Programme

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Last updated 10 February 2024.

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5.00pm - 7.00pm	Welcome function at Pegasus Arms
7.00pm - 8.30pm	Exhibition Reception: Saints in Coffee Jars Pūmanawa Gallery, First floor, Boys’ High building, The Arts Centre, 28 Worcester Boulevard

9.00am - 11.00am	Session 1 Room: E8
Chair:	Jeanette King
9.00am - 9.30am	Mihi whakatau \| Welcome
9.30am - 11.00am	Keynote 1 Telling stories and Translating Legacies or Rather Teebs and Tolkien on Beowulf Tarren Andrews
11.00am - 11.30am	Kai iti o te ata \| Morning tea
Anytime from 11.00am	Rare Books & Manuscripts Exhibition with Damian Cairns For those pre-booked Room: Drawing Room 1
11.30am - 1.00pm	Session 2A Modern Pedagogies	Session 2B Trade, Translations and Markets: Materializing Global Networks in Early Modern England	Session 2C Medievalisms: Queer, Radical, and Catholic	Session 2D Global Middle Ages I: Points of Contact	Session 2E Nature in the Art and Culture of the 17th Century
Chair:	Chris Jones	Sarah Bendall	Helen Young	Mike Grimshaw	Jennifer Milam
Room:	E6	E7	E9	E16	E14
	Translating Le Livre de la description des payes: a collaborative project Sophie Patrick	Indian Silks, the East India Company and the Rise of Female Retailers in Early Modern London Sarah Bendall	The Queer Medievalism of the Mattachine Society Michael Barbezat	China and the West: Communication and misunderstanding in the fourteenth century Anthony Lun	Inspired by Nature: The “Evil Eye” in seventeen-century Art and Life Katherine Mair
	(Re)Assessments: Shakespeare in the Time of ChatGPT Michael Cop	“of all collours and hewes”: The global connections of coloured neckwear in early modern England Mirren Brockies	Far-Right Radicals: Changing the Present with the Medieval Past Helen Young	Spain and China: The pirate who linked them in the sixteenth century John Crossley	Images of Nature in seventeenth-century Eastern European Art Ekaterina Heath
		The Exploring Needle: International Influences in the Domestic Needlework of Early Modern England Elizabeth Newton-Jackson			Cultivating Simplicity in the Philosophical Garden: John Evelyn and the Seventeenth-Century Salad Garritt Van Dyk
		Beauty Networks: Global Materials in Early Modern Cosmetics Erin Griffey
1.00pm - 2.00pm	Kai nui o te rā \| Lunch
2.00pm - 3.30pm	Session 3A Gender & Representation I: Examples from Tudor England	Session 3B Sea Change? Medieval & Early Modern Climate Change	Session 3C Another Middle Ages: Indigenous Responses	Session 3D Global Middle Ages II: Anti-Semitism & the Other	Session 3E Albrecht Dürer's Material World
Chair:	Simone Marshall	Mike Grimshaw	Madi Williams	Chris Jones	Andrew Brown
Room:	E6	E7	E9	E14	E16
	Limitations on Elite Female Agency in Mid-Tudor England Emily Chambers	A Tale of Two Seas: The Medieval Climate Anomaly and its Societal Impact in the Mediterranean and Oceania Edward Schoolman	The Medieval Indigenous Turn and Medieval Saami Studies Gwendolyne Knight	Lesser-known aspects of Islamic sculpture: figures modeled in stucco at Khirbat al-Mafjar (7th-8th s.) Siyana Georgieva	Worlds on the Margins: Dürer’s Arabesques Andrea Bubenik
	She’s Mary, He’s Just Philip: Representing the Gendered Dynamics of Co-Monarchy in the Marriage of Mary Tudor and Philip of Spain Lucy King	“Surely it wasn’t that bad….” Regional responses to eleventh century climate change in France Christine Grundy	Place, Space, & Identity in Te Ao Māori & the Medieval World Madi Williams	Gyðingr and Giant: Reading "Jews" in Gylfaginning Colin Fisher	Listening to Albrecht Dürer’'s Material World Matthew Champion
