2017

This York Colloquium honours Caroline Palmer's strong commitment to the interdisciplinarity of medieval studies, long exemplified in vigorous publishing on literature and history at Boydell and Brewer and more recently in Caroline's advocacy of material culture as an important strand of interdisciplinary medievalist publishing.

Powerful Emotions/Emotions and Power c. 400-1850

Wednesday 28 June 2017

An interdisciplinary conference jointly organised by the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions and the Centres for Medieval Studies, Renaissance and Early Modern Studies and Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York.

Storytelling

Monday 19 June 2017

Storytelling is a fundamentally human activity that bridges the past and present, the local and the international. Stories, whether they were intended to or not, are communicated through many mediums: art, stained glass, buildings, manuscripts and oral accounts. This conference will explore what and how various stories are told through these mediums.

British Library Public Engagement Seminar

Monday 12 June 2017

Drawing on examples from their recent publications, co-curated exhibitions and outreach work at the British Library, Kathleen Doyle and Scot McKendrick will discuss how to present specialist knowledge to a general audience. This will be a unique opportunity to learn more about wider issues of impact and public engagement.

Casting the Real - Reproduction, Translation and Interpretation in Petrach's Time

Thursday 4 May 2017

An international workshop looking at the ways fourteenth-century poets, intellectuals, doctors, and artists engaged with issues of translation, casting, embalming, and quantification.

Construction, Reconstruction and Collection: recent stained glass research

Thursday 4 May 2017

Stained Glass Research School PhD Symposium

Medieval Psalters as Witnesses to Liturgical Song: The Iberian Case

Tuesday 25 April 2017

Dr Emma Hornby (University of Bristol)

CANCELLED!!!! Apologies, the Prof. Kerby-Fulton lecture, scheduled for Tuesday 7 March, has been cancelled.

Tuesday 7 March 2017

York Medieval Lecture Series

At Close Quarters: Experiencing the Domestic c. 1400-1600

Friday 3 March 2017

Multi-speaker, interdisciplinary one-day conference on the late and early modern domestic environment "at close quarters".