Institute for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (IMEMS)
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Current News and Events
IMEMS Research Seminars - Programme for Autumn 2011 |
IMEMS members meet frequently with staff at other Welsh universities (Cardiff, Swansea and Trinity St. David) via the Welsh Video Network, for research seminars in medieval and early modern studies. The series attracts speakers from a variety of disciplines and from all over the world, providing an opportunity for people working on different areas to exchange ideas.
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| One-day symposium - 'Opening the Vaults', Tuesday 23rd August 2011 | On Tuesday 23rd August, a one-day symposium - 'Opening the Vaults': Researching Welsh Families and their Archives, c.1500-1850 is being held at Gloddaith Hall, (St. David's College), Llandudno; one of the ancestral residences of the Mostyn family. The event will revolve around current studies of Welsh families and their archives c.1500-1850. The prospective presenters range from archivists and art-dealers to doctoral candidates and university lecturers. Presentation topics will focus on a wide variety of themes including portraiture, creative writing, conspicuous consumption, Welsh-language poetry, slavery, Puritanism and archival issues. Click here for a report of the event
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| Public 'Translation in Context Lecture' - Wednesday, 23rd March 2011 | Annual 'Translation in Context' lecture this year, which will be delivered by Prof. John Rutherford on Wednesday (the 23rd) at 6 pm in the Main Arts Lecture Theatre (MALT). Professor John Rutherford has been appointed Honorary Professor of Spanish and is an expert on literary translation, Hispanic and Galician Studies. The title of his lecture will be: 'The Impossibility of Literary Translation: The Galician Medieval Cantigas'. This event has been jointly organised by the Centre for Galician Studies, the School of Modern Languages and IMEMS. Click here for more information |
Archaeology Research on Early Iceland attracts International attention |
Archaeological and palaeoecological discoveries demonstrate that Iceland was inhabited around AD800 - that's 70 years before the traditional dating of its Viking settlement. These earliest people in Iceland appear related to medieval Irish monastic communities in Atlantic Scotland. Dr Kristjan Ahronson of Prifysgol Bangor University's School of History, Welsh History and Archaeology made the discoveries, which were covered by Canadian Radio's flagship evening current-affairs programme "As It Happens". This interview was broadcast across Canada on CBC Radio and in the United States on its National Public Radio service. Ahronson's team used tephrochronology, which is a technique based on airfall deposits from volcanic eruptions (or, tephra), to date the site and to explore records of human-environmental interactions and climate change in early Iceland. LISTEN TO THE CBC RADIO INTERVIEW: Listen to the interview online at www.cbc.ca/aih . Go to the episode for Tuesday January 11th, 2011 and click on the link to Part 3. Dr Ahronson's interview starts at 18:54. DIRECT LINK TO TUESDAY JANUARY 11th EPISODE: http://www.cbc.ca/asithappens/episode/2011/01/11/tuesday-january-11-2011/ READ MORE:
http://www.unreportedheritagenews.com/2010/12/did-scots-visit-iceland-new-research.html |
AHRC-funded Project 'The Production and Reading of Music Sources, 1480–1530 (PRoMS)' |
A major AHRC Research Grant has been awarded to the Bangor University School of Music, in association with the Warburg Institute (University of London), for a study of the Production and Reading of Music Sources, 1480-1530. The project will be funded with nearly £ 800,000, the biggest ever sum awarded to a single project in Music by the AHRC. Click here for more information |
Royal Shakespeare Company invites Bangor academic to comment on medieval Arthurian author |
Dr Raluca Radulescu, Senior Lecturer in Medieval Literature and expert in the work of Sir Thomas Malory, was invited to participate in the 'Authoring Arthur' public event on Sunday 27 June 2010, which involved a panel discussion with Mike Poulton, who adapted the Morte Darthur for the Royal Shakespeare Company and Gillian Bradshaw, novelist and author of the Arthurian trilogy Down the long wind. Click here for more information |