	Gender and Representation in Video Games: Anne Boleyn as a Moral Agent Tielah-Jade Cannon Tess Watterson	Painting Against the Grain: An Ecocritical Reading of the Stories of Bread Cycle in the Castello Bentivoglio Caroline Paganussi	Wik Story, Western History: Australian Aboriginal Oral Traditions of the VOC vessel Duyfken (1606) Leigh Penman	How Slaves Escaped – or didn’t Escape: Negotiating Slavery and Human Trafficking in the Mediterranean around the First Millennium David Romney	The Funeral Procession of the Virgin Mary: materialised narratives of Jewish violence, Christian hostility and healing in Albrecht Dürer’s Nuremberg Charles Zika
3.30pm - 4.00pm	Kai iti o te ahiahi \| Afternoon tea
4.00pm - 5.30pm	Session 4A Gender & Representation II: Women, Education, Identity	Session 4B Ghosts & Sprites	Session 4C Engaging with the Medieval & Early Modern in Aotearoa	Session 4D Problems in Historicism	Session 4E A Panel in C Major
Chair:	Katie Pickles	Beth Spacey	Madi Williams	Mike Grimshaw	Chris Jones
Room:	E6	E7	E9	E14	E16
	“She cannot be his wife, what then is she?”: Maria Fitzherbert as wife, mistress, and celebrity Mirabelle Field	Ghosts, Conflict, and Community in Early Modern England Charlotte-Rose Millar	An experiment to be proud of: Teaching Medieval German at the University of Auckland James Braund	The crusades, popular medievalism, and the modern world Jennifer Pearce	Carolingian philosophers on the classical analogy between speech and music: A relevant legacy. Carol Williams
	Women’s Education and Literacy across the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Hannah Upton	Ghosts, statues, and legacy: animating Saint Ignatius of Loyola in seventeenth-century anti-Catholic satire Anna-Rose Shack	Chaucer in New Zealand Simone Marshall	Grave Concerns: How Viking Age grave reopening can inform modern engagement with the dead Sophie Hull-Brown	Rethinking organum and the Legacy of Leoninus in Twelfth Century Paris Constant Mews
	Risky Feminism and Rhetorical Dissimulation in Early Modern Italy Amy Sinclair	Spenser’s Occasion Faerie Queene II. 4-5: a theological interpretation Kathryn Walls	Shakespeare and Jonson in New Zealand libraries – provenance and politics Hannah August		The Rhetorician and the Republic: Brunetto Latini and Ancient Rome Cary Nederman
			The Early, Early Music Revival in New Zealand Jonathan Le Cocq
6.00pm - 8.00pm	Pub quiz at Pegasus Arms

Anytime from 9.00am	Rare Books & Manuscripts Exhibition with Damian Cairns For those pre-booked Room: Drawing Room 1
9.00am - 10.30am	Session 5A Gender & Representation III: Literary Engagements	Session 5B Travel & Diplomacy	Session 5C Publishing with Parergon	Session 5D Myth & Identity I	Session 5E Recreation & Performance
Chair:	Helen Young	Mike Grimshaw		Chris Jones	Andrew Brown
Room:	E6	E7	E9	E14	E16
	Sexual Honor, Gender, and Disciplinary Shame in Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure Lisa Walters	Sartorial Legacies: Henry VIII, Maximilian I and the Horned Helmet Grace Waye-Harris	With Sarah Ross, Claire McIlroy, and Anna-Rose Shack	Identity Crisis?: Exploring Recent Representations of the Middle Ages in British and French Museums Chris Jones	The Creation of Recreation in Late Medieval Europe and its Legacy Andrew Brown
	Uncivil Tongues: Civility, Gender and Religious Conflict in England 1630-1660 Debra Parish	Counterfeit and constancy: true and false mirrors in 1580s Elizabethan diplomacy Jenny Smith		Alignment building through legendary history in Britain during the reign of Edward I Lucy Moloney	Language, Music, and Audience: The Latin Motets performed at the Paris Concert Spirituel, 1725-1760 Francis Yapp
	“Where shall we next meet?”: The Construction of the Witches’ Meeting in Early Modern English Texts Sheilagh O’Brien	Reintroducing Sir George Peckham: A Renewed Appreciation of an Early Promoter of English Colonisation Norma McIvor		Mediating the Middle Ages: Layering Historical Myth in the Huntington Plays, 1598-99 William Hoff
