Cross and Culture in Anglo-Saxon England
An Interdisciplinary Conference in Durham, England
August 3-4, 2001
St. John's College, University of Durham
Seminar Program
Friday, 3 August
8:30 a.m. coffee and tea service
9:00 a.m. Opening Remarks
- Welcome
- Karen Louise Jolly, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
- In Honor of Professor George Hardin Brown
- Rosemary Cramp, University of Durham
9:15-11:00 Session 1 (Re)presenting and Contextualizing the Cross
CHAIR: Phyllis Brown, Santa Clara University
- George Brown, Stanford University
- Éamonn Ó Carragáin, University College Cork
- Joyce Hill, University of Leeds
11:00-11:30 coffee and tea service
11:30-1:15 Session 2 Memorializing and Addressing the Cross
CHAIR: Helen Damico, University of New Mexico
- Fred Orton, University of Leeds
- Roy Michael Liuzza, Tulane University
- William Schipper, Memorial University, St. John's Newfoundland
1:15-2:30 Break for Lunch
2:30-4:15 Session 3 Venerating the Cross in Text, Sign, and Performance
CHAIR: David Rollason, University of Durham
- Sarah Larratt Keefer, Trent University, Ontario
- [Susan Rosser, University of Manchester (cancelled)
- Text and Performance: Imagining audiences for Old English versions of legends of the Cross]
- Catherine E. Karkov, Miami University, Ohio
4:15-4:45 coffee and tea service
4:45-5:45 Session 4 The Signficance of the Cross in Anglo-Saxon England: an Interdisciplinary Dialogue
CONVENER: Karen Louise Jolly, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Prelimary Questions:
- How, within our specific disciplines, do we see ways in which the Anglo-Saxon mind equated the specific shape of the cross with a larger, aesthetic meaning?
- In what ways do superstition and ritual meet or become contiguous in Anglo-Saxon England?
- What are the implications of the tension represented by the dual aspects of the Cross as objective symbol and the Cross as personal gesture?
Saturday, 4 August
Day tour to Bewcastle and Ruthwell Monuments
- bus departs 8 a.m., return 5:30 p.m., box lunch provided
- Tour and discussion led by Catherine E. Karkov, Éamonn Ó Carragáin, and Fred Orton