2014

2014 Programme
Monday
10 February
Time 5.30pm
CMEMS/PMRG Public Lecture
Professor Tracy Adams (University of Auckland)
“Marriage, passion and love.”
Venue: Webb Lecture Theatre (G.21, Geography Building)
**Please note earlier time than when first advertised**
Wednesday
19 March
Time 6.00pm
PMRG Annual General Meeting at 6.00 PM, followed by CMEMS/PMRG Public Lecture at 6.30 PM
Dr Raisa Maria Toivo (University of Tampere)
“Male Witches in Seventeenth-Century Finland: Peripheries in a North European Context.”
Venue: Arts Lecture Room 6 (G.62, Arts Building)
Tuesday
29 April
Time 1.00pm
CMEMS Lunchtime Seminar
Imogen Forbes-Mcphail (University of Western Australia)
“Applying for Overseas Scholarships: A Postgraduate Skills Seminar.”
Venue: Arts Seminar Room 1.33 (First Floor, Arts Building)
Thursday
26 June
Time 10am-4pm
IAS/CMEMS Masterclass
Dr Craig Taylor (University of York)
“Chivalry.”
Venue: Old Senate Room, Irwin Street Building
Thursday
26 June
Time 6pm
IAS/CMEMS Public Lecture
Dr Craig Taylor (University of York)
“The Trials of Joan of Arc.”
Venue: Woolnough Lecture Theatre (Geology and Geography Building)
Missed this? Listen to the IAS recording here: http://www.ias.uwa.edu.au/lectures/taylor
Fri–Sat
27-28 June
UWA Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies and Perth Medieval and Renaissance Group XXth Annual Conference
“In Form of War: Emotions and Warfare in Writing, 1100-1820.”
Venue: The University of Western Australia, Perth
Wednesday
6 August
Time 6pm
IAS Public Lecture
Pip Willcox (Bodleian Library, Oxford)
“‘for Harry, England, and’ … everyone: the many lives of the Bodleian First Folio of Shakespeare’s plays.”
Venue: Fox Lecture Theatre (Arts Building), UWA
This is a free event, but RSVPs are requested by the IAS. Book a seat here: http://www.ias.uwa.edu.au/lectures/willcox
Thursday
14 August
Time 6.30pm
CMEMS/PMRG Public Lecture
Professor Carolyn Dinshaw (New York University)
“I’ve Got You under My Skin: The Green Man, Trans-Species Bodies, and Queer Worldmaking.”
Venue: Arts Lecture Room 5 (G.61), Arts Building, UWA
Monday
18 August
Time 6.30pm for A 7pm start
PMRG Annual Quiz Night
Eight quiz rounds fizzing with challenge and suspense, plus Music round, Art quiz, True and False, Raffle and other delights!
Venue: UWA Guild Tavern (Tables of 6, $10 per head)
Monday
13 October
Time 6.30pm
CMEMS/PMRG Public Lecture
Dr Xavier Fresquet (Université Paris-Sorbonne)
“The Musiconis project: a performance oriented database of medieval images”
Venue: Arts Lecture Room 10 (1.62, 1st Floor, Arts Building), UWA
Monday
27 October
Time 6.00pm
CHE/CMEMS Public Lecture
Prof Piroska Nagy (Université du Québec à Montréal)
“Birth of emotional communities, or the power of emotional communion in the medieval West.”
For an abstract, click here.
Venue: Arts Lecture Room 10 (1.62, 1st Floor, Arts Building), UWA
Wednesday
5 November
Time 6.30pm
CMEMS/PMRG Public Lecture
Dr Loretta Dolan (UWA)
“‘Compelled bie his father’: The Phenomenon of Child Marriage in Sixteenth-Century Northern England.”
For an abstract, click here.
Venue: Webb Lecture Theatre (G.21, Ground Floor, Geography and Geology Building), UWA