| 2010 | IMEMS Research Seminars IMEMS members meet frequently with staff at other Welsh universities (Cardiff, Swansea and Trinity St. David) via the Welsh Video Network, for research seminars in medieval and early modern studies. The series attracts speakers from a variety of disciplines and from all over the world, providing an opportunity for people working on different areas to exchange ideas. |
CMS Seminars |
The Centre for Medieval Studies holds regular seminars for staff and postgraduates. |
Funding News |
Medieval Welsh seals in the National Library of Wales The project team is delighted to announce the success of a major project bid to the AHRC to support work on medieval Welsh seals at NLW and other repositories. |
| Society for Renaissance Studies Funding | Click here for more information |
| CARMEN | CARMEN stands for Co-operative for the Advancement of Research through a Medieval European Network, a worldwide network, bringing together groups of medievalists (including 'federations of centres', such as national or supranational research centres, disciplinary bodies, or societies of individuals) which operate at a level above that of individual universities, as well as individual universities, public and private bodies (e.g. museums, galleries, publishers), actively involved in the teaching or research of the Middle Ages (ca. 400-1500 AD/CE). http://www.carmen-medieval.eu/ and http://carmen.eldoc.ub.rug.nl/root/abcarm/ The IMEMS representative/link person in CARMEN is Dr Raluca Radulescu (English, Bangor) who may be contacted on els201@bangor.ac.uk by IMEMS members interested collaborative research or teaching projects with international partners. |
Forthcoming Events
6 - 8 July 2011 |
The Wye Valley: Romantic Representations, 1640-1830 Tintern, Monmouthshire, Wales Click here for more information. |
| 26 - 28 July 2011 | Conference of the Centre for Restoration Britain and Ireland on the 1690s. Click here for more information. |
| 13 - 16 October 2011 | The George Herbert Society's next international, interdisciplinary conference. Gregynog Conference Center, Newtown, Powys, Wales Click here for more information. |
| Spring 2014 | In Spring 2014 the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, and The Institute for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the Universities of Aberystwyth and Bangor (IMEMS), in collaboration with The Huntington Library, California, are delighted to be hosting an exhibition showcasing one of the National Library’s greatest treasures: the Hengwrt manuscript of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, believed by some to be the earliest extant text of this literary masterpiece. |
Past News and Events
| 7 - 9 June 2010 | Post-medieval crusades: languages, contexts, change c 1400-1700 Aberystwyth University |
| 26 May 2010 | IMEMS annual conference will be held on Wednesday 26th May 2010 at the National Library in Aberystwyth. |
| 9 December 2009 | Aberystwyth and Bangor Universities Research and Enterprise Partnership mid-term Review |
| 2009 - 1st Semester | |
| Director's Newsletter | |
| 28 - 30 July 2009 | Politics, Religion and Culture in 1680s Britain and Ireland The Politics, Religion and Culture in 1960s Britain and Ireland will take place in late July 2009 in Bangor. |
Pastoralism and the British Problem |
Dr Stewart Mottram, IMEMS Research Lecturer in English, was awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship in order to undertake research at the Department of English, Aberystwyth on a book-length project, Pastoral: Writing Reformation England and Wales. |
| 2008 - 2009 | Autumn Semester Seminar Series The Centre for Medieval Studies hold a seminar series sponsored by the Schools of English, History, and Music. The seminars take place in the HRC/WISCA Seminar Room, Thursdays, 5.00 pm (unless stated otherwise) Refreshments outside WISCA room from 4.45 pm. |
| 11 October 2008 | Cultures of War and Conflict Resolution conference |
| 24 - 27 July 2008 | Annual Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference |
| 3-4 July 2008 | two-day conference on the theme ‘Writing Wales: 1500-1800’ |
| 10 – 12 June 2008 | Women and the sacred: postgraduate conference |
| 1 March 2008 | inaugural conference of the ‘Cultures of War’ network |
| 11 February 2008 | lunchtime workshop with Professor Gerd Althoff |
| Collaborative Postgraduate Training in Palaeography |