Stanford-Poitiers Conference: "Southern France and the Latin East in the 13th Century: Crusade, Networks, and Exchanges"
Southern France and the Latin East in the 13th Century: Crusade, Networks, and Exchanges
April 19-20, 2018
Thursday April 19, 2018
Coffee: 9-9.30am Stanford Humanities Center Lobby
Introduction and Welcome: 9.30-9.45am
Amalia Kessler, Director of FSCIS (Stanford), and Marisa Galvez (Stanford)
Session 1: 9.45-11.45am Troubadour Crusading Networks in Song and Songbooks
Moderator: Katherine Kong (Independent Scholar)
Steve Nichols (Hopkins): “‘De sai or de lai?’ Spiritual Ecology in Troubadour Crusade Literature”
Marisa Galvez (Stanford): “‘Testimoni, Cavalier e Jocglar’: Raimbaut de Vaqueiras as Crusader-Poet and Songbook Networks”
Christopher Davis (Northwestern): “The Empire of Song: Lyric Mobility and Social Hierarchy in the ‘Chansonnier du Roi’”
Lunchtime Graduate Workshop: 12-1.45pm
In Stanford Humanities Center Board Room. Participants and RSVPs only. Papers pre-circulated by email. Moderator: Rowan Dorin (Stanford)
Nicolyna Enriquez (UCLA): “Medieval Connections: An Examination of a Fatimid Rock Crystal Ewer from the Treasury of Saint-Denis, Paris”
Richard Ibarra (UCLA): “Property Dispute and Crusaders in the Letters of Ivo of Chartres”
Padraic Rohan (Stanford): "Emperors No More: the Thirteenth-Century Sea Change from Constantinople to the Latin West"
Session 2: 2-3.30pm Social Practices and Intercultural Exchanges
Moderator: Alexander Key (Stanford)
Stefan Vander Elst (UC San Diego): “Crusade as a War of Families in the First Quarter of the Thirteenth Century”
Martin Aurell (U Poitiers): “From historiography to myth: mixed marriage in the Holy Land”
Coffee Break: 3.30-3.45pm Stanford Humanities Center Lobby
Session 3: 4-5.45pm Outremer Courts
Moderator: Francisco Prado-Vilar (Harvard)
Nicholas Paul (Fordham): “Cortezia and the Haute cour: Occitan Culture and the Shaping of Aristocratic Space in the Latin East”
Justine Andrews (U New Mexico): Lusignan Cyprus: Image and Architecture between France and the Levant”
Discussion and Concluding Response: 5-5.45pm
Rowan Dorin (Stanford), introduced by Elizabeth Marcus (Stanford)
Friday April 20, 2018
Coffee: 8.30-9am Stanford Humanities Center Lobby
Session 4: 9-10.30am Circulation and Borrowings
Moderator: Fiona Griffiths (Stanford)
Nicolas Prouteau (U Poitiers): “Circulation and Borrowings between East and West in the Thirteenth Century : The case of Military Architecture”
Estelle Ingrand-Varenne (U Poitiers): “Holy Land Epigraphy in Comparison with Thirteenth-Century Inscriptions of Southern France”
Visit to Stanford Libraries Special Collections: 10.30-11.30am
Stanford University Libraries, First Floor of Green East
Lunch for Conference Participants and Attendees: 11.30-1pm
Picnic tables outside Stanford Humanities Center
Session 5: 1-3pm Modes of Transmission: Stories and Song
Moderator: Marie-Pierre Ulloa (Stanford)
Rachel Golden (U of Tennessee): “Gendered Grief, Disruptive Motion, and Reinvention in French Crusade Song”
Susan Noakes (U of Minnesota—Twin Cities): “Boccaccio’s Cyprus and Multi-Lingual Aspects of Mediterranean Trade Revealed in Song”
Lynn Ramey (Vanderbilt): “Storytelling on Crusade: Modeling Textual Transmission using a Video Game Engine”
Coffee Break: 3-3.30pm Stanford Humanities Center Lobby
Session 6: 3.30-5.30pm Theories of Translatio and Reception
Stanford Humanities Center Board Room. Moderator: Marisa Galvez (Stanford)
Francisco Prado-Vilar (Harvard): “The Beauty and Pathos of Crusader Bodies: Art, Antiquity, and Eschatology from Bohemond to the Leper King”
Shirin Khanmohamadi (SFCU): “Saracens, Objects, and Translatio in the Crusade Cycle”
Discussion with Concluding Response: 4.30-5.30pm
Stanford Humanities Center Board Room.
Jessica Goldberg (UCLA), introduced by Laura Stokes (Stanford)
Closing Reception: 5.30-7pm Stanford Humanities Center Lobby