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Don't miss it - SEIFMAR's second annual conference 'The Making of a Female Memory - Texts, Images, Rituals' will happen at Basel University May 20-21 2016. For registration and information please contact Annalena Müller: annalena.mueller@unibas.chFriday, May 20th13.00- 13.15Introduction: Annalena Müller (Basel)13.15-16.30 I  Death and CommemorationChair: Caroline Schärli (Basel)Mads Heilskov (Aarhus University), From Gown to Chasuble: The Donation and Transformation of Gendered Objects in Late Medieval DenmarkMiguel García Fernández (Santiago de Compostela), The Memory of noblewomen in Northwest Spain during the Late Middle Ages: Chronicles, documents and tombsCoffee BreakSonsoles García ( London), Women as memory keepers in the kingdoms of Asturias and León ( 10th-13th c)Patricia Stoop (Antwerp/ Utrecht, Dutch Collections of Sermons as Tools for Commemoration of Death (c. 1450–1650)Discussion &#38; Break17.00   Keynote: Alison Beach (Ohio State),  Monastic necrologies and the Politics of Female Memory in the Central Middle Ages19.00 Conference Dinner&#160;Saturday, May 21st09.00-13.3009.30 – 10.00 Coffee and Tea10.00-12.00   II     Creation of Origin NarrativesChair: Claudia Opitz-BelakhalJirki Thibaut (Ghent), Remembering female monastic origins in tenth-century MetzKirsty A. Day (Leeds), Rethinking the Origins of the Franciscan Nuns in WrocławDoris Bieñko (Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia), Our Mothers'Writings. The Seventeenth Century Mexican Nuns' Manuscripts and their Cultural Background12.30 Conference Lunch14.00-17.00 III    Material Culture and Memory Chair: Mercedes Pérez Vidal (Padua)Stefanie Seeberg (Cologne/ Städel Museum), Commemorative Function of Art in the Female Monastery of Altenberg under Gertrud of Thüringen (1227-1297)Anja Rathmann-Lutz (Basel), Books of Hours as melting pots of Devotion, Memory and Wishes in 14th-Century FranceDiscussion and Closing Remarks by Laura Cayrol Bernardo (EHESS) Flyer Female Memory