Communities, the 22nd Biennial Conference of the International Society for the Study of Early Medieval England (ISSEME), a conference which allows its members to present their latest research, form networks and communicate about the future of the society and the field at large, takes place this July 2-4 at Heinrich-Heine-Universität in Düsseldorf.
The CMS Community will be well-represented by speakers and participants!
Day 1 - Wednesday, July 2
Session 1; 1:00 pm
Claire Davis, PhD Candidate, It’s Curtains for Holofernes: Symbols of Leadership in the Old English 'Judith'
Session 2; 3:00 pm
Samuel Cardwell (PhD 2023), Exegetical Communities in Early Medieval Northumbria
Day 2 - Thursday, July 3
Session 4; 9:30 am
Matthew Reid (PhD Candidate), English-Carolingian Intellectual Exchange: Lupus of Ferrières’ 'De metris Boethii' in Early English Manuscripts
Session 6; 3:30 pm
Donna Beth Ellard, S. C. Thomson, and Renée Trilling (CMS Professor / Angus Cameron Professor of Old English), with student participants from HHU Second-Language, Acquisition Methods in Beginning Old English Classrooms: A Research Study Roundtable
Day 3 - Friday, July 4
Session 7; 9:30 am
Thomas Klein (PhD 1998), Misunderstanding 'Cædmon’s Hymn': How Early Scribes Struggled to Interpret Difficult Poetic Texts