IONA 2024 Programme
King’s College London
Seminars and workshops will take place on the second floor of the South Block of Bush House
BH(S) = Bush House (South)
Plenary conversations and receptions will take place in the Macadam Building
Please contact Josh Davies (Joshua.davies@kcl.ac.uk) with any queries
Wednesday 26 June
From 12pm
Registration
Room: BH(S)2.04
1pm-2.30pm
From Fibre to Decorated Textiles in the Early North Atlantic
Room: BH(S)2.03
Organisers: Alexandra Makin and Mary Valante.
Contact: alexandra.makin@outlook.com
Speakers: Mary Valante, “Neither a Pin nor a Beater: Musings on a Tiny Textile Tool”;
Daisy Bonsall, “Little Tools with Lots to Say: The Spindle Whorl and the Textile Economy of Early Medieval England”;
Laura B. Mazow, “Weighing Wool and Measuring Weaves in Medieval England.”
3pm-4.30pm
Insular Texts and the Problem of “Western Science”
Room: BH(S)2.05
Organisers: Jacqueline Fay, Rebecca Stephenson, Renée R. Trilling.
Contact: renee.trilling@utoronto.ca
Participants: Abigail Bleach, Christina Lee, Roy Liuzza, Robin Norris,
Dana Oswald, James Paz, Bella Scindens.
Online participation available.
From Fibre to Decorated Textiles in the Early North Atlantic
Room BH(S)2.03
Organisers: Alexandra Makin and Mary Valante.
Contact: alexandra.makin@outlook.com
Speakers: Alexandra Makin, “A morphing Sámi / Viking material cultural: Investigating pulled silver metal decorations”;
Claire Davis, “Speeches, Speaking Tapestrues: Interplay of Weaving and Speech in Beowulf.”
Moving to Inter- and Trans-disciplinarity
Room: BH(S)2.02
Organisers: Katie Hemer and Sam Leggett
Contact: k.hemer@ucl.ac.uk
Speakers: Robin Fleming, Andrew Reynolds, Erin Sebo.
Working with Irish Legal Materials
Room: BH(S)2.06
Organiser: Pamela O'Neil.
Contact: pamela.oneill@sydney.edu.au
Online participation available.
5pm-6pm
Plenary Session: Multilingualism, Medieval and Modern
Speakers: Lindy Brady, Fran Brooks, Georgia Henley.
Chaired by Sarah Salih.
Room: Macadam Building 2.2.
6pm-8pm
Conference reception
The Terrace, on the ground floor of the Macadam Building.
Thursday 27 June
8.45am-10.30am
Carving Collective Practice (at the V&A, pre-registration required)
Organisers: Meg Bernstein, Meg Boulton, Jill Hamilton Clements, Carolyn Twomey
Contact: meg.bernstein@gmail.com
Viewing Stone
Speakers: Meg Boulton, “Encountering the Cross”; Carolyn Twomey, “Water and the Cross”;
Jill Hamilton Clements, “Reading and the Cross”; Meg Bernstein, “Afterlives of the Cross.”
From 9.30am
Coffee
Room BH(S)2.02
10am-11.30am
Gender and Theory in Medieval Celtic Textual Culture
Room: BH(S)2.06
Organisers: Charlene Eska, Joanne Findon, Kristen Mills, Amy Mulligan.
Contact: jfindon@trentu.ca
Speakers: Eachiarn Erbnen, “Divorce in Medieval Ireland: Empower or Entangle?”;
Rebecca Shercliff, “Another Woman’s Words: Ferb and Speech Act Theory”;
Charlene Eska, “A New Taxonomy of Women.”
Chair: Joanne Findon.
12pm-12.45pm
IONA: Future planning session
Room: BH(S)2.04
Open to all
Online participation welcome
1pm-2.30pm
Working with Irish Legal Materials
Room: BH(S)2.06
Organiser: Pamela O'Neil.
Contact: pamela.oneill@sydney.edu.au
Online partcipation available.
Indigeneity, Colonialism and Early Medieval Britain
Room BH(S)2.05
Organisers: Karen Jolly and Catherine Karkov.
Contact: karkovc@gmail.com
Speakers: Tarren Andrews, James Flexner,
Adam Miyashiro, Isabela de Albuquerque R. do Nascimento.
