Category Archives: Upcoming Events

Conference: London Medieval Society ‘Postgraduates Present’ 2014

You are warmly invited to our ‘postgraduates present’ colloquium on 10 May 2014 – this is a chance to hear the latest research from PhD candidates on important and on-trend aspects of medieval culture and history. Our friendly learned society is open to academics and non-academics. The event is free for members of the SocietyContinue reading “Conference: London Medieval Society ‘Postgraduates Present’ 2014”

Lecture: Romanesque Sculpture: Contexts and Perceptions from Lincoln and Pavia to Moissac and Saint-Genis-des-Fontaines, Courtauld

The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland requests the pleasure of your company at its Annual Lecture on Tuesday 29th April 2014 at 5.30 p.m. at the Courtauld Institute of Art. The lecture is divided into two parts, concerning form and content respectively. The first discusses what is special about Romanesque sculpture and how itContinue reading “Lecture: Romanesque Sculpture: Contexts and Perceptions from Lincoln and Pavia to Moissac and Saint-Genis-des-Fontaines, Courtauld”

Conference: Sensory Perception and the Medieval World, UCL

Participants will consider the ways in which we understand and interpret written, printed, and physical materials from the early medieval period. This is enhanced by the growing availability of digital resources which enhance the potential for visual perception while reducing the opportunity to use other senses for interpretation. At the same time, scholarship is becomingContinue reading “Conference: Sensory Perception and the Medieval World, UCL”

Conference: British Institute at Ankara – Alan Hall One Day Event & Pre-Event Dinner, London

The British Institute at Ankara warmly invites you to a one-day event being held on Saturday 11 October at King’s College London, Strand Campus.   The  programme provides a fascinating menu of topics for anybody who is enthusiastic and curious to discover more about Turkey past and present  and will foreground the achievements of research promoted byContinue reading “Conference: British Institute at Ankara – Alan Hall One Day Event & Pre-Event Dinner, London”

Conference: Symposium on Byzantine Law, Groningen

On 24 June 2014, Prof. Giuseppe Falcone will give his solemn address marking his acceptance of the H.J. Scheltema-chair of Byzantine Law at the University of Groningen. Preceding this festive occasion, the Department of Legal History in cooperation with the University of Palermo (Italy) will host a Symposium on Byzantine Law in Groningen, the Netherlands,Continue reading “Conference: Symposium on Byzantine Law, Groningen”

Conference: Anti-Judaism and Its Implications, Waterville, ME

In Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition (Norton, 2013), David Nirenberg  seeks “to demonstrate how different people put old ideas about Judaism to new kinds of work in thinking about their world; to show how this work engaged the past and transformed it; and to ask how that work reshaped the possibilities of thought in the future.”Continue reading “Conference: Anti-Judaism and Its Implications, Waterville, ME”

Conference: The Mediterranean City and Its Rulers, Princeton

The Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies presents “The Mediterranean City and Its Rulers: A Comparison of Byzantium, Islam, and Western Christendom in the High Middle Ages,” a conference, directed by Teresa Shawcross, Assistant Professor of History, to held on 26–27 April at 216 Aaron Burr Hall. The High Middle Ages were a periodContinue reading “Conference: The Mediterranean City and Its Rulers, Princeton”

Upcoming Conference: ‘The Abbot’s Table’, Glastonbury Abbey, 13th June 2014

Conference on eating and monastic life in medieval England. Chaired by Prof. Roberta Gilchrist (University of Reading). Speakers include Prof. James Clark (University of Exeter), Prof. Chris Woolgar (University of Southampton) and Marc Meltonville (Hampton Court Palace). For more info, email info@glastonburyabbey.com.

Call for Session Proposals: ‘Conquest: 1016, 1066’

An Interdisciplinary Anniversary Conference St Anne’s College, Oxford, and TORCH, 20-23 July 2016 Sessions will run in parallel for 90 minutes each. Session proposals of any suitable form are invited (3x20min papers, 2x30min papers, round tables, debates); session organisers are welcome to have speakers already in mind, but need not do so: a call forContinue reading “Call for Session Proposals: ‘Conquest: 1016, 1066’”