What's On At Leeds

IMS events during 2023-24 will be hybrid events unless stated otherwise. Unless otherwise stated, seminars start at 1700 UK time (for real-life serving of tea) and papers themselves start 1730 UK time. If you'd like to attend online, please register via the links below.

Tuesday, 30 January 2024 (White Rose medieval seminar, held in Leeds): Mirela Ivanova (University of Sheffield), Is Byzantine Studies a Colonialist Discipline? Parkinson Building, seminar room B.09. To attend online, sign up here.

Tuesday, 13 February 2024: Colin Veach (University of Hull), Framing the English Conquest of Ireland. Parkinson Building, seminar room B.09. To attend online, sign up here.

Tuesday, 27 February 2024: Julie Bond (University of Bradford), Picts and Norse in the Northern Isles: New Archaeological Evidence. Parkinson Building, seminar room B.09. To attend online, sign up here.

Tuesday, 12 March 2024: launch of Axel Müller (University of Leeds), Gunpowder Technology in the Fifteenth Century, Royal Armouries Research Series, 3 (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2024). Parkinson Building, seminar room B.09. To attend online, sign up here.

Tuesday, 19 March 2024: Aniket Chettry (Siliguri College/University of Leeds), Exploring the Socio-religious World of Medieval Bengal through the Lens of the Mangalkavya Literature. Parkinson Building, seminar room B.09. To attend online, sign up here.

Tuesday 23 April 2024: Charles Roe (University of Leeds), Latin on the limes: What is Medieval Latin? Parkinson Building, seminar room B.09. To attend online, sign up here.

Wednesday, 1 May 2024, 1615 (White Rose medieval seminar, held in Sheffield): Dilnoza Dururaeva (University of York), Women on the Move: Envoys and Travellers along the Silk Roads. Regent Court, John Pemberton LT B. To attend online, sign up here.

Tuesday, 7 May 2024 (joint Classics and IMS seminar): Marilynn R. Desmond (Binghamton University (SUNY)), Witness to the Trojan War: The Material Agency of Dares and Dictys. Parkinson Building, seminar room B.09. To attend online, sign up here.

Tuesday, 21 May 2024: to be announced. (For those who saw our earlier advertisement of Virginia Blanton in this slot: Virginia has had to cancel this seminar.)

And don't forget the 2024 International Medieval Congress!

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: 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'.

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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: 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: Miri Rubin (Queen Mary's University): Sister, Interrupted. Continuity and Change in the Meanings of ecclesia and synagoga

25 May: Felege-Selam Yirga (Tennessee, Knoxville): The Chronicle of John of Nikiu

12 October: Santiago Barreiro (National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Buenos Aires), 'Thoughts on the notion of labour in medieval Iceland'.

26 October: Francesca Petrizzo (University of Leeds), '"Dead faces laugh": medievalist hungers and Irish republican time, 1917-1981'.

2 November: Clare Burridge (University of Sheffield), 'Crossroads: The Evolution of Early Medieval Medicine in Global and Local Contexts'.

23 November: Natasha Bennett (Royal Armouries), 'Islamic arms and armour (focusing on the Near East during the Mamluk era)'.

30 November: Tim Wingard (University of Leeds), 'Animals, sex, catastrophe and Noah's Ark in late medieval England'.

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2022

25 January: Toshio Ohnuki (Tokyo Metropolitan University), 'The Cistercian liturgy and the crisis of the order on the eve of the Fourth Lateran Council'.

8 February: Lisa Fagin Davis (Medieval Academy of America), 'Hidden treasures: manuscript fragments at Leeds'.

12 May: Wolfram Drews (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster), 'Mozarabic Christians as cultural brokers between al-Andalus and Northern Spain'.

11 October: Delphine Demelas (Aberystwyth University), 'Medieval Intercomprehension: Intelligibility, Translation and Adaptation in Twelfth- to Fourteenth-Century Anglo-Norman Literature'.

25 October: Katy Dutton (University of Leeds), 'The Cartulary of the Cistercian Abbey of Kirkstead, Lincolnshire'.

8 November: Adam Simmons (Nottingham Trent University), 'Rethinking and Re-dating the Fall of the Nubian Kingdom of Dotawo: Are We a Century Out?'.

16 November: 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'.

22 November: Valentina Mele (University of Leeds, 'Dante's Reception in Twentieth-Century American Poetry'. (shared event with the Leeds Centre for Dante Studies).

