 2010).
Immo Warntjes, The Munich Computus: Text & Translation. Irish computistics between Isidore of Seville and the Venerable Bede and its reception in Carolingian times (Stuttgart, 2010).
Saturday, 17 July
9:30-11:00 — Session 1 (Chair: To be announced)
Immo WARNTJES (GREIFSWALD): Irish computistics between Isidore & Bede
Leofranc HOLFORD-STREVENS (OXFORD): The Disputatio Cori et Praetextati, or, the Roman calendar for beginners
Dan Mc CARTHY (DUBLIN): The Paschal cycles of Cummian & St Patrick
11:00-11:30 — Tea/Coffee
11:30-13:00 — Session 2 (Chair: To be announced)
David HOWLETT (OXFORD): Annus solis continetur: a seventh-century Hiberno-Latin computistical poem
Brigitte ENGLISCH (PADERBORN): Osterfest und Weltchronistik in den westgotischen Reichen
Dáibhí Ó CRÓINÍN (GALWAY): Archbishop James Ussher and the sources for the history of the Early Paschal Controversy
13:00-15:30 — Lunch-break & walk-about in Galway
15:30-17:00 — Session 3 (Chair: To be announced)
Alden MOSSHAMMER (SAN DIEGO): The Computus of 243
Ulrich VOIGT (HAMBURG): The 95-year Easter table of Ravenna
Jan ZUIDHOEK (ZWOLLE): The initial year of De ratione paschali and the relevance of its Paschal dates
17:00-17:30 — Tea/Coffee
17:30-19:00 — Session 4 (Chair: To be announced)
Marina SMYTH (NOTRE DAME): Once in four: Early medieval thoughts on the leap-year
Lisa LYNN CHEN (TORONTO): What a difference a day makes: The eighth day of the week in Hrabanus Maurus, De rerum naturis, Lib. X.
Bruce EASTWOOD (KENTUCKY): What is an epicycle? Carolingian queries & conceptualizations
21:00 — CONFERENCE DINNER
Sunday, 18 July
9:30-11:00 — Session 5 (Chair: To be announced)
Faith WALLIS (DUBLIN): ‘Fleeting times’ & ‘the everlasting day’: Reassessing Bede’s On Times
Masako OHASHI (NAGOYA): Bede’s use of Victor of Capua’s computistical writings
Luciana CUPPO-CSAKI (TRIESTE): Felix of Squillace & the Dionysiac computus
11:00-11:30 — Tea/Coffee
11:30-13:00 — Session 6 (Chair: To be announced)
Stephen McCLUSKEY (WEST VIRGINIA): Easter cycles using the Vague Year
James PALMER (ST ANDREWS): Computus after the Paschal Controversy of 740
Philipp NOTHAFT (MÜNCHEN): Claudius of Turin & the date of Christ’s Passion
13:00 — CLOSE OF CONFERENCE