Sponsors: Richard Rawlinson Center   

Organizer: Lindy Brady (lindy.brady@edgehill.ac.uk)

How did cities, settlements, and urban spaces in pre-Norman Britain take shape in reality and in the poetic imagination? This session warmly welcomes papers exploring the concept of 'the city' in the historical reality, material culture, or literary traditions of pre-Norman Britain, from scholars at all career stages and working across all disciplines. We welcome papers on the city in literary imagination (How did authors writing in Old English or Anglo-Latin conceive of cities in their works?) and historical reality (What evidence for the material culture of urban spaces in pre-Norman Britain exists?) as well as comparative approaches.

Sponsor: Richard Rawlinson Center and Chancery Hill Books

Organizer: Thomas A. Bredehoft (tabrede@gmail.com)

Papers on fragments and fragmentation of English materials before 1200. May include Old English or Anglo-Latin texts or materials that are "England adjacent," such as Heliand or other Carolingian binding fragments. Work on surviving bookbindings from before 1200 (with or without binding fragments) is also of interest. All papers should put materiality at their heart, but papers primarily dealing with purely textual fragmentation may be considered. Papers considering items already fragmented by ca. 1200 are especially encouraged, but later (or undatable) fragmentation is also of interest.

Sponsor: Richard Rawlinson Center

Organizer: Robert F. Berkhofer

We invite submissions on the broad theme of the "Northern Medieval World" from any discipline to honor Michael H. Gelting, a historian of Denmark and Europe in the central and later Middle Ages. We welcome interdisciplinary and collaborative contributions. Papers dealing with history, law, or power throughout the northern medieval world are encouraged.

Sponsor: Medieval Institute Publications and Richard Rawlinson Center

Organizer: Emily A. Winkler, Robert F. Berkhofer, Theresa Whitaker

We are interested in new approaches or new scholarship about the northern medieval world. Proposals may deal with any aspect of the North Sea, Baltic Sea, or Atlantic and adjacent regions, or those which interact with them. Early career scholars from any discipline are encouraged to apply.

Sponsor: Richard Rawlinson Center

Organizer: Jana K. Schulman (jana.schulman@wmich.edu)

The Richard Rawlinson Center seeks fun, interactive ways that people around the world teach dead languages and proposes this workshop so that presenters and attendees can share and learn from each other. We seek presenters who teach languages of early medieval Britain and Ireland, including Old English, Old Frisian, Old Saxon, Medieval Irish, Medieval Welsh, Old Norse, Latin, Anglo-Norman, or Norman French. The workshop offers space to share a particular assignment, in-class activity, etc. that you have found effective for students. If you do something in your classroom that energizes and excites your students, we want to hear from you.