 Previous Events |
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Events in 2008 |
| Wednesday 21 March 7:00 pm | PMRG Annual General Meeting |
| Wednesday 30 July 7:30 PM | Dr Smadar Gabrieli (Archaeology, UWA) "'I have a cousin in Famagusta', the hidden economy of Lusignan Cyprus" Venue: Reid Library Training Room |
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Monday 11 August 4:30 PM | Dr Anne Scott (English and Cultural Studies, UWA) “The enigma of ‘Lady Poverty’: beautiful ideal or loathsome hag?” Venue: Geography Lecture Room 2. |
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Monday 25 August 7 PM for 7.30 start |
Annual Quiz Night Ten quiz rounds fizzing with challenge and suspense! Plus: Art quiz, True and False, Raffle and other delights! Prizes of wine, restaurant vouchers, books, and many others... |
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Monday 1 September 7:30 PM | Professor Albrecht Classen (Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of Arizona) "Gender identity and community in later medieval literature" |
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Tuesday 7 October 7:30 PM |
Dr Kate Bartel (Harvard and UWA) "Music and the Unlanguageable: Chiara Margarita Cozzolani's Divine Love" |
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Tuesday 28 October 4:30 PM |
Shane McLeod (History, UWA) "Viking Settlement Zones in ninth-century England: Chance or design?" Venue: Arts 2.43 |
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Friday 28 November 5:00 PM | Annual End-of-Year Christmas Party On the foreshore. |
Events in 2007 |
| Wednesday 21 March 7:00 pm | PMRG Annual General Meeting Dr. Nigel Westbrook (Architecture, Landscape and Visual Arts, UWA): "Continuity and Disjunction in the Great Palace of the Byzantine Emperors." Venue: Arts Lecture Room 9 |
| Tuesday 3 April 7:30 PM | Helen Vella Bonavite (University of Wales, Lampeter): "Both Banished and English: Nationality and Language in Richard II." Venue: Arts Lecture Room 10 |
| Monday 28 May 6:30 PM | Annual Quiz Night Ten quiz rounds fizzing with challenge and suspense! Plus: Art quiz, True and False, Raffle and other delights! Prizes of wine, restaurant vouchers, books, and many others... BYO finger food is allowed, but drinks must be bought from the tavern. Doors open 6:30 PM for a 7:00 PM prompt start. For more enquiries, please email Shane by Friday 25 May. |
| Thursday 28 June 7:30 PM | Elizabeth Archibald (University of Bristol): "How popular was bathing in the Middle Ages? Research problems and methods." Venue to be advised. |
| 3-8 July | ARC NEER Inaugural International Conference 3-8 July, 2007, The University of Western Australia "Networks, Communities, Continuities: Europe 400-1850." For registration, programmes, and more details, please visit the NEER website. |
| Tuesday 28 August 7:30 PM | Dr Lesley O’Brien (UWA): "The suspicious death of Richard Hunne, 1514." Venue: ALR 10. |
| Wednesday 19 September 6:00 PM | Annual Cassamarca Lecture in Latin Humanism Professor Philip Ford (University of Cambridge): "Mythology and Marketing in the Renaissance." Venue: Geography Lecture Theatre 1 |
| Wednesday 31 October 7:00 PM (half an hour earlier than normally) | Dr Jacqueline Van Gent (UWA): "'First Fruits': Indigenous converts and Moravian missions in the Atlantic world." Unusual Venue: Social Sciences Building G 209. |
| Tuesday November 13 7:00 PM (half an hour earlier than normally) | Bob Weston (UWA): "Unearthing the Medical Nostradamus: An exploration of the medical work of Michel de Nostredame." Unusual Venue: Social Sciences Building G 208. |
| Friday 7 December mid to late afternoon | Annual End-of-Year Party Change of venue, we're going outdoors this year for a picnic at Pelican Point on Matilda Bay (instead of dinner at St George's College announced in the newsletter). Bring your family and friends, a plate of food to share, drinks, a musical instrument you can play and any suitable games. |
Events in 2006 |
| Friday 24 November | End of Year Party Venue: St. George's College, UWA. More details to follow. |
