Author: Bruce McClintock

Thanks to all who participated in PMRG’s quiz night on Wednesday 24 July. We raised nearly $1000, which will help us to continue holding conferences, and regular talks by experts in their field to which everyone is welcome.

The call for papers for our 2024 conference on ‘Myths, Legends, and Fairy Tales’, to be held on Saturday 16 November, is now open until 31 July 2024.

A flyer with full details can be downloaded here.

The call for papers for our 2024 conference on ‘Myths, Legends, and Fairy Tales’, to be held on Saturday 16 November, is now open until 23 June 2024.

A flyer with full details can be downloaded here.

6.30 pm, Arts Lecture Room 4

Emeritus Professor Richard Read will present a talk, ‘A Very Long-Distance Contrast: Duccio’s Maestà (1308), Edward Hopper’s Self Portrait (1925–30) and the Emergence of Easel Paintings’.

Further details are available here. And a poster is here.

6.30 pm, Arts Lecture Room 4, UWA

Annual General Meeting, followed at 7.00 pm by presentations by Glenn McKnight and Louise Pitcher, talking about their exciting current research projects.

Louise will be talking on Contextualising the Chemise à la Reine Gown; Glen on Recurrence and Revolution: Ancient Orphism in Early Modern Reception and Radical Politics.

Further details at Programme – 2024

You can download a poster here.

6.30 pm, Arts Lecture Room 4, UWA

Professor Susan Broomhall will present a paper on Anne of Brittany and Natural Resource Management at the Château of Blois.

For further details, see our Programme – 2024

At our next streaming meeting on Monday 29 January at 6.00 pm, we will start reading The Tale of Gamelyn.

PMRG’s thirtieth conference, Fate & Fortune, was a success, with stimulating papers ranging from Beowulf to Shakespeare and Milton, via Old Norse-Icelandic sagas, eleventh-century climate change and monastic medicinal prognosis, an ecocritical look at Scottish chronicles and literature, and a comparative analysis of three texts, from Europe, India, and China. Contributors attended either in person or livestreaming from as far as the USA and Europe. It was kickstarted by Kirk Essary’s keynote on Erasmus’s views on fortune and fate as seen in his Adagia and letters, followed by a brief history of PMRG highlighting our debt to its ‘onlie begetter’, Chris Wortham, who presented a paper forty-two years after his first for PMRG in 1981. Those attending in person networked over tea breaks and lunch, and at an informal gathering at Steve’s Hotel.

On Friday, 8 December, there will be an informal end-of-year picnic for members and friends, who are asked to bring a plate, drinks and good cheer!

It will start from 6.00 pm on the Matilda Bay foreshore, just to the left (when facing the river) of the Bayside Kitchen kiosk.

 

 

John Haycraft (UWA) will present a paper, ‘History, Philosophy, and the Problems of Western Aesthetics’.

6.30 pm, Arts Lecture Room 4, UWA.

More details available here.

Download a flyer here.