Wednesday 1 October

 

8:30-9:00	REGISTRATION
9:00-9:30	WELCOME Professor John O’Gorman, PVC Quality and Outreach, Australian Catholic University Dr Pamela O'Neill, President of the Australian Early Medieval Association
9:30-10:30	SESSION 1 - HERE THERE BE SARACENS! Chair: Andrew Stephenson Amelia Brown (University of California, Berkeley) From Scythians to Saracens: Welcoming the Barbarian in Late Antique Greece Stephanie L. Hathaway (University of Sydney) The Saracen Queen and the Victory of Guillaume d'Orange: The Role of Guiborc in La Prise d’Orange, Aliscans and Wolfram's Willehalm
10:30-11:30	Morning Tea
11:30-1:00	SESSION 2 - SOMETHING ILLUMINATING Chair: Pamela O'Neill Heidi Gearhart (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) Expectations of Virtue: Travelling Artists, Misbehaving Monks and the Production of Sacred Art John R C Martyn (University of Melbourne) Jesus' Life in the Canterbury Bible Robin Cook (University of Queensland) The Gospels of St. Augustine (Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 286): The Layout of f.129v, the St. Luke Portrait Page
1:00-2:00	Lunch
2:00-3:00	PRACTICAL SESSION 1 - ST. STEPHEN'S CATHEDRAL, ELIZABETH STREET Wes Jordan Gregorian Chant Melodies in Organ Compositions
3:00-3:30	Afternoon Tea
3:30-4:30	PLENARY SESSION 1 Chair: Geoffrey D Dunn Wendy Mayer (Australian Catholic University) Welcoming the Stranger in the Mediterranean East
4:30-5:30	BOOK LAUNCH John R C Martyn, King Sisebut and the Culture of Visigothic Spain, Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2008.

 

9:00-9:30	REGISTRATION
9:30-10:30	SESSION 3 - HOSPITALITY AND HEALING Chair: Silke Sitzler Laura Hutchings (University of Utah) Travel and Hospitality in the Time of Sidonius Apollinaris Tessa Morrison (University of Newcastle) Planning to Welcome the Pilgrims of the Middle Ages
10:30-11:30	Morning Tea
11:30-12:30	SESSION 4 - TO WELCOME OR NOT TO WELCOME Chair: Andrew Stephenson Abdul Nasser Kaadan (Aleppo University, Syria) Joint Diseases in Asia during the Medieval Ages Marcus Harmes (University of Queensland) The Emperor Domitian and the Obedience of Christianity to the Late-Roman State
12:30-2:00	Lunch
2:00-3:00	PLENARY SESSION 2 Chair: Geoffrey D Dunn Anna Silvas (University of New England) Interpreting the Motives of Basil's Social Doctrine
3:00-3:30	Afternoon Tea
7:00-late	Conference Dinner West End Gardens Restaurant, 190 Melbourne Street, South Brisbane (about a 20-25 minute walk, so organised taxis may be best; this is a Vietnamese restaurant and we shall have a set menu).

 

9:00-9:30	REGISTRATION
9:30-11:00	SESSION 5 - SOMETHING SYRIAN Chair: Wendy Mayer Silke Sitzler (Australian Catholic University) The Irreverent Refugees: Exodus and Identity in Late Antique Syria Geoffrey D Dunn (Australian Catholic University) Welcoming Back an Excommunicated Church: Relations between Rome and Antioch in the Early Fifth Century Pauline Allen (Australian Catholic University) Welcoming Foreign Saints to the Church of Antioch
11:00-11:30	Morning Tea
11:30-12:30	SESSION 6 - HOLY STRANGENESS Chair: Pamela O'Neill Naoki Kamimura (International Christian University, Tokyo) Peregrinatio animi and the Peregrinus image in the Letters of Augustine Bernard Mees (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology & University of Melbourne) Alu and Hale
12:30-2:00	Lunch and AEMA Annual General Meeting
2:00-3:00	PRACTICAL SESSION 2 Gold Coast Calligraphy Society
3:00-3:30	Afternoon Tea
3:30-4:30	SESSION 7 - LEGAL MATTERS Chair: Pauline Allen Pamela O'Neill (University of Sydney) Once a Lawyer, Always a Lawyer? Legal Overtones in Adomnán's Vita Columbae Amy Brown (University of Sydney) Legislating for the Stranger: Archbishop Wulfstan and King Cnut
4:30	Farewell