Re-creating the Middle Ages
Febuaray 7th, 2026
Location: Bob Wright Centre
Full day: 9:00 am - 4:30 pm
Speakers and Program
| Time | Speaker |
| 9:00 | Welcome and opening (Dr. Eva Baboula) |
| 9:30 | Re-creating Medieval York (Dr. Marcus Milwright, UVic and the University of York, online from York, UK) |
| 10:15 | Historical Combat Collective (demo and talk, refreshments available) |
| 11:00 | Hands-on experience and exploration (PARMA, Laura Oakley (Embroidery), Michael Lines (Book binding), Georgia Angelopoulos (Calligraphy), and Special Collections will be open) |
| 12:00 | Lunch break (not provided) |
| 1:00 | Medieval Falconry and Hawking |
| 1:30 | Recreating Instruments and Musical Performance (Dr. John Tucker and the Early Music Society of the Islands) |
| 2:15 | Refreshment break |
| 2:30 | Medieval Brewing and the Downfall of the Alewife (Lansdowne speaker Dr. Noëlle Phillips, Douglas College) |
| 3:30 | Byzantium after Byzantium (Lansdowne speaker, Dr. Andrea Myers Achi, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, online) |
| 4:30 | Thank you and closing |
Participants may receive pre-circulated readings in the weeks leading up to the symposium.
Donations are handled through Giving to UVic and our conference can be accessed here.
Student work from 2022-23
We have some wonderful posters and a final report from some of our students who took Dr. Adrienne Williams Boyarin's class last term.
There will be a presentation on these during the conference, but please feel free to look at the posters and read the paper below.
Poster: "Marginalia in a Fiftheenth-Century Confessional" by Kiarra Burd
Poster: "Mistakes: The (Manuscript) world is Full of them!" by Lilian Goy
Poster and written report:"Early Modern English Wax Seals in the Brown Collection" by Eleanor Shippin