Author: Bruce McClintock

On Thursday 17 December, from 6:00 pm, PMRG members will be having an end-of-year get-together. All members will be advised of details by email.

The Middle English reading group has just finished the difficult but very rewarding Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. On Monday 9 November they return to the equally rewarding but less difficult Chaucer, reading the Nonnes Preestes Tale. For more on the reading group, and how to join, see here.

6:30 pm, Convocation Council Room, Irwin St Building, UWA

Boundaries, an open discussion led by Bruce McClintock.

More information is available here.

A poster is available here.

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6:00 pm for a 6:30 pm sharp start, Murdoch Guild Tavern, Murdoch University, South Street.

More information available here.

Book online soon to avoid the rush: https://www.trybooking.com/DOPFY.

Poster available here.

6:30 pm, Little Way Cafe, Nedlands.

Our next Show & Tell features a short talk by Dr Emily Chambers, The ‘Rhetoric of Effort’ in Early Modern Women’s Letter-Writing,  with food & drinks available for a pleasant evening.

More information available here.

Poster available here.

PMRG members have been invited to a medieval workshop on late-medieval philosophy held at UWA, Thursday 13 August, 3:30–6:15 pm. Information emailed to members.

6:30 pm, Fox Lecture Theatre, Arts Building, UWA

The Difficult Birth of the Self in Western Portraiture, an illustrated lecture by Emeritus Professor Richard Read

Further information available here.

6:30 pm, Mathematics Lecture Room 3, UWA.

Our next Show & Tell will be A Colonial Frontier in England? A free-ranging discussion of the book Imperial Mud: The Fight for the Fens by James Boyce, led by Jennifer Hole.

For more details, see here.

And a poster is available here.

Our President, Glen McKnight, gave an interview recently for an online article about the rise of enthusiasm for medievalia in Perth. You can read it here.