The Eleventh Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference

St. Edmund Hall, Oxford
17th – 18th April 2015

We are pleased to open registration for Colour, the eleventh Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference, to take place at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, on Friday 17th and Saturday 18th April 2015.

Conference registration only is £10. Registration with a place at the Conference Dinner (three courses with half a bottle of wine),  at St. Hilda’s College on the evening of the 17th, is £40. The Society is also offering , to conference attendees only, one year’s membership of the Society (2 years for graduate students), combined with conference registration, at the special price of £25; and combined with conference registration and dinner at the special price of £55.( For more information on membership, please click here.)

In addition, all conference subscribers will receive free membership of the Society’s online Graduate Conference Space, 2015, launching in March, which will provide a range of services running alongside the conference proper.

If you are a speaker and would like to apply for a bursary for conference-related expenses, please indicate this on the form at the end of the sign-up process.

There are two ways to subscribe: please click here

Programme :

Friday 17th April

9-9:15am Registration
9:15-9:30am Welcome

9:30-11am Colours of Devotion – Chair: Professor Henrike Lähnemann

Alexandra Kaczenski (UCLA), ‘Redesigning Prayer: The Second Decorative Program of BL Harley 1892’
Alexandra Lee (UCL), ‘”Si vestino di panno lino bianco”: The importance of the colour white to the Bianchi of 1399’
Sophie Kelly (University of Kent), ‘The Role of Colour in the Formation of a Pictorial Narrative: The St John’s Psalter’

11-11:30am Coffee

11:30am-1pm Colour in the Codex – Chair: Kate Ailsa Sargan

David Bowe (St Hilda’s College, Oxford), ‘The red and the black: ink and poetics in medieval Italian poetry’
Emma Hardiman (University of York), ‘The Lindisfarne Gospels and Modern Graphic Design: An ideological dichotomy or revealing comparison into objective aesthetics’
Julia Mattison (Jesus College, Oxford), ‘The Colour Recipes of MS Harley 2253’
1-2pm Lunch (provided)

2-3:30pm Materiality – Chair: Charlobe Cooper

Beth Mattison (Yale), ‘Colouring the Past: The Colour Blue in Late Medieval Amiens’
Mel Berrill (Cambridge University), ‘Dressing up with Alexander – disguise, perspective, and visual propaganda in two manuscripts of the Anglo-Norman Roman de toute chevalerie’
Nadia Marx (Harvard University), ‘The Blushing Statue: Colour, Lifelikeness and Enlivenment in Thirteenth-Century Sculpture’

3:30-4pm Coffee

4-5:30pm Colour and Iden7ty in Literature – Chair: Dr Helen Swie

Kathe Robison (University of Minnesota), ‘“Blak, bloo, grenyssh, swar0sh red”: The Color of Speech in Chaucer’s House of Fame’
Wenyi Qian (UCL), ‘Signs of Red: Sensorium and Biopolitics in Gaston Phébus’ Livre de Chasse’
Mao Gillis (Pembroke College, Oxford), ‘Blackness as Spiritual Privation: Reinterpreting Saracen Alterity as a Proto-Christian Community’

5:30-6:30pm Keynote Address by Professor Paul Binski (Caius College, Cambridge)

6:30-7:30pm Drinks Reception at St Edmund Hall (included)
7:30 : Conference dinner at St Hilda’s College (optional)

Saturday 18th April

9:30-10:30am Colourlessness – Chair: Dr Jenni Nuball

Anya Burgon (Cambridge University), ‘French Cistercian Grisaille Glass c. 1175-1250: Colourlessness, Transparency and White’
Jennifer Rushworth (St John’s College, Oxford), ‘Burial and the Black Death, Or, Petrarch and ‘the Dark Ages’
10:30-11am Coffee

11-1pm Gold – Chair: Dr Julia Walworth

Alexandra Bauer (University of Toronto), ‘Golden Idols and Golden Saints: Ælfric’s use of gold as a metaphor for conversion in the Life of Saint Eugenia’
Shan Morgain (University of Swansea), ‘The Golden Thread: an example of Mabinogi subtlety’
Claire Harrill (University of Birmingham), ‘A Study in Gold: St Margaret’s Gospel-Book Reconsidered’
Sophia Rochmes (University of California-Santa Barbara), ‘D’or, d’argent, de blanc et de noir: Material references in Flemish grisaille manuscripts’
1-2pm Lunch

2-3:30pm Colour Theory – Chair: Dr Emily Guerry

Anselm Oelze (University of Berlin), ‘Colours and Philosophers: Roger Bacon on the Psychology of Seeing and the Judgments of Sense’
Arthur Hénaff (EPHE, Paris), ‘Colours, cosmology and the making of scien0fic manuscripts: the Tübinger Hausbuch (Würbemberg, XVth century)’
Sheri Chriqui (Royal Holloway) – TBC
3:30-4pm Coffee

4-5pm Architectural Colours – Chair: Karl Kinsella

Harry Stirrup (University of York), ‘The Four Colours of the Tabernacle: Symbolism in the Vulgate and its Role in Tweleh-Century English Illumination’
Lydia Hansell (Courtauld Institute), ‘Colours for a Cardinal: Artistic Provisions for Religious Foundations in Avignon and Beaune’

5-6pm Closing remarks by Prof Eric Stanley

We are grateful for the sponsorship of St Edmund Hall, and of the Oxford Medieval Studies Network

Source : Medium Aevum