ASSC Graduate Student Conference: "Friendship and Community in Anglo-Saxon England" Conference Schedule 9:30-10:00 Light Breakfast 10:00-11:30 Session I: Friendship in the Political Moderator: Mary Kate Hurley, Columbia University Kate Olson, Columbia University “Grendel’s Mother as Revealing Enemy” Matthew Saks, Princeton University “The Space of Peace in Beowulf: A Consideration of frith, sibb, and thingian” Steven Slavens, New York University “In the Service of the Lord: The Language of Comitatus and the Writings of Anglo Saxon Christianity” 11:30-12:30 Lunch 12:30-2:00 Session II: Friendship and Christianity Moderator: Jennifer Garrison, Rutgers University Jonathan Wolitz, Rutgers University “Si me Dryhten freond: Some Observations on Christ as an Anglo-Saxon Friend” Benjamin Saltzman, Pace University “Cor Unum et Anima Una: The Symbolic Order of Friendship in Anglo-Saxon Rules of Confraternity” Michael Powell, New York University “Paul, Benedict, Ælfric, and the Problem of Friendship in Imagined Christian Communities” Discussants: Hannah Elmer (Columbia), Lee Fulton (CUNY), Ross Knecht (NYU), Matthew Kohl (NYU), Brigit McGuire (Columbia), Lytton Smith (Columbia). Return to ASSC Main Schedule