2012

2012 Programme
Tuesday
8 February
1.00 PM
CMEMS Lunchtime Seminar
Seamus Barker (University of Sydney)
“The Subject in Hamlet.”
Venue: Arts Seminar Room G.01
Tuesday
21 February
7.00 PM
Annual General Meeting
All welcome. Paper presentation follows the AGM, at 7.30 PM  

CMEMS/PMRG Public Lecture
Professor Chris Wortham (Notre Dame University)
“Shakespeare: Anonymous or Synonymous?”
Venue: Arts Lecture Room 6 (Arts G.62)

Tuesday
13 March
6.00 PM
CMEMS/PMRG/CHE Public Lecture
Dr Spencer Young (CHE/The University of Western Australia)
“The Usurer’s Alms: Theologians, Society and the Emergence of the University of Paris.”
Venue: Arts Lecture Room 10 (Arts 1.62)
Wednesday
21 March
7.30 PM
CMEMS/PMRG Public Lecture
Jane-Heloise Nancarrow (The University of York)
“The Re-Use of Roman Material Culture in the Anglo-Norman World.”
Venue: Arts Lecture Room 6 (Arts G.62)
Thursday
29 March
6.00 PM
CMEMS/PMRG/Round Table Public Lecture
Deborah Seiler (The University of Western Australia)
“Masculine Emotional Identity in Medieval English Romance: A Critical Analysis of King Horn, Sir Launfal, Sire Orfeo & Sir Cleges.”
Venue: Arts Lecture Room 9 (Arts 1.61)
Wednesday
4 April
6.30 PM
CMEMS/PMRG Public Lecture
Christa Knellwolf (The University of Vienna)
“The Conflict Between the Representation of Imperial Power and the Struggle for Emotional Maturity and Self-Realisation in The Tempest.”
Venue: Arts Lecture Room 6 (Arts G.62)
Tuesday
17 April
6.30 PM
CMEMS/PMRG Public Lecture
Natalie Tomas (Monash University)
“Eleonora di Toledo, Regency and State Formation, 1539–1543.”
Venue: Arts Lecture Room 6 (Arts G.62)
Tuesday
15 May
6.00 PM
CMEMS/PMRG Public Lecture
Prof Andrew Lynch (The University of Western Australia)
“Guinevere and the Boys: Emotion and Community in Chretien de Troyes.”
Venue: Arts Lecture Room 5 (Arts G.61)
Wednesday
30 May
6.00 PM
CMEMS/PMRG Public Lecture
Dr Toby Burrows (The University of Western Australia)
“Manuscript Mania: How Sir Thomas Phillipps Built the World’s Greatest Collection of Medieval Manuscripts.”
Venue: Arts Lecture Room 5 (Arts G.61)
Thursday
28 June
6.30 PM
CMEMS/PMRG Public Lecture
Dr Mark Houlahan (The University of Waikato, NZ)
“Shakespeare and the Sea of Stories.”
Venue: Social Science Seminar Room G2.01
Wednesday
4 July
6.00 PM
Fundraiser Film Screening
“A Royal Affair.”  

Windsor Cinemas, 98 Stirling Highway, Nedlands
6.00 PM for a 6.30 PM screening

$20 tickets (inc. drink and nibbles)
Tickets available at the door or in advance from Jo McEwan or Michael Champion

Tuesday
24 July
6.00 PM
CMEMS/PMRG Public Lecture
Dr Danijela Kambaskovic-Sawers (The University of Western Australia)
“Plato’s Loves and Shakespeare’s Women.”
Venue: Arts Lecture Room 6 (G.62)
Tuesday
31 July
6.00 PM
CMEMS/PMRG Public Lecture
Dr Nicole Hochner (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
“Is all you need love? The Machiavelli[an] Answer.”
Venue: Arts Lecture Room 6 (G.62)
Thursday
16 August
6.00 PM
CMEMS/PMRG Public Lecture
Associate Professor Louise D’Arcens (The University of Wollongong)
“Reception, Recovery, Re-creation: The Singular Story of the Middle Ages in Australia.”
Venue: Gentilli Lecture Theatre (Geography 1.31)
Fri–Sat
August 17–18
UWA Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies and
Perth Medieval and Renaissance Group XVIIIth Annual Conference
  

“Receptions: Medieval and Early Modern Cultural Appropriations.”

Venue: St Catherine’s College, The University of Western Australia, Perth

Plenary speakers
Professor David Konstan (Brown University)
Professor Jacqueline Van Gent (The University of Western Australia)
Associate Professor Louise D’Arcens (The University of Wollongong)

For further information contact Andrew Lynch or Joanne McEwan or visit the Conference website

Tuesday
28 August
1.00 PM
CMEMS/PMRG Lunchtime Seminar
Dr Erika Kuijpers (Leiden University)
“Traumatic Memory in the Early Seventeenth Century Netherlands: Anachronism or Hidden Reality?”
Venue: Arts Seminar Room G.01
Wednesday
29 August
6.00 PM
CMEMS/PMRG Public Lecture
Professor Jeffrey Chips Smith (The University of Texas at Austin)
“Jesuit Confraternities in Germany and the Art of Sensual Engagement.”
Venue: Arts Lecture Room 6 (G.62)
Monday
17 September
6.30 PM for 7 PM start
Annual Quiz Night  

Eight 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)
For bookings or other queries, email Lesley O’Brien.

Tuesday
16 October
6.00 PM
CMEMS/PMRG Public Lecture
Dr Brett D. Hirsch (The University of Western Australia)
“Voiding Rheum in Shakespeare’s Venice, or What’s Spit Got To Do With It?”
Venue: Arts Lecture Room 6 (G.62)
Sunday
4 November
1.00 PM
Fundraiser Special Screening
Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus  

Swap the hard benches for cosy movie theatre chairs, and the back-row view for HD vision. You can even kick back with popcorn and a choc top. Shakespeare’s Globe on Screen series is coming to Luna Paradiso, with the first screening kicking off with Doctor Faustus, filmed at the iconic Globe in 2011.

Venue: Cinema Paradiso, 164 James St, Northbridge
Time: 12.30 for a 1.00 PM screening.

$25 tickets (drinks and nibbles for gold coin donation)
Tickets available at the door or in advance from Lesley O’Brien or Brid Phillips

Tuesday
27 November
1.00 PM
CMEMS/PMRG Lunchtime Seminar
Professor Eileen Joy (Southern Illinois University)
“Pursuing a Fugitive, Vagabond, Promiscuous Post/medieval Studies.”
Venue: Arts Seminar Room 1.33  

Postgraduate (including Honours) and staff researchers are welcome. Professor Joy’s paper will be followed by a discussion. Bring your own lunch.

Saturday
15 December
6.30 PM
Annual Christmas Party  

Cost: $10, which includes champagne or juice on arrival. Bring a plate and BYO drinks after the first drink.
Venue: Dell Cottage, St George’s College (on the left as you’re traveling up the main driveway. If you reach the archway you’ve gone too far!)