Postgraduate Conference to take place in the Sir Martin Evans Building, Cardiff University.
The conference is organised into groups of simultaneous/side-by-side panels.
9.00 – 9.30: Registration. Tea and coffee.
9.30 – 10.45: Plenary Paper
The Western Magical Tradition – Professor Ronald Hutton (University of Bristol)
10.45 – 11.00: Break
11.00 – 12.15: Panels 1 & 2
Panel 1: Folk and Learned Magic
The Anglo-Saxon Cunning Woman: New Perspectives from History and Archaeology – Ethan Doyle White (University College London)
Sieves, Shears and a Swallow – Dr. Debbie Lea (INTO Manchester)
To Obtain a Horse: Necromancy and Fantasy – Alison Harthill (Cardiff University)
Panel 2: Alchemists’ Guild
“A forgier singulieres pieces / Pour continuer les espieces”: Alchemy and the Hypernatural – Eoin Bentick (University College London)
Panaceas for Plague: Alchemical Cures in Mid-Seventeenth-Century Plague Literature – Lara Thorpe (Royal Holloway, University of London)
In Search of the Philosopher’s Stone: Counterpoint and Canons in the Late Renaissance – Emma Hembry (Bangor University)
12.15 – 12.30: Break
12.30 – 13.20: Panels 3 & 4
Panel 3: Witches on Trial
Trial on Witches: The Malleus Maleficarum – Dr. Flavio Sanza (Swansea University)
Magic versus Witchcraft in the Salem Witch Trials in 1692 New England – Stefanie Schnitzer-Mills (Freie Universität Berlin)
Panel 4: Philosophy and Spirituality
Dreams and Imagination as First Insights into the Spiritual Spheres – Jonathan Jancsary (Universität Innsbruck)
Apparitions of the Dead, Visions, Monstrous Births and Other “Extraordinary and Miraculous” Phenomena: An Early Modern Argument for an Immortal and Incorporeal Soul – Clare Fitzpatrick (Birkbeck, University of London)
13.20 – 14.30: Lunch
14.30 – 15.45: Panels 5 & 6
Panel 5: Vices and Virtues
Magic, Morality, and the Science of the Stars in John Gower’s Confessio Amantis – Curtis Runstedler (Durham University)
“I have dauncid in the devillis name”: Carnivalesque Magic in Late-Medieval Comic Tales – Mark Truesdale (Cardiff University)
From Otherness to Uffern: The Transformations of a Folk Belief – Angelika Rüdiger (Bangor University)
Panel 6: Body and Medicine
Popular Magic: The Anglo-Saxon Charms and the Line Between Magic, Medicine and Religion – Cat Stiles (University of Bristol)
“Cancer, a feminine sign”: An Exploration of the Link Between the Zodiac Sign and the Disease of Cancer in the Early Modern World – Dr. Helen Graham-Matheson (London School of Economics and Political Science)
An Unnatural Sin? The Concept of Nature in Anglophone Discourse on Sexual Diversity in South East Asia in the 17th Century – Nailya Shamgunova (Cambridge University)
15.45 – 16.00: Break
16.00 – 16.50: Panels 7 & 8
Panel 7: Early Modern Drama
“Fearful Dreams” in The History of King Leir, Arden of Faversham and the Plays of Thomas Kyd – Darren Freebury-Jones (Cardiff University)
“And Nothing Is / But What is Not”: The Negative Power of Prophecy in Shakespeare’s Plays – Jessica Chiba (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Panel 8: Witches and Place
Magic and Witchcraft in the Early Modern Midlands – Paula McBride (Warwick University)
Witches and Watermelons: Attitudes to Magic in Spanish Golden Age Literature – Sander Berg (Birkbeck, University of London)
16.50 – 17.00: Break
17.00 – 18.15: Plenary Paper
“Doubtful Spirits”: Fairies, Imps and Demons in Early Modern England – Dr. Darren Oldridge (University of Worcester)
18.15 – 19.15: Wine Reception
Due to funding from Cardiff University Graduate College, there is no conference fee. Please register for the event (whether as a speaker or attendee) here: Click to Register
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