8:30 GMT | Welcome | |
9:00 GMT | Keynote Speaker Moderator: Andrew Elliott (Univ. Lincoln) | |
10:00 GMT | Special session Myth and History in Medieval Historiography: Reflections on Narratives, Theory and Methodology Moderator: Nick Pouls (Univ. Bergen) | |
11:30 GMT | Roundtable Academia & Media: Challenges and Ideas for a better future David Perry (Journalist – Historian – Speaker) Moderator: Pedro Martins (IHC – NOVA FCSH) | |
13:00 GMT | Art gallery and conversation with cartoonist Pedro Massano Please, visit the intranet to find the comic “A Batalha” (The Battle) | |
14:00 GMT | Special session Batalha Monastery Moderator: Pedro Martins (IHC – NOVA FCSH) | |
15:30 GMT | Parallel Session 1a Art Sara Carreño (Univ. Santiago de Compostela) As cruces de pedra na Galiza (1950): Galician Nationalism and the studies of Castelao on stone crosses Pilar Recio Bazal (Univ. Complutense) Definiendo el mecenazgo de Fernando I y Doña Sancha de León-Castilla (1037-1067): reflexiones en torno a la conceptualización de un arte en transición Thomas Renard (Univ. Nantes) Un Palazzo Municipale sur les bords de l’Hai He Moderator: Alicia Miguélez (IEM-NOVA FCSH) | Parallel Session 1b Art Parisa Kharazmi (CIDMA – Univ. Aveiro) On the Roots of Constructive Geometry in Safavid’s Craftsmanship Frederico Dinis (CEIS20- Univ. Coimbra) Moderator: Ana Soares (IELT-NOVA FCSH) |
17:00 GMT | Keynote speaker Moderator: Alicia Miguélez (IEM-NOVA FCSH) | |
18:00 GMT | Roundtable Moderator: Julio Vélez (ITEM, Complutense Univ.) |
9:00 | Keynote speaker Moderator: Nadia Altschul (Univ. Glasglow) | |
10:00 | Parallel Session 2a Contemporary politics Fernando Luis Corral (Univ. Salamanca) El traidor y el portillo: leyendas medievales al servicio de los nuevos políticos Olga Kozubska (Central European Univ.) The Middle Ages and the Modern Politics of War Maxim Domsky (Higher School of Economics) Uses of the European Middle Ages in the Russian Nationalist Discourse Moderator: Covadonga Valdaliso (CH-UL) | Parallel Session 2b Media Pamela Nourrigeon (Univ. Poitiers) Le Moyen Âge sur un plateau. Quelle perception de la civilisation médiévale les jeux de société modernes véhiculent-ils? Sabahat Nağme Başaran & Bilge Ar (İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi) Church to Mosque, Mosque to Museum: Approaches to Hagia Sophia and Byzantine Heritage in Early Republican Turkish Newspapers Maria Aleksandrovna Chernova (Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration) Heroes of Slavic Epic Literature in Mass Media: the case of Marko Kralević Moderator: Miguel Seixas (IEM-NOVA FCSH) |
11:30 | Parallel Session 3a Contemporary society Fernanda Martínez Varela (Georgetown Univ.) Uso de símbolos medievales en el contexto chileno de la protesta social Stefan Trajković-Filipović (Justus-Liebig Univ. Giessen) The Birth of the Kingdom in Review: Discussing the Reception of the Middle Ages in Contemporary Serbia John Sandy-Hindmarch (Univ. Lincoln) Anglo-Saxons, Vikings, and their ‘End Users’: The memory of the early medieval period within contemporary British society – preliminary findings Moderator: Pedro Martins (IHC-NOVA FCSH) | Parallel Session 3b Media Aleksandra Tarasova (Russian State Univ. for the Humanities) The West European Middle Ages and the creation of the “magic” space in the South Korean TV-series Emanuele Arioli (Univ. Polytechnique Hauts-de-France) La spiritualité médiévale des films de Bruno Dumont: Hadewijch, Jeannette, Jeanne d’Arc Felice Lifshitz (Univ. Alberta) The Middle Ages and the Middle Aged: Anxieties of Masculinity and Generational Conflict in 1950s America Moderator: Diogo Gomes (IEM-NOVA FCSH) |
13:00 | “Book Nook” | |
14:00 | Keynote Speaker Moderator: Simon Doubleday (Hofstra Univ.) | |