10.30am - 11.00am	Kai iti o te ata \| Morning tea
11.00am - 12.30pm	Session 6A Gender & Representation IV: Motherhood, Medicine & Authorship	Session 6B Textual time-travel: Digitising the Canterbury Roll and the Wicked Bible	Session 6C Australasian Medievalisms I	Session 6D Myth & Identity II	Session 6E Contagion: Bring out your Dead
Chair:	Katie Pickles	Chris Jones	Mike Grimshaw	Madi Williams	Jane Buckingham
Room:	E6	E7	E9	E16	E14
	Pica, Women’s Imagination, and “Depraved Appetites”: Pregnant Women’s Sexuality in Early Modern European Medicine Paige Donaghy	Off-the-shelf or custom built? Comparing platform choices for two digital editions Kaspar Middendorf	Magna Carta and the Making of Post-War Australia Kathleen Neal	The Invention of History in Middle Irish: A Case from the Fenian Cycle Mitchell Simpson	Contracting Smallpox in Early Modern Britain Mark Dawson
	“More savage than a she-wolf”: writing bad motherhood in the street literature of early modern England Emma Sadera	Pre-modern documents in Aotearoa: What can they mean for the future of the Arts? Quillan Taylor	Doing God’s Work Down Under: Passion Plays as a Genre That Transcends Time and Space Ivan Missoni	Reading between the lines: the Canterbury Roll and “'Noah”' genealogical chronicles Catherine Gower	“Ira di Dio”, the plague of 1630 in Venice and its impact on music in the city Brigette De Poi
	And Yet She Persisted: Reading Pregnancy in the Trotula, Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale, and the Djab Wurrung Birthing Tree. Sarah Nickel Moore	Taonga in the 21st century: A case study on student-led research into Aotearoa’s Wicked Bible. Annika Stedman		Refreshing Racine: Andromache and the Early Modern Stage Miranda Stanyon	“What blood is this?” Contagion, Preservation, and Vermin Bodies in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet Sydney Shamblin Anderson
12.30pm - 1.30pm	Kai nui o te rā \| Lunch		Parergon Performance Pop-up: Early Modern Women’s writing from the Low Countries Anna-Rose Shack Room: E6
1.30pm - 3.00pm	Session 7A Gender & Representation V	Session 7B Wicked Bible Project Launch	Session 7C Australasian Medievalisms II	Session 7D Crusades	Session 7E Objects, Images & Imagination
Chair:	Erin Griffey		Madi Williams	Natasha Hodgson	Matthew Champion
Room:	E6	E7	E8	E16	E14
	Agency, religion, and women in service in the early middle ages Lisa Bailey	with Professor Sarah Ross For a preview: The Donnithorne Wicked Bible	What’s in a Name? Medievalism and Settler Identity in Canterbury Lisa Rolston	Typology as a Strategy of Legitimisation in Medieval Islamic Narratives: Saladin’s Campaigns of 1187 against the Crusader States Alexander Mallet	Wonderful Tails: Wonder, Memory and the Perception of Meaning in Medieval Images of Beasts Casey Standen
	Joan of Arc and Modern Heroines in History Katie Pickles		“A New Middle Ages”- Down under? Mike Grimshaw	Reading Medieval Latin Christian Narratives of the Latin East through Settler Colonialism: A “Useful” Anachronism? Beth Spacey	The Genealogy of Objects in Early Modern Religious Cloisters Claire Walker
	Gender & Representation Theme Discussion		Medieval Stakeholders: Maximizing Medieval Value for Modern Audiences Using an Agile Approach Iris Petty
3.00pm - 3.30pm	Kai iti o te ahiahi \| Afternoon tea
3.30pm - 6.00pm	Session 8 Room: E8
Chair:	Chris Jones
3.30pm - 5.00pm	Keynote 2 Considering 'impact' in premodern history research and teaching: the legacies and relevance of gender and the crusades Natasha Hodgson
5.10pm - 6.00pm	Book launch: Rethinking Medieval & Renaissance Political Thought with Professors Frédérique Lachaud & Cary Nederman

9.00am - 10.30am	Session 9A Aspects of Law	Session 9B Poetics, Errancy and Distance: New Formalisms in Early Modern Studies	Session 9C Australasian Medievalisms III	Session 9D Henry VI Digital Exhibition Launch
