Wednesday 26 September

 

8:30-9:15	REGISTRATION
9:15-9:30	PRESIDENT'S WELCOME Dr Pamela O'Neill, Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne and President of the Australian Early Medieval Association
9:30-11:00	SESSION 1 Chair: Pamela O'Neill Geoffrey Dunn (Australian Catholic University) Innocent I and the Transformation of the Illyrian Churches on the Question of Heretical Ordination John Martyn (University of Melbourne) Sisebut's Life of Saint Desiderius Timothy Scott (Macquarie University) It's all Alamannic to Me! Ethnicity as an Interpretative Tool for Cultural Transformation
11:00-11:30	Morning Tea
11:30-1:00	SESSION 2 Chair: Natasha Amendola Lisa Bennett (Flinders University) 'He Died in His White Baptismal Vestments': Kings and Conversion in the Íslendinga Sögur Katrina Burge (University of Melbourne) 'Will the Archangel be My Advocate?': Iceland's Negotiated Conversion to Christianity Leon Wild (University of Sydney) Óláfr's Raven Coin: Old Norse Myth in Circulation?
1:00-2:00	Lunch
2:00-3:30	PRACTICAL SESSION Chair: Carole Cusack Michael Spencer on Medieval Heraldry
3:30-4:00	Afternoon Tea
4:00-5:00	SESSION 3 Chair: Julianna Grigg Bernard Mees (University of Melbourne) Fate and Malediction in Early Celtic Tradition Pamela O'Neill (University of Melbourne) The Real Irish Peregrinatio?: Penance and Exile in Early Christian Ireland
5:00-6:00	BOOK LAUNCH WITH WINE AND NIBBLES AEMA is pleased to launch Lynette Olson, The Early Middle Ages: The Birth of Europe, Basingstoke and New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
6:00-7:00	PLENARY SESSION Chair: Andrew Stephenson Dr Andrew Gillett (Macquarie University) Gothic Conversion: Frameworks for Interpretation

 

9:00-9:30	REGISTRATION
9:30-11:00	SESSION 1 Chair: Tessa Morrison Natasha Amendola (Monash University) Penelope's Odyssey to Ninth-Century Ireland Kay Smith (University of Queensland) Cultural Incorporation: Conversion in the Old French Chansons de Geste Glennda Marsh-Letts (Independent Scholar) The Queen of Heaven: Isis, Nut or Mary?
11:00-11:30	Morning Tea
11:30-1:00	SESSION 2 Chair: Denis Hawkey Denise Doyle (Independent Scholar) Imagery as Exegesis in the Book of Kells Tessa Morrison (University of Newcastle) The Evolving Image of the New Jerusalem in Early Medieval Art and Architecture Robin Cook (University of Queensland) The Visual Repertoire of the Genesis Page Illustration of the Alcuin Bible
1:00-2:00	Lunch
2:00-3:30	PRACTICAL SESSION Chair: Carole Cusack Fisher Rare Book Library: 'Liturgy and the Word: The Role of Books in Western Religion' - exhibition of medieval manuscripts and early books and viewing of relevant facsimiles.
3:30-4:00	Afternoon Tea
4:00-5:00	SESSION 3 Chair: Andrew Stephenson Bronwen Neil (Australian Catholic University) Blessed are the Rich: Attitudes to Poverty in Fifth-Century Rome Lisa Bailey (University of Auckland) 'No Use Crying Over Spilt Milk': The Challenge of Preaching God's Justice in Fifth- and Sixth-Century Gaul
5:00-5:30	Wine and Nibbles
5:30-6:30	PLENARY SESSION Chair: Chris Bishop Dr Antonina Harbus (Macquarie University) Transforming Concepts in Old English Translations of Latin Texts
7:00	Conference Dinner Al Mustafa Restaurant, 23 Glebe Point Road, Glebe; tel. 9660 9006.

 

9:00-9:30	REGISTRATION
9:30-10:30	SESSION 1 Chair: Bernard Mees Julianna Grigg (University of Melbourne) Bounding the Past: The Case for a Pictish Parish Carole Cusack (University of Sydney) History, Authenticity, and Tourism: Encountering the Medieval Walking Saint Cuthbert's Way
10:30-11:00	Morning Tea
11:00-12:30	SESSION 2 Chair: Rosemary Huisman Robert Di Napoli (Australian Catholic Uuniversity & University of Melbourne) Close to the Edge: The Fortunes of Men and the Limits of Wisdom Literature Chris Bishop (Australian National University) Fate, and the Absence of Future, in the Poetry of Wessex Emily Baynham (University of Sydney) The Place of Charms in Late Anglo-Saxon England
12:30-2:00	Lunch and AEMA Annual General Meeting
2:00-3:00	SESSION 3 Chair: Emily Baynham Rosemary Huisman (University of Sydney) Courtly But Not Courtly Love: Male/Female Roles in the Old English Poem Beowulf (Again) Verity Fisher (University of Melbourne) Beowulf and Sutton Hoo Syndrome: Integrating Text and Material Culture in the Study of the Past
3:00-3:30	Afternoon Tea
3:30-5:00	SESSION 4 Chair: Chris Bishop Susan Loftus (Macquarie University) Authority and Cultural Transformation Denis Hawkey (University of Wales, Lampeter) Wilfred, Bede and the Northumbrian Celtic Church Lyn Olson (University of Sydney) Genetic Evidence and the Early Medievalist
5:00-5:30	Wine and Nibbles
5:30-6:30	PLENARY SESSION Chair: Carole Cusack Dr Jonathan Wooding (University of Wales, Lampeter) Baptising the Islands of the Ocean: Biblical Prophecy and the Historiography of Conversion
6:30	Close of Conference with Wine and Nibbles