Time for the Middle Ages

Provisional Program

*Subject to change

Time	Session
9:00	Welcome from Medieval Studies Program Director
9:15	Dr. Joseph Grossi, Department of English and Medieval Studies, UVic Eternal Curses: When Time Meets Place in Medieval English Charters
9:45	Dr. Alan Mitchell, Department of English, UVic A Craft of Time: Reckoning with the Fourteenth-Century Navicula
10:15	Musical Interlude Early Music Society of the Islands
10:30	Morning Break
10:45	First Keynote speaker: Dr. Marina Rustow, Princeton University Did Medieval People Know What Day of the Week It Was? Mismeasure and Imprecision in Cairo Geniza Documents
11:45	Dr. Trish Baer, Medieval Studies, UVic Library exhibition - Vanquished Viking Gods
12:00	Lunch break
1:00	Dr. Shamma Boyarin, Department of English and Medieval Studies, UVic Between Jewish Time and World Time: History Calendar Cosmology in the Book of Memory
1:30	Musical Interlude Early Music Society of the Islands
1:45	Afternoon break
2:00	Dr. Evanthia Baboula, Art History and Visual Studies, UVic The Seasons in Imperial Cultures
2:30	Second Keynote speaker: Eldon Yellowhorn, Simon Fraser Univeristy Understanding Antiquity on the Northern Plains during the Medieval Warm Spell
3:30	conclusion