Author: Bruce McClintock

At 6.30 pm, in Arts Lecture Room 4, UWA, Dr David Robinson will give a talk on medieval Ethiopia: details to be provided soon.

6.30 pm, Arts Lecture Room 4 & via Zoom (you can request a Zoom link from [email protected])

This illustrated lecture provides an informal history of Perth Medieval & Renaissance Group since it started in 1981.

Further information available here.

A poster can be downloaded here.

 

 

6.30 pm, Arts Lecture Room 4, UWA

Emeritus Professor Richard Read will present a talk, ‘Secular Mysticism, Narrative and Early Modern Reference in David Risley’s Contemporary Art’.

More details are available here. A poster can be downloaded here.

6.30pm, Arts Lecture Room 4, UWA

Annual General Meeting, followed at 7.00pm by a talk by Professor Susan Broomhall, ‘Gender and the Dutch East India Company: Multiple Histories, New Perspectives’.

Apologies – Prof. Broomhall’s talk has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances.

PMRG has no new activities until 2025, except for our ongoing fortnightly Middle English reading group. We wish you the best for the festive season.

On Thursday, 5 December, from 6 pm, members are free to gather at an end-of-year picnic. Details will be sent to members.

PMRG’s Middle English reading group will be starting a new text, The Alliterative Morte Arthur, on Monday 21 October.

If you’re interested in joining in, please email
           [email protected]

 

Registrations are now open for PMRG’s 2024 Conference, ‘Myths, Legends, and Fairy Tales’, to be held on the campus of The University of Western Australia and online.

You can get further details, including a schedule of talks, here.

To register, go to https://www.trybooking.com/CVBJL or via QR code

You can dowload a poster here.

6.30 pm, Monday 9 September, Arts Lecture Room 4, UWA.

Assoc/Prof Suzanne Wijsman will talk on ‘Seeing the Sounds of Love: Visions of Women and Music in a Fifteenth-Century Jewish Prayer Book’.

Further details available here.

You can download a poster here.

 

Jennifer Bailey will present a talk, ‘The Progress of Peredur in Peniarth 7; or, “This is not a Bildungsroman”’.

This will be an online talk starting at 6:30 pm AWST.

Further details are available here.

You can download a poster here.