Wednesday 22 September

 

9:00	Registration
9:20	WELCOME
9:30	MULTIMEDIA AND MANUSCRIPTS Chair: Andrew Stephenson Bernard Muir
10:00	Morning Tea
10:30	CHRISTIANITY AND CHANGE Chair: Kristen Erskine Robert Di Napoli Being Cynewulf: Inside the Mind of an Anglo-Saxon Poet Julianna Grigg Aspects of the Cáin: Adomnán's Lex Innocentium Martin Grimmer British Christian Continuity in Anglo-Saxon England: The Case of Sherborne/Lanprobi
12:00	Lunch
1:30	PRACTICAL SESSION: ORAL TRANSMISSION Chair: Julianna Grigg Chris Bishop Barbara Erskine
3.00	Afternoon Tea
3:30	SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Chair: Pamela O'Neill Katrina Burge Catch the Wind: Sailing, Luck and the End of the Viking Age Matthew Chrulew Species Discourse from the Physiologus to the Bestiaries Tessa Morrison Computus Digitorum and the Calculation for Easter
5:00	Drinks
5:30	PLENARY: WRITING EARLY MEDIEVAL HISTORY Chair: Chris Bishop Dr Lyn Olson (University of Sydney) Writing Early Medieval History

Thursday 23 September

 

9:00	ALLEGORY AND EROTICA Chair: Kristen Erskine Fotini Toso Forces of Darkness: The Psychomachia Allegory in Early English Literature Chris Bishop Soft Beds and Hard Earth: The Hunt for Erotica in the Poetry of Wessex
10:00	Morning Tea
10:30	UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE RARE BOOKS COLLECTION Julianne Simpson LIBRARY AND ELECTRONIC RESOURCES INFORMATION SESSION Blanca Pizzani
12:00	Lunch
1:30	PRACTICAL SESSION: MANUSCRIPTS Chair: Pamela O'Neill Janine Mitchell Deidre Hassad
3:00	Afternoon Tea
3.30	LATIN SCHOLARSHIP Chair: John Martyn Grantley McDonald Recalling the Muses: A Sixteenth-century Reading of Boethius' Consolation Catherine Oppel 'Why, my soul, are you sad?'  The Spirituality of Tears in Augustine of Hippo Greg Byrnes Between Literary Standard and Living Language: Michael Sheehan on Medieval Latin
5:00	Drinks
5:30	PLENARY: GREGORY THE GREAT AND IRELAND Chair: Andrew Stephenson Prof John Martyn (The University of Melbourne) Pope Gregory the Great and Ireland
7:30	Conference Dinner

Friday 24 September

 

9:00	SYMBOLS AND LANDSCAPE Chair: Kristen Erskine Rain Wolf The Cauldron Symbol and the Valleys of Eastern Scotland Helen McKay Using the Cauldron Symbol to Locate the Battle of Dunnichen
10:00	Morning Tea
10:30	MONASTIC LANDSCAPES Chair: Julianna Grigg Roswitha Dabke Continuity and Change: The Eighth-Century Heritage of Honau in Alsace Joe Flatman Wetting the Fringe of Your Habit: Monasticism and Coastal Exploitation in Medieval Britain Pamela O'Neill The Political and Ecclesiastical Extent of Scottish Dalriada
12:00	Lunch and AGM
1:30	PRACTICAL SESSION: TEXTILES Chair: Pamela O'Neill Aedeen Cremin Renita King Glennda Marsh-Letts
3:00	Afternoon Tea
3.30	VISUAL IMAGERY Chair: Andrew Stephenson Robin Wastell John Climacus and the Heavenly Ladder Denise Doyle Threshold to the Gospel: The Book of Kells Carpet Page
4:30	Drinks
5:00	PLENARY: POETS, SCRIBES AND ANTHOLOGISTS IN ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND Chair: Chris Bishop Prof Bernard Muir (The University of Melbourne) Anthologists, Poets and Scribes in Anglo-Saxon England