IMS Events
IMS Events 2022-23
IMS events during 2022-23 will be hybrid events unless stated otherwise. If you’d like to attend online, please register via our Eventbrite page.
Tue, 31 January 2023, 5:30pm, Parkinson Building, room B.09: Foteini Spingou (University of Leeds), Charles Barber (Princeton University), and Justin Willson (Cleveland Museum of Art), ‘Sources for Byzantine Art History: Current Status and Future Steps’.
Sat, 4 February 2023, 10:30am – 3:30pm, Treasures of the Brotherton Gallery: A Special Kind of Stowaway: Piecing together our Fragmented Heritage. This is a day event of unique talks and workshops on the Ripon Cathedral Fragments, Treasures of the Brotherton Gallery. Please click on the Eventbrite for more details
POSTPONED UNTIL AUTUMN TERM (date and location TBA): Adam Cohen (University of Toronto), The Jewish Bible: Toward a Visual History. (Joint event with the Leeds Centre for Jewish Studies)
8-10 March 2023, 9am-5pm, Digital Explorations Workshop 1:
Kivilcim Yavuz (University of Leeds) in association with Special Collections and Ripon Cathedral Library, all day event. More information found on the Digital Explorations Project Eventbrite page.
Wed, 8 March 2023, 3:30pm, Hybrid via Zoom (venue TBA):
Bill Endres (University of Oklahoma), Digitization as Scholarly Intervention and Imperative Method.
Thurs, 9 March 2023, 5pm, Parkinson Building, room B.09: Kivilcim Yavuz and Paul White (University of Leeds), Exploring the Universal Library: Hernando Colón’s Book of Epitomes. (annual joint IMS-Classics research seminar)
POSTPONED (date TBA): Iurii Zazuliak (Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv), Revisiting Robert Bartlett’s The Makings of Europe. The Case of Late Medieval Galicia (Red Ruthenia).
POSTPONED (date TBA): Megan Cavell (University of Birmingham), Before Attenborough: Early Medieval Natural History, Animal Diversity and ‘Edutainment’.
29-31 March 2023, 9am-5pm, Digital Explorations Workshop 2:
Kivilcim Yavuz (University of Leeds) in association with Special Collections and Ripon Cathedral Library, all day event. More information found on the Digital Explorations Project Eventbrite page.
Wed, 29 March 2023, 3:30pm, Hybrid via Zoom (venue TBA):
Michael B. Toth (George Mason University), Revealing History with Interdisciplinary Technology Studies.
Tue, 25 April 2023, 5:30pm, University of York, Kings Manor, Huntingdon room: Danica Summerlin (University of Sheffield), Antipopes and the Law: Jurisdiction and Legal Practice During the Schisms of the Twelfth Century. (White Rose medievalists event)
3-5 May 2023, 9am-5pm, Digital Explorations Workshop 3:
Kivilcim Yavuz (University of Leeds) in association with Special Collections and Ripon Cathedral Library, all day event. More information found on the Digital Explorations Project Eventbrite page.
Thurs, 4 May 2023, Hybrid via Zoom (venue TBA):
Laura Albiero (Institut de Recherche et d’Histoire des Textes) and William Duba (University of Fribourg), Digital Fragmentology.
POSTPONED to 6 June, online event only: Khedidja Chergui (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Bouzaréah (Alger)), ʿĀʾishah al-Bāʿūniyyah of Damascus and St. Teresa of Ávila: Concurrent Histories and Ascetic Traditions.
Thurs, 18 May, all day event: Norse in the North Conference. The theme is ‘Literature and the Supernatural’. Call for Papers can be found on Norse in the North website
Tue, 23 May 2023, 5:30pm, Baines Wing, room G.36: Elizabeth Tyler (University of York), Reading Imperial Geographies with the Old English Orosius: Territory and Language
24-26 May 2023, 9am-5pm, Digital Explorations Workshop 4:
Kivilcim Yavuz (University of Leeds) in association with Special Collections and Ripon Cathedral Library, all day event. More information found on the Digital Explorations Project Eventbrite page.
Thurs, 25 May 2023, 3:30pm, Hybrid via Zoom (venue TBA):
Katarzyna Anna Kapitan (Linacre College, Oxford University), Researching Manuscripts through Encoding.
And don’t forget the 2023 International Medieval Congress!
More events for 2023 will be listed soon.
Past Events
2020
2 June: Dr Fozia Bora, Writing History in the Medieval Islamic World: The Value of Chronicles as Archives (London: I B Tauris, 2019)
For information on the publication, you can visit the publisher’s page here.
9 June: Alaric Hall, Útrásarvíkingar! The Literature of the Icelandic Financial Crisis (2008–2014) (Earth, Milky Way: punctum, 2020).
For information on the publication, you can visit the publisher’s page here.
16 June: Eva Frojmovic (ed.), Postcolonising the Medieval Image (London: Routledge, 2017)
For information on the publication, you can visit the publisher’s page here.
23 June: Catherine Karkov, Imagining Anglo-Saxon England: Utopia, Heterotopia, Dystopia (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2020) and (ed.), Slow Scholarship: Medieval Research and the Neoliberal University (Woodbridge: Brewer, 2019)
For information on the publication, you can visit the publisher’s pages here:
Imagining Anglo-Saxon England, Slow Scholarship.
