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Animals: Aspects &#38; ApproachesThe Fourteenth Oxford Medieval Graduate ConferenceThursday June 28th 2018, Harris Manchester College, Oxford&#160;Program9-9.20am Registration9.20-9.30am Welcome9.30-11am Joint Keynote AddressHumans and Animals: A Defining Relationship?• Timothy Bourns (St Edmund Hall, Oxford), ‘Animals in Norse Mythology’• Lesley MacGregor (Oriel College, Oxford), ‘Humans and Animals: Defining the “Other”’11-11.30am Break with Hot &#38; Cold Drinks11.30am-1pmAnimals in A Human World – Chair: Claire Macht (Kellogg College, Oxford)• Alexander Thomas (University of Bristol), ‘Animals, Archaeology and the Danelaw Boundary’• Allison Treese (University of York), ‘Reading the Relationship between Hawk and Handler in The Boke of St. Albans’• Tim Wingard (University of York), ‘“By the Temptation of the Devil”: Narratives of Bestiality in the Registre criminel du Châtelet de Paris’1-2.15pm Lunch (provided)2.15-3.45pmBlurring Boundaries – Chair: Emilie Lavallée (St Cross College, Oxford)• Amy Brown (University of Geneva), ‘Cross-Dressing and Cross-Species Sex: The Obscene Spectacle of the Sow and the Lions in the Prose Merlin’• Maialen Maugars (Warburg Institute), ‘Animal Masks and Costumes in Late Medieval Court Culture: Exploring the Boundary between Civilisation and Wilderness’• Alexander Peplow (Merton College, Oxford), ‘Do Animals Have Souls? Adelard of Bath and non-Aristotelian Natural Philosophy’3.45-4.15pm Break with Hot &#38; Cold Drinks4.15-5.45pmMotif and Metaphor – Chair: Susanna Markert (Jesus College, Oxford)• William Brockbank (Jesus College, Oxford), ‘Wild Weather and Washed-up Whales: The “Whale on the Beach” Motif in the Íslendingasögur’• Aylin Malcolm (University of Pennsylvania), ‘“For They Kan Nat the Craft”: Art(ifice) and Chaucer’s Robotic Horse’• India Morris (Merton College, Oxford), ‘“As Bartholomew the Bestiary bablith on his bokes,”: The Sources of the Apian Metaphor in Mum and the Sothsegger’5.45-6.45pmKeynote Address: Eric Stanley (Professor Emeritus, Pembroke College, Oxford) Such Old English Animals as : docga, frocga, hogga, pic[g]-bred, staggon (acc. pl.), birds sugga and hrucge, insect wicga.6.45-7.30pm Drinks Reception at Harris Manchester College (included)7.30pm Conference Dinner (optional – location tbd)&#160;Source : https://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/animals-aspects-and-approaches