Please note that all times are listed in Central Daylight Time (UTC-5).
Tuesday, April 6
9:30 AM | Welcome Thomas Finan, Chair, Department of History, Saint Louis University |
10:00 AM | Invasion and Conquest Fortification Reforms as a Reaction to the Mongol Invasions of Europe Stephen Pow The Rock of Lough Key and the Siege of 1235: What were the Anglo-Normans Attacking? Thomas Finan |
12:00 PM | Keynote Re-thinking Castles in Maritime Contexts: Galley-power, tolls and fish Richard Oram, University of Stirling |
Wednesday, April 7
9:00 AM | Archaeology in the Lab Wild Boar Ivory in the Late Medieval Trautson Castle: Identification of an Object through Raman Spectroscopy Hubert Ilsinger How much can we get out of dendrochronology? A case of a 14th-century keep in Siedlęcin (Poland) Przemysław Nocuń A preliminary study on the impact of Biodeterioration on the Medieval Stone Monuments Mayank Singh In Ruins: Trautson Castle as a Case Study in the Taphonomy of Bomb Damage and Renewal at Late Medieval Castles Elisabeth Waldhart |
12:00 PM | Keynote The Hofburg Project Markus Jeitler, Austrian Academy of Sciences |
Thursday, April 8
10:00 AM | The Castle in the Landscape New Perspectives on Rural Nucleated Settlement at Irish Castle Sites Vicky McAlister and Jenny Immich A Ring of Mottes and Monasteries: John de Courcy’s Strangford Lough Thomas Barrows Continuation and Inconvenience or: cemeteries and castles in the eleventh and twelfth centuries Therron Welstead |
12:00 PM | The Castle as Political Space Queen Captive: Eleanor of Aquitaine Kailen Kinsey The Castle as a Node of Internecine Conflict in Gaelic Ireland Margaret K. Smith The fortresses of the eternal kings. Connections, castles, and royal saints in the borderlands of Swedish power. 1450-1523. Wilhelm Ljungar |
2:00 PM | Keynote Castle Context and Digital Methods Edward Triplett, Duke University |
Friday, April 9
9:00 AM | Castle Studies in the Classroom: A Pedagogical Conversation Kilcolman Castle in VR: New Visions in Teaching, Research, and Outreach Thomas Herron, Vicky McAlister, and Ruth Canning Response Thomas Finan After the paper and response, we invite attendees to participate in a conversation about bringing castle studies to the classroom. |
11:00 AM | Castle Afterlives The Architectural Afterlife of Tattershall Castle James Wright The most castley-castle ever: Examining visitors’ perceptions of castles Lynsey Coombs ‘A special case’? Historic Scotland’s restoration of Stirling Castle and the Scottish castle conservation debate Tom Fairfax |
1:00 PM | Keynote Castles and Equine Landscapes: Problems and Possibilities for Integrated Analysis Oliver Creighton, University of Exeter, and Robert Liddiard, University of East Anglia |
2:30 | Conference Conclusion Thomas Finan |