Religion and Society in the Early and Central Middle Ages

Conferences, workshops, sessions

Conferences

  1. Ghent (Belgium), Ghent University, 15-16 December: 'The Abbot as ‘Human Resource’ in the Medieval West, 9th–12th Centuries'. http://www.abbotresource.ugent.be.
  2. Bruges/Ghent (Belgium), KU Leuven/Ghent University, 24-25 November, 2016: 'Bishops in the ‘Century of Iron’.
Episcopal Authorities in France and in Lotharingia, 900-1050' (with KU Leuven).  http://www.bishops900-1050.ugent.be.
  3. Brussels (Belgium), Royal Academy/Ghent University, 1-2 September, 2016: 'Horizontal learning in medieval monastic communities.' http://www.resoma.ugent.be/file/36
  4. Leeds (United Kingdom), Leeds University, 6-9 July, 2015: ‘International Medieval Congress 2015’: coordination of the Special Strand ‘Reform and Renewal’ (220+ sessions), and organization of the keynote lectures and one round table.
  5. Leuven (Belgium), Catholic University of Leuven, 5-6 December, 2013: international conference 'Shaping Authority. How did a person become an authority in antiquity, in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance?’ (with Catholic University of Leuven).
  6. Leuven (Belgium), Catholic University of Leuven, 4 June, 2013: symposium ‘Current research on ecclesiastical history in the Low Countries during the high middle ages’
  7. Brussels (Belgium), Royal Academy, 18-19 November, 2011: international colloquium ‘Medieval Liège at the Crossroads of Europe. Monastic Society and Culture, 900-1300’.
  8. Koksijde (Belgium), Duinenabdij, October 2011: international colloquium ’Monastic Landscapes: Myth or Reality’.
  9. Ghent (Belgium), Ghent University, 26 November, 2010: international colloquium ‘Remembering and representing monastic reform in the Central Middle Ages’.
  10. Ghent (Belgium), Ghent University, 9 July, 2010: international colloquium ‘The beginnings of Cistercian monasteries: institutional perspectives’ (with Indiana University and Université Marc Bloch Strasbourg).
  11. Brussels (Belgium), Université Libre de Bruxelles, 6-8 May, 2010: international conference ‘Autour de Yoshiki Morimoto. Les structures agricoles en dehors du monde carolingien. Formes et genèse’ (with Université Libre de Bruxelles).
  12. Leuven (Belgium), Catholic University of Leuven, 23 oktober, 2009: international conference ‘Ecclesia in medio nationis. Religious communities and the ‘outside world’ in the Central Middle Ages’.
  13. Groningen and Ter Apel (The Netherlands), University of Groningen and Ter Apel, 14-15 November, 2008: international Conference 'Manuscript and Memory in Northwestern Europe, 1000-1500’. (as co-organizer, with University of Groningen).
  14. Ghent (Belgium), Ghent University, 23-24 May, 2008: International conference ‘Understanding Monastic Practices of Oral Communication (Western Europe, Eleventh-Thirteenth Centuries)’.
  15. Leicester (United Kingdom), University of Leicester, 31 July-3 August, 2003: international conference 'Aspects of the relationship between the religious and the laity, 1000-1300’.

Workshops, masterclasses, invited chairs

  1. Antwerp (Belgium), University of Antwerp, 10-11 September, 2015: ‘Fourth Masterclass ‘Cultuur en Religie'’ (with KU Leuven and University of Antwerp)
  2. Ghent (Belgium), Ghent University, 28 May, 2015: ‘Study Day: Medieval Studies as Academic Discipline’ (as co-organizer, Henri Pirenne-Institute for Medieval Studies).
  3. Leuven (Belgium), Catholic University of Leuven, 21-22 May, 2015: ‘Lectio Chair and Doctoral Seminar of Rosamund McKitterick’ (with KU Leuven and University of Antwerp)
  4. Dresden (Germany), Technische Universität Dresden, 9 January, 2014: international round table ‘Discourses of reform in the Middle Ages’ (with Technische Universität Dresden).
  5. Ghent (Belgium), Ghent University, 15 November, 2013: international symposium ‘L’historiographie épiscopale au début du XI siècle’.
  6. Ghent (Belgium), Ghent University, 18-19 September, 2013: ‘Second Masterclass ‘Cultuur en Religie’’ (with KU Leuven and University of Antwerp).
  7. Antwerp (Belgium), University of Antwerp, 17-18 September, 2012: ‘Masterclass ‘Cultuur en Religie'’ (with KU Leuven and University of Antwerp).
  8. Lille (France), Université Charles de Gaulle–Lille 3, 15 June, 2009: nternational symposium ‘1er Atelier de recherches Conventus’.
  9. Organization of sessions and workshops for the Vlaamse Werkgroep Mediëvistiek: Ghent (2005 and 2006), Courtrai (2006), Brussels (2004, 2005 and 2006), Leuven (2005), Antwerp (2005), and Leiden (2004).

Sessions at major conferences

  1. Leeds (United Kingdom), Leeds University, 5-6 July, 2017, ‘International Medieval Congress 2015’: six sessions (with Johan Belaen, Jirki Thibaut, and Anne-Marie Helvétius).
  2. Hempstead NY (USA), Hofstra University, 2 June, 2017, 'The Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Genders, and Sexualities': session 'Recovering female cultures of debate: Women religious in Western Europe, c. 800-1100':
  3. Leeds (United Kingdom), Leeds University, 6-9 July, 2015: ‘International Medieval Congress 2015’: coordination of the Special Strand ‘Reform and Renewal’ (220+ sessions), and organization of the keynote lectures and one round table.
  4. Kalamazoo (USA), Western Michigan University, ‘International Medieval Conference’, 14 May 2015:  one session.
  5. Leeds (United Kingdom), Leeds University, 7-9 July, 2014, ‘International Medieval Congress 2014’: five sessions.
  6. Leeds (United Kingdom), Leeds University, ‘International Medieval Congress 2013’, 2-3 July, 2013: five sessions.
  7. Kalamazoo (USA), Western Michigan University, ‘International Medieval Conference’, 12 May, 2013: one session.
  8. Leeds (United Kingdom), Leeds University, ‘International Medieval Congress 2012’, 10 July, 2012: one  session.
  9. Leeds (United Kingdom), Leeds University, ‘International Medieval Congress 2011’, 13 July, 2011: one session.
  10. Leeds (United Kingdom), Leeds University, ‘International Medieval Congress 2010’, 13 July, 2010: one session (with Arnoud-Jan Bijsterveld).
  11. Leeds (United Kingdom), Leeds University, ‘International Medieval Congress 2006’, 11 July, 2006: one session.