- 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)