Date/Time
Date(s) - 10 Apr 2015 until 11 Apr 2015
9:00 AM - 5:30 PM
Location
Thompson Room
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New Perspectives on Gerald of Wales: Texts and Contexts
April 10-11, 2015
Harvard University
Barker Center, Thompson Room
Schedule:
Friday, April 10
9:00 – 10:30
Panel Chair: Kathryn O’Neill (Harvard University)
Christopher Berard (University of Toronto) – “Hic iacet Arthurus: Gerald of Wales and the Discovery of King Arthur’s Tomb at Glastonbury”
Joel S. Pattison (University of California, Berkeley) – “Gerald and the Crusade: Reassessing Heraclius’s 1184 Embassy to England”
Peter Raleigh (University of North Carolina) – “Propter Regem Regum: Episcopal Sanctity and Royal Conflict in Gerald of Wales’s Vita Sancti Hugonis”
10:45 – 12:15
Panel Chair: Michaela Jacques (Harvard University)
Suzanne LaVere (Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne) – “‘A Priest Is Not a Free Person’: Condemning Clerical Sins and Upholding Higher Moral Standards in the Gemma Ecclesiastica”
Simon Meecham-Jones (University of Cambridge) – “Honesty and Irony in Gerald of Wales”
Peter Jones (University of Toronto) – “Gerald of Wales’s Sense of Humor”
12:15 – 1:30
Lunch Break
1:30 – 2:30
Panel Chair: Brendan Kane (University of Connecticut)
Lindsey Zachary Panxhi (University of Arkansas) – “Rewriting the Werewolf: Gerald of Wales’s Eucharistic Inquiry”
Michael Faletra (Reed College) – “Giraldian Beavers and their Contexts”
2:45 – 3:45
Panel Chair: Georgia Henley (Harvard University)
Victoria Shirley (Cardiff University) – “Gerald, Gildas, and Geoffrey: Citation and Authority in the Descriptio Kambriae”
Joshua Byron Smith (University of Arkansas) – “The Shared Stories of Gerald of Wales and Walter Map”
4:00 – 5:30
Plenary Lecture (Chair: Catherine McKenna, Harvard University)
Huw Pryce (Bangor University) – “Gerald of Wales and the Welsh Past”
Saturday, April 11
9:45 – 10:45
Panel Chair: Patrick Wadden (Harvard University)
Stephen Jones (Southern New Hampshire University) – “The Influence of Gerald of Wales on John Beddoe’s Victorian Conceptions of Ethnicity”
Owain Nash (University of Bristol) – “Elements of Identity: Gerald, the Humours, and National Characteristics”
Diarmuid Scully (University College Cork) – “Forging Identities: Gerald of Wales and his Sources on the Origins of the Inhabitants of Ireland”
11:00 – 12:00
Panel Chair: Matthew Holmberg (Harvard University)
Caoimhe Teresa Whelan (Trinity College Dublin) – “Translating the Expugnatio in Fifteenth-century Ireland”
Brendan Kane (University of Connecticut) – “Gerald of Wales and Early Modern Polemical Historiography”
12:00 – 1:30
Lunch, sponsored by the Friends of Harvard Celtic Studies and featuring a performance and presentation on “Gerald’s Cithara: Harps of Medieval Ireland, Scotland, and Wales” by Ann and Charlie Heymann
1:30 – 3:00
Panel Chair: Joshua Byron Smith (University of Arkansas)
Ben Guy (University of Cambridge) – “Gerald and Welsh Genealogical Learning”
Georgia Henley (Harvard University) – “A Medieval Welsh Translation of Gerald: Evidence for Circulation and Reception in Wales?”
Catherine Rooney (Darwin College, Cambridge) – “The Early Manuscripts of Gerald of Wales”
3:15 – 4:45
Plenary Lecture (Chair: Georgia Henley, Harvard University)
Robert Bartlett (University of St Andrews) – “‘The dullest thing that Giraldus ever wrote’: Book One of ‘Instruction for a Ruler’”
This conference, hosted by Harvard University’s Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures and the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies, is supported by the Friends of Harvard Celtic Studies, Harvard’s Provostial Fund Committee for the Arts and Humanities, and Sententiae: The Harvard Undergraduate Journal of Medieval Studies.