15:00 | Parallel Session 4a Creation of collective memory Xurxo Ayán Vila (IHC – NOVA FCSH) Memorias de un esqueleto: la segunda vida social de un individuo enterrado en el cementerio medieval del castro de San Lourenzo (Galicia, España) Jorge López Quiroga (Univ. Autónoma de Madrid) El making off de la ‘Galicia sueva’: Uso y abuso de un mito-motor fundacional en clave identitaria Rita Sampaio da Nóvoa (CEPESE – Univ. Porto) “Pelos leprosos, contra a lepra”: as leprosarias medievais e a utopia biomédica do Estado Novo Moderator: Amélia Campos (CHSC – Univ. Coimbra) | Parallel Session 4b Creation of collective memory Katarzyna Anna Kapitan (Univ. Iceland) From Oral Prosimetrum to Viking Metal: Reception of Old Norse legendary sagas in Scandinavia from the Middle Ages until Today Elena Kashina (Univ. York) Good Connections: Legitimising the Title of the First Russian Tsar Simon Halink (Univ. Leiden) Heathen Villains, Heathen Heroes: On the Ideological Inversion of Medieval Conversion Narratives in Iceland and the Faroe Islands Moderator: Diogo Gomes (IEM-NOVA FCSH) |
16:30 | Parallel Session 5a Creation of collective memory Marija Vasiljević & Ognjen Krešić (Institute for Balkan Studies) Memory of the Holy Founders of Serbian State and Church from the 13th to the 18th Century Fredericke Richter (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin / Univ. of Zurich) Sarah Fetzer (Friedrich-Alexander Univ. Erlangen–Nürnberg) (Re-)Constructing the Middle Ages: Genealogies of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum’s Early Exhibition Concepts Moderator: Pedro Martins (IHC-NOVA FCSH) | Parallel Session 5b Creation of collective memory – Remembering Al-Andalus in Iberia: the Case of the Taifa Kingdoms in Contemporary Literature and Culture Javier Albarrán (Univ. Hamburg) Sánchez-Albornoz’s evocation of Taifa al-Andalus: Ben Ammar de Sevilla. Una tragedia en la España delos taifas Elsa F. Cardoso (CH – Univ. Lisboa) Oliveira Parreira and Os Luso-Árabes: a story within the history of Portugal? Abigail K. Balbale (New York Univ.) Rex Lupus of Murcia in Twentieth-century Literature and Popular Culture Moderator: Alejandro García Sanjuán (Univ. Huelva) |
18:00 | Parallel Session 6a Academic Medievalism Wendy Vencel (Archaeological Institute of America) Chivalry Was Always Dead: Combating Toxic Masculinity in the Legacy of William Marshal Nada Zečević (Goldsmiths Univ. London) The Hero, the Vow and the Myth: Serbian academic medievalism 2000-2020 Diego Carlo Améndolla Spínola (Univ. Nacional Autónoma de México) Luis Weckmann: Herencias medievales desde la mirada del primer medievalista mexicano Moderator: Alicia Miguélez (IEM-NOVA FCSH) | Parallel Session 6b Academic Medievalism Rogerio R. Tostes (Univ. Lleida) Pacto e Contracto na Península Ibéria medieval: Alguns cruzamentos sobre a interpretação do passado Julio César Cárdenas Arenas (Univ. Complutense de Madrid) La relación de musulmanes con judíos y cristianos desde Ibn Taymīyah a la teología islámica contemporánea João Otavio Fardin (Univ. Estadual Paulista) Moderator: Antonella Liuzzo-Scorpo |
9:00 GMT | Keynote Speaker Moderator: Covadonga Valdaliso (CH-UL) | |
10:00 GMT | Parallel Session 7a Literature Israel Sanmartín (Univ. Santiago de Compostela) La recepción de la Edad Media en la novela histórica del siglo XXI: el caso de José Javier Esparza Antonio Huertas Morales (Univ. Rey Juan Carlos) El telón de terciopelo, de José Ignacio de Arana: una Nueva Edad Media en el choque de civilizaciones Madeline Bouchez (Univ. D’Artois) Reutilización o recreación de la imagen de una mujer de poder de Al-Andalus en la ficción en prosa contemporánea: La loba de Al-Andalus de Sebastián Roa? Moderator: Rebeca Sanmartín (Univ.Complutense) | Parallel Session 7b Tourism and the Middle Ages Simon Trafford (Univ. London) Tourism and the Middle Ages Lizzie Swarbrick (Univ. Edinburgh) An Archaeology of Conspiracy Theories at Rosslyn Chapel Patrick Masters (Univ. Portsmouth) Rosslyn Chapel–Heterotopia of history and myth Moderator: Diogo Gomes (IEM- NOVA FCSH) |
