Thursday, 26 May 2011
“Textual Authority and Strategies of Controversy”

9.00 Opening, Introductory Remarks (Michael Van Dussen, Pavel Soukup)

9.30-10.30
Keynote Lecture:
Anne HUDSON (Oxford), Opera omnia: Collecting Wyclif’s Works in England and Bohemia

10.30-11.00 coffee break

11.00-12.30
Georg MODESTIN (Fribourg), The Construction of Textual Authority in the Anti-Waldensian Treatise Cum dormirent homines

Pavel SOUKUP (Prague), ‘Pars Machometica’ in Early Hussite Polemics: The Use and Background of an Invective

12.30-14.00 lunch

14.00-15.30
Paweł KRAS (Lublin), Shaping the Image of ‘Bohemian heretics’ in the Charters and Correspondence of King Wladyslaw Jagiello: Political Propaganda and Textual Strategies

Lucie DOLEŽALOVÁ (Prague), Memorizing the Effects of the Body and Blood of Christ in Late 15th-Century Bohemia: Textual Strategies Blurring the Boundaries between Religious Groups

15.30-16.00 coffee break

16.00-17.00

Philip HABERKERN (Princeton), Publishing Jan Hus in the German Reformation: Polemics, Paratexts, and the Fiction of Primary Sources

General Discussion I




Friday, 27 May 2011
“Textual Transformations and Transmission”

9.00-10.45
Keynote Lecture:
Robert SWANSON (Birmingham), Academic Circles: Universities and Exchanges of Information and Ideas in the Age of the Great Schism

Michael VAN DUSSEN (Montreal), Fictions of Transmission: Imagining Academic Contact during the Great Schism

10.45-11.00 coffee break

11.00-12.30
Pavlína RYCHTEROVÁ (Vienna), Theology Goes to the Vernaculars: The Practice of Translation in 14th-Century Bohemia

Fiona SOMERSET (Durham), Identity, Identification, and Mouvance among Lollard Pastoralia

12.30-14.00 lunch

14.00-15.30

Daniel HOBBINS (Columbus), The Fifteenth-Century Councils and Distribution Patterns of the Works of Jean Gerson

David MENGEL (Cincinnati), Mapping Communities of Readers in 15th Century Central Europe

15.30-16.00
Conclusion

General Discussion II




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