Northern/Early Medieval
Interdisciplinary Conference Series, UCL London
Juliette Bourdier, University of Charleston
Virtue and Lechery: An Infernal Approach to Transgression
The purpose of this short study is to investigate the fictionalization of lechery in the underworld using monachal approach to transgression and to suggest their impact on the medieval definition of virtue.
Michael S. Baker, Durham University
‘Now Flying over the Hellmouth’: St Guthlac and Nordic Volcano Imagery
10:00 Keynote Lecture
Jane Hawkes, University of York
(Re)inventing Hell on Stone in Anglo-Saxon England
11:00 Coffee Break
11:30 Panel 1 Chair: Pete Sandberg (UCL)
Juliette Bourdier, College of Charleston
Virtue and Lechery: An Infernal Approach to Transgression
Michael S. Baker, Durham University
‘Now Flying over the Hellmouth’: St Guthlac and Nordic Volcano Imagery
Richard North, UCL
Valhalla is now Hell: Loki in Genesis B
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Panel 2 Chair: Susan Irvine (UCL)
Calum Cockburn, UCL
‘grædige and gifre’: Hell as Devourer in the Junius 11 Manuscript
Han Tame, University of Kent
The Cannibalistic Mouth of Hell
Jack Wiegand, University of Toronto
The Infernal Orifice: Towards a Global Iconography of the Mouth of Hell
15:30 Coffee Break
16:00 The Anglo-Saxon Genesis B in Performance
17:30 Wine reception
19:00 Evening Conference Dinner
Saturday 9th June
09:00 Training Sessions
11:00 Panel 3 Chair: Karel Fraaije (UCL)
Eleni Ponirakis, University of Nottingham
Hell is a State of Mind: Diabolical Interventions and the Mental Landscape of Hell and its Inhabitants
Meg Boulton, University of York
Behold the Gates of Hell: Considering the Im/permeability of Spatial Constructions of Hell in Anglo-Saxon Art
Heidi Stoner, Durham University
Hell and Other Battlefields: Representing the Militarised Vision of the Fight Against the Devil
12:30 Film Screening: The Devil’s Country
Produced by the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, this film examines how early European settlers and explorers understood the natural landscape of Australia in terms of the medieval demonic and the gothic while posing questions about colonialism and the effacement of the Indigenous that are entailed in telling European medieval stories in colonial contexts. A discussion of the film will follow the screening.
To view the trailer click here.
13:30 Lunch
14:30 Panel 4 Chair: Richard North (UCL)
Helen Appleton, University of Oxford
Grave Likeness: Imagining Hell in Early Medieval England
Lily Hawker-Yates, University of Canterbury
Digging Deep: Following Early Medieval Associations between Barrows and Hell Beyond the Norman Conquest
Karel Fraaije, UCL
Lowly Outcasts from Lofty Locales: Demonic Homesteads in Early Germanic Metrical Charms
16:00 Closing Remarks
Juliette Blue Bourdier, Medievalist 
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