Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Studies

Seminars

The Research seminar, a mandatory element of the Masters programme, showcases work-in-progress by scholars and doctoral students at UKC, across the UK, and internationally:

Seminar Programme for Spring 2012

The research seminars will take place Thursdays 5.15pm, Darwin Lecture Theatre 1, Darwin College, unless otherwise stated

19 January, 6.00pm

Rutherford, Lecture Theatre 1

The English castle

Dr John Goodall (Country Life)
Followed by a drinks reception
This is a joint event with the School of History

26 January

 

The history of etcetera

Professor Laurie Maguire (Magdalen College, Oxford)

2 February

 

Joint seminar with Centre for Late Antique Archaeology Byzantine eucharistic practices and the so called "breadstamps"

Prof. Béatruce Caseau (Université Paris-Sorbonne: Paris IV)

9 February

 

Such Place, such Men, such Language & such Ware”: The Theatre of London’s Fairs’
Professor Tiffany Stern (University College, Oxford)

16 February

Special Collections, Level 4, Templeman Library

Introduction to the Templeman Library’s Special Collections
Jane Gallagher and the Special Collections team

23rd February

Reading Week

1 March

 

Invisible mending: cultures of repair in pre-modern England

Dr Sara Pennell (University of Roehampton)

8 March

 

Imagining literary reception in the early fourteenth century: Robert Mannyng's Handlyng Synne

Dr Ryan Perry (MEMS)

15 March

 

'The persons that speak': constructing character in early modern plays

Dr Emma Smith (Hertford College, Oxford)

22 March

 

Cutting up books in Early Modern England

Dr Adam Smyth (Birkbeck, University of London)

29 March

 

Postgraduate Work in Progress

Followed by pizzas in Rutherford Bar

 

Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Studies, Rutherford College, University of Kent, Canterbury, CT2 7NX

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Last Updated: 29/02/2012