Spring/Summer Term 2013/14 – MEMS Research Seminars

  • 23 January:

    The Anselm Lecture: ‘Heirlooms and Ancient Objects: Connecting the Lives of Medieval People and Things’

    – Robert Gilchrist (Reading)

  • 30 January:

    PhD students’ work-in-progress

    – Ciaran Arthur and Josef Reinbold (MEMS)

  • 13 February:

    ‘”[M]y intentions herein are honest and iust”: Prefacing Printed Gynaecological and Obstetrical Texts in Early Modern England’

    – Harry Newman (MEMS)

  • 20 February:

    ‘Diagnosing Lovesickness in Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale and Henry Daniel’s Dome of Uryns’

    – Jake Walsh Morrissey (Kent and Queen Mary, London)

  • 27 February:

    READING WEEK

    – No seminar

  • 6 March:

    PhD students’ work-in-progress

    – Tamara Haddad and Lindsey Cox (School of English/MEMS)

  • 13 March:

    Jesuit missions in Egypt, 1560-1720’

    – Alastair Hamilton (Warburg Institute)

  • Tuesday 18 March: 5.30pm Grimond Lecture Theatre 3

    ‘(Be)hindsight: Michelangelo, modernity, and the spectre of the ideal male nude’

    – The Renaissance Lecture by Patricia Rubin (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)

  • 20 March:

    ‘Smell and the York Corpus Christi Play’

    – Annette Kern-Stähler (Bern) and Rory Critten (Bern/Fribourg)

  • 27 March:

    ‘The Middle English Manuscript Tradition and Language Change’

    – Jan Čermák (Charles University Prague)

  • 3 April:

    ‘”Romaine Tragedie”: the designs of Titus Andronicus’

    – Michael Neill (University of Kent)

  • Wednesday 9 April: 5.00pm Grimond Lecture Theatre 1

    ‘Lost or Stolen or Strayed’: The foundation collection of Lambeth Palace Library and its vicissitudes’

    – Professorial Inaugural Lecture by James Carley (Kent)

  • Thursday 10 April: 6.30pm Grimond Lecture Theatre 1

    ‘Hell Hath No Fury: The Hispanophiles React to the French Match, 1625-1630’

    – Thomas Cogswell (University of California Riverside) – open lecture and start of the Early Stuart Politics conference.

  • Monday 12 May:

    Dissertation conference

  • Friday 16 May: 5.15pm Keynes Lecture Theatre 1

    ‘Chaucer’s Lyrics: ‘Many a Song and many a leccherous lay”

    – The Chaucer Lecture by Professor Julia Boffey (Queen Mary)