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2023

31 January: Foteini Spingou, Charles Barber, and Justin Willson, 'Sources for Byzantine Art History: Current Status and Future Steps'.

4 February: 'A Special Kind of Stoaway: Piecing together our Fragmented Heritage', Digital Humanities Project event on Ripon Cathedral Fragments.

8-10 March: Digital Explorations Workshop 1: Kivilcim Yavuz in association with Special Collections and Ripon Cathedral Library - Bill Endres, 'Digitization as Scholarly Intervention and Imperative Method'.

9 March: Kivilcim Yavuz and Paul White, 'Exploring the Universal Library: Hernando Colón Book of Epitomoes'.

29-31 March: Digital Explorations Workshop 2: Kivilcim Yavuz in association with Special Collections and Ripon Cathedral Library - Michael B. Toth, 'Revealing History with Interdisciplinary Technology Studies'.

25 April: Danica Summerlin, 'Antipopes and the Law: Jurisdiction and Legal Practice During the Schisms of the Twelfth Century'.

3-5 May: Digital Explorations Workshop 3: Kivilcim Yavuz in association with Special Collections and Ripon Cathedral Library - Laura Albiero and William Duba, 'Digital Fragmentology'.

18 May: Norse in the North Conference, Leeds 2023, 'Literature and the Supernatural'. For more information on the conference, click here.

23 May: Elizabeth Tyler, 'Reading Imperial Geographies with the Old English Orosius: Territory and Language'.

24-26 May: Digital Explorations Workshop 4: Kivilcim in association with Special Collections and Ripon Cathedral Library - Katarzyna Anna Kapitan, 'Researching Manuscripts through Encoding'.

Tuesday, 12 September 2023 to Saturday, 16 December 2023, Leeds University Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery exhibition: experience medieval manuscript fragments and historic coins in new ways. This display showcases the creative engagement of researchers and artists with challenging collections held by the University. Click here for details.

Tuesday, 3 October, 1700 for 1730: Przemysław Wiszewski (University of Wrocław), Cohesion of Multi-ethnic Societies of East-Central and Southern Europe in the 10th-16th Centuries. Parkinson Building, seminar room B.09.

Tuesday, 24 October, 1700 for 1730 (in person only; IMS members can also attend online): Linda Safran (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto), An Exceptional Sixth-Century Censer. Parkinson Building, seminar room B.09.

Wednesday, 25 October, 1300 (joint seminar with the Leeds Centre for Jewish Studies): Adam Cohen (University of Toronto), A Hebrew Bible and the Bestiary: Getty Museum’s Rothschild Pentateuch. Fine Art Building 1.10.

Wednesday, 25 October, 1715 (School of English medieval and early modern seminar series): Rachael Gillibrand (University of Leeds), Sight and Sanctity: Saints Wearing Spectacles in the Middle Ages. Alumni Room, School of English.

Tuesday, 31 October 2023: event moved to 28 November

Tuesday, 14 November, 1700 for 1730: Hannah Boston (University of Lincoln), 'Thus, Before our Very Eyes, Do Foreigners Devour our Lands': Property and Regional Society in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-century England. Parkinson Building, seminar room B.09.

Thursday, 16 November, 1730 (White Rose medieval seminar, held in York): Rebecca Darley (University of Leeds), The Western Indian Ocean in the First Millennium CE: Local and Long-distance. York Centre for Medieval Studies: details to follow.

Tuesday, 21 November 2023, 1730-1930 (Leeds University Treasures of the Brotherton Gallery): Books and Benefactors: A Celebration. An event associated with an exhibition running 1 November 2023 to 6 April 2024 that includes newly acquired medieval items (a Byzantine gospel book and a rare text printed by Caxton). To attend, sign up here.

Tuesday, 28 November 2023, 1730 (online only): Khedidja Chergui (École Normale Supérieure de Bouzaréah (Alger)), ʿĀʾishah al-Bāʿūniyyah of Damascus and St. Teresa of Ávila: Concurrent Histories and Ascetic Traditions. (People wishing to join the online talk from on campus can attend from Parkinson Building, seminar room B.09.)

Tuesday, 12 December 2023, online event only: Iurii Zazuliak (Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv), Revisiting Robert Bartlett's The Making of Europe. The Case of Late Medieval Galicia (Red Ruthenia). (People wishing to join the online talk from on campus can attend from Parkinson Building, seminar room 2.14.)