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THIRD ANNUAL CONFERENCE

CONQUEST AND CONTINUITY

Wednesday 27 - Friday 29 September 2006
University of Melbourne
 

PROGRAMME

Wednesday 27 September
 
9:00-9:45 REGISTRATION
9:45-10:00  WELCOME

Dr Pamela O'Neill, Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne and President of the Australian Early Medieval Association

10:00-11:00 PAPERS

Chair: Natasha Amendola

Martin Grimmer
Invasion, Settlement or Political Conquest: Changing Representations of the Arrival of the Anglo-Saxons in Britain

Shane McLeod
Old Systems for New Masters: The Establishment of the Norse Kingdoms in England During the Ninth Century

11:00-11:30  Morning Tea
11:30-1:00 PAPERS

Chair: Tessa Morrison

John Martyn
The Triumph of Leander's Catholic Family over Arian Rulers

Robert Mihajlovski
Basilica of the Holy Mother of God in Velushina

Nigel Westbrook
Issues of Influence and Continuity in Byzantine and Umayyad Palace Design in the Late Antique and Early Medieval Period

1:00-2:30 Lunch
2:30-4:00 ACTIVITY

Chair: Anne Holloway

Days of Knights - 'Links to the Past'

4:00-4:30 Afternoon Tea
4:30-5:30 PAPERS

Chair: Emily Bayhnam

Ryan Diehl
A Worthy Warrior: An Analysis of the Evolution of Hector's Portrait in Medieval Trojan War Epics

Denis Hawkey
Druids to Priests

5:30-6:00 Drinks
6:00-7:00 PLENARY

Chair: Pamela O'Neill

Professor John Moorhead
Conquest and Continuity in Intellectual Life

Thursday 28 September
 
9:00-10:30 PAPERS

Chair: Julianna Grigg

Natasha Amendola
Spinning Eve: Creating Christian Woman

Matthew Champion
The Crucifixion and the World in the Drogo Sacramentary

Denise Doyle
Ancient Symbolism in Early Christian Iconography: The Image of the Enthroned Christ in the Book of Kells

10:30-11:00 Morning Tea
11:00-12:30 PAPERS

Chair: Jenny Smith

Ann Sadedin
Empowering Your Research: Sources and Resources for Early Medieval Studies

Ivana Gulic
Subjectivity and the Other in Medieval Philosophy and Psychoanalysis

Fotini Toso
Consciousness of the Self in the Vita of St Guthlac

12:30-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:30 ACTIVITY

Chair: Anne Holloway

Days of Knights - 'The Daily Grind'

3:30-4:00 Afternoon Tea
4:00-5:30 PAPERS

Chair: Natasha Amendola

Will Anderson
Transition and Tradition: Pilgrim Flasks in Late Antiquity

Julianna Grigg
Conquest and Conformity in Penannular Brooch Manufacture

Pamela O'Neill
Six Degrees of Whiteness: Finbarr, Finnian, Finnian, Ninan, Candida Casa and Hwiterne

5:30-6:00 Drinks
6:00-7:00 PLENARY

Chair: Pamela O'Neill

Dr Lynette Olson
Counts, Counties and Continuity

7:30 Conference Dinner

Acquum, 364 Victoria Street, North Melbourne

Friday 29 September

9:00-10:30 PAPERS

Chair: Jenny Smith

Bernard Mees
Before Beowulf: On the Proto-History of Old Germanic Verse

Emily Baynham
The Big Picture: Collocations of Action and Background Scenes in Beowulf and Andreas

Chris Bishop
Uncer Gied Geador: The Purpose of Ambiguity in Wulf and Eadwacer

10:30-11:00 Morning Tea
11:00-12:30 PAPERS

Chair: Emily Bayhnam

Robert Di Napoli
Say What you Will: The Subversive Word-play of Exeter Riddle 39

Lisa Bennett
The Death Motif as a Site of Cultural Memory in Old English and Icelandic Literature

Katrina Burge
Black and White:  Differences Between Scandinavians and the Irish in the Viking Age

12:30-2:00 Lunch and AEMA Annual General Meeting
2:00-3:30 ACTIVITY

Chair: Anne Holloway

Days of Knights - 'Recreating Recreation'

3:30-4:00 Afternoon Tea
4:00-5:30 PAPERS

Chair: Julianna Grigg

Robin Cook
The Genesis Page of the Alcuin Bible

Tessa Morrison
Bede and the Temple of Solomon

Celia Scott
Humour in the Lives of the Female Irish Saints

5:30-6:00 Drinks
6:00-7:00 PLENARY

Chair: Pamela O'Neill

Dr Megan Cassidy-Welch
The Early Middle Ages as Teleological Construct: Teaching and Thinking the Idea of the Early Medieval

7:00 Close of Conference