Connections Redaktion, Leipzig Research Centre Global Dynamics, Universität Leipzig
09:40-10:00 | Welcome with a coffee (LONDON TIME)
10:00-11:00 | Panel 1: Maritime connections and identity
Language, place and cultural Identity in text and image: the developing story of Sir Bevis of Hampton
Dr Cheryl Butler and Dr Lynn Forest-Hill (Southampton)
Who was William Fowler? Maritime Connections and the Sixteenth Century Slave Trade
Dr Craig Lambert (Southampton)
11:15–12:15 | Panel 2: Global cultural encounters
Encounter and imagination in travel reports of South-East Asia between the fourteenth and sixteenth Centuries
Dr Marianne O’Doherty (Southampton)
A Portuguese embassy at the royal court of Ethiopia: the travel account of Francisco Álvares (1520)
Ms. Mathilde Alain, PhD student (Warwick/Tours, France)
12:15–13:30 | Lunch Break
13:30–14:30 | Keynote lecture
Entangled Medieval Worlds — Latin Europe and the Christian Ethiopia in the 15th and early 16th centuries
Prof Verena Krebs (Bochum, Germany)
14.35–15.35 | Panel 3: Materiality, culture and identity
Part I |14.35-15.05
Musical Identities: Marguerite of Austria and Brussels, Royal Library Ms. 228
Ms. Colette Spaul, PhD Candidate (Southampton)
The Mark of the Man of the Sea: An analysis of Southampton’s Elizabethan merchant signatures
Dr Leanna Brinkley (Southampton)
Part II |15.10-15.40
Cross-cultural exchange and the medieval stones of memory
Dr Saša Čaval (Ljubljana, Slovenia/Stanford, USA)
16.00–17.30 | Round Table
Interactions and Exchanges in the medieval and early modern Past: the Challenge of Languages
Dr Alaric Hall (Leeds)
Prof Richard Ingham (Westminster)
Prof Verena Krebs (Bochum)
Dr Helen Spurling (Southampton)
Dr Lena Walgren-Smith (Southampton)
Chair: Dr Nick Karn (Southampton)
18:00–19:30 | Reuter Lecture
In partnership with the Parkes Institute:
A Wet-nurse Controversy: Jews, Christians, and later Medieval ‘Racism’
Prof Irven Resnick (Chattanooga, USA)
Chair: Prof Mark Spearing, Vice President, Research and Enterprise