This informal workshop, centered around research in progress, is organised as part of the activities of a VLAC fellowship cluster at the Flemish Academic Centre for Science and the Arts (Feb.-June 2012) and as an introductory meeting of a new FWO-project (Ghent University, 2012-15) on the same topic.

Programme :
13.30h: Introduction / Inleiding
13.40h: Jeff Rider (Wesleyan University, CT) – Who Lived in Bruges in 1127-28?

14.30h: Jan Dumolyn (Ghent University) – Was There a Commune in the Bruges of Galbert?

15.20h: Jeroen Deploige (Ghent University) – A Ship on Wheels in St Trond, 1135. Wage Labour, Heresy and the Performance of Social Identity in the Long Twelfth Century

16.10h: Walter Simons (Dartmouth College, NH) – Slander! Naming Beguines in the Southern Low Countries, 1200-1250

17.00h: Drink

Informations pratiques :
 Brussel, Thursday 10 May 2012

Venue: Paleis der Academiën – Stevinzaal
Hertogstraat 1
1000 Brussel

How to get there? See: http://www.kvab.be/contact.aspx

If you would like to participate in the workshop, please register your attendance by contacting Jeroen Deploige (jeroen.deploige@ugent.be) in order to the receive the preparatory reading materials (excerpts of sources, draft chapter etc.).