Latest News and Events
| 09 May 2016 | Institute for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Bangor University and Aberystwyth University, Wales, Expressions of Interest in Marie Skłodowska-Curie. For more information |
IMEMS Newsletter Spring 2016 |
Last summer marked a new stage in the development of IMEMS, with the appointment of a new Aberystwyth co-director, Dr Gabor Gelleri, from the Department of Modern Languages. He also co-organised, with Dr Rachel Willie, Dr Rhyn Emlyn and Professor Andrew Hiscock, a highly successful first IMEMS conference, on the topic of ‘Travel and Conflict in the Medieval and Early Modern World’. Click here to view the Spring 2016 Newsletter. |
Video-Linked Seminar 10 December 2015 |
‘The Last Days of Owain Glyndŵr: Interrogating the Traditions’ |
Video-Linked Seminar 01 December 2015 |
"Raphael's Condescension: Paradise Lost, Jane Austen, and the Secular Metamorphosis of Grace" |
Video-Linked Seminar 17 November 2015 |
'Fashioning a Medici Court: The Material World of Duke Alessandro de' Medici (1531-37) |
Video-Linked Seminar 03 November 2015 |
‘May God bridge Afon Tywi!’ Floods and the fluvial landscape in medieval Welsh Dr Hywel Griffiths, Aberystwyth University (Hosted by Aberystwyth University) For more information Locations: Aberystwyth: Hugh Owen Library, Penglais Bangor: Cledwyn Room 3 Cardiff – Coleg Cymraeg, Adeilad Sir Martin Evans building (BIOSI), Ystafell C1.11 Trinity St David – Conferencing Studio, Arts Building Swansea – Coleg Cymraeg, Video Conference suite |
Video-Linked Seminar 20 October 2015 |
"Gender and Performance in the Medieval and the Early Modern Period” (Round Table Discussion) Prof. Alison Findlay, Lancaster University (Hosted by Bangor University) For more information Locations: Aberystwyth: Hugh Owen Library, Penglais Bangor: Cledwyn Room 3 Cardiff – Coleg Cymraeg, Adeilad Sir Martin Evans building (BIOSI), Ystafell C1.11 Swansea – Coleg Cymraeg, Video Conference suite Trinity St David – Conferencing Studio, Arts Building |
Video-Linked Seminar 07 October 2015 |
‘Nous n’escourterom pas la verité de l’éstoire’: Trevet’s ‘Les Cronicles’ and Anglo-Norman Historiography Dr Heather Pagan, Aberystwyth University (Hosted by Aberystwyth University) For more information Locations: Aberystwyth: Hugh Owen Library, Penglais Bangor: Dean Street Cardiff – Ty Dewi Sant Swansea – Rm 222, James Callaghan Building Trinity St David – Conferencing Studio, Arts Building |
| 3-5 September 2015 | Announcement – IMEMS Conference on Travel and Conflict The Institute for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (IMEMS), based at Aberystwyth and Bangor Universities, will be hosting its second biennial conference at Bangor University, 3-5 September 2015 on the topic of ‘Travel and Conflict’. This international conference that draws upon scholars from all subject areas to address the epistemological, philosophical, cognitive, and cultural relationships between travel and conflict – whether as real travel and conflict or as journeys to imagined spaces - in the medieval and the early modern world. We are delighted to be welcoming Michal Biran (Hebrew University, Jerusalem), Daniel Carey (National University of Ireland, Galway) and Judith Jesch (Nottingham University) to deliver keynote lectures at the conference. These speakers will be addressing the conference across fields as broad as Old Norse and Viking studies, (particularly the Viking Diaspora and cultural memory); mobility in Mongol Eurasia and travel and the philosophy of travel in early modern Europe. IMEMS is a pan-Wales network, which regularly holds live video-linked research seminars between Aberystwyth, Bangor, Cardiff, Trinity St. David and Swansea Universities. We look forward to welcoming scholars to Bangor in September. We are delighted to announce that the Royal Historical Society has awarded us funding to facilitate attending the conference for post-graduates and post-doctoral researchers without institutional support. Please follow link for more information on the conference http://travelandconflict.wordpress.com |
| IMEMS Research Seminars - Programme | IMEMS members meet frequently with staff at other Welsh universities (Cardiff, Swansea and Trinity St. David) via the Welsh Video Network, for researc 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. |
| Directors' Newsletter | The Centre Directors issue a regular newsletter as a means by which the Centre can share news and keep abreast of Centre activities and developments. |
| Spring 2014 | Bangor University and the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, have collaborated on a project to make one of the jewels of English literature, freely available to all. The Hengwrt copy of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, produced in London at the close of the fourteenth century and believed to be the earliest existing version of this work, is now fully digitised, and accessible by global users via the Library’s website. read more . . |
| Monday 14 May 2012 | Constructing and Deconstructing the Past: a postgraduate conference to be held in the Roderick Bowen Library and Archives, University of Wales Trinity Saint David The workshop will take the form of discussions led by members of staff on the following: the medieval text and the modern editor; the material transmission and reception of texts; antiquarianism; landscapes of power; visual culture. The presentations will draw heavily on the medieval manuscripts and early printed books held in the University’s special collections, and will encourage an appreciation of different approaches to constructing the medieval past. The workshop will develop research skills, and will draw attention to the way in which transmission and reception lead to constant reinterpretation of the past. Local organizer: Professor Janet Burton, School of Archaeology, History and Anthropology, University of Wales Trinity Saint David (j.burton@tsd.ac.uk) Please contact Janet for further details. |
| 13 - 16 October 2011 | The George Herbert Society's next international, interdisciplinary conference. Gregynog Conference Center, Newtown, Powys, Wales Click here for more information. |
| 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. |
| 23 March 2011 | Public 'Translation in Context Lecture' 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 | Prof. 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. IMEMS Research Seminars |
| CMS Seminars | The Centre for Medieval Studies holds regular seminars for staff and postgraduates. More information |
| 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. for more information |
| 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 Prof. 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. |
| 23 August 2011 | 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 |
| 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 | IMEMS Research Seminars |
| 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 | www.bangor.ac.uk/palaeography_training?index.php |