Late Medieval Europe Seminar

Hilary Term 2022 – Queering the Late Middle Ages

The seminar meets on Tuesdays, either at 14:00 (St John’s College Seminar Room, 21 St Giles) or 17:00 (online, for North American speakers).
There is no seminar in Week 6

Tea and coffee will be served before the seminar.

Please let us know in advance if you will be attending, so that we can keep an eye on numbers: if these exceed room capacity, we will send out an online link so that everyone can be included.

Type: Seminar Series
Series organisers: Hannah Skoda (St John’s) , Natalia Nowakowska (Somerville)
Timing: Tuesdays at 14:00 in-person or 17:00 online - check individual seminars

Wednesday 7 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

17:00 - Discussion
Various Speakers

Tuesday 15 January 2019 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

14:00 - Nostalgia and Commemoration in the Later Middle Ages
Hannah Skoda (Oxford)

Tuesday 22 January 2019 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

14:00 - Picturing the Passion in the Capetian present
Emily Guerry (Kent)

Tuesday 29 January 2019 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

14:00 - Medieval memory, gendered emotion and the recent past
Elizabeth van Houts (Cambridge)

Tuesday 5 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

14:00 - Ancient music’ in late-medieval Europe: From thirteenth-century Paris to seventeenth-century Silesia
Karl Kugle (Oxford)

Tuesday 12 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

14:00 - 'Rethinking the late medieval relic (c. 1200-1550)
Marika Rasanen (Turku)

Tuesday 26 February 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

14:00 - Converting the Cross: Monuments, Memory and Time in Early Modern England
Alexandra Walsham (Cambridge)

Friday 8 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - Commemorating civil war in the Low Countries 1566-1648
NOTE DIFFERENT DAY AND TIME
Judith Pollman (Leiden)

Tuesday 21 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

14:00 - Opening discussion on animals in medieval history
Lesley McGregor (Oxford)

Thursday 23 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

17:00 - Animate Ivory: Animality, Materiality, and Pygmalion’s Statue
This seminar is at the Faculty of English at 17:00
Peggy McCracken (Michigan)

Tuesday 28 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

14:00 - Life Drawing and the Body Politic: Rethinking Matthew Paris’s Elephants
Robert Mills (UCL)

Tuesday 4 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

14:00 - Renaissance Abstinence: Pre-Cartesian Debates on (not) Eating Animals
Cecilia Muratori (Warwick)

Tuesday 11 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

14:00 - The Medieval Urban Dog: Trusty Servant or Idle Vagrant?
Carole Rawcliffe (UEA)

Tuesday 18 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

14:00 - Mary's animal skin: Weaving the signification of the Sevillan Virgen de los Reyes in the times of Alfonso X
Aleksandra Rutkowska (Oxford)

Tuesday 25 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

14:00 - What Edward Topsell Saw: An Unthinkable Thought
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Erica Fudge (Strathclyde)

Tuesday 3 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

14:00 - Peasants and their animals in late medieval England
David Stone (Exeter)

Thursday 12 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

14:00 - Discussion and viewing of medieval bestiaries
This seminar will be rearranged for next term
Status: This talk has been cancelled
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