Chair:	Kathleen Neal	Ros Smith and Sarah Ross	Madi Williams	Chris Jones
Room:	E6	E7	E9	E14
	“Deer know no bounds.” Medieval Boundaries and early modern Deer Conservation in Sherwood Forest. Sara Morrison	“Pretty creatures”: gender and sympathy in the “female complaint” poem Sarah Ross	“While Helpless Whites Look On”: The Intersection of White Nationalism and Medievalism in D. W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation Sabina Rahman	With Associate Professor Natasha Hodgson Wars in the Workshop Exhibition Feedback Survey
	Proto-Evidentiary Aspects of Pre-Conquest Jurisprudence: Circumstantial Evidence in the Old English Law Codes Anya Adair	Scribble: errant marks in early modern women’s marginalia Rosalind Smith	Medievalism and cross-cultural encounters with the numinous in Warwick Thornton’s The New Boy Louise D’Arcens
	The Social Life of Early Medieval Canon Law Sven Meeder	Travelling Quartos: Reading the Ashbee/Halliwell quarto facsimiles (1861-1871) in Australia (2024) Paul Salzman	Penthesilea’s Legacy: Interrogating Gendered Expectations in Medieval and Contemporary Society Connie Skibinski
Anytime between 9.00am - 11.00am	Rare Books & Manuscripts Exhibition with Damian Cairns For those not pre-booked Room: Drawing Room 1
10.30am - 11.00am	Kai iti o te ata \| Morning tea
11.00am - 12.30pm	Session 10A ANZAMEMS Committee Meeting	Session 10B Parergon: The Next Generation	Session 10C Issues in Translation	Session 10D Instruments of Punishment	Session 10E Reshaping Traditions
Chair:		Ros Smith and Sarah Ross	Chris Jones	Madi Williams	Peter Field
Room:	Drawing Room 2	E14	E9	E7	E16
		Reading the Maghreb in Early Modern Britain: Marginalia, Provenance and Networks of Interest Nat Cutter	Echoes of Avicenna’s ideas in present-day cognitive psychology Simon Kemp	Some Observations on the Role of the Barbarians as Instrument of God’s Punishment: Testimonies From the Fourth and Fifth Centuries Emanuele Piazza	The Influence of the English Catholic Enlightenment on Catholicism in North America: The Case of Joseph Berington and John Carroll Sho Kiuchi
		Legal medievalism and the judicial use of premodern history Clare Davidson	The Legacy and Relevance of the Letter Runes in Beowulf: Relevant Then and Relevant Now James Buckingham	“Comforting Counsels”: Anticipatory Grief and Bibliotherapy in the Tower Works of Thomas More Mitchell Thompson	After the Cambridge School: Platonic Realism in Shaftesbury’s “The Moralists: A Philosophical Rhapsody” Niluka Nicholson
		“take by mouth all the medicines that could help her conceive”: Jeanne de Bourbon, and Catherine de Médicis’ and the Use of Botanical Remedies Alexandra Forsyth		she desired them for Gods sake not to trouble her being a blinde, poore, and vnlerned woman: Marginalised Martyrs in John Foxe’s 'Acts and Monuments'. Grace May Howe	Compilation as Composition: Breton Influence on the Content and Structure of the Glossae Floriacenses in Vetus et Nouum Testamentum in Orléans 182 and Reims 395 Sarah Corrigan
12.30pm	ANZAMEMS Ordinary General Meeting Room: E6
3.00pm - 4.00pm	Session 11 At The Great Hall, The Arts Centre
Chair:	Helen Young
	Keynote 3 American Lacunae and Palimpsest: The Legacy of the Middle Ages on the Colonial Project of Erasure and Appropriation Wallace Cleaves
4.00pm - 5.00pm	Concert at The Great Hall, The Arts Centre
7.00pm - 11.00pm	Conference Banquet at The Great Hall, The Arts Centre

	University of Canterbury, Engineering Building Room: E12
10.00am - 12.00pm	UC Arts Digital Lab: Counting Words in Historical Text Corpora Chris Thomson
12.00pm - 12.30pm	Kai nui o te rā \| Lunch
12.30pm - 3.00pm	Exploring texts with Voyant Tools - A historian's guide Natasha Hodgson