Symposium 2020: Imprisonment, Slavery, and Freedom in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age, Nov. 21 and 22 (each day from 8 a.m. /7:50 a.m. MST to 1 p.m.)
17th International Symposium 2020: Liberty, the Prison, and Slavery in the Pre-Modern World, Nov. 21 and 22 (each day from 8 a.m. MST to 1:30 p.m.; it opens up at 7:30 a.m. for chats)
Online: please enter through here, or: https://arizona.zoom.us/j/82046239382?pwd=RktNbWVhWEUyRTRpYlRML2NtT3F5dz09
This is open to anyone, so just enter, but please make sure to mute yourself until you want to speak. You can always raise your hand, or put down something in the chat.
PLEASE MAKE SURE TO LIMIT YOUR SPEAKING TIME TO 20 MINUTES; YOU WILL THEN HAVE 10 MINUTES FOR Q & A
Nov. 21, 7:45-7:55 a.m.: Introduction and welcome
7:55-8:25
Abel Lorenzo-Rodríguez, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain: Prisons that Never Were: Invention, Memory, and Cruelty in Early Medieval Iberia (8th-12th Centuries)
8:30-9:00
Sarah Whitten, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY: Thorn Bushes and Snake Skins on the Sea Shore: Slavery at Home and Abroad in Ninth-Century Southern Italy
9:05-9:35
Chiara Benati, Università degli Studi di Genova: Insprinc haptbandun, inuar uigandun: Magical Remedies to Escape from Imprisonment in the Germanic Tradition
9:35-9:45 Break
9:45-10:15
Sally Abed, University of Alexandria, Egypt: “Seller of Princes”: Rulers or Slaves? (1250‒1517)
10:20-10:50
Warren Tormey, English Department, Middle Tennessee State University, TN: The Transformation of Gehenna: Taking the Biblical Wasteland into the Prison House of Hell
10:55-11:25
Fidel Fajardo-Acosta, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska: The Taming of the Lord: Pleasure and Pain, Identity and Subjection in William IX’s Gap of the Red Cat
11:30-12:00 p.m.
Carlee Arnett, University of California at Davis: Thralls in Old Icelandic Literature: Historical Trope or Literary Device?
12:00-12:15 Break
12:15-12:30
Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona: Piracy, Imprisonment, Merchants, and Freedom: Rudolf von Ems’s The Good Gerhart (ca. 1220)
12:35-1:05
J. Michael Fulton, Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, OK: Overcoming Stress in Imprisonment: How Positive Religious Coping and Expressive Writing Helped Fray Luis de León Survive His Inquisitorial Trial (1572-1576)
1:10-1:40 p.m.
Doaa Omran, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque: Slavery Discourse in the Poetry of the Pre-Islamic ‘Antarah Ibn Shaddād
Sunday, Nov. 22:
7:50-7:55: Welcome back
7:55-8:25
Abdoulaye Samaké, Université des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines de Bamako (ULSHB): Love Imprisonment and Prisoners of Love in the Old French Romance of Cassidorus
8:30-9:00
Amina Boukail: Arabic Literature Department, University Jijel-Algeria: The Representation of the Black Slave in Medieval Arabic Culture
9:05-9:35
Andreas Lehnertz (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and Birgit Wiedl (Institute for Jewish History in Austria): How to Get out of Prison: Jewish Urfehde Records from the Medieval Holy Roman Empire
9:40-9:50 Break
9:50-10:20
Filip Hrbek, Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic: Health and Community Rescue or Soul’s Salvation? Incarceration as an Anti-plague Measure in the Bohemia in the 16th and 17th Centuries
10:25-10:55
Maria Cecilia Ruiz, University of San Diego: The Problem of Freedom of Choice in Don Juan Manuel, Lucanor
11:00-11:30
Angela Zhang, York University, Canada: Discourses on Freedom and Slavery in Florentine Thought
11:35-12:05
Daniel F. Pigg, The University of Tennessee at Martin: From Imprisonment to Liberation: Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale as a Multi-Layered Exploration of a Paradigm
12:05-12:15: Break
12:15-12:45
Justine Walden, Solmsen Visiting Fellow, Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin-Madison:“Not Adept at the Oar”: Racialized Justifications for Enslavement and SubSaharan Africans on Mediterranean Galleys
12:50-1:20
Thomas Willard, University of Arizona: Shakespeare’s Savage Slave
1:25-1:55
Maha Baddar, Pima Community College, Tucson: Slavery in the Medieval and Early Modern Islamic World
2:00 Conclusion of the program
Final Words
Thank you all very much.