The Multimedia Craft of Wonder: Forming and Performing Marvels in Medieval and Early Modern Worlds, 1200-1600
1st December 2021, Churchill College: in-person and online
You can register via our website https://craftofwonder.crassh.cam.ac.uk/registration/ or via this direct link https://onlinesales.admin.cam.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/crassh/events/the-multimedia-craft-of-wonder . Both in-person and online registration options are available.
8.15–8.30: Arrival and Registration
8.30–8.45: Welcome
8.45–10.15: Panel 1: Wonder, Power, and Colonialism
Joshua Fitzgerald, Churchill College, Cambridge: ‘“Things Explode as He Enters”: Marvellous Mesoamerican Props, Percussives, and Performance Places in Spanish Colonial Courtyards’
Holley Ledbetter, University of Michigan: ‘Embodied Wonder: Automata of the Enslaved in al-Afdal’s Drinking Hall’
Eli Cumings, University of Cambridge: ‘“Nüt on Ursach”: Providence, Print, and Politics in the Holy Roman Empire’
10.15–10.45: Refreshment Break
10.45–12.15: Panel 2: Media and Materials in Conversation
Priyanka D’Souza (Pinka PopsicKle), Jawaharlal Nehru University: ‘The Dragon in Medieval Islamic Iconography—(like your life, all tied up in knots!)’
Stella Wisgrill, University of Cambridge: ‘Marvels of Ingenious Steel: Habsburg Horse Armour in the Fifteenth- Century’
Roseen Giles, Duke University: ‘Images in Counterpoint: Monteverdi and the Marvellous’
12.15–1.15: Buffet Lunch
1.15–2.00: Guided tour around Churchill College’s sculpture collection: Wonder, Media, and Modern Art.
2.00–3.30: Panel 3: Wonder and the Codex: Manuscripts, Catalogues, and Woodcuts
James Wade, Girton College, Cambridge: ‘The occult properties of CUL MS Ff.5.48’
Olin Moctezuma-Burns, University of Cambridge: ‘Entertaining curiosity in a paper cabinet: cataloguing, order, and play in John Tradescant’s Musaeum Tradescantianum’
Michelle Oing, Stanford University: ‘Anticipate, Fulfill, Repeat: Creating Wonder in the Visual Records of German Relic Displays’
3.30–3.45: Refreshment Break
3.45–4.45: Panel 4: Heaven and Hell
Caitlin Rankin-McCabe, Durham University: ‘From Pageant to Playhouse: Silencing the Stage Angel 1400-1620’
Katharina Strika, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich: ‘Katabasis and Remedy in Girolamo Fracastoro’s Syphilitic Epic’
5.00-6.00 – Keynote Address
Dr Anke Bernau, Senior Lecturer in Medieval English Literature at the University of Manchester:
‘A Spider's Touch: The Wonder of Natural Craft'
Closing Remarks
6.00-7.45: Participants are free to explore the city centre and find dinner in one of Cambridge’s many restaurants.
7.45–8.45: ‘In the Shadow of Notre Dame’
A multimodal concert at St Bene’t's Church, Cambridge, exploring the music of 12th century Notre Dame; organised by the interdisciplinary performance collective Marginalia.
7.45–8.45
St Bene’t’s Church, Cambridge, CB23PT
Marginalia Performance
Dr Chloë Allison (Director)
Marginalia invites you to rewind the clock 800 years and to explore a world that has remained silent for too long. Journey with us through the streets of a bustling university town, full of bright, ambitious scholars from all over Europe. Follow some of those scholars over the bridge onto the Île de la Cité and into the towering new cathedral of Notre Dame. There be transported by some of the most mesmerising and intricate music of all time, and put yourself in the shoes of the exquisitely talented, yet forever nameless singers who created it.
Free Entry. Register here:
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/marginalia-performance/t-xedxrg
Marginalia is an interdisciplinary performance collective who bring cutting edge academic research to life in performance. We tell stories that have remained hidden on the margins of history and introduce original ideas to new audiences. We also shine new light on more familiar material, re energising well-known repertoire, exploring it from different perspectives.
As well as realising the potential of our own academic work, we also collaborate with other scholars, supporting their lectures and public events with performance elements, and working with them to craft fully-fledged musical programmes. For more information, or to get in contact about a project, visit us here:
https://marginalia-performance.com/