11:30 GMT | Parallel Session 8a Literature Francesca Roversi Monaco (Univ. Bologna) Sérgio Neto (CEIS20 – Univ. Coimbra) Cavaleiros da Terra de Ninguém. Alguns aspectos da inspiração medieval da literatura portuguesa da Grande Guerra Moderator: Ana Sirgado (IELT-NOVA FCSH) | Parallel Session 8b Tourism and the Middle Ages Margarita Dadykina & Julia Lajus (Higher School of Economics) Construction and Reception of the Medieval Heritage on the Russian North 1990s-2010s Shelley-Anne Peleg (Univ. Haifa) The Medieval Mediterranean–A Matrix of Connected Cities María de los Ángeles Utrero Agudo (Escuela de Estudios Árabes) Reconstructing the Middle Ages, Restoring the Medieval constructions Moderator: Alicia Miguélez (IEM- NOVA FCSH) |
13:00 GMT | Virtual Posters Session | |
14:00 GMT | Keynote speaker Moderator: Miguel Seixas (IEM-NOVA FCSH) | |
15:00 GMT | Parallel Session 9a The reception of the Middle Ages – On both sides of the Alps: Comparing Italian and German cultural appropriation of the Lombards from the Late Middle Ages to the present Francesco Borri (Univ. Venezia) A Road to the North? Lombards and Barbarians between National Historiography and Subculture Annamaria Pazienza (Univ. Padova) The Materiality of the Lombards: Uses and Abuses of Lombard-period archaeological Heritage in Italian Culture and Politics Stefan Donecker (Institute for Medieval Research) Glories and Agonies of the Germanic Past:The Ambivalence of the Lombards in German Historiography, c. 1500–1945 Moderator: Stefan Donecker (Institute for Medieval Research) | Parallel Session 9b The reception of the Middle Ages – The Case of the Saints in modern Scandinavian Medievalisms Steffen Hope (Linnaeus Univ.) The medieval in the modern city – saintly medievalism in Odense Sara Ellis Nilsson (Linnaeus Univ.) A Case of Local Identity – Medieval Saints in the Landscape Ragnhild M. Bø (Univ. Oslo) The Norwegian Saints and their Afterlives: Re-Inventing a Catholic Past Moderator: Steffen Hope (Linnaeus Univ.) |
16:30 GMT | Special Session Moderator: Laurent Hablot (École Pratique des Hautes Études) | |
18:00 GMT | Parallel Session 10a The reception of the Middle Ages Rebecca Bradshaw (Norfolk County Council) The uses and reuses of the Rood Screen at St Mary’s Church, North Elmham – to what extent has there been a reuse? Claudia Di Sciacca (Univ. Udine) Using the Past: Modern veneration of St Oswald of Northumbria (†642) in North-East Italy Hee Sook Lee-Niinioja (Independent Scholar) The Eternal Tangible-Intangible Medieval Venice with Short-Long Time Distances in Memory and Imagination Moderator: Pedro Martins (IHC-NOVA FCSH) | Parallel Session 10b The reception of the Middle Ages – The Case of the Saints in Post-Medieval Ritual Contexts Terese Zachrisson (Univ. Gothenburg) Idols, Fairy Tales or the Pride of the Parish? Clerical Responses to the Presence of the Saints in Early Modern Church Space Jenni Kuuliala (Tampere Univ.) Venerating a medieval bishop in Early Modern Florence: Testimonies to Saint Andrea Corsini’s life and miracles Rebecca Pinner (Univ. East Anglia) Nostalgia and Nationalism in the Modern Afterlives of St Edmund of East Anglia Moderator: Sara Ellis Nilsson (Linnaeus University) |
9:00 | Keynote speaker Moderator: Alicia Miguélez (IEM – NOVA FCSH) | |
