What's On At Leeds
IMS Events
IMS Events 2022-23
IMS events during 2023-24 will be hybrid events unless stated otherwise. Start times are UK time! If you'd like to attend online, please register via our Eventbrite page.
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). Adam will speak on the Getty Museum’s Rothschild Pentateuch. Fine Art Building 1.10.
Tuesday, 31 October 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, 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, 28 November 2023: to be confirmed.
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.)
Tuesday, 30 January (White Rose medieval seminar, held in Leeds): Mirela Ivanova (University of Sheffield), Is Byzantine Studies a Colonialist Discipline? Parkinson Building, seminar room B.09.
Tuesday, 13 February: Colin Veach (University of Hull), Framing the English Conquest of Ireland. Parkinson Building, seminar room B.09.
Tuesday, 27 February: Julie Bond (University of Bradford), Picts and Norse in the Northern Isles: New Archaeological Evidence. Parkinson Building, seminar room B.09.
Tuesday, 12 March: joint IMS and Classics seminar, to be confirmed.
Tuesday 23 April: Charley Roe (University of Leeds), title to be confirmed. Parkinson Building, seminar room B.09.
Wednesday, 1 May (White Rose medieval seminar, held in Sheffield): Dilnoza Dururaeva (University of York), to be confirmed.
Tuesday, 7 May: to be confirmed.
Tuesday, 21 May: to be confirmed.
And don't forget the 2024 International Medieval Congress!
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: 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: 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'.
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).
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'.