PROGRAMME

PROGRAMME

• Speakers' names are hyperlinked to further information about them; paper titles are linked to their abstracts. 
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• Please note the change of time and venue for the plenary lecture: it is now at 1.00 p.m., still on Friday 15 October; and will be at Green College. 
• This programme was last updated on Thursday 14 October.

Thursday Afternoon
14 October
Istituto Italiano di Cultura

[Due to limitations of space, this first—Thursday afternoon and evening—part of the programme is by invitation only. Workshop speakers are of course invited to and included in everything!]


5.00 to 5.15 p.m.

Alberta Lai (Director of the IIC) and Daniela Boccassini (Workshop Organizer) — Welcome and Opening Remarks

5.15 to 6.30 p.m. Introductory Session 

• Dorothy-June Fraser (UBC) — Seeing the Divine Light- Cultural Parallels and Optical Theory in Medieval Glass Mosaic- A Preliminary Study
• Alexis Statz (UBC) — The Beloved Saracen: Re-imagining the Conventional Heroine in Sir Bevis of Hampton
• Kirsten Rusko (UBC) — Jus Ad Bellum: Slaughter as an Act of Penitence in Sir Gowther
• Daniela Boccassini (UBC) — Quest and Conquest, Inner and Outer

6.30 to 7.30 p.m. Music for the Heart

7.30 to 8.45 p.m. Opening Reception



[The rest of the programme—on Friday and Saturday—is open to all registered participants!]

Friday Morning
15 October

Green College Coach House

9.00 to 9.15 a.m. 

Daniela Boccassini and Mark Vessey (Principal of Green College) — Welcome and Opening Remarks

9.15 to 10.30 a.m. — Session 1

The Crusade, Inner and Outer (European Perspective) 

Chair: Maya Yazigi (UBC)

• Filippo Andrei — Albert of Aachen and the Chanson de Jerusalem
• Juliet O’Brien — The Cansó de la Crozada and Literary Heresy

10.30 to 10.45 a.m. Coffee Break

10.45 a.m. to 12.00 noon — Session 2

The Crusade, Inner and Outer (Islamic Perspective) 

Chair: Ken Seigneurie (SFU)

• Niall Christie — Fighting on Earth to Gain Heaven: The Vision of Paradise Motif in the Kitab al-Jihad of ‘Ali ibn Tahir al-Sulami (d. 1106) 
• Farid Laroussi — Struggling with Jihad

12.00 noon to 1.00 p.m. — Buffet Lunch



Friday Afternoon
15 October
Green College Coach House


1.00 to 2.00 p.m. — Keynote Address 

Chair: Robert Rouse (UBC)

• Michael Barry — The Moor of Venice: Averroes and the Representations of Islamic Philosophy in Medieval and Renaissance European Art

2.00 to 3.00 p.m. Please feel free to explore the UBC campus

3.00 to 4.15 p.m. — Session 3

The Crusading Ideal: Old Pretexts, Texts, New Contexts

Chair: Richard Unger (UBC)

• Jean-Luc Nardone — Quest and Conquest of the Self: the Pretext of the Crusades from the Fioretti (XXIV) to the Decameron (X, 9)
• Gregory Stone — Dante’s Crusade, World Peace, and the Conquest of Islam

4.15 to 4.30 p.m. Coffee Break

4.30 to 5.45 p.m. — Session 4

Italy — The Mediterranean Scene from the Centre 

Chair: Mario Inglese (UBC)

• Marco Prina — Political, Aesthetic and Symbolic Meanings of the Domed Basilicas of Sicily during the Comital Norman Reign
• Roberta Morosini — Alexander the Traveller in the Medieval and Renaissance Italian Tradition: when a Conquest is a Quest

6.30 to 8.30 p.m. Buffet Dinner



Saturday Morning
16 October 
Green College Coach House

10.00 to 11.15 a.m. — Session 5

In Quest of Origins 

Chair: Chantal Phan (UBC)

• Marina Lushenko — Searching for the Origins of the Turks in the Medieval West: William of Tyre, Hayton of Corycus and the Genre of Origo Gentis
• Livia Stoenescu — Re-Interpreting the Myth of Trojan Descent

11.15 to 11.30 a.m. Coffee Break

11.30 a.m. to 12.45 p.m. — Session 6

Quests in Islamic Lore 

Chair: Raúl Alvarez-Moreno (UBC)

• Valerio Cappozzo — Islamic Intersections: The Conquest of Dream Sciences in Medieval Italian Miscellanies
• Amie Kraus — Themes of Conquest and Social Allegory in Medieval Europe: the Game of Chess

1.00 to 3.00 Buffet Lunch



Saturday Afternoon
16 October
Green College Coach House

3.00 to 4.15 p.m. — Session 7

Visual Encounters 

Chair: Carol Knicely (UBC)

• Azadeh Yamini-Hamedani — The Quest of Words Unread: Islamic Inscriptions in Christian Art
• Erica Dodd — The Virgo Lactans: From Jerusalem to Michelangelo

4.15 to 4.30 p.m. Coffee Break

4.30 to 5.45 p.m. — Session 8

A Starry Firmament as End to the Quest 

Chair: Derryl MacLean (SFU)

• Michael Barry — King Arthur's Round Table and the Thousand and One Nights
• Daniela Boccassini — Concluding Remarks

6.30 to 9.30 p.m. Dinner: Acropol Restaurant, 2942 West Broadway, Vancouver
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