The Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference is back on April 20-21, 2023 with the theme of ‘Names and Naming’!
The conference takes place fully hybrid, in Oxford and online. Follow us on Twitter @OxMedGradConf and In the meantime, check out the conference website (https://oxgradconf.wixsite.com/omgc), with its extensive digital collection of Oxford medieval medical manuscripts and its blog featuring some excellent articles on past conference themes. If you’d like to contribute a blog post or have any questions about the conference, you can get in touch at oxgradconf@gmail.com.
20 Apr, 09:00 – 21 Apr, 18:00. Online & In-Person at Ertegun House, Oxford
Register here for free to participate remotely
THURSDAY, APRIL 20
9:55-10:00 Opening Remarks
10:00-11:30 Session 1: Individual & Unique
- Tristan Alphey, ‘Nicknames in Early Medieval England and Social Regulation’
- Will Hoff, ‘In the name of Robin Hood: a new look at byname evidence for the outlaw tradition’
- Sebastian Dows-Miller, ‘Jean from Saint-Quentin: who was he, and does it matter?’
12:00-13:30 Session 2: Patterns & Variations
- Madeleine Killacky, ‘Rubricating Names in Malory’s Le Morte Darthur’
- Birger Mård, ‘Name-phrase variation in the Arboga municipal court records (1450–1569)’
- Marina Ilia, ‘Naming Patterns in Venetian Cyprus’
14:30-16:00 Session 3: Reading the Land
- Abigail Lloyd, ‘How to find a medieval settlement by the name of a hill? A challenge to the Gelling and Cole hypothesis’
- Christophe de Coster, ‘‘Hic Sunt Dracones’: data-driven analysis of the (un)changing nature of toponyms and its implications for toponym-based landscape-reconstructions
- Em Horne, ‘An Examination of the value of place-names as evidence for the history, landscape and, especially, language(s) of the Lancashire Coast’
16:30-17:30 Keynote Address 1 Dr David Zakarian, ‘The World through the Eyes of Medieval Armenian Scribes’
FRIDAY, APRIL 21
10:00-11:30 Session 4: Genealogies & Histories
- Claire Lober, ‘Monuments to Meaning in the Historia and Brut y Brenhinedd’
- Deepashree Dutta, ‘The Little Kingdom of Bishnupur: Naming, Self-Fashioning and Making of a Vaishnava Devotional Realm’
- Jodie Miller, ‘Naming and Moral Lineage in Les Enfances de Renart
12:00-13:30 Session 5: Identification & Definition
- Jack Nunn, ‘Anthological Identities: Naming Names in the Robertet Manuscripts’
- Wyn Shaw, ‘Naming, Gender and Transition in Old French Chansons de Geste’
- Nancy Michaud, ‘Masons’ Marks in the York Minster: Using masons’ marks to understand the construction of the York Minster’
14:30-16:00 Session 6: Unseen & Unknown
- Hillel Feuerstein, ‘Satan is a List: Naming Demons in Medieval Kabbalah’
- Ilinca-Simona Ionescu, ‘Naming Household Spirits: a Lexicographic Perspective on Late Medieval Spain’
- Rodrigo Ballon Villanueva, ‘Naming God: A More Radical Medieval Theory?’
16:30-17:30 Keynote Address 2 Professor Richard Dance, ‘The Name Game: The Etymologist vs. the Vikings’
17:30-17:45 OMGC 2024 Theme Selection + Closing Remarks
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