| Tuesday 17 October | Play-reading Full details to follow. |
| Wednesday 20 September to Friday 22 September | Humanism and Medicine in the Early Modern Era Institute of Advanced Studies and UWA Medieval & Early Modern Studies Venue: University Club, UWA Keynote speakers: Professor Vivian Nutton (University College, London) Professor Ian Maclean (All Souls College, Oxford) Programme and registration information here. |
| Wednesday 20 September 10:00 AM | Early Modern Philosophy in Europe Institute of Advanced Studies Masterclass with Ian Maclean Venue: Old Senate Room, Institute of Advanced Studies Please register your interest by Monday 4 September. |
| Tuesday 5 September 7:30 PM | Emeritus Professor John Tonkin (UWA): "Behind the English Reformation." Venue: Arts Room 1.13 (First Floor Common Room) Click here to download the poster in PDF. |
| Friday 4 August to Saturday 5 August | Annual Symposium "World as Stage / Stage as World." Venue: University Club, UWA Keynote speakers: Professor Michael Best (University of Victoria, B.C.) Professor Graham Bradshaw (Chuo University, Japan) Professor Heather Dubrow (University of Wisconsin-Madison) See symposium website for more details. |
| Thursday 3 August 10:00 AM | Masterclass "The Relevant Renaissance: Why We Research the Early Modern Period." With seminars by: Professor Graham Bradshaw (Chuo University, Japan) Professor Heather Dubrow (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Venue: Old Senate Room, Institute for Advanced Studies Time: From 10:00 AM through to 2:00 PM, including lunch. All are welcome but registration is essential. Please register by Monday 1 August. |
| Thursday 27 July 7:30 PM | Professor Keith Busby (Wisconsin-Madison): "The Celtic Origins of Arthurian Romance: Some New Evidence." Venue: Arts Lecture Room 5 Click here to download the poster in PDF. |
| Tuesday 18 July 7:30 PM | Dr Phil Withington (University of Leeds): "Company and Sociability in Early Modern England." Venue: Arts Room 1.13 (First Floor Common Room) Click here to download the poster in PDF. |
| Friday 12 May 11:30 AM | Professor Yasmin Haskell (UWA): "Sleeping with the Enemy? The Use and Abuse of Lucretius by Jesuit Geometer, Tommaso Ceva (1648-1737)." Venue: Arts Room 2.43 (Classics Seminar Room) |
| Tuesday 2 May 6:00 PM | PMRG and IAS Public Lecture Professor Michael Best (U of Victoria, B. C): "Bi-Fold Authority: The Electronic Re-Creation of Shakespeare." Venue: Geography Lecture Theatre 1 |
| Monday 1 May 7:00 PM | Annual Quiz Night UWA Tavern 6:30 PM doors open -- 7:00 PM start! $10 per head or $50 for a table of 6 ($10 per additional head) Test your general knowledge and win prizes! Contact Talia for bookings. |
| Thursday 27 April 7:30 PM | Dr Tracy Adams (University of Auckland): "Isabeau of Bavaria and the Regency." Venue: Arts Room 1.13 (First Floor Common Room) |
| Thursday 20 April 6:00 PM | IAS Public Lecture Professor Michael Rosenthal (University of Warwick): "Sydney versus London: Governor Macquarie and the Politics of Colonial Architecture." Venue: Geography Lecture Theatre 1 |
| Friday 17 March 6:30 PM* | Dr Christopher Haigh (Cambridge): "The English Reformations and the Origins of the Anglican Church." Venue: St. George's Cathedral Door charge $6 *The lecture will follow the launch of the Institute for Anglican Studies at 6:00 PM. No exact time for the lecture is given, but it is expected to be around 6:30 PM. |
| Wednesday 15 March 7:30 PM | Annual General Meeting Dr Clarissa Ball (UWA): "Les Tres Riches Heures: The Medical Mysteries of a Medieval Manuscript." Followed by the Annual General Meeting of the PMRG. Venue: Arts Lecture Room 5 Drinks and nibbles afterwards in Arts 1.13 (First Floor Common Room) |
Events in 2005 |
Friday | End-of-Year Party: St George's College, Great Hall. Tickets $35 per person ($30 for students), from Talia Marsh, English, Communication and Cultural Studies, UWA (M202), by 18th November. |
| Wednesday 9 November 7.30pm | Suzanne Wijsman (School of Music, University of W.A.) |
| Tuesday 25 October 7.30pm | Richard Read (Fine Arts, University of W.A.) |
