MEMS Seminars

2022 Semester 2

17 February 2022: Professor Amanda Scott (The Pennsylvania State University), “End of the Road: Pilgrimage, Disability, and Violence in Early Modern Spain'

17 March 2022: Professor Peter Sherlock (University of Divinity), ‘The Republic of Memory: The Monuments of Westminster Abbey 1642-1660’

22 March 2022: Professor Denys Turner, ‘Dante, Purgatory and the Earthly Paradise’

23 March 2022: Professor Denys Turner, ‘Dante and Learning to Speak Paradisal’

24 March 2022: Professor Denys Turner, ‘Dante and the End of Poetry’

21 April 2022: Professor Carl Watkins (University of Cambridge), 'Seasons and Signs in Fourteenth-Century England'

19 May 2022: Dr Aydogan Kars (Monash University), 'Religious Mobility and Muslim Networks of Knowledge

27 October 2022: Associate Professor Francois Soyer (University of New England), 'The 1182 "Ritual Murder" In Zaragoza: Medieval Fact and Modern Invention'

17 November 2022: Dr Kate Franklin (Birkbeck, University of London), "Cosmopolitanism, Hospitality, Care: Making the Silk Road in Medieval Armenia"

5 October: Professor Barbara Watson Andaya, 'Religious Mobility and the Household : Islam and Christianity in Southeast Asia in the Early Modern Period'

7 September 2021: Dr Mike A. Zuber (University of Queensland), 'The Captive Alchemist as a Serial Convert: Christian Wilhelm von Krohneman between Lutheranism and Catholicism'

20 May 2021: Katie Barclay (Adelaide), 'Rethinking Patriarchy: The Performance of Family'

19/20 April 2021: Siiri Toiviainen Rø (University of Helsinki) and Taneli Kukkonen, (NYUAD), Recognizing Religions: False Gods, Human Weaknesses - Christian and Muslim Analyses

15 April: Leigh Penman (Monash), By his sword: Peace, violence, and prophecy in the life of Ludwig Friedrich Gifftheil, an agonist in the Thirty Years' War'

23 March: Francesca Trivellato (Institute for Advanced Study) and Leor Halevi (Vanderbilt University), Exchanges across Religious Lines: Material Interests and Representations. Moderated by Ethan Shagan (University of California at Berkeley)

18 March 2021: Yasmin Haskell (University of Western Australia), 'Idols, Demons, or Passions? The Gods in Jesuit Latin Epics'

18 February 2021: Kirk Essary (University of Western Australia), 'Erasmus on Emotion Between the Old and New Testaments'

19 November 2020: Margaret Cameron (The University of Melbourne), ’Blood Medieval Philosophy of Mind: the first treatise’

15 October 2020: Jenny Spinks, 'Blood rain, crucifixions and instruments of the Passion: Christ, visuality and religious identity in sixteenth-century prodigy books'

5/6 October 2020: Zvi Ben-Dor Benite (NYU) and Esmat Elhalaby (UC Davis), moderated by Taneli Kukkonen (NYU/AD), 'Situating World Religions in Modern Islam'

17 September 2020, Constant Mews (Monash University), 'Re-Reading the abuses of the age: from seventh-century Ireland to Twelfth-century France'

21 August 2020, Nicholas Eckstein, 'Plague Time: Space, Fear and Emergency Statecraft in Early-Modern Italy'

18 June 2020, Reindert Falkenburg (Professor of Early Modern Art and Culture, New York University/Abu Dhabi), 'Pieter Bruegel: Grounds for Speculation'
 
21 May 2020, Sophia Rosenfeld (Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania), 'Making Choices in the Early Modern World