| 2016 Programme | |
|---|---|
| Friday 22 February 11.00 AM |
CMEMS/CHE Research Seminar Professor Miri Rubin (Queen Mary University of London) “Sisters no longer? Ecclesia and synagoga in late medieval Europe.” Venue: Arts Lecture Room 6 (G.62, Ground Floor, Arts Building), UWA |
| Tuesday 22 March 6.30 PM |
PMRG Annual General Meeting, followed by Public Lecture @ 7 PM Dr Anne Scott (The University of Western Australia) “Can Middle English Poetry Make us Laugh?” Venue: Arts Lecture Room 6 (G.62, Ground Floor, Arts Building), UWA |
| Friday 29 April 12.00 PM |
CMEMS/CHE Research Seminar Dr Jane-Heloise Nancarrow (The University of Western Australia) “Emotions3D: Digital Modelling for Cultural Heritage and Museums.” Venue: Philippa Maddern Seminar Room (1.33, First Floor, Arts Building), UWA |
| Tuesday 3 May 1.00 PM |
CMEMS Research Seminar Dr Shane McLeod (University of Tasmania) “The Rediscovery of a Viking Burial Site in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland.” Venue: Philippa Maddern Seminar Room (1.33, First Floor, Arts Building), UWA |
| Wednesday 18 May 6.30 PM |
PMRG/CMEMS Public Lecture Dr Kirk Essary (The University of Western Australia) “‘Ponder whether it be not changed for the better’: Erasmus’ Revolutionary New Testament at 500.” Venue: Arts Lecture Room 6 (G.62, ground floor, Arts Building), UWA |
| Friday 3 June 12.00 PM |
CMEMS/CHE Research Seminar Dr Valentina Zovko (University of Zadar, Croatia) “Dubrovnik’s Diplomacy in the Context of Political and Cultural Processes in the Fifteenth Century.” Venue: Philippa Maddern Seminar Room (1.33, First Floor, Arts Building), UWA |
| Tuesday 28 June 6.00 PM |
CMEMS/History Public Lecture Professor Robert B. Shoemaker (The University of Sheffield) “The Evolution of Record-Keeping as a Means of Understanding Criminality, 1780–1860.” Venue: Webb Lecture Theatre (ground floor, Geography & Geology building), UWA |
| Tuesday 2 August 6.30 PM |
PMRG/CMEMS/CHE Public Lecture Dr Danijela Kambaskovic-Schwartz (The University of Western Australia) “‘I am lunaticke’: Michael Drayton, Samuel Daniel and the Evolution of the Lyric.” Venue: Arts Lecture Room 6 (G.62, ground floor, Arts Building) UWA |
| Wednesday 10 August 6.00 PM |
PMRG/CMEMS/CHE Public Lecture Dr Francois Soyer (The University of Southampton) “Anger, Envy and Hatred: ‘Jewish Emotions’ in Early Modern European anti-Semitic Polemics.” Venue: Austin Lecture Theatre (1.59, first floor, Arts Building) UWA |
| Friday 12 August 12.00 PM |
CHE Research Seminar Dr Francois Soyer (The University of Southampton) “The Affective Politics of Fear in Early Modern Spain: The Recycling of an Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theory into an anti-Muslim one.” Venue: Philippa Maddern Seminar Room 1.33 (first floor, Arts Building) UWA |
| Tuesday 23 August 6.00 PM |
IAS/CHE Public Lecture Dr Valentina Zovko (The University of Zadar, Croatia) “The use of the term “freedom” in diplomatic discourse of the Renaissance Dubrovnik.” Venue: Fox Lecture Theatre (G.59, ground floor, Arts Building) UWA |
| Thursday 1 September 6.30pm for A 7pm start |
PMRG Annual Quiz Night Eight quiz rounds fizzing with challenge and suspense! Venue: UWA Guild Tavern (Tables of 6) |
| Tuesday 20 September 1.00 PM |
CMEMS Lunchtime Lecture Tara Auty (The University of Western Australia) “Medea’s Pathological Passions: Seneca’s Dramatic Inversion of Stoicism.” Venue: Arts Lecture Room 6 (G.62, ground floor, Arts Building) UWA |
| Friday 7 October |
PMRG/CMEMS/CHE Postgraduate Advanced Training Seminar (PATS) “Gender Matters” This event will consist of a number of sessions focused gender theory and methodology in medieval and early modern studies, led by a panel of gender scholars including Merry Wiesner-Hanks (University of Wisconsin,Milwaukee), Susan Broomhall (UWA), Jacqueline Van Gent (UWA), Andrew Lynch (UWA), Stephanie Tarbin (UWA) and Joanne McEwan (UWA). Places for this event are limited, and registration is essential. For more information visit the conference website. |
| Friday 7 October 6.00 PM |
PMRG/CMEMS Public Lecture Professor Merry Wiesner-Hanks (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee) “Adjusting Our Lenses to Make Gender Visible.” Venue: Austin Lecture Theatre (1.59, First Floor, Arts Building), UWA |
| Saturday 8 October |
UWA Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies and Perth Medieval and Renaissance Group XXIInd Annual Conference “Gender Worlds, 500-1800: New Perspectives” Venue: The University of Western Australia University Club, Perth Registration for this event is essential. For more information visit the conference website. |
| Monday 17 October 6.00 PM |
CMEMS/PMRG/CHE Lecture Professor Carolyne Larrington (The University of Oxford) “GAME OF THRONES! History, Medievalism and How it Might End.” Venue: Alexander Lecture Theatre (G.57, ground floor, Arts Building) UWA |
| Friday 25 November 1.00 PM |
CMEMS/CHE Research Seminar Dr Paul Megna (UWA) “Medievalist Existentialism and Emotional Ethics in Simone de Beauvoir’s The Useless Mouths.” For more info, click here. Venue: Philippa Maddern Seminar Room (1.33, first floor, Arts Building) UWA |
| Saturday 26 November 6.00 PM |
PMRG Christmas Party Join us from 6pm for a drink on the deck to round off the year. Please Bring drinks, a plate of food to share, and $5 if you can manage a donation. Venue: Andrew’s House (email Jo for the address) |
| Saturday 3 December 3.00 PM |
PMRG/CMEMS Public Performance “Medea: John Studley’s 1566 Translation of Seneca’s Tragedy” **A moved reading of John Studley’s 1566 translation of Seneca’s ‘Medea’, read by some of our more dramatically inclined members. The performance is free, but donations would be hugely appreciated** To view the flyer, click here Venue: New Fortune Theatre, UWA |
| Monday 5 December 1.00 PM |
CHE/CMEMS Research Seminar Professor Peter Sherlock (University of Divinity, Melbourne) “Remembering the Reformation in Early Modern England.” For more info, click here. Venue: Philippa Maddern Seminar Room (1.33, first floor, Arts Building) UWA |