All talks, lunches and coffees will take place in Seminarraum 1, Porzellangasse 4, EG03.
This workshop is gratefully sponsored by CENTRAL.
23 June 2025
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Welcome (Dr Gabriel Byng)
Session 1: Current Research at the University of Vienna
Chair: Dr Gabriel Byng
14.15 Prof Jonathan Lyon: “Charter production at Quedlinburg: Canonesses,
canons and the problem of gendered space”
15.00 Dr Barbara Schedl: “The Spaces of Medieval Viennese Women”
15.45 Carina Siegl: “Firewall or Open Access? The Two Doors to the Princesses'
Chambers”
16.30 Coffee
Session 2: Network Members (Gender and Spatiality)
Chair: TBC
17.00 Dr Karel Pacovský: “St. George's Abbey in Prague Castle as a Shared Space
Between Men and Women”
17.15 Máté Vas: “Spaces for Women: Transforming the Idea of the Manly Woman
in the Letters of Catherine of Siena”
17.30 Ditta Szemere: “Conflicts and Collaborations Between Nuns and Friars:
the Observant Reform in Italy and Hungary”
17.30 Discussion
19.30 Speakers dinner at Rebhuhn
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24 June 2025
Guided Tour by Dr Barbara Schedl
Meet at the west front of the Stephansdom at 9.00
13.15 Lunch
Session 3: Network members (Gender and Literacy)
Chair: Ditta Szemere
14.00 Dr Klára Petříková: “The metaphor of enclosure in Julian of Norwich's
Revelations of Divine Love”
14.15 Dominika Kecsoová: “Liminal Space of Pilgrimage in the Book of Margery
Kempe”
14.30 Anna Porkoláb: “Space and Perception in the Visions of Katherina von
Gebersweiler's Vitae Sororum.”
14.45 Discussion
15.45 Coffee
16.15 Future plans round table
17.00 Close
