Session 3a Identity and material culture (Bangor Abbey, St. Malachy’s Way) Chair: TBA
09:30–10:10 Keynote Address TBA (Gisella Cantino Wataghin, Facultà di Lettere e Filosofia, Università del Piemonte Orientale “Amedeo Avogadro”, Vercelli)
10:10–10:50 Identity in the North Irish Sea. (Ewan Campbell, School of Humanities, University of Glasgow)
Break
11:05–11:45 Script and identity (Flavia De Rubeis, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Università Ca’Foscari, Venezia)
Session 3b Columbanus and History Chair: TBA
09:30–10:00 Keynote Address: Columbanus and European Identity (Klaus Oschema, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg)
10:00–10:30 Columbanus and the historiography of the Roman Empire’ (Damian Bracken, School of History, University College Cork)
Break
10:45–11:15 Columbanus identity and the writings of Pelagius
(Ali Bonner, Jesus College, Oxford University )
11:15–11:45 Columbanus and Irish identity in Bede’s Historia ecclesiastica
(Sarah McCann, National University of Ireland Galway)
11:45–12:15 Columbanus’ penitential inheritance and the shaping of Christian identity. Elaine Pereira-Farrell (Department of History and History of Art, Universiteit Utrecht)
Lunch (noon–2 p.m.)
Session 4a Identity and intellectual culture (St Comgall’s Parish Centre, Brunswick Road, Bangor)
Chair: TBA
14:00–14:30 Keynote Address: Que peut-on dire d’une identité culturelle des régions du continent où Colomban arrive? (Michel Sot, Lettres et Civilisations, Université Paris-Sorbonne)
14:30–15:00 Easter and Identity
(Immo Warntjes, School of History and Anthropology, Queen’s University, Belfast)
Break
15:15–15:45 Ratio de cursus
(Dominique Barbet-Massin, Bibliotheque Municipale, Grenoble)
15:45–16:15 Chanter l’histoire sainte
(Gordon Blennemann, Département d’Histoire, Université de Montreal)
16:30–17:30 Closing discussion
Session 4b Public Talk 2: the Archaeology of Columbanus’s Ireland (St Comgall’s Parish Centre, Brunswick Road, Bangor) Chair: TBA
14:00–14:30 Excavations at Bangor Abbey, Bangor, Co. Down.
(Eoin Halpin, Archaeological Development Services Ltd., Dublin)
14:30–15:00 Survey and excavations at Cleenish Island, Lower Lough Erne, Co. Fermanagh.
(Ros Ó Maoldúin, School of Geography and Archaeology, National University of Ireland, Galway)
Break
15:15–15:45 Secular Settlement and Economy in the 6th Century.
(Finbar McCormick, School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology, Queen’s University, Belfast)
16:30–17:30 Art and design in 6th century Ireland
(Conor Newman, School of Geography and Archaeology, National University of Ireland, Galway)
Reception 19:00–19.30 (St Comgall’s Parish Centre, Brunswick Road, Bangor)
Entertainment 19:30–20:30 (St Comgall’s Parish Centre, Brunswick Road, Bangor) Conference Dinner.
30 places; tickets (£20) available at registration.