10:00 | Parallel Session 11a Art Aude Briau (École Pratique des Hautes Études) Recycler, recréer, réinventer. La réception des gravures germaniques de la fin du Moyen-Âge aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles Jorge Fernández-Santos (Univ. Rey Juan Carlos) Reclaiming Iberian medieval kingship in late Habsburg and early Bourbon Spain (1680-1750) Iván Rega Castro (Univ. León) Moors at the Court.The new Madrid’s Royal Palace decoration,or how (re)imagining the idea of crusade in the Middle Eighteenth Century Moderator: Maria Barreto Dávila (CHAM-NOVA FCSH-Univ. Aç) | Parallel Session 11b Art Dario De Cristofaro (Univ. Firenze) Recovering Middle Age-Falsifying Middle Age: the reconstruction of the city of Trento (Italy) between the XIX and XX century Alison Locke Perchuk & Alva Bailey (California State Univ. Channel Islands) Tuscania Transported: St. John’s Episcopal Church and Italian Medievalism in Interwar Los Angeles Klaus Tragbar (Univ. Innsbruck) Towers and Games. Notes on the reconstruction of medieval townscapes in Tuscany during the Ventennio Moderator: Antonella Liuzzo-Scorpo (Univ. Lincoln) |
11:30 | Parallel Session 12a Art Momo Kanazawa (Tama Art Univ.) The Reception of Medieval Art in Japan: the Romanesque as the art of supreme beauty for Soetsu Yanagi Alexei Kraikovski (Univ. Padova) “Every chair is a small Duomo di Milano”. The imaginaries of the European Middle Ages in the Russian imperial noble manors of the Baltic provinces. The case of Schloss Fall Martha Easton (Saint Joseph’s Univ.) Architectural Salvage and Authenticity: Recreating the Middle Ages in America Moderator: Alicia Miguélez (IEM-NOVA FCSH) | Parallel Session 12b Art Tommaso Zerbi (Univ. Edinburgh) The Making of Italy (through the Ephemeral): The First Italian Parliament between State Building, ‘Risorgimental Neo-Medievalism,’ and Glorification of the House of Savoy Rosângela Aparecida da Conceição (IEM – NOVA FCSH) The Archbishopric of Dom Duarte Leopoldo e Silva (1907-1938): the new churches and liturgical vestments in medieval styles Constantin Favre (Univ. Genève) Georges Trubert, un enlumineur du XVe siècle qui sert de modèle au XIXe siècle Moderator: Maria Barreto (CHAM-NOVA FCSH-Univ. Aç) |
13:00 | Conversation with visual artists Musa Paradisiaca, Eduardo Guerra & Miguel Ferrão Moderator: Ana Sirgado (IELT- NOVA FCSH) /Alicia Miguélez (IEM-NOVA FCSH) | |
14:00 | Keynote speaker Moderator: Ana Sirgado (IELT-NOVA FCSH) | |
15:00 | Parallel Session 13a Literature – Recreating the Middle Ages Today: From Chronicles to Comics Denise K. Filios (Univ. Iowa) The Ruta de la Reconquista: Tourism in an authentic medieval Spanish landscape Ana M. Montero (Saint Louis Univ.) In Search of a Hero: Sidi (2019) by A. Pérez Reverte and Tragedia de la insigne reyna doña Isabel (1457) by d. Pedro of Avis Samuel Sánchez y Sánchez (Davidson College) Rewriting the Medieval Witch in Modern Spain Moderator: Ana M. Montero (Saint Louis Univ.) | Parallel Session 13b Music Dario Capelli (Univ. Udine) The Middle Ages in Extreme Metal: Models, Rewritings, and Parodies Niklas Cousin (Univ. Cambridge) Hybrid Music-Making and the Cultural Legacy of al-Andalus Alberto Medina de Seiça (CESEM – NOVA FSCH) Redeamus ad fontem: o tópico da “autenticidade originária” no discurso legitimador do canto gregoriano (Metz, Cister, Solesmes) Moderator: Elsa De Luca |
16:30 | Roundtable Moderator: Maria Amélia Campos (CHSC – Univ. Coimbra) | |
18:00 | Concert by Brazilian Musician Ivan Vilela | |
19:00 | Closing session |
The international conference “Using the Past: The Middle Ages in the Spotlight” will take place at the Monastery of Santa Maria da Vitória (Batalha, Portugal) on December 9–12, 2020.
The conference aims at bringing together scholars from all around the world concerned with the uses of the medieval past.
Instituto de Estudos Medievais, NOVA FCSH,
Colégio Almada Negreiros, Sala 320,
Campus de Campolide
1099-032 Lisboa
Portugal
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