Autumn Term 2018-19 – MEMS Research Seminar programme

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Seminars

Welcome to the Autumn Term's schedule of weekly Reseach Seminars, featuring work-in-progress by scholars and doctoral students at the University of Kent, as well as across the UK and internationally.

Seminars take place on Thursdays at 5.15pm in Darwin College, Lecture Theatre 1 (DLT1), unless otherwise stated.

  • Week 1, Thurs 27 Sep:

    ‘Picturing the Last Judgment in Paris: Liturgy, iconography, and the reinvention of salvation history in the Sainte-Chapelle’

    – Dr Emily Guerry, University of Kent

  • Week 2, Thurs 4 Oct: 6pm in Jarman Building, Studio 7

    Renaissance prints handling session

    – Dr Ben Thomas, University of Kent

  • Week 3, Thurs 11 Oct: 6pm in Grimond Lecture Theatre 2

    ‘Thinking with Conversion in Shakespeare’s Playhouse’

    – The Annual Renaissance Lecture, Professor Paul Yachnin, McGill University

  • Week 4, Thurs 18 Oct:

    ‘Marlowe and Nashe’

    – Professor Andrew Hadfield, University of Sussex

  • Week 5, Thurs 25 Oct:

    ‘A God of order and the trumpet of defiance: The politics of church life in the revoluntionary gathered churches’

    – Dr Joel Halcolm, University of East Anglia

  • Week 6, Thurs 1 Nov:

    READING WEEK

    – NO SEMINAR

  • Week 7, Thurs 8 Nov:
    Three postgraduate papers:

    ‘Render to Caesar: The Identity Crisis of a Lancastrian Political Prelate’

    – Jon-Mark Grussenmeyer

    ‘Proclaiming Authority in Letter Book H: The regulation of slander and seditious behaviour in 1380s London’

    – Daniella Gonzalez

    ‘Papal Overlordship, Arbitration and Mediation: Pope Alexander IV and the English Baronial Revolt, 1258 – 1261’

    – Philippa Mesiano

  • Week 8, Wed 14 Nov: 6pm in Grimond Lecture Theatre 1

    Local Things for Local People? Provincialism, Cultural Value, Shakespeare

    – Inaugural lecture: Prof. Catherine Richardson

  • Week 8, Thurs 15 Nov:

    ‘Towards a new edition of the Wycliffite Bible’

    – Dr Elizabeth Solopova, Oxford

  • Week 9, Thurs 22 Nov:

    ‘Picturing disability in medieval Europe’

    – Dr Irina Metzler, Swansea

  • strong>Week 10, Thurs 29 Nov: 6pm in Guild Hall, Canterbury

    ‘Sacrifice Your Daughter, But Not Your Sons: Horrible History in Chaucer and the Book of Judges’

    – The Annual Chaucer Lecture, Professor David Wallace, University of Pennsylvania

  • Week 11, Thurs 6 Dec:

    Ye Olde MEMS Christmas Quizzey

  • Week 12, Thurs 13 Dec:

    READING WEEK

    – No seminar