Perth Medieval and Renaissance Group

2007 Programme


2009 Programme



DATE
EVENT
Wednesday
25 March
7:00 PM
Annual General Meeting
All welcome. Paper presentation follows the AGM.

Dr Alexandra Sanmark (University College, London):
Visiting Fellow and Adjunct Lecturer
"Execution sites and boundaries in Scandinavia, AD400-1500"
Venue: ALR 9 (Arts 1.61)
Wednesday
1 April
7:30 PM
Professor Jocelyn Wogan-Brown
(University of York)
"Making a Difference? The French of England"
Venue: ALR 9 (Arts 1.61)
Thursday
2 April
4:00 PM
Dr Alexandra Sanmark (University College, London)
Visiting Fellow and Adjunct Lecturer
"Places of Assembly: Recent Results from Viking Age and Medieval Sweden"
Venue: Social Sciences Lecture Theatre, Room 1 (SS G28)
Monday
27 April
4:00 PM TBC
Professor A. J. Pollard (University of Teesside)
"Popular politics in the fifteenth century"
Venue: Chez Andrew Lynch
Wednesday
6 May
7.30 PM
Christine Porr
Honorary Research Fellow
"In quest of the Masters: The Renaissance book covers of the Historic Library of the Municipal Museums of Quedlinburg"
Venue: ALR 9 (Arts 1.61)
Wednesday
20 May
7.30 PM
Dr David Barrie
(History, UWA)
"Police Development and the Scottish Enlightenment, 1770-1830"
Venue: ALR 9 (Arts 1.61)
11-13 JuneAnnual Symposium
"Perceptions of Terra Australis"
For more details, visit the symposium website.
Thursday
11 June
6.00 PM
IAS / ARC NEER Free Public Lecture
Myra Stanbury
(Curator Dept Maritime Archaeology, WA Museum)
"Journeys of Enlightenment: Changing perceptions of Terra Australis"
Venue: Webb Lecture Theatre (Geography Lecture Theatre 1)
Monday
15 June
4.00 PM
Dr Alfred Hiatt
(University of Leeds, UK)
"Teaching Literature with Maps"
Venue: Gentilli Lecture Theatre (Geography Lecture Theatre 2)

Presented by The Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (CMEMS), in conjunction with The Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning (CATL)
Monday
20 July
1.00 PM
CMEMS Research Lunch (Staff & Students)
•    Dr Stephanie Tarbin
•    Prof Andrew Lynch
will be discussing their current research projects
Venue: Dean’s Committee Room (Arts G.23)
Wednesday
5 August
7.30 PM
CMEMS/PMRG Public Lecture
Professor Rita Copeland
(University of Pennsylvania)
"Naming, Knowing, and the Object of Language in Twelfth-Century Grammar Curriculum"
Venue: Arts Lecture Theatre 9 (Arts 1.61)
Thursday
13 August
4.00 PM

1st Postgraduate Sundowner
Graduate research in early European studies: a discussion with Prof Rita Copeland
Venue: Arts 1.13 (1st Floor tea room)

RSVP to Pam Bond

Monday
24 August
6.30 PM

Annual Quiz Night

Eight quiz rounds fizzing with challenge and suspense!
Plus: Music round, Art quiz, True and False, Raffle and other delights!
Prizes of wine, restaurant vouchers, books, and many others.

Venue: UWA Tav
Cost: $10/person, tables of 6
Drinks must be purchased at the Tavern
BYO snacks
Doors open 6.30 PM for a 7.00 PM start

For information and bookings contact Shane McLeod

Thursday
3 September
7.30 PM
CMEMS/PMRG Public Lecture
Professor John Kerrigan
(Cambridge)
"Shakespeare, Oaths and Vows"
Venue: Arts Lecture Theatre 9 (Arts 1.61)
Tuesday
8 September
7.30 PM

CMEMS/UWA School of Music
Machaut Mass (Guilluame de Machaut, c.1300-1377), Messe de Nostre Dame
Presented by The Giovanni Consort
Lecture-Recital: Machaut, his world and the Mass

Including introductions & commentaries by Kate Bartel, Andrew Lynch & Nicholas Bannan
Venue: The Chapel of St George’s College, Mounts Bay Rd, Crawley

Thursday
10 September
6.00 PM
CMEMS/UWA School of Music
Machaut Mass
(Guilluame de Machaut, c.1300-1377), Messe de Nostre Dame
Presented by The Giovanni Consort
Liturgical performance of the Mass in Sung Eucharist
Venue: The Chapel of St George’s College, Mounts Bay Rd, Crawley
Tuesday
15 September
1.00 PM
CMEMS Research Lunch
Bring along your lunch and join in an informal discussion with Yasmin Haskell and Jenna Mead about their current research.
Venue: Arts G.23 (Dean’s Committee Room)
Thursday
17 September
4.00 PM
2nd Postgraduate Sundowner
With James Smith
Venue: Arts 1.13 (1st floor tea room)
Wednesday
30 September
7.30 PM
CMEMS/PMRG Public Lecture
Prof Karen Pratt
(Kings College London)
"Voice, gender and authority in late medieval French literature"
Venue: Arts Lecture Theatre 9 (Arts 1.61)

Wednesday
14 October
4.00 PM

CANCELLED

CMEMS/PMRG Public Lecture
Dr Paul MacDonald
(Murdoch University)
"A New Edition of Kenelm Digby's Two Treatises (1644)"
Venue: Arts Lecture Theatre 8 (Arts 1.60)
Tuesday
20 October
6.00 PM
IAS/CMEMS/PMRG Public Lecture
Dr Stefano Carboni
(Director, Art Gallery of Western Australia)
"The 'liquid frontiers' of Islamic art: Interaction and exchange in the medieval period"
Venue: Webb Lecture Theatre, Geography G21

Thursday
22 October
4.00 PM

CANCELLED

3rd Postgraduate Sundowner
Venue: Arts 1.13 (1st floor tea room)
Tuesday
27 October
5.00 PM
CMEMS Research Seminar
Prof. Dr. H.F.J. (Manfred) Horstmanshoff
(Professor of the History of Ancient Medicine, Universiteit Leiden)
Topic : "Where do tears come from?  The physiology of crying in the Classical
Antiquity and in the Early Modern Period"
Venue: Webb Lecture Theatre, Geography G21
Tuesday
3 November
4.00 PM

CMEMS/PMRG Public Lecture

Dr Natalie Tomas
(School of Historical Studies, Monash University)
"With your authority and mine": Maria Salviate de Medicii and Duke Cosimo I's partnership, 1537-1543
Venue: Social Science G35

Thursday
19 November
4.00 PM
4th Postgraduate Sundowner (if required)
Venue: Arts 1.13 (1st floor tea room)
Friday
4 December
6.30 for 7.00 PM
Annual Christmas Party
The social event of the year!
Dancing with Jane Emberson, Singing by Sneaks Noise
Family and Friends welcome

Hackett Hall
Friday, 4 December, 6.30pm
Buffet dinner $30.00
Drinks, pay as you go

To reserve your tickets please contact Shane McLeod


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