British Academy: The UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences
British Academy/Royal Irish Academy Joint Symposium
Anglo-Saxon/Irish Relations before the Vikings
12-14 October 2005
The British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH
Programme
Organised by:
Professor James Graham-Campbell, FBA, and Dr Michael Ryan, MRIA
Wednesday 12 October 2005
1.30 | Registration with coffee |
2.00 | Welcome and Introduction |
2.15 | SESSION 1: HISTORY AND LAW |
2.15 | 'Pimples on the face of the earth': negative representations of the Irish in the Easter controversy |
2.45 | The practicalities of communication between Irish and English Churches, c.650-850 |
3.15 | Tea break |
3.45 | Bede's Greater Chronicle: early Insular history in a universal context |
4.15 | Canonical texts and canonical authorities in Ireland and Anglo-Saxon England, 5th-8th centuries |
4.45 | The emergence of a post-conversion English manuscript-culture, AD 664-c.800 |
5.15 | Reception, including presentation of the 2005 Sir Israel Gollancz Prize to Professor Padraig O'Neill |
Thursday 13 October 2005
| 10.30am | SESSION 2: LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE |
10.30 | Ye shall know them by their name: names and identity among the Irish and the English |
11.00 | Trouble at the White House: Anglo-Irish relations and the cult of St Martin |
11.30 | Break |
12.00 | The Irish role in the development of the Old English alphabet: a reconsideration of the evidence |
1.00 | Lunch |
2.00 | SESSION 3: MATERIAL CULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY |
2.00 | The 'Sand-Dune Sites': evidence for pre-Viking trade? |
2.30 | Stylistic influences in Manx sculpture |
3.00 | Anglo-Saxon/Gaelic interaction in Scotland |
3.30 | Break |
4.00 | The Anglo-Saxon connection: Irish metalwork AD 400-800 |
4.30 | Aspects of the ecclesiastical network in pre-Viking Ireland in light of comparisons with Anglo-Saxon England |
6.00 | Reception (at the Irish Embassy, 17 Grosvenor Square, on behalf of the RIA) |
Friday 14 October 2005
10.00 | SESSION 4: ART HISTORY |
10.00 | Glitter in the dragon's lair: Irish and Anglo-Saxon metalwork from pre-Viking Wales |
10.30 | Anglo-Saxon, Irish and British relations: hanging-bowls reconsidered |
11.00 | Break |
11.30 | Studying early Christian sculpture in England and Ireland: the object of art history or archaeology? |
12.00 | Images of orthodoxy |
12.30 | Behind animals, plants and interlace: the semiotic koiné of Anglo-Saxon/Irish/Continental art in the late Merovingian/early Carolingian Age |
1.15 | Lunch |
2.00 | Symposium disperses |
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