A new text for the new year! Readers are having fun continuing with Chaucer’s Man of Law’s Tale, and looking forward to reading Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in the new year. If you are interested, more information on the reading group is here.
Category: General
Cancellation of talk 20 November
Apologies, but due to unforeseen circumstances, we have had to cancel the planned talk by Dr Benjamin Szumskyj on Thursday 20 November.
We hope that Dr Szumskyj will be able to give his talk to us next year.
Thursday 11 December – party
An end-of-year gathering for PMRG members will be held at the home of Gail and Helen Thomas.
20 November – talk
Middle English reading group – new text
PMRG’s Middle English reading group will be starting on a new text – Chaucer’s Man of Law’s Introduction, Prologue & Tale – from Monday 29 September.
If you’d like to learn more about the reading group, see here. If you’d like to join our Zoom sessions, please email pmrg.committee@gmail for contact details.
2025 Conference – register now!
Registrations are now open for our 2025 Conference, ‘Tyrants and Dictators: Unjust Rulers in the Medieval and Early Modern Worlds‘, to be held on Saturday 4 October on the campus of The University of Western Australia and online.
Simply go to: https://www.trybooking.com/DFDUE
or go via the QR code below:
A draft schedule is available here.
A poster is available here.
24 September – talk
Quiz Night – 21 August
6:00 pm for a 6:30 pm sharp start, Murdoch University Tavern, Murdoch University, South Street.
Expect a fun evening of trivia, table games, raffles, prizes, and fun. It’s not just for history buffs—test your knowledge of geography, music, movies, Australiana and more!
Teams will be competing as tables of 6. Tickets are $20 each, or you can book a whole table for $100. Singles are welcome and will be joined to make complete tables.
Bar snacks are available, but feel free to bring your own munchies!
Please bring $2 coins for table games, true/false heads & tails, and raffles throughout the evening.
Book online soon to avoid the rush: https://www.trybooking.com/DDNPH.
A poster is available here.
2025 Conference – Call for papers – deadline 17 August
PMRG has released the Call for Papers for this year’s conference. The theme is Tyrants and Dictators: Unjust Rulers in the Medieval and Early Modern Worlds.
It will take place in hybrid form on Saturday 4 OCtober 2025 at The University of Western Australia and online, so please save the date! Our keynote speaker will be Dr Erin Sebo (Flinders University).
Please consider submitting an abstract for the conference. The full CFP is available here. A poster is available here.
We also encourage you to please circulate this CFP widely, and hope you will be able to attend the conference.
Thursday 17 July – talk
6.30 pm, Law Lecture Room 2, UWA [note change from usual venue]
Jennifer Bailey will present a talk, ‘The Many Worlds of Galiene: Time and Reactions to Emotions in an Arthurian Romance’.
A poster is available here.