Wednesday 4^th September

Plenary 1
Denis Renevey (University of Lausanne)

Othon III de Grandson: The Story of a Lover-Knight’s Success at the Court of Edward III

Chair: Annette Kern-Stähler
Room: Grosser Hörsaal

Panel 1: Missionaries, Monasteries, and Medieval Women

Chair: Hannah Piercy
Room: 11 (first floor)

Roland Zingg
Irish Missionaries and the Foundation/Reform of Monasteries in Early Medieval Alemannia – Between Facts and Fiction

Christiania Whitehead
St Oswald of Northumbria’s Head at Zug

Diana Denissen
Looking for Elizabeth of Hungary from Switzerland to England: The Story of Three Elizabeths

Panel 2: Intermediaries and Agents of Cultural Exchange

Chair: Stefanie Heeg
Room: Grosser Hörsaal

Thomas Archambaud
European intermediaries of the British Empire: George Francis Grand, Sir John Macpherson and the politics of the East India Company

Andy Reilly
Rome, Britain, and Switzerland in Joseph Addison’s Cato

Philippe Bernhard Schmid
Transnational Service: John Henry Ott and the Professionalisation of Information Brokerage, 1716–1743

Panel 3: Early Swiss-British Literary Exchanges

Chair: Juliette Vuille
Room: 11 (first floor)

Dieter Bitterli
How Aldhelm travelled to Bern

Laurie Atkinson
Early Modern Swiss-British Relations in Alexander Barclay’s The Shyp of Folys

Panel 4: Transnational Religious Exchanges

Chair: Isabel Karremann
Room: Grosser Hörsaal

Kilian Schindler
Paradise Lost in Eighteenth-Century Zurich: Literary Controversy and Religious Heterodoxy

Céline Magada
From Lausanne to London: The Vaudois’s ‘Glorious Return’ and a Swiss-English Community

Vivienne Larminie
Elizabeth Penington and Johann Heinrich Hummel: Further Thoughts on religious and cultural cross-currents in the mid-17^th century

Afternoon Talk

Emma Depledge
Looking Beneath the Surface: Charles-Moïse Briquet & Caroline-Marguerite Long’s Contribution to Shakespeare Studies (in connection with visit to Papiermühle)

Chair: Ina Habermann
Room: Grosser Hörsaal

Thursday 5^th September

Plenary 2
Annina Seiler (University of Zurich)

Old English in Switzerland

Chair: Rory Critten
Room: Grosser Hörsaal

Panel 5: Swiss Scholarly Networks and Digital Initiatives

Chair: Ina Habermann
Room: Grosser Hörsaal

Isabel Karremann
The Robinson Library at Kunst(Zeug)Haus, Rapperswil-Jona – Website Launch

Martin Stuber
Towards a république-des-lettres.ch

Pascale Aebischer and Emily Smith
The Geneva-Exeter Renaissance Exchange: Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus and Social Justice

Panel 6: Othon de Granson, Chaucer, and the ‘International Language of Love’

Chair: Aurélie Blanc
Room: 11 (first floor)

Lucie Kaempfer
Thought of Love and Memory in the ‘International Language of Love’: Othon de Grandson and Chaucer

Rory Critten
Gender and Voice in Chaucer’s Complaint of Venus

Panel 7: Swiss-British Religious Exchanges

Chair: Sarah Rindlisbacher Thomi
Room: Grosser Hörsaal

Antoinina Bevan Zlatar
Englishing Geneva surreptitiously in the early 1560s, or the case of Jean Véron

Alex Shinn
Swiss outlooks, English outcomes. Swiss influences in the alternation of English liturgy, music and sacred space, c. 1534 - c.1580 (with musical examples)

Plenary 3
Erin McCarthy (University of Galway)

Mapping and Modelling the Transnational Circulation of English Poetry: An Introduction to the STEMMA project

Chair: Ina Habermann
Room: Grosser Hörsaal

Friday 6^th September

Panel 8: Travel, Knowledge and Power

Chair: Emily Smith
Room: 11 (first floor)

Rahel Orgis
Assassins, Drunkards, Oxen, Soldiers with a Death-wish? The Representation of Swiss Mercenaries in Early Modern English Literature

Catherine Jenkinson
In View of the Tower: Swiss Encounters with the Tower of London

Stefanie Heeg
Anglo-Swiss travel networks at the beginning of the 17^th Century

Panel 9: Go-Betweens, Experts, Brokers of Knowledge

Chair: Emma Depledge
Room: Grosser Hörsaal

David McOmish
Cosmopolitanism and ambiguity: the significance of British and Swiss itinerant scholars and scholarly culture during Europe’s medical reformations, 1580-1630

Honor Jackson
‘her Ladiships occupation in writing of bookes: with a sedenta[r]y life is absolutly bad for health’: The Swiss Doctor and the English Duchess

Plenary 4
Dirk van Miert (Huygens Instituut Amsterdam)

The Dutch Connection: the Dutch Republic as a cross-roads in Swiss-British relations

Chair: Philippe Bernhard Schmid
Room: Grosser Hörsaal

SAMEMES Annual General Meeting

Directed by Kevin Curran