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Previous events 2022 13th April - PhD work in progress30th March - Making deserts bloom: Byzantium and the British Empire in Mandate Palestine, c.1922-c.194816th March - PhD research showcase16th February - Interactive workshop: 'invisible worlds'2nd February - Medieval nuns' theatre and the Medieval convent drama project 2021 8th December - PhD showcase and seasonal celebrations24th November - The Medieval Convent Drama Project10th November - PhD showcase27th October - Re-coining the Eleventh Century: Value, Religion and Gender in Italy20th October - Rethinking the Black Death: Can the Ottoman Plague Experience Offer Us Novel Insights? 2020 13th October - Source Approaches Workshop25th March - Re-thinking archives and archivality in the medieval Islamicate19th March - Postgraduate Research workshop with Professor Dror Wahrman19th March - The Prince, the Jeweller and the Mogul: The Paradoxes of an Early Modern Object11th March - Murder, misadventure and madness: an exploration of homicide from the perspective of fourteenth-century coroners' rolls26th February - Insular manuscripts in the Carolingian world12th February - Yu's Traces: the Ecological and Imperial Worlds of the Yellow River29th January - Visible English: scribal practice, graphic culture, and identity15th January - Material cultures of writing in the Indian Ocean world: on the reception of a palm leaf letter at the Mamluk court 2019 11th December - Re/de-centering women and books in the Middle Ages27th November - Missing numbers: macro regions and the political economic geography in first millenium CE Southeast Asia13th November - Governing by writing: applying imperial calligraphy in Tang administration23rd October - Middle English literature in medieval Europe9th October - Christ on the altar: visualising his sacrifice at the time of Byzantine iconoclasm and other theological controversies8th May - Researching Tintagel, Dummonia and post-Roman Britain19th March - Believing in (Medieval) Belief: Gibbon, Latour and what we make of 'Religion'26th February - Of Broken Idylls and Mourning in Classical Sanskrit Poetry and Drama19th February - CESMA Academic Workshop12th February - Monks and Muslims: Reform Monasticism and Islam in 11th century Italy5th February - Urban gardening in early medieval Italy29th January - Centres, peripheries and networks: an impossible triangle to square in Byzantium18th January - From the caliph to the papyri – Forgotten women in early Islamic history 2018 13th December - Reconfiguring the template: representations of powerful women in historical fiction -- the case of Anna Komnene5th December - Neo-Gothic architecture and the Victorian museum27th November - The Classic Maya Collapse: the decline of royal power and the rise of the merchant princes14th November - Maritime trade and Buddhism in East Asia 700-14006th November - CESMA Postgraduate professional skills workshop30th October - Nonhuman: Anglo-Saxon "Things" across Medieval and Modern Verse17th October - The World in the Year 1000: When Globalization Began9th May - CeSMA Annual Lecture26th April - Medieval Nonhumanisms: A Sketch of a Nonsystematic Approach to Medieval Animal Studies14th March - Pilgrