Aloha e Kākou
Welcome to ISAS Honolulu 2017, the eighteenth biennial meeting of the International
Society of Anglo-Saxonists. Our theme is Global Perspectives, looking at our field of study
from the inside out, and outside in.
Our conference this year has a wide array of presentations addressing the global theme as
well as a range of other issues in our field: 68 papers in general and break-out sessions, three
project reports, and two exciting keynote addresses by Kathleen Davis and Michael W. Scott. In
addition we will hear reports from our two pre-conference workshops, the Jerry H. Bentley
Graduate Workshop on the Global Anglo-Saxonist and the Stanford CESTA Digital Humanities
Workshop.
A reception Sunday evening will be held at College Hill at the University of Hawai‘i at
Mānoa. On Tuesday we will have a luau luncheon exploring Hawaiian navigation, and our
Wednesday excursion will visit Hawaiian kingdom sites in downtown Honolulu. The Friday
banquet will be held at the Bishop Museum with a docent-led tour of Hawaiian Hall.
In addition to ISAS, we have had many sponsors assist us in the funding and organization of this
conference. We would like to give special thanks to the following sponsors:
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The UH Mānoa Colleges of Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences, and Languages,
Linguistics, and Literature
The UH Mānoa Departments of History, English, and Classics
The UH Mānoa Alpha Beta Epsilon Chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, History Honor Society
The Sidney Stern Memorial Trust
Carol Mon Lee, wife of the late Jerry H. Bentley
The UH Mānoa Department of Russian in conjunction with the Wiswell Endowment
Fund
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Program
Monday, July 31, 2017
7:30-8:30
Registration/Refreshments
Art Courtyard
8:30-9:00
Welcome
Art Auditorium
9:00-10:00
Keynote Speaker Michael W. Scott
Art Auditorium
Eliciting Anglo-Saxon histories via Pacific pasts, and vice-versa:
comparison as anamorphic analogy
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:30
Session 1: Marking Space and Time
Art Auditorium
Chair:
Sabine Ines Rauch
Patristic Number Symbolism in Anglo-Saxon England – Byrhtferth’s
Manual on Symbolic Numbers
Jeremy DeAngelo
Epeli Hau’ofa and the Anglo-Saxon “Sea of Islands”
Roy Liuzza
Island Time: The English Day and the Christian Hours
11:45-12:30
Lunch
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12:30-2:00
Session 2: Figuring Art
Art Auditorium
Chair:
Karen Overbey
Toward a Shoreline Ecology of Early Medieval Jewelry
Jane Hawkes
Globalising Anglo-Saxon Art
Emily Thornbury
Ornament without Grammar
2:00-2:15
Break
2:15-3:45
Session 3: Breakout
3A: Laws and Other Riddles
Sakamaki B101
Chair:
Anya Adair
Narrating Authority and Negotiating Change: The Continuity of English
Law-Code Prefaces
Robert Cutrer
The "Bedan" Riddles: Approaching Authorship
3B: Toward a Theory of Translation in Anglo-Saxon England
Sakamaki B102
Organizer: Dan Donoghue
Chair:
Tomás Mario Kalmar
Quomodo intelligis, quae legis? From Bonifatian to Alfredian biliteracy
Jonathan Davis-Secord
Alfredian Evil
Ben Weber
Towards a New History of Anglo-Saxon Translation
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3C: Saints and Relics
Sakamaki B103
Chair:
Rachel S. Anderson
Taking the Saint out for a Walk: Portable Reliquaries and the Fixing of
Social Space
Jeanie Abbott
Cedd or Ceadwealla?: Reimagining Chad and Cedd as Welsh Saints
Abigail Gloria Robertson
Sacred Place, Sacred Body: The Relics of St. Swithun and Religious
Devotion in 10th-Century Winchester
3:45-4:00
4:00-5:30
Break
Session 4: Living in the margins: postcolonial perspectives on AngloSaxon borderlands
Chair: Karen Overbey
Organizer: Catherine Karkov
Art Auditorium
Chair:
Lindy Brady
The March of Wales in 1067
Catherine Karkov
Living in the Shadow of the Wall
Elaine Treharne
Naming the Western Fringes
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Tuesday, August 1, 2017
7:30-8:30
Registration/Refreshments
Art Courtyard
8:30-10:00
Session 5: Material Edges
Art Auditorium
Chair:
Sihong Lin
An Island at the Edge of the World? The Anglo-Saxon Church in Global
Perspective, c.600-700
Damian Fleming
The Materiality of Jerome on Anglo-Saxon England
Jonathan Wilcox
Imagination at the Edge of the World: Luxuriating Women in Vercelli
Homily 7 and a Resistant Audience
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:30
Session 6: Project Reports
Art Auditorium
Susan Irvine, Winfried Rudolf, Paul Langeslag, and Esther Lemmerz
The Electronic Corpus of Anonymous Homilies in Old English
Gaby Waxenberger
Project Report on RuneS 'Runic Writing in the Germanic Languages'
Stewart Brookes
The Models of Authority Project
11:45-2:00
Luau Lunch and Hawaiian navigation speaker Uluwehi Hopkins
Halau o Haumea, Kamakakūokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies
2:00-2:15
Break
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2:15-3:45
Session 7: Breakout
7A: The Languages and Materiality of Anglo-Saxon Charters
Organizer: Francesca Tinti
Sakamaki B101
Chair:
Robert Gallagher
Beyond Royal Diplomatic: the Latin Charter in Late Anglo-Saxon
England
Francesca Tinti
From parchment to stone: contexts, motives and perceptions of codeswitching at Worcester and York
Simon Keynes
Diploma, Writ and Seal in Anglo-Saxon England
7B: Poetic Modes
Sakamaki B102
Chair:
David Callander
Old English and Early Welsh Eschatological Poetry: Structures of
Contrast
Antonina Harbus
Alliteration as Acoustic Patterning in Old English Poetry
Carla Thomas
A Recipe for Longevity: The Alchemy of Twelfth-Century English Verse
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7C: Sex and Gender
Sakamaki B103
Chair:
Mo Pareles
Jewish Sexuality in Old English Translation
Erik Wade
Pater Don't Preach: Byzantine Theology, Female Sexuality, and Histories
of Encounter in the Paenitentiale Theodori
Alice Jorgensen
Shame, disgust, and Ælfric's masculine performance
3:45-4:00
Break
4:00-5:30
Session 8: From the Ground Up
Art Auditorium
Chair:
Marijane Osborn
The New Eighth-Century Franks Casket: From Whale and Horse to the
Whole Wide World
John Niles
Reassessing Anglo-Saxon Identity from a Eurasian Perspective
Catrine Jarman
Repton Revisited : The significance of 873 A.D.
Wednesday, August 2, 2017
Day: Excursion
Evening: Magic of Polynesia
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Thursday, 3 August 2017
7:30-8:30
Refreshments
Art Courtyard
8:30-9:30
Jerry H. Bentley Memorial Keynote Speaker Kathleen Davis
Art Auditorium
9:30-10:00
Workshop Reports
Art Auditorium
Jerry H. Bentley Graduate Student Workshop: The Global Anglo-Saxonist
CESTA: Early Career Workshop in Digital Humanities
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:45
Session 9: Looking East: Naming Places
Art Auditorium
Chair:
John Hines
Wulfstan in Truso: Old English Text, Baltic Archaeology, and World
History
John Gallagher
Locating the Holy Land: Misunderstanding Place-Names in Anglo-Saxon
Biblical Literature
Shela Raman
Monstrous Identities: Tensions Between the Familiar and the Foreign in
the Old English Letter of Alexander to Aristotle
11:45-12:30
Lunch
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12:30-2:00
Session 10: Old English Poetry and Less Old English Poetry:
Comparative Approaches
Art Auditorium
Chair:
Denis Ferhatović
Birds, Naming, and the Vernacular in Exeter Riddle 57 and Derek
Walcott’s “The Season of Phantasmal Peace”
Mary Kate Hurley
“Silence is a Lesson Language Has to Teach Us”: New British and Old
English in the poetry of Lytton Smith
Eric Weiskott
The Paris Psalter and Piers Plowman: Greatest Hits of the Alliterative
Tradition
2:00-2:15
Break
2:15-3:45
Session 11: Breakout
11A: Chronicling Kingship
Sakamaki B101
Chair:
Joshua Smith
Reading Old English with the French of England: The Case of the
Peterborough Chronicle
Courtnay Konshuh
Composition of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles’ Common Stock: A
Reconsideration
Jacob Hobson
The King’s Bodies: Corporate Kingship in the Reign of Æthelred II
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11B: Translating Ælfric, Ælfric as Translator
Sakamaki B102
Organizer: Dan Donoghue
Tristan Major
Ælfric of Eynsham and Self-Translation
Hilary Fox
Alfred, Ælfric, and andgit: Better Living through Translation in AngloSaxon England
Haruko Momma
Later Ælfric: The John Collins Pope Papers and the Task of the
Translator
11C: Gender and Affect
Sakamaki B103
Chair:
Stacy S. Klein
Looking At Transvestite Asceticism
Sharon Rowley
The Miracle of the Menstruating Men: A Post-Colonial Reading of the
Old English Version of Gregory the Great’s Libellus Responsionum
Ruth Moehlig-Falke
Pain and empathy in Anglo-Saxon England: A cultural linguistic view
3:45-4:00
Break
4:00-5:30
Session 12: The Built Environment
Art Auditorium
Chair:
Carol Neuman de Vegvar
Minding the Gaps: Anglo-Saxon royal sites and the perimeters of current
knowledge
Mateusz Fafinski
The Cities of Others: Anglo-Saxon Relationship with Urban Space
Clifford Sofield
Funerals for buildings? Comparing the archaeological evidence from
Anglo-Saxon England and the Native American Southwest
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Friday, August 4, 2017
7:30-8:30
Refreshments
Art Courtyard
8:30-10:00
Session 13: Modern Angles
Art Auditorium
Chair:
Daniel Donoghue
The Variant Readings of Heaney's Beowulf: The Medieval History of a
Postcolonial Text
Francesca Brooks
‘If there are Wealas yet:’ Saint Guthlac and the invisible Britons in David
Jones's 'Angle-Land'
M.J. (Jane) Toswell
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Unexpected Anglo-Saxonist
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:45
Session 14: Anglo-Saxons in Motion
Art Auditorium
Chair:
Ben Garceau
Exiles, Refugees, and Cosmopolitanism in the Works of the Alfredian
Circle
Fran Allfrey
Re-performing Anglo-Saxon migration narratives in a time of refugee
crisis
Courtney Barajas
Against “the Anglo-Saxons”: Modern Misappropriations of the Medieval
11:45-12:30
Lunch
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12:30-2:00
Session 15: Bread and Water
Art Auditorium
Chair:
Martha Bayless
Alfred and the Cakes: Early English Bread as a Cultural Marker
Debby Banham
The global triumph of bread wheat: the role of Anglo-Saxon England
Sharon Rhodes
It’s All Relative: Water-Words in the Genesis A Flood
2:00-2:15
Break
2:15-3:45
Session 16: Breakout
16A: Medical Conditions
Sakamaki B101
Chair:
Jacqueline Fay
Translating Gender in Old English Medical Texts
Emily Kesling
Exorcism and the Old English Medical Collections
Bethany Christiansen
Women's Medicine in the Late-Eleventh Century MS Bodley 130
16B: Structures of Language
Sakamaki B102
Chair:
Winfried Rudolf
Early Copies of the Old English Dictionary by John Joscelyn and John
Parker Rediscovered
Thomas Klein
The Old English Prefix Ge- and the Structure of the Dictionary of Old
English
Peter Stokes
Multigraphism in Anglo-Saxon England
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16C: Reading Closely
Sakamaki B103
Chair:
Kaylin O'Dell
Receiving Augustine: The Old English Soliloquies as Spiritual Exercise
Johanna Kramer
Translation Strategies and Theological Instruction in the Old English
Prose _Life of St. Nicholas_
Benjamin Saltzman
The Secret Witness: Anglo-Saxon Hagiography and the Ethics of
Concealment
3:45-4:00
Break
4:00-5:15
ISAS General Meeting
Conference Picture
5:15
Bus to the Bishop Museum
6:00-9:00
Tour of Hawaiian Hall and Banquet
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