| 2013 Programme | |
|---|---|
| Thursday 21 February 6.00 PM |
Institute of Advanced Studies/CMEMS Public Lecture Sharon Farmer (University of California, Santa Barbara) “Private Welfare vs. Public Charity: Some Lessons from Medieval and Early Modern Europe.” Venue: Webb Lecture Theatre (G.21, Geography Building, UWA) |
| Tuesday 12 March 7.30 PM |
CMEMS/PMRG Public Lecture Paul Nuckley (Birkbeck, University of London) “The Diary of Sir John Knatchbull: Partisan Politics and the Glorious Revolution in Kent, 1687-1688” Venue: Arts Lecture Room 6 (G.62, Arts Building, UWA) |
| Tuesday 26 March 7.00 PM |
PMRG Annual General Meeting at 7.00 PM, followed by CMEMS/PMRG Public Lecture at 7.30 PM Professor Yasmin Haskell (ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, Europe 1100-1800 / The University of Western Australia) “Child’s Play and Child Murder: The Emotions of Children in Jesuit Jacob Bidermann’s Latin epic on the Massacre of the Innocents (1622)” Venue: Arts Lecture Room 6 (G.62, Arts Building, UWA) |
| Wednesday 24 April 6.00 PM |
CMEMS/PMRG Public Lecture Associate Professor Anne Scott (The University of Western Australia) “The Early Franciscans and Poverty: A Sign of Contradiction” Venue: Arts Lecture Room 4 (G.60, Arts Building, UWA) |
| Wednesday 1 May 6.00 PM |
Institute of Advanced Studies/CMEMS Public Lecture Professor Paul Hills (The Courtauld Institute of Art) “Colour and Language in Renaissance Venice” Venue: Webb Lecture Theatre (Geography Building, UWA) For more information, click here |
| Sunday 23 June 1.00 PM |
Fundraiser Special Screening Shakespeare’s Globe on Screen: Twelfth NightSwap the hard benches for cosy movie theatre chairs, and the back-row view for HD vision. Shakespeare’s Globe on Screen series is back at Luna Paradiso, this year featuring Twelfth Nightwith Mark Rylance and Stephen Fry, which was filmed at the iconic Globe in 2012.Venue: Cinema Paradiso, 164 James St, Northbridge Time: 12.15 PM for an introduction on ‘Original Practices’ at Shakespeare’s Globe by Dr Penelope Woods; 1.00 PM screening. $27 tickets. Tickets available at the door or in advance from Joanne McEwan or Penelope Woods |
| Thursday 8 August 6.30 PM |
CMEMS/PMRG Public Lecture Professor Peter de Bolla (The University of Cambridge) “From the Analogue to the Digital: A New History of Concepts” Venue: Arts Lecture Room 5 (G.61, Arts Building, UWA) |
| Monday 19 August 6.30 PM for 7 PM start |
Annual Quiz NightEight quiz rounds fizzing with challenge and suspense! Plus: Music round, Art quiz, True and False, Raffle and other delights! Prizes of wine, restaurant vouchers, books, and many others.Venue: UWA Guild Tavern (Tables of 6, $10 per head) For bookings or other queries, email Lesley O’Brien [email]. |
| Tuesday 3 September 6.30 PM |
CMEMS/PMRG Public Lecture Dr Sarah Dempster (The University of Western Australia) “Mildmay Fane’s ‘To Retiredness’ as a Meditation on the Locus Amoenus” Venue: Arts Lecture Room 6 (G.62, Arts Building, UWA) |
| Wednesday 18 September 6.30 PM |
CMEMS/PMRG Public Lecture Dr Mary C. Flannery (The University of Lausanne) “Shame and Emotionality in Later Medieval England” Venue: Arts Lecture Room 6 (G.62, Arts Building, UWA) |
| Friday 20 September 12.00 PM |
CMEMS Lunchtime Seminar Dr Mary C. Flannery (The University of Lausanne) “Multimedia Lydgate” Venue: Arts Seminar Room 1.33 (1st Floor, Arts Building, UWA) |
| Tuesday 24 September 5.15 PM |
MEMS Sundowner Seminar I Hugh Chevis: “Inheritance strategies amongst families in the West Country woollen cloth industry in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries” Sara McKenna: “The Prophetic Tradition of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Prophetiae Merlini in the Twelfth Century” Venue: Arts Lecture Room 6 (Ground Floor, Arts Building, UWA) |
| Monday 30 September 6.30 PM |
CMEMS/PMRG Public Lecture Dr Clare Monagle (Monash University) “Psychoanalysing Scholasticism – On the Medieval Real” Venue: Social Sciences Seminar Room G202 (Ground floor, opposite the Oak Lawn) |
| Tuesday 8 October 5.15 PM |
MEMS Sundowner Seminar II Jo Merrey: “Shamefast and Shamefaced: Knights, Poverty and Shame in Late-Medieval English Romance” Michael Ovens: “‘If thou wert sensible of courtesy’: Hal, Hotspur, and the English Gentleman in 1 Henry IV” Venue: Arts Lecture Room 6 (Ground Floor, Arts Building, UWA) |
| Tuesday 22 October 5.15 PM |
MEMS Sundowner Seminar III Alana Bennett: “Music, Performance and ‘al maner menstraci’ in Medieval Romance” Bríd Phillips: “The Locus Amoenus: Emotional Excess in the Ovidian Model” Venue: Arts Lecture Room 6 (Ground Floor, Arts Building, UWA) |
| Wed–Thurs 27-28 November |
Postgraduate Advanced Training Seminar (PATS) “Understanding and Using Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts” This two-day event will comprise hands-on work with manuscripts and incunables held at UWA, and will cover palaeography, scribal practice, material features of manuscripts, and the technology of the book. It will be led by manuscripts expert Professor Michelle Brown (University of London). Places for this event are limited, and registration is essential. For more information, please visit the conference website. |
| Thurs 28 November 6.00 PM |
CMEMS/PMRG Public Lecture Professor Michelle P. Brown (University of London) “The Luttrell Psalter: Imaging England on the Eve of the Black Death.” Venue: Webb Lecture Theatre (G.21, Geography Building, UWA) RSVP: Contact Anne Scott to RSVP by Monday 25 November 2013. |
| Fri–Sat 29-30 November |
UWA Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies and Perth Medieval and Renaissance Group XIXth Annual Conference “Textuality, Technology, Materiality in the Medieval and Early Modern World” Venue: St Catherine’s College, The University of Western Australia, Perth Plenary speakers Professor Michelle Brown (University of London) Associate Professor Tim Fitzpatrick (University of Sydney) Registration for this event is essential. For more information visit the conference website. |