Tuesday | Aleida Paudice (Churchill College, University of Cambridge)
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| Tuesday 13 September 7.30pm | Lesley O'Brien (History, University of W.A.) |
| Wednesday 17 August 7.30pm | Carl Schmidt (Balliol College, University of Oxford) "Questioning the Chivalric" |
| Friday 12 August Saturday 13 August | Annual Symposium: "Houses, Households and Families in Medieval and Early Modern Europe" Keynote speakers: Vanessa Harding (University of London), Patricia Thane (University of London), and Penelope Allison (Australian National University). |
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| Wednesday 15 June 7.30pm | Carmel Posa (University of Notre Dame Australia, Broome Campus) "Specialiter: the language of the body and bodies in the letters of Heloise" Venue: Arts Building, Room 1.13 |
| Tuesday 24 May 7.30pm | Associate Professor Andrew Lynch (English, UWA): "Australia on Crusade: Christopher Brennan, Medievalism and the Great War" |
Monday | Quiz Night. Venue: Guild Tavern $10 per person, $50 per table of six. Contact Talia Marsh: marshtal@bigpond.net.au |
| Wednesday 20 April 7.30 pm | Andrea Williams (University of Exeter) "Narrative techniques in the French Grail Romances" Venue: Arts Building, Room 1.13 |
| Tuesday 22 March 7.30pm | Associate Professor Philippa Maddern (History, UWA): "Moving On: Geographical Mobility and Serial Monogamy in Medieval England" [followed by the AGM] |
Events in 2004 |
| Wednesday 24 March 7.30 pm | Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch. "Mary and the Protestant Reformers" |
| Tuesday 6 April 7.00 pm | Karen Hall. "There and Back Again: Film and Medievalism in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings Trilogy" (Preceded by the AGM.) |
Wednesday 28 April | Lea McNeill. "The Gardens in the Monastery of St Gall" |
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Tuesday 1 June | Quiz Night. Venue: Guild Tavern |
| Tuesday 1 June 7.30 pm | Julie Blyth. "Censorship of Heterodox Thought in Seventeenth Century France: Descartes and Cartesianism |
| Saturday 31 July | Annual Symposium: "Magic and Marvel in the Medieval and Early Modern World" Venue: St George's College. |
| Wednesday 18 August 7.30 pm | "The Second Shepherd's play" from the Wakefield Cycle (in modernized medieval English). A dramatic reading, presented by the PMRG Committee. Social Sciences Lecture Room 1 |
| Monday 23 August 1.00 pm | Fr Gerald O'Collins, Professor of Fundamental and Systematic Theology, Gregorian University, Rome. "John Donne and the Trinity" |
| Tuesday 7 September 7.30 pm | Karina Welna. "Wealth, Power and Greed in the Shepherds' Pageants of the Towneley and Chester Cycle Play" |
| Wednesday 22 September 7.30 pm | Dr Andrew Stone. "Twelfth-century Byzantine dynastic politics: Eustathios of Thessaloniki on Agnes of France" |
| Tuesday 5 October 7.30 pm | Janet Kovesi-Watt. "Bernard Palissy, Funk Potter of Renaissance France" |
| Wednesday 27 October 7.30 pm | Associate Professor Yasmin Haskell. "Poetry and Pathology: Hypochondriacal Priests in Early Modern Naples" |
| Friday 26 November | End of Year Party. Venue: St Catherine's College |
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Previous Symposia |
| The theme for the 2006 Symposium was: World as Stage / Stage as World in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Keynote Speakers: Professor Michael Best (University of Victoria, B.C) Professor Graham Bradshaw (Chuo University, Japan) Professor Heather Dubrow (University of Winsconsin-Madison) Please visit the 2006 Symposium website for more details. |
The theme for the 2005 Symposium was: Keynote Speakers:
Please visit the 2005 Symposium Web site for more details. |
The 2004 Symposium had as its theme Magic and Marvel in the Medieval and Early Modern World. |
Themes in previous years have included: Language, Life and Literature in Medieval and Early Modern Europe Intersections of Sacred and Secular in Medieval and Early Modern Culture |
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