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The Medieval and Early Modern Studies Program at IRCI hosts a monthly seminar, ordinarily on the third Thursday of each month.
Seminars showcase outstanding work from around Australia and the world on a wide range of topics, such as conspiracy theory, political choice-making, imagination in art, disaster, plague, time, and moral invective, from early medieval Ireland through Renaissance, Reformation, and Enlightenment to the present.
For further information, contact MEMS.seminar@acu.edu.au
Time: 2:00pm Melbourne / 12:00 noon Perth / 9:00pm Thursday 16th September, Los Angeles, USA
Title: ‘Re-Reading the abuses of the age: from seventh-century Ireland to twelfth-century France’
Time: Melbourne 3:30am (Tue 6th Oct) | Perth 12:30am (Tues 6th Oct) | Abu Dhabi 20:30 (Mon 5th Oct) | Berlin 18:30 (Mon 5th Oct) | London 17:30 (Mon 5th Oct) | San Francisco 9:30am (Mon 5th Oct)
Title: "Situating World Religions in Modern Islam" with Zvi Ben-Dor Benite (NYU) and Esmat Elhalaby (UC Davis), moderated by Taneli Kukkonen (NYU/AD)
Title: ‘Disasters and Religious Identity in Early Modern Wonder Books’
Time: 2:00pm Melbourne (Australian Daylight Saving Time), 11:00am Perth, 8pm Wednesday 14th October Los Angeles, USA
Time: Melbourne 19:00 | Perth 16:00 | Abu Dhabi 12:00 | Berlin 9:00 | New York 3:00
Title: "Forms of Religious Recognition in Early Modern Iberia and the Ottoman Empire" with Tijana Krstić (CEU) & Mercedes García-Arenal (CSIC, Madrid), moderated by Jan Loop (University of Copenhagen)
IRCI MEMS Seminar Series | Nicholas Eckstein | Plague Time: Space, Fear and Emergency Statecraft in Early-Modern Italy
Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania
Making Choices in the Early Modern World
Professor of Early Modern Art and Culture, New York University/Abu Dhabi
Pieter Bruegel: Grounds for Speculation