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Conference

45th Symposium on Old English, Middle English and Historical Linguistics in the Low Countries (#SOEMEHL45)

Date
Friday 15 December 2023
Time
Series
Symposium on Old English, Middle English and Historical Linguistics in the Low Countries (SOEMEHL)
Location
Gravensteen
Pieterskerkhof 6
2311 SR Leiden
Room
1.11

Programme

10.15 – 10.40    Doors open

10.40 – 10.45    Welcome

  • 10.45 – 11.15    Laura Mancini (University of Siena/ Università di Siena)

“Proper nouns in two manuscripts of the Old English Dialogi: Bridging the gap between variants”

  • 11.15 – 11.45    Erik Kooper (Utrecht University) 

“‘Digging in dust: Why turn to a manuscript if there is an edition?”

  • 11.45 – 12.15     Geert van Iersel (Fontys University)

 “Merlin and Vivian on the eve of the Second World War:  Pieter Hendrik van Moerkerken’s Bloedrode planeet, of Merlijns laatste visioen”


Lunch break

 

  • 13.45 – 14.15    Jasmin Higgs (University of Nottingham)

“Pre-Old English runes and historical pragmatics” 

  • 14.15 – 14.45     Hester Groot (Leiden University)

“Standardisation and Scotticisms in 19th-century Scottish pauper letters”

  • 14.45 – 15.15     Nadia van Pelt (Delft University of Technology) & Renske Janssen (University of Edinburgh / Leiden University)

““Declarándole su ardiente pasión amorosa”?: Exposing Arthur Tudor’s love letter at the Archivo General de Simancas as a school exercise ”

Tea break

  • 15.40 – 16.10     Michael Angerer (University of Oxford)

“ Hebban olla vogala in English literary history” 

  • 16.10 – 16.40     Patrick Outhwaite (University of Groningen)

“The politics of babelen in Mum and the Sothsegger” 

    Keynote lecture

  • 16.40 – 17.40    Hannah Bower (University of Cambridge)

        “Reading into rupture in medieval domestic writings” 

Conclusion + conference drinks

Please let us know whether you will attend by registering via https://tinyurl.com/soemehl45

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