THE 2014 COURTAULD INSTITUTE OF ART POSTGRADUATE SYMPOSIUM

Showcasing New Research! Thursday 6 and Friday, 7 March 2014 Thursday, 6 March: 10.00 – 18.15 Friday, 7 March: 12.00 – 17.35 Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, Courtauld Institute of Art Click here for full programme Speaker(s): include Thomas Ardill, James Alexander Cameron, Jessica Barker, Marie Collier, Nicola Jennings, Anna Koopstra, Anya Matthews, Irene Noy, Gosia Osinska,Continue reading “THE 2014 COURTAULD INSTITUTE OF ART POSTGRADUATE SYMPOSIUM”

The Infidel before the Judge: Navigating Justice Systems in Multiconfessional Medieval Europe

Upcoming lecture at Queen Mary, University of London, entitled  ‘The Infidel before the Judge: Navigating Justice Systems in Multiconfessional Medieval Europe’ by Professor John Tolan (Université de Nantes) Friday, 14th March 2014, 3-5pm Main Building, room 4426 Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square London WC1H 0XG All are welcome. For further inquiries contact: kh20@soas.ac.uk

Making and Breaking the Rules: Discussions, Implementation and Consequences of Dominican Legislation (6-8 March)

6-8 MARCH 2014, GERMAN HISTORICAL INSTITUTE LONDON 17 BLOOMSBURY SQUARE LONDON WC1A 2NJ Attendance is free, but please register with Carole Sterckx (sterckx@ghil.ac.uk) by 3 March as seats are limited. Click here for the full programme.

Commemoration of the Dead: New Approaches, New Perspectives, New Material

Call for Papers for Commemoration of the Dead: New Approaches, New Perspectives, New Material conference to be held 10.00- 17.00, Saturday 15 November 2014 at the Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Proposals are invited for papers to be presented at a one-day conference, jointly sponsored by the Monumental Brass Society andContinue reading “Commemoration of the Dead: New Approaches, New Perspectives, New Material”

Lecture: Fashionable goods in Early Modern Europe, 1550-1700

INAUGURAL LECTURE: PROFESSOR EVELYN WELCH, Fashionable goods in Early Modern Europe, 1550-1700 Great Hall King’s Building Strand Campus When: 05/03/2014 (18:30) This event is open to all and free to attend, but booking is required via our Eventbrite page. Registration URL: http://evelynwelch.eventbrite.co.uk Thinking through things: An Inaugural Lecture by Professor Evelyn Welch, Vice Principal (Arts & Sciences) TheContinue reading “Lecture: Fashionable goods in Early Modern Europe, 1550-1700”

Annual Medieval Studies Lecture at the University of Lincoln

The Annual Medieval Studies Lecture at the University of Lincoln will be taking place this year on Thursday 27th March 2014 in the Cargill Lecture Theatre. Registration from 5.30pm, Lecture starting at 6pm, followed by drinks.  The guest speaker this year is Professor Simon Barton (University of Exeter), who will be speaking on “Damsels in Distress: Interfaith Sex and Power Politics in Medieval Iberia”.  Continue reading “Annual Medieval Studies Lecture at the University of Lincoln”

UCL Interdisciplinary Medieval and Renaissance Seminar

The next UCL IMARS Seminar will be held on Monday, 3 March with Prof. Peter Mack (Warburg) and Dr Dilwyn Knox (UCL) speaking. Their panel is entitled:  ‘Renaissance Philosophy and Rhetoric’. Please email for further information: alison.ray09@ucl.ac.uk UCL’s Medieval Interdisciplinary Seminar is a graduate-founded and run seminar which holds holds discussions across disciplines and departments, taking questions of Continue reading “UCL Interdisciplinary Medieval and Renaissance Seminar”

Harlaxton Medieval Symposium 2014 The Plantagenet Empire, 1259-1453

The Plantagenet Empire, 1259-1453 Tuesday 15th – Friday 18th July, 2014, Harlaxton Manor, A three-day exploration of the Plantagenet Empire with considerations of methodology, historiography, terminology, and the ‘imperial model’. Please see the attached booking form and provisional programme for more information: Symposium-2014-Booking-Form1  Symposium-2014-Provisional-Programme

Visualizing Temporality: Modelling Time from the Textual Record

Visualizing Temporality: Modelling Time from the Textual Record Tuesday 25 March 2014, 6.30, Queen Mary University ArtsTwo Lecture Theatre, ArtsTwo Building, Mile End Campus What does time look like? We are all familiar with the standard timeline that measures out events with neat tick-marks, like the divisions on a ruler. Yet whilst very few of us reallyContinue reading “Visualizing Temporality: Modelling Time from the Textual Record”

Medieval Reading Group, Reading Group, Queen Mary University

Reading Group, 12 – 3:00 pm, Friday 14 March at Queen Mary, when we will look at the introduction and fifth chapter in Cynthia Robinson’s Imagining the Passion in a Multiconfessional Castile: the Virgin, Christ, Devotions, and Images in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth centuries (University Park, Pa., 2013). This may be useful for anyone interested in fourteenth and fifteenth-century Spanish art andContinue reading “Medieval Reading Group, Reading Group, Queen Mary University”