Reading Practices in Medieval German Women Convents from the 13th to the 15th Centuries
Conference Programme and Schedule
Thursday, 9 March 2023
| 10.00 | Registration |
| 10.30 | Welcome and Introduction |
| 10.45 – 12.15 | Session 1 Chair: Racha Kirakosian (Freiburg) Ann Marie Rasmussen (Waterloo): What is Reading? Morgan Powell (Zurich): Reading as (a) Woman. Twelfth-Century Foundations of a Gendered Reading Paradigm |
| 12.15 – 13.30 | Lunch in situ |
| 13.30 – 15.00 | Session 2 Chair: Markus Stock (Toronto) Landon Reitz (Cincinnati): Images of a Reading Mystic. Between Practice and Icon Linus Möllenbrink (Freiburg): The Naked Reader. Mary Magdalene as Image of the Reading Woman |
| 15.00 – 15.30 | Coffee Break |
| 15.30 – 17.00 | Session 3 Chair: Julie Hotchin (Canberra) Carolyn Muessig (Calgary): Listening to Women’s Voices in their Written Sermons Patricia Stoop (Antwerp): “Reading the Fruits on the Tree of Life Planted in the Paradise of Holy Scripture”. The Production and Use of Sermons in Female Communities in the Low Countries |
| 19.00 | Reception at the Carl-Schurz-Haus Opening of the exhibition Reading Women by photographer Carrie Schneider (New York) Introduction by Friederike Schulte (Director of the Carl-Schurz-Haus) Regina D. Schiewer (Eichstätt): Theologinnen. Freiburger Klöster und Konvente |
Friday, 10 March 2023
| 9.00 – 10.30 | Session 4 Chair: Lea von Berg (Freiburg) Björn Klaus Buschbeck (Zurich): Nuns Travelling with Manuscripts. Book Ownership and the Dominican Observant Reform in Fifteenth-Century Southern Germany Meret Wüthrich (Freiburg): Reading and Writing in a Freiburg Convent. The Penitents of St. Mary Magdalene and Their Books |
| 10.30 – 11.00 | Coffee break |
| 11.00 – 11.45 | Session 4 (continued) Linus Ubl (Jerusalem): Non-observant Nuns = non-reading Women? Historical Perspectives |
| 12.00 – 13.30 | Lunch in situ |
| 13.30 – 15.00 | Session 5 Chair: Martina Backes (Freiburg) Jessica Barr (Amherst): Reading Women Writing Death. Beatrice of Nazareth and the Nuns of Helfta Lina Herz (Hamburg): Dorothea Schlegel liest Elisabeth von Nassau-Saarbrücken. Oder die Frage nach interfemininer Rezeptionskultur zwischen 1450 und 1805 |
| 15.30 – 17.00 | Hands on! Medieval Material Culture in Freiburg Option 1: Freiburg Cathedral (Martina Backes, Freiburg) Option 2: Manuscript Workshop (Julia Buschhüter, Balázs J. Nemes, Meret Wüthrich, Freiburg) |
| 18.30 | Conference Dinner |
Saturday, 11 March 2023
| 9.00 – 10.30 | Session 6 Chair: Michael Stolz (Bern) Eva Schlotheuber (Dusseldorf): Kommunikation mit dem Stift. Die Briefkultur norddeutscher Nonnen Sara S. Poor (Princeton): Reading St. Catherine. Kunigund Niklasin’s Reboot of the Catherine Miracles in SBB, Msc Hist 154 |
| 10.30 – 11.00 | Coffee Break |
| 11.00 – 12.30 | Session 7 Chair: Mareike E. Reisch (Stanford/Freiburg) Almut M.V. Suerbaum (Oxford): Song Production as Creative Reading. Late-medieval Religious Songs for and by Women |
| 12.30 – 13.00 | Concluding Words |