48th Symposium on Old English, Middle English and Historical Linguistics (#SOEMEHL48)
- Date
- Friday 11 December 2026
- Time
- Series
- Symposium on Old English, Middle English and Historical Linguistics in the Low Countries (SOEMEHL)
- Location
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Lipsius
Cleveringaplaats 1
2311 BD Leiden - Room
- t.b.a.
Programme
10.00 – 10.25 Doors open
10.25 – 10.30 Welcome
10.30 – 11.00 Natalia Petrovskaia (Utrecht University): “Beowulf and Fractals”
11.00 – 11.30 Fatima al Moufridji (Leiden University): “Exotic or Familiar? Translating Eastern Saints in Old English Hagiography”
11.30 – 12.00 Moritz Draschner (Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf): “TEI-XML, Conceptual Taxonomies, and Data Visualisation: Computational Approaches to Floris and Blancheflour”
Lunch break
13.30 – 14.00 Jurre Nijhuis (Utrecht University): “The Harp as a Ritual Marker of Community in Beowulf”
14.00 – 14.30 Amber Lucassen (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen): “Manifestations of Female Power in the Middle English Breton Lay”
14.30 – 15.00 Megan Leitch (Universiteit Groningen): “The Medieval Middlebrow: Romance, Gender and the Body Politic, c.1300-1534”
Tea break
15.20 – 15.50 Juliane Witte (University of Tübingen): “The Women of Beowulf: Exploring Female Narrative Networks in Medieval Literature”
Keynote speaker
15.50 – 16.50 Miriam Edlich-Muth (Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf):
“The Illusion of the Extant: Rethinking Medieval Philology as a Low-Information Field”
17:00- Conference drinks in LUCAS common room
[Arsenaal building, Arsenaalstraat 1; first floor]
Registration
Attendance is free, but please register before 1 December 2026, using the registration link below. The conference will take place on campus, but online attendance via Zoom will be possible.
Sponsors
#SOEMEHL48 is sponsored by LUCL, the 'Medieval and Early Modern' cluster of LUCAS and the Vereniging van Oudgermanisten.
