Category Archives: Seminars & Lectures

Online seminar: ‘Trans Theory as Method in Manuscript Studies’ with J. D. Sargan, 15 October 2024, (5:30PM – 7:00PM (BST))

Join Dr J. D. Sargan for a seminar that explores the work of trans studies as Method in Manuscript Studies.

Lecture: Entangled Objects of Eurasia: Persian Metalwork along the Silk Road (Vienna /online, Wednesday 16 October 2024, 15:00-17:00 CET)

Coinciding with the 700th anniversary of the death of Marco Polo, this international research forum invites three distinguished art historians with particular expertise in non-European arts who will examine the modes and modalities of portable objects, other than silk textiles, from fresh perspectives.

Seminar series: IHR seminar in European History 1150-1550, 2024-2025

We are pleased to announce this year’s programme for the IHR seminar European History 1150-1550. All seminars take place on Thursdays at 5.30pm.

Online Lecture: ‘Food for Thought: Reconsidering Late Medieval English Cadaver Monuments’ with Morgan Ellis Leah, Tuesday 30 July 2024, 5.30pm-6.30pm (BST)

Join the National Churches Trust for an online lecture that will reconsider the long-standing misconception that transi effigies present the body in a ‘late stage of decay.’

Online Lecture: ‘Designing Chartres Cathedral: A Geometrical Perspective’, with Robert Bork and Ellen Shortell, 14 May 2024, 7.30pm (EST) 

Join The Friends of Chartres for this online lecture in collaboration with the University of Iowa and Villa Albertine, featuring two speakers.

Murray Seminars on Medieval and Renaissance Art at Birkbeck: ‘Signatures and Artistic Authorship in Lorenzetti and Attavante’, with Christopher Platts (Tue 21 May 2024, 5pm-6.30pm BST)

In this upcoming research seminar, Dr Christopher Platts will be discussing the artistic authorship in the work of Lorenzetti and Attavante.