Stanford-Poitiers Conference: "Southern France and the Latin East in the 13th Century: Crusade, Networks, and Exchanges"

Stanford-Poitiers Conference: "Southern France and the Latin East in the 13th Century: Crusade, Networks, and Exchanges"
Date
Thu April 19th 2018, 12:00am - Fri April 20th 2018, 12:00am
Location
All sessions in Levinthal Hall, Stanford Humanities Center, unless otherwise noted.

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