Department of English
The Futures of Medieval Historiography
Conference Information
Organizers:
Jackie Burek (jacburek@sas.upenn.edu)
Emily Steiner (steinere@english.upenn.edu)
Location:
Kislak Center on the 6th floor of Van Pelt Library
Registration (free and open to the public)
Registration is now closed. You can still sign up in person on the day of the conference.
Philadelphia Travel Information
Out and About in Philadelphia (Coming Soon)
Sponsored by these University of Pennsylvania Departments and Programs:
Classical Studies
Comparative Literature
East Asian Languages and Civilizations
English
History
Italian Studies
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Romance Languages
Kislak Center for Special Collections
GAPSA Academic Research Council
GAPSA Discretionary Fund
Graduate Office
Med/Ren Seminar
SAS Conference Fund
SASgov Discretionary Fund
University Research Fund
Friday, February 24
2:00-2:30 Opening remarks
2:30-3:45 Session I
Moderator: Lydia Kertz, Fordham University
“‘History’ and ‘Fiction’, ‘Truth’ and ‘Lies’ from the Historia Augusta to the Historia Regum Britanniae”
Campbell Grey, University of Pennsylvania
“‘Sweets for the Table’: The Medieval Welsh Reception of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia”
Joshua Byron Smith, University of Arkansas
Respondent: Maud Burnett McInerney, Haverford College
3:45-4:00 Coffee break
4:00-5:15 Session II
Moderator: Wesley Hanson, University of Pennsylvania
“Historians and Poets in Twelfth-Century England: Joseph of Exeter and Dares Phrygius”
Frederic Clark, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University
“From Oral Genealogy to Authorized History: Past and Future in Bower's Scotichronicon”
Katherine Terrell, Hamilton College
Respondent: Cynthia Damon, University of Pennsylvania
5:15-6:00 Lightning Round
Moderator: Will Noel, Director, Director, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts and the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies.
“'Anon.', 'Trad.', and Medieval Music in the 21st Century"
Mary Channen Caldwell, Department of Music, University of Pennsylvania
"From Origins to Codes in Islamic Historiography"
Paul M. Cobb, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania
"The Historiography of Medieval Manuscript Descriptions"
Dot Porter, Curator of Digital Research Services, University of Pennsylvania
“Language as Fossilized History: Myth, the Etymological Method and Historians in the Middle Ages”
Julia Verkholantsev, Slavic Languages and Literature, University of Pennsylvania
6:00-7:00 Reception
7:30 Speakers’ Dinner
Saturday, February 25th
9:15-10:00 Breakfast
10:00-11:15 Session III
Moderator: Daniel Davies, University of Pennsylvania
“The Arts of Occasion: Medieval Poetics and Historical Forms”
Jennifer Jahner, California Institute of Technology
“Translating History in Mannynge, Le Baker, and Gower”
Andrew Galloway, Cornell University
Respondent: Rita Copeland, University of Pennsylvania
11:15-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:45 Session IV
Moderator: Sierra Lomuto, University of Pennsylvania
“Travelling with History in the Tenth Century”
Clare Lees, King’s College London
“Source Criticism and the Question of Genre in the Secret History of the Mongols”
Christopher Atwood, University of Pennsylvania
Respondent: Ada-Maria Kuskowski, University of Pennsylvania
12:45-2:30 Lunch (on your own)
2:30-4:00 Manuscripts Workshop: Genealogies of History
Amey Hutchins, Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies
Emily Steiner, University of Pennyslvania
4:00-4:15 Coffee break
4:15-5:30 Session V
Moderator: Anna Lyman, University of Pennsylvania
“Praying the Past: Liturgy as History in English Nunneries”
Cynthia Turner Camp, University of Georgia
“England in Europe: The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in the Eleventh Century”
Elizabeth Tyler, University of York
Respondent: David Wallace, University of Pennsylvania
5:30-5:45 Closing remarks
5:45-6:45 Final reception