Registration via https://event.ugent.be/registration/medievalperformance from 15-09-2025 08:15 until 04-11-2025 00:00
Thursday–Friday, 13–14 November 2025
Sint-Baafshuis, Biezekapelstraat 2, Ghent, Belgium – Room 1.07
Opposite the ibis hotel, next to the cathedral. Bikes via Kapittelstraat entrance.
| Time | Session | Moderator | Speakers & Titles |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09:00–09:30 | Opening | ||
| 09:30–11:00 | Session 1 | Gowaart Van Den Bossche | Zeynep Aydoğan (Institute for Mediterranean Studies, Rethymno) — Performance and Transmission in Anatolian Turkish Warrior Epics Olivia Colquitt (Heinrich Heine University of Düsseldorf) — Textuality, Narrativity, Performativity: Identity Entanglements in the Middle English and Greek Floire et Blancheflor Stefka G. Eriksen (University of Oslo) — Translating Textuality, Visuality, and Performativity in Medieval Manuscript Culture: A Case-Study of the Story about Yvain, the Knight of the Lion, in Old French and Old Norse Contexts |
| 11:00–11:30 | Break | ||
| 11:30–13:00 | Session 2 | Hind Ayhir | Thom Gobbitt (Karl-Franzens University, Graz) — Saying It and Paying It Threefold: Repetition in the Lombard Law on Arson Inês Olaia (University of Lisbon) — Performance, Space, Lordship: Assuming Control of a Town in Late Medieval Portugal Vid Žepič (University of Ljubljana) — Performing Justice: Judicial Gestures, Symbols, and Insignia in Medieval Legal Culture |
| 13:00–14:00 | Lunch | ||
| 14:00–15:30 | Session 3 | Robert Gallagher | Katherine Weikert (University of Winchester) — Dark Objects and Living Books: Agencies of Medieval Insular Cartularies, 1100–1250 Wim Verbaal (Ghent University) — The Performing Book or Why You Do Not Read a Medieval Manuscript Gowaart Van Den Bossche (University of Zürich) — A Soldier Walks into a Bar: Performative Language Use Between Colloquial and Rhymed Prose in Late Medieval Arabic Historiography |
| 15:30–16:00 | Break | ||
| 16:00–17:30 | Session 4 | Dinah Wouters | Joletta De Smedt (Mozarteum University Salzburg) — The Problem of Text Underlay in Plainchant and Polyphony: The Inherent Quality of the Hexachord Syllables Robert Flierman (Utrecht University) — Eat, Pray, Love. The (Diverse) Uses of Letters in Post-Roman Europe Jeroen De Gussem (Ghent University) — Detecting Auditory Features of Prose Style in Anglo-Latin Hagiography (900–1150) with Stylometry: The Case of Folcard of St-Bertin |
| 19:00 | Dinner | Knol&Kool, Heilige-Geeststraat 30, 9000 Gent |
| Time | Session | Moderator | Speakers & Titles |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09:30–11:00 | Session 5 | Jo Van Steenbergen | Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych (Georgetown University) — Rhetoric and Reliquary: Performance and Reperformance of al-Būṣīrī’s Mantle Ode (Burdat al-Būṣīrī) to the Prophet Muḥammad Lorenzo Maria Ciolfi (Complutense University of Madrid) — Liturgical Performance and the Synaxarium of Constantinople James Drysdale Miller (University of Oxford) — Armarii, Communal Reading and Orthodox Interpretation: Celebrating the Feasts of St Benedict at Eleventh-Century Fleury |
| 11:00–11:30 | Break | ||
| 11:30–13:00 | Session 6 | Jeroen Deploige | Heather Taylor (University of Kent) — Flipping the Social Script: Performative Rituals to Assert Social Agency in Late-Medieval England Pamela King (University of Glasgow) — Respectability Challenged in Late Medieval York: A Play, a Scotsman, and a Pair of Prosthetic Arms Kristin Hoefener (University Nova of Lisbon) — Processionals and Processions: Cross-Examining Dominican Practices in the 15th Century and Today |
| 13:00–14:00 | Lunch | ||
| 14:00–15:00 | Roundtable | Wim Verbaal (Ghent University) and Alice Hicklin (King’s College London) |