30 June: Rosalind Brown-Grant, Visualizing Justice in Burgundian Prose Romance: Text and Image in Manuscripts of the Wavrin Master (1450s-1460s), Burgundica, 29 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2020)
For information on the publication, you can visit the publisher’s page here.
29 October: Marta Cobb (University of Leeds): ‘A Guide to Survival in Medieval Fairy Tales’ (in the Treasures of the Brotherton Library series).
30 October 2020: Jonathan Hui (University of Hong Kong): ‘Jin Yong and J. R. R. Tolkien: Modern Medievalism East and West’.
17 November: Jamie Doherty (University of Leeds): ‘Count Hugh of Troyes and his Charters’.
19 November: Melanie Brunner (University of Leeds): ‘Friar Tuck’s Brothers: Poverty and Wealth in the Medieval Church’ (in the Treasures of the Brotherton Library series).
24 November: Estelle Ingrand Varenne (Centre d’études supérieures de civilisation médiévale, Poitiers): ‘Writing in the Holy Sepulchre: The “Crusader Epigraphy”.
1 December: Rodrigo Laham Cohen (Universidad de Buenos Aires): ‘The Rabbinization of Europe. A Late Ancient or Medieval Phenomenon?’.
8 December: David Petts (Durham): ‘New Light on the Archaeology of Early Medieval Lindisfarne’.
2021
14 January: Northern Network for the Study of the Crusades Seminar. Nicholas Paul presents groundbreaking work on the performance of crusader status, and Louis Pulford discusses his fascinating PhD research
26 January: Maroula Perisanidi (University of Leeds): Animals and Masculinities in the Letters of Ioannes Tzetzes
9th February: Yoichi Isahaya (Hokkaido University): A Cross-Cultural “Astronomical Dialogue” between a Muslim Polymath and Chinese Sage in Thirteenth-Century Eurasia.
18 February: Amy Jefford Franks: ‘Why We Should Care About Queer Vikings’ (Medieval Society LGBT History Month talk).
22 February: Kit Heyam: ‘Beloved Edward II…tortured to a painful death’: Epitomising Medieval Queer History (Medieval Society LGBT History Month talk)
23rd February: Nina Safran (Penn State): Reading Fatwas into History: ‘Let Every Religious Community Have its House of Worship’
9 March: Emma Cayley (University of Leeds): ‘Beyond the Page’: Rethinking Medieval Materiality in the Digital Age
23 March: The IMS is co-hostied the Selig Brodetsky Memorial Lecture 2021. Prof. Asa S. Mittman (California State University-Chico): Far From Jerusalem: The Exclusion of Jews on Christian Maps
27 April 2021: Emilia Jamroziak (University of Leeds): The Time of Medieval Monks/nuns and the Time of Medieval Historians: How was the Concept of Monastic Origin Historically Constructed?
4 May 2021: Miri Rubin (Queen Mary’s University): Sister, Interrupted. Continuity and Change in the Meanings of ecclesia and synagoga
25 May 2021: Felege-Selam Yirga (Tennessee, Knoxville): The Chronicle of John of Nikiu
12 October 2021: Santiago Barreiro (National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Buenos Aires), ‘Thoughts on the notion of labour in medieval Iceland’.
Tue, 26 October 2021: Francesca Petrizzo (University of Leeds), ‘”Dead faces laugh”: medievalist hungers and Irish republican time, 1917-1981’.
Tue, 2 November 2021: Clare Burridge (University of Sheffield), ‘Crossroads: The Evolution of Early Medieval Medicine in Global and Local Contexts’.
Tue, 23 November 2021: Natasha Bennett (Royal Armouries), ‘Islamic arms and armour (focusing on the Near East during the Mamluk era)’.
Tue, 30 November 2021: Tim Wingard (University of Leeds), ‘Animals, sex, catastrophe and Noah’s Ark in late medieval England’.
2022
Tue, 25 January 2022: Toshio Ohnuki (Tokyo Metropolitan University), ‘The Cistercian liturgy and the crisis of the order on the eve of the Fourth Lateran Council’.
Tue, 8 February 2022: Lisa Fagin Davis (Medieval Academy of America), ‘Hidden treasures: manuscript fragments at Leeds’.
Thu, 12 May 2022: Wolfram Drews (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster), ‘Mozarabic Christians as cultural brokers between al-Andalus and Northern Spain’.
Tue, 11 October 2022: Delphine Demelas (Aberystwyth University), ‘Medieval Intercomprehension: Intelligibility, Translation and Adaptation in Twelfth- to Fourteenth-Century Anglo-Norman Literature’.
Tue, 25 October 2022: Katy Dutton (University of Leeds), ‘The Cartulary of the Cistercian Abbey of Kirkstead, Lincolnshire’.
Tue, 8 November 2022: Adam Simmons (Nottingham Trent University), ‘Rethinking and Re-dating the Fall of the Nubian Kingdom of Dotawo: Are We a Century Out?’.
Wed, 16 November 2022: Alaric Hall (University of Leeds), ‘A Hairy Woman Gives Birth to a Bald Child … Eggs, Birds, Mothers, and More in (Mostly) Early Medieval Arabic, Hebrew, Norse, Latin and Greek riddles’.
Tue, 22 November 2022: Valentina Mele (University of Leeds, ‘Dante’s Reception in Twentieth-Century American Poetry’. (shared event with the Leeds Centre for Dante Studies).