Intern
Juniorprofessur für Mediävistische Komparatistik

Tagungen

Common Grounds. Towards a Medieval Comparative Literature

Organization: J.-Prof. Dr. Carlotta Posth (Würzburg), Ass.-Prof. Dr. Katja Weidner (Wien)

Date: 15–17 January 2025
Venue: Burkardushaus, Würzburg

Programme

15 Jan 2025
5.30 pm Arrival
6 pm Welcome
6.15 pm

Keynote

Ardis Butterfield (Yale)
Medieval Comparative Literature and Multilingual Reading
 

16 Jan 2025
9 am Carlotta Posth/Katja Weidner (Würzburg/Wien)
Introduction:
Towards a Medieval Comparative Literary Studies: What Do We Need?
9.30 am

Theoretical Premises: Cultural Backdrop

Jan Santner (Stuttgart)
Tauler at the Tsar's Court: 'Cultural Transfers' as a Paradigm in Intercultural Medieval Studies
Response: Carlotta Posth (Würzburg)
  Jennifer Hagedorn (Würzburg)
A Translational Perspective on Medieval Literature: Impulses from Early Modern Translation Research
Response: Rita Schlusemann (FU Berlin)
11 am Coffee Break
11.30 am

Comparative Approaches (I):
Historical Perspectives

Baukje van den Berg (CEU)
Education and Literary Thought in Byzantium
Response: Estelle Doudet (Lausanne)
  Máire Ní Mhaonaigh/Elizabeth Tyler (Cambridge/York)
Early Medieval Literary Cultures: Two Kings and their Networks
Response: Johannes Stephan (FU Berlin)
1 pm Lunch
3 pm

Roundtable (I):
Basic Categories

with perspectives from:
  • Sebastian Balmes (Zürich): Japanese
  • Estelle Doudet (Lausanne): French
  • Johannes Stephan (FU Berlin): Arabic
  • Albert Wall (Wien): Galician-Portuguese
4.30 am Coffee Break
5 pm

Comparative Approaches (II):
Comparing Narrative

Eva von Contzen (Freiburg)
Telling Again, Anew, Against: Historical Narratology and Premodern Narratives
Response: Constanza Cordoni (ÖAW)
  Miriam Edlich-Muth (Düsseldorf)
Mixed-Method Approaches to the Comparative Study of Medieval Romance: A Snapshot of the Post-REALM Project
Response: Katja Weidner (Wien)
7.30 pm Conference Dinner
 

17 Jan 2025
9 am

Comparative Approaches (III):
Material Implications

ÉloÏse Adde (CEU)
Multilingualism and 'National' Literatures. The Cases of Bohemia and Brabant in the Fourteenth Century
Response: Bernhard Bauer (Graz)
  Jeremy Llewellyn (Wien)
From the Rising of the Sun to Common Ground? The Musical Guises of 'A solis ortu cardine' in Medieval Eurasia
Response: Regina Toepfer (Würzburg)
10.30 am Coffee Break
11 am

Roundtable (II):
Cultural and Historical Practice

with perspectives from:
  • Constanza Cordoni (ÖAW): Hebrew
  • Jürgen Fuchsbauer (Innsbruck): Old-Church Slavonic
  • Farkas Gárbor Kiss (Budapest): Hungarian
12.30 pm Lunch
1.30 pm

Roundtable (III):
Comparative Approaches

with perspectives from:
  • Bernhard Bauer (Graz): Celtic
  • Joanna Mendyk (Cracow): Spanish
  • Rita Schlusemann (FU Berlin): Dutch
  • Jan Wehrle (Freiburg): Scandinavian
3 pm Concluding Discussion:
Towards a Medieval Comparative Literary Studies

Registration

To participate on site on 16 and/or 17 Jan 2025, please register with Felix Pöppel: mediaevistische-komparatistik@uni-wuerzburg.de

Keynote

The keynote will take place in person and online. No registration needed.

Online participation via Zoom:  https://uni-wuerzburg.zoom.us/j/62996377958#success