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Displaying from Tuesday, September 12, 2017
 September 2017
Tuesday 12
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Luther�s Reformation at 500: Luther and the Devil : This is an Institute of Advanced Studies and Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies series of lectures. Website | More Information
“If the Devil says to you “Do not drink”, you should reply to him “On this occasion I shall drink and what is more, I shall drink a generous amount.” (Martin Luther). To Martin Luther and most of his contemporaries the devil was a theological and material reality – to be confronted (...)

 October 2017
Friday 06
15:30 - SEMINAR - Reconstructing Calvary: Women and Ritual Lamentation at the House of Mary in Ephesus : ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions Seminar Website | More Information
In 1891, two Lazarist priests, Eugene Poulin and Henry Jung, along with Sister Marie de Mandat Grancey, uncovered a small house-church in Ephesus, where they claimed the Virgin Mary had lived out her final years. Although scholars dismiss the site due to its questionable authenticity, today the (...)

18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - �Invisible Maps: Cartographic Coding in Shakespeare�s Henry V and Julius Caesar' : A PMRG/CMEMS Public Lecture Website | More Information
The year of 1599 was a turning point both for England and for William Shakespeare. Ever since the failed Spanish armada of 1588 there had been serious threats of a fresh incursion. Contrary to much popular belief today, the Spanish threat did not die with Queen Mary’s widowed husband, Philip II (...)
Saturday 07
9:00 - SYMPOSIUM - 'The Natural and the Supernatural in Medieval and Early Modern Worlds' : Annual PMRG/CMEMS Conference Website | More Information
Today, the natural and the supernatural are often viewed in stark opposition. In the medieval and early modern period, however, the supernatural infused every aspect of daily life. Prayers and rites punctuated everyday routines, and natural phenomena – such as earthquakes and eclipses – were (...)
Thursday 12
16:00 - MOVED READING - Antony and Cleopatra, by William Shakespeare : Play 3, CMEMS Moved Readings Project Website | More Information
As part of the 'Moved Readings Project', the play will be read on the New Fortune stage with the help of willing students, staff, friends and family. No experience is required, as the readings will take place with script in hand! We hope to provide a dynamic learning space that creates a fun and (...)
Monday 23
15:30 - SEMINAR - Evolving Chinese Heritage Landscapes: Digital Visualisation and Tunpu �Cultures of Emotion� : A CMEMS/Lund University Seminar More Information
Cultural heritage landscapes are value-laden concepts informed by a range of environmental, social, psychological, and emotional properties. This project examines the changing heritage landscapes of the unique Tunpu people, both within the context of recent digital conservation efforts in regional (...)
Thursday 26
16:00 - MOVED READING - Titus Andronicus (the chopped version!), by William Shakespeare : Play 4, CMEMS Moved Readings Project Website | More Information
As part of the 'Moved Readings Project', the play will be read on the New Fortune stage with the help of willing students, staff, friends and family. No experience is required, as the readings will take place with script in hand! We hope to provide a dynamic learning space that creates a fun and (...)
Tuesday 31
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Luther�s Reformation at 500: Myth, Memory, and the Making of History : This is an Institute of Advanced Studies and Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies series of lectures. Website | More Information
It’s not at all certain that Luther nailed his Ninety-Five Theses to a church door in Wittenberg in October of 1517. Nevertheless, this moment continues to be commemorated as marking the beginning of the Protestant Reformation, an enormously complex series of religious, political, social, and (...)

 December 2017
Wednesday 06
10:00 - SEMINAR - Emotions and the Jewish-Christian Controversy: The Case of Toledot Yeshu : An ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions Seminar Website | More Information
The Jewish life of Jesus, or Toledot Yeshu, provides a polemical account of the origins of Christianity, mocking Jesus as an illegitimate child, a false prophet and a charlatan, and describing his disciples as a bunch of violent rogues. This is one of the most important Jewish anti-Christian (...)
Saturday 09
16:00 - FUNDRAISER - 'Sir Launfal' : PMRG Moved Reading Website | More Information
A Moved Reading of Thomas Chestre's fourteenth-century poem 'Sir Launfal', adapted from Middle English and read by members of PMRG and the UWA Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies. This is a free event, but gold coin donations would be appreciated.
Monday 11
18:00 - CONFERENCE - Emotions of Cultures/Cultures of Emotions: Comparative Perspectives : Inaugural Society for the History of Emotions Conference Website | More Information
The Society for the History of Emotions (SHE) is an international and interdisciplinary professional organisation. SHE promotes a deeper understanding of the changing meanings and consequences of emotional concepts, expressions and regulation over time and space and across cultures. The Society is (...)
Thursday 14
9:00 - WORKSHOP - Entangled Histories of Things in the Mediterranean World : An ARC Centre of xcellence for the History of Emotions Workshop Website | More Information
This workshop will have a particular focus on the interactions of subject, material and emotional formations, applying a ‘new materialities’ analytical paradigm to examine the entangled trajectories, transmissions and transfers of people, ideas and objects across Mediterranean spaces. It thus (...)

 January 2018
Tuesday 23
12:00 - SEMINAR - The Luttrell Psalter : A Seminar with Professor Michelle P. Brown More Information
In this seminar, medieval manuscripts expert Michelle P. Brown will discuss the famous fourteenth-century manuscript, The Luttrell Psalter. For more on the Luttrell Psalter, see http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/luttrell/accessible/introduction.html

 February 2018
Monday 19
16:30 - SEMINAR - 'Dynasties and Composite States in Early Modern Europe: "Spain" and "Denmark" compared' : A CMEMS/Lund University Seminar More Information
Dr Liesbeth Geevers is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of History at Lund University. She is interested in the role of dynasties in early modern state formation in Europe. Liesbeth is currently leading a Riksbankens Jubileumsfondproject titled 'Re-thinking Dynastic Rule: (...)
Thursday 22
12:00 - SEMINAR - A Correct Idea of War: Military Periodicals and Wartime Emotion in the Romantic Era : A CHE Research Seminar Website | More Information
One of the key ways that war and emotion have been examined in relation to Romantic era Britain has been through analysis of the period’s mass media. Although Britain was perpetually threatened with invasion during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, demanding widespread participation (...)

 March 2018
Thursday 01
18:30 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Music, Magic and Meraviglia: The Politics and Poetics of Festival in Medici Florence : A PMRG/CMEMS Public Lecture Website | More Information
The Florentine festival of 1539 has long been noted by scholars as an occasion of historical importance and prestige for the alliance it forged between the Houses of Medici and Habsburg. The musical, architectural and visual programmes for the festival have been understood to be representative of (...)
Wednesday 14
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Women, Art and Violence in Seventeenth-Century Italian Art Website | More Information
A public lecture by Dr Susanne Meurer, School of Design, The University of Western Australia.

Virtuous women encountered a great deal of violence in early modern art – at times they were the victims of physical brutality or emotional cruelty, at times they were its righteous (...)
Thursday 22
16:00 - Moved Reading - 'Romeo & Juliet', by William Shakespeare : CMEMS Moved Readings Project Website | More Information
As part of the 'Moved Readings Project', the play will be read on the New Fortune stage with the help of willing students, staff, friends and family. No experience is required, as the readings will take place with script in hand! We hope to provide a dynamic learning space that creates a fun and (...)
Friday 23
12:00 - SEMINAR - �Gothic Origins of Melodrama and Its Music� : A CMEMS Seminar More Information
This seminar is about the Gothic origins of melodrama and its music, but more broadly it is about what it means to discover something in the archive or the library. While there will be no murder in this gothic tale of lost origins, there is at least one mystery involving an old manuscript. Beyond (...)

 April 2018
Thursday 05
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Allegories for Meditation and Self-Reflection in the Elite Renaissance Home Website | More Information
A public lecture by Dr Elizabeth Reid, Researcher in the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions.

The paintings that decorated the Renaissance home were not solely intended for aesthetic appreciation, but for moral instruction. This talk will take a small selection of the (...)


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