Thursday, September 22
Location: Het Pand, Onderbergen 1, Gent – Room: Rector Blancquaert
10.00 Registration and coffee
10.45 Opening
[Youri Desplenter, Ghent University]
11.00 Session 1: Authorial Identity and Generical Instability
Catherine Sanok, University of Michigan
Lives of a medieval writer: Authorial identity and the multipart form of the legendary
Lydia Wegener, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
‘Dis buech genant der Nider…’ ; Johannes Nider’s sermons in 15th-century manuscripts
[Chair: Jeroen Deploige, Ghent University; 25-30’/speaker – 15′ questions]
12.15 Lunch
13.30 Session 2: Concepts & Construction of Authorship
Paul Wackers, Utrecht University
Names of authors and signals of authority in Middle Dutch texts
Mark Aussems, Utrecht
Scribe Scene Investigation: the Case of Christine de Pizan
Jeroen De Gussem, Ghent University
Collaborative authorship in twelfth-century Latin; a stylometric approach to
gender, synergy and authority
[Chair: Thom Mertens, University of Antwerp; 25-30’/speaker – 25′ questions]
15.25 Coffee break
16.00 Brainstorm: Publication of the conference contributions
[Moderator: Youri Desplenter, Ghent University; 60′]
17.00 Keynote
Albert Ascoli, University of California – Berkeley
Dante and the Making of a Modern Author
[Chair: Wim Verbaal, Ghent University; 60′ – 15′ questions]
18.15 Conference dinner
Friday, September 23
Location: Het Pand, Onderbergen 1, Gent – Room: Rector Blancquaert
09.00 Session 1: Mysticism and Opera Omnia
Keynote
Freimut Löser, University of Augsburg
Making authors: The cases of Eckhart, Tauler, and Seuse
10.15 Coffee break
10.45
Kees Schepers, University of Antwerp
The image of the author. The 1543 Tauler edition in print and in manuscript
Thom Mertens, University of Antwerp
Hendrik Mande & collected works
[Chair: Veerle Fraeters, University of Antwerp; 25-30’/speaker – 15′ questions]
12.00 Lunch
13.00 Session 2: Opera Omnia in the Low Countries
Eva Vandemeulebroucke, Ghent University
Groenendaal and the construction of authorship
Veerle Fraeters, University of Antwerp
Hadewijch, from charismatic voice to authorial text
[Chair: Patricia Stoop, University of Antwerp; 25-30’/speaker – 15′ questions]
14.15 Coffee break
14.45 Round table discussion: Defining ‘Opera Omnia’
[Moderator: Frank Willaert, University of Antwerp]
15.45 Guided Tour by Walter Prevenier: Medieval Ghent
18.00 Drinks
Note: Presentations should be 25-30 minutes long. The official language at the conference will be English.