Forthcoming events
Wednesday 30 April
6.30 pm, Arts Lecture Room 4, UWA & via Zoom (request link from [email protected])
PMRG since 1981: an informal history presented by Bruce McClintock
Much has changed since PMRG was founded in 1981, but it continues to foster an interdisciplinary interest in all aspects of the medieval, Renaissance, and early modern world. This illustrated talk provides an informal ramble through more than four decades of its vicissitudes.
Bruce McClintock has been a member of PMRG since its first meeting, and is a past Secretary and its current Treasurer.
A poster can be downloaded here.
Wednesday 14 May
6.30 pm, Arts Lecture Room 4, UWA
Dr David Robinson will talk on medieval Ethiopia.
Further details to be posted soon.
Earlier events
Wednesday 26 February
6.30 pm, Arts Lecture Room 4, UWA
A brief Annual General Meeting…
followed at 7.00 pm 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
A poster can be downloaded here.
Tuesday 18 March
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’
Currently exhibiting in a New York gallery, David Risley is a contemporary artist resident in Copenhagen who ties iconography from early modern visual art with stories of growing up on an English council estate. He does not believe in God but his paintings of Danish windows strive for a kind of secular mysticism that appropriates early modern religious symbolism for contemporary aesthetic effects. The talk invites communal discussion of the viability of such combinations. Is it just presentism, or does storytelling provide historical insight into the communal animation of ancient icons?
Richard Read is Emeritus Professor and Senior Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia. He wrote the first book on the British psychoanalytic art critic Adrian Stokes, which won a national prize, and has published extensively on the relationship between literature and the visual arts, nineteenth- and twentieth-century art, film, art theory, and complex images in global contexts. In the last four years he has published two books on landscape painting and sensory perception.
A poster can be downloaded from here.