Imbas 2015
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20TH
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21ST
2:00-3:30: Registration
10:00-11:00: Panel 3
3:30-4:30: Panel 1
One Way or Another: Liminal Identities in the 10th
and 12th Centuries
Dónal Ó Catháin
National University of Ireland, Galway
‘Fionntan mac Bóchra – the Seanchaí of the
Western World’
Kenneth Coyne
National University of Ireland, Galway
Robert of Rheims’ concept of the ‘Pilgrim Knight’
in his Historia Iherosolimitana’
Francisco J. Rozano-Garcia
National University of Ireland, Galway
‘Living on the Edge of the World:
Liminal Landscapes in Old English Poetry’
Perspectives of the World in the
Late Antique & Medieval
Period
NUI Galway
OÉ Gaillimh
Aogán Ó hIarlaithe
National University of Ireland, Galway
‘Sinech Cró, máthair altrama, agus an mháthair
chíche i litríocht mheánaoiseach na hÉireann’
(Milk Kinship in Medieval Ireland)
11.00-11:30: Coffee Break
4:30-5:00: Registration & Coffee Break
11:30-12:30: Panel 4
The Rhetorics of History
5:00-6:00: Panel 2
Christian Learning
Elena Barile
Università degli Studi di Bari, Italy
‘Nova documenta digerere: the persistence of
classical rhetorical figures in Early Christian
historical production’
Exequiel Monge Allen
National University of Ireland, Galway
‘From the watchtower: World and worldliness in
Early Irish monastic imagination’
Charles Doyle
National University of Ireland, Galway
‘Atomus in Tempore: The Development of the
Atom in Time During the Late Antique and Early
Medieval Periods’
Christoph Pretzer
Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge
‘Wibbly Wobbly Timey Wimey Stuff: Interactions
and Interrelations of Setting and Plot in Orosius,
Otto of Freising and the German Kaiserchronik’
12:30-2:00: Lunch in An Bhialann
Moore Institute
Institiúid de Móra
6:00-7:00: Wine Reception
2:00-3:00: Panel 5
‘Hwæt’s with the long face?’: depictions of
humans and animals in Old and Midle English
Literature
Charles G. Lein
Recipient of Western Michigan University –
NUI, Galway Conference Exchange Grant in
Medieval Studies
‘Severed Head as Signpost: The Journey to
Grendel’s Mere in Beowulf as Anglo-Saxon
Overland Travel Experience’
Caroline Limpert
University of Bamberg
‘Moving Horses in Medieval English Texts – On
the terms for horse gaits and their value for
interpreting riding scenes’
3.00-3:30: Coffee Break
3:30-4:30: Panel 6
‘As above, and so below’: living and dying in Late
Antiquity
Manuel D. Ruiz-Bueno
University of Córdoba, Spain
‘Córdoba within the walls in Late Antiquity’
Dario Innocenti & Luca Ventura
University Cà Foscari & Academy “Jaufré Rudel”
of Medieval Studies Gradisca d’Isonzo, Italia
‘Things of Another World: codifications and
modifications of the funerary tradition in Late
Antiquity’
4.30-5:00: Coffee Break
Imbas is very grateful for the support of:
5:00-6:00: Keynote address
Prof. Michael Clarke
Department of Classics
National University of Ireland, Galway
CAMPS: Centre for Antique, Medieval, and PreModern Studies, NUIG
7:00: Conference Dinner
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22ND
10:00-11:30: Panel 7
Systems of Governance Across Christian Europe
Martina Krall
Karl-Franzens-University Graz, Austria
Family Networks Among Germanic Kingdoms in
Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
Piotr Gryguć
Jagiellonian University
The Municipal Policy of Bolesław V the Chaste
Duke of Kraków and Sandomierz
11:30-12:00: Coffee Break
12:00-13:00: Panel 8
Metaphors and Metrics
Veronika Egentenmeyr
University of Kiel
‘sub hac tempestate bellorum Latina tenuerunt ora
portum – Sidonius Apollinaris and his perception
of “barbarians” through metaphors’
Yiannis Doukas
National University of Ireland, Galway
‘Sources and patterns of intertextuality in
Colluthus' Abduction of Helen’
Dean of the College of Arts, Social Sciences, and
Celtic Studies
Departments of History and Classics, NUIG
MA in Medieval Studies, NUIG
Moore Institute, NUIG
School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures