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December 2017
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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
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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 (...)
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Saturday 09 |
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.
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Monday 11 |
18:00 - CONFERENCE - Emotions of Cultures/Cultures of Emotions: Comparative Perspectives : Inaugural Society for the History of Emotions Conference
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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 (...)
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Thursday 14 |
9:00 - WORKSHOP - Entangled Histories of Things in the Mediterranean World : An ARC Centre of xcellence for the History of Emotions Workshop
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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 (...)
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January 2018
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Tuesday 23 |
12:00 - SEMINAR - The Luttrell Psalter : A Seminar with Professor Michelle P. Brown
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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
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February 2018
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Monday 19 |
16:30 - SEMINAR - 'Dynasties and Composite States in Early Modern Europe: "Spain" and "Denmark" compared' : A CMEMS/Lund University Seminar
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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: (...)
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Thursday 22 |
12:00 - SEMINAR - A Correct Idea of War: Military Periodicals and Wartime Emotion in the Romantic Era : A CHE Research Seminar
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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 (...)
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March 2018
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Thursday 01 |
18:30 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Music, Magic and Meraviglia: The Politics and Poetics of Festival in Medici Florence : A PMRG/CMEMS Public Lecture
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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 (...)
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Wednesday 14 |
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 (...)
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Thursday 22 |
16:00 - Moved Reading - 'Romeo & Juliet', by William Shakespeare : CMEMS Moved Readings Project
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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 (...)
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Friday 23 |
12:00 - SEMINAR - �Gothic Origins of Melodrama and Its Music� : A CMEMS Seminar
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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 (...)
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April 2018
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Thursday 05 |
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Allegories for Meditation and Self-Reflection in the Elite Renaissance Home
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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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Tuesday 10 |
A public lecture by Bob White, Professor of English and Cultural
Studies, UWA.
The subject of war in Elizabethan literature, and Shakespeare’s plays in
particular, has attracted sustained attention from a variety of
perspectives. However, it is usually treated in the light of military
m (...)
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Thursday 12 |
12:00 - SEMINAR - Emotions in a Miracle of St Rose: An Italian Eighteenth-Century Notary Source : A CHE/CMEMS/Italian Studies Seminar
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This seminar will discuss the results of a study of an unpublished Italian notarial source, known as the ‘Miracles of Fabriano’. It contains insights into the religious sentiments and emotional responses of worshippers who were granted miracles from St Rose of Viterbo in the period between 1738 (...)
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Tuesday 17 |
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Beautiful Florentines: perfumes, powders and paint in the Renaissance
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A public lecture by Professor Evelyn Welch, Provost (Arts & Sciences), King’s College London.
The portraits of Renaissance men and women show unblemished skin, smooth, well-groomed hair and strong, handsome physiques. Women were all shown with pale white complexions while the men (...)
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Thursday 26 |
16:00 - Moved Reading - (bad) 'Hamlet', by William Shakespeare : CMEMS Moved Readings Project
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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 (...)
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May 2018
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Tuesday 08 |
A public lecture by Andrew Lynch, Professor of English and Cultural Studies, UWA.
The middle ages acquired a higher cultural prestige in nineteenth-century ideas of English national heritage. Literature exemplifying the spirit of medieval ‘chivalry’ was called on to offer behavioural (...)
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Wednesday 16 |
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Savonarola and Botticelli: the visionary prophet and the penitent painter
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A public lecture by Arvi Wattel, School of Design, The University of Western Australia.
After the French invasion in 1494, the Florentine people revolted against its de facto rulers and exiled the Medici family from Florence. Subsequently, the followers of the Dominican preacher Girolamo (...)
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Thursday 17 |
16:00 - Moved Reading - 'The Tempest', by William Shakespeare : CMEMS Moved Readings Project
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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 (...)
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Monday 21 |
15:30 - SEMINAR - Calvin�s Sixteenth-Century Critics: Jerome Bolsec and Sebastian Castellio : A CMEMS/Lund University Seminar
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In this seminar I’ll present on two of John Calvin’s sixteenth-century critics: Jerome Bolsec and Sebastian Castellio. Both were vehement critics of Calvin’s doctrine of predestination, and Castellio became widely respected among later proponents of religious toleration (e.g., Locke, Bayle (...)
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