Online participation available.
3pm-4.30pm
Room: BH(S)2.03
Organisers: Meg Bernstein, Meg Boulton, Jill Hamilton Clements, Carolyn Twomey.
Contact: meg.bernstein@gmail.com
Handling Stone (Immersive and Interactive Lab on Haptic Stone)
Room: BH(S)2.05
Organisers: Pamela O'Neil and Arwen Smith.
Contact: pamela.oneill@sydney.edu.au
Room: BH(S)2.06
Organisers: Fran Allfrey, Fran Brooks, Carl Kears.
Contact: fran.allfrey@york.ac.uk
Friday 28 June
From 9.30am
Coffee
Room BH(S)2.02
10am-11.30am
BH(S)2.05
Organisers: Pamela O'Neil and Arwen Smith.
Contact: pamela.oneill@sydney.edu.au
Rethinking Medium, Message, and Material
BH(S)2.03
Organisers: Martin Foys and Heather Maring.
Contact: Heather.Maring@asu.edu
Speakers: Shannon Godlove, “Architecture as Embodied Experience in Aldhelm of Malmesbury’s Carmina ecclesiastica”;
Martin Foys, “The Material Untext: Restorative Retention in Old English Poetry in Facsimile Editions”;
Renée Trilling, “The Sensorium of Spirituality”;
Catherine Karkov, “The Sounds of Stone.”
Gender and Theory in Medieval Celtic Textual Culture
BH(S)2.06
Organisers: Charlene Eska, Joanne Findon, Kristen Mills, Amy Mulligan.
Contact: jfindon@trentu.ca
Speakers: Elva Johnston, “Embodiment and Sexuality in Early Irish Sources”;
Roan Runge, “Comartha bandachta: Approaching Sex Characteristics in Early Irish Literature”;
Kristen Mills, “Mourning Cattle in Medieval Irish Texts.”
Chair: Amy Mulligan.
12pm-12.45pm
IONA: Future planning session
Room: BH(S)2.04
Open to all
Online participation welcome
1pm-2.30pm
BH(S)2.05
Organisers: Pamela O'Neil and Arwen Smith
Contact: pamela.oneill@sydney.edu.au
Online participation available.
BH(S)2.06
Organisers: Meg Bernstein, Meg Boulton, Jill Hamilton Clements, Carolyn Twomey.
Contact: meg.bernstein@gmail.com
Roundtable: Thinking with stone
Speakers: Catrin Haberfield, “User Experience and User Journeys as Approaches to Stone Sculpture”;
Kerstin Majewski, “Sensing the Bewcastle Cross (Part I)”; Lilla Kopár, “Sensing the Bewcastle Cross (Part II)”;
Lesley Abrams,“Glatton (Cambridgeshire), Syncretism, and Mythological Sculpture in Viking-Age England”;
Christina Cowart-Smith, “'High' Crosses and Contextualising the Ex Situ”;
Rebekkah Hart, “‘By Water and Blood’: The Materiality of Seven Sacrament Fonts.”
BH(S)2.03
Organisers: Fran Allfrey, Fran Brooks, Carl Kears.
Contact: fran.allfrey@york.ac.uk
3pm-4.30pm
From Fibre to Decorated Textiles in the early North Atlantic
BH(S)2.06
Organisers: Alexandra Makin and Mary Valante.
Contact: alexandra.makin@outlook.com
Documenting Ephemeral Sounds in the Premodern World
Room: BH(S)2.05
Organisers: Iona Lister and Morgan Moore
Contact: iona.lister@mail.utoronto.ca
Speakers: Lucy-Anne Taylor, Emma Holmes Mackinnon, Ann Buckley, Llewyelyn Hopwood,
Maria-Eduarda Mendes Martin, Genevieve Nunn Turner, Mary Leenan.
Online participation available.
5pm-6pm
Plenary Session
Looking back, looking forward:
Medieval Studies 2019-2024, 2024-?
Speakers: Abi Bleach, Matt Hussey, Catherine Karkov.
Chair: Josh Davies.
Room: Macadam Building 4.2.
6pm-8pm
Reception
The Terrace, on the ground floor of the Macadam Building.