Activities

Upcoming

July 2024, organisation of section “Crusader Cities in Crisis“ and paper presentation “Crusader Acre: refugium or cesspit?“ at the IMC in Leeds (UK).

May 2024, organisation of section “The Medieval City Lament“ and paper presentation “Lamenting a Monstrous City: Responses to the Capture of Acre in 1291″ at the ICMS in Kalamazoo (USA).

Recent

October 23, 2023, invited talk „Weine, oh Tochter von Zion, um deine geliebte Stadt – Die Klage um Akkon 1291 zwischen Providenzerwartung und Kontingenzerfahrung“ at the Medieval Research Seminar of the ZEMAS (Centre for Medieval Studies) of the University of Bamberg, Germany.

August 2023, publication of paper „alliu getriwe herzen sullen klagen diesen smerzen – Ottokars aus der Gaal Buch von Akkon als Städteklage im Kontext des Verlusts von Akkon 1291“ in „Mentale Konzepte der Stadt in vormodernen Text- und Bildmedien“ ed. by Margit Dahm and Timo Felber, (Leiden: Sidestone Press 2023), pp. 119–147. https://www.sidestone.com/books/mentale-konzepte-der-stadt-in-bild-und-textmedien-der-vormoderne?fbclid=IwAR1Bsf7CaAopMSKtW6wQY9OOuxO8l8kJCxF5CN5on2OLnpoVcY6vxE-ku_M.

July 6, 2023, conference paper “Styria-by-the-Sea: Ottokar aus der Gaal’s Styrian Rhyming Chronicle and the Capture of Acre 1291 (Dis)Entangled“ at the IMC ‘Networks and Entanglements’ in Leeds, UK.

June 5, 2023, project presentation at „8×8, Junge Forschende erzählen“ of the Forum für Nachwuchswissenschaftler*innen der Mittelbauvereinigung of the University of Bern, Switzerland.

May 23–26, 2023: Organisation of the international Conference “When Cities Fall – Cultural Reflections of Loss and Lament“ at the University of Bern, Switzerland.

May 13, 2023, conference paper „Ubi est Accon, ubi sunt ecclesie christianorum, que ibi erant? Akkon zwischen Untergang und Ewigkeit“ at the conference ‘Die zerstörte Stadt’, Unversity of Hamburg, Germany.

April 28, 2023: invited talk „Die Städteklage im Mittelalter am Beispiel der Eroberung Akkons 1291“ at the Medieval Historians Research Colloquium, University of Bern, Switzerland

March 3, 2023, organisation of workshop “Ottokar aus der Gaal’s Book of Acre, Translating From Middle High German into English“ at the German Historical Institute in London, UK.

January 2023, paper publication „Kataloge heidnischer Heere in der mittelhochdeutschen Literatur als Sammlung zwischen Ordnung und Entgrenzung“ in „Sammeln als literarische Praxis im Mittelalter und in der Frühen Neuzeit“ ed. by Mark Chinca, Manfred Eikelmann, Michael Stolz and Christopher Young (Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto 2022), pp. 371–392.

October 7, 2022, project presentation „Übersetzen vom Mittelhochdeutschen ins Englische: Ottokars aus der Gaal Buch von Akkon“ at the Mediävistisches Forschungscolloquium der westsschweizer Universitäten at the University of Bern, Switzerland.

September 10, 2022, project presentation at the Nacht der Forschung organised by the University of Bern, Switzerland.

August 18, 2022, conference paper “Sodom and Gomorra and the Fall of Acre 1291: the City Lament at a Discursive Threshold“ at the conference ‘Jewish-Christian‘ Scholarship in 11th and 12th century France“at the University of Bern, Switzerland.

July 4, 2022, conference paper “Loss, Lament, and the Last Things: The City of Acre as an Eschatological Borderland“ at the IMC „Borders“ in Leeds, UK.

March 2022, publication of research monograph (disseration) „Writing Across Time in the Twelfth Century – Historical Distance and Difference in the Kaiserchronik“ (Oxford: Legenda 2022), https://www.mhra.org.uk/publications/Writing-Across-Time-in-Twelfth-Century?fbclid=IwAR3L6XxxwInjsJrcZjMjxctvh_GzkEeqwLNJzfRioocTUM-Atcdr4vA7NSk

June 18, 2021, conference paper “Columns of Time: Imagined Roman Spolia as Chronometers in the 12th Century“ at the workshop “Time in the 12th century“, online, organised by Sarah Bowden (KCL), Leah Braun (HU) and George Younge (York), Germany and the UK.

June 12, 2021, conference paper „Sag, herre got, sag an, warumb hâstû daz getân: Ottokars aus der Gaal Buch von Akkon als mittelhochdeutsche Städteklage“ at the conference „Mentale Konzepte der Stadt in Bild und Textmedien der Vormoderne“, online, organised by Margit Dahm and Timo Felber, University of Kiel, Germany.

November 13, 2020, project presentation at the Tag der Junior-Fellows, Walter Benjamin Kolleg, University of Bern, Switzerland.

September 30, 2020, project presentation “The Fall of Acre and the Lament for Biblical and Ancient Cities in Medieval Literature and Historiography“ at the Junior Fellows’ Day, Walter Benjamin Kolleg, University of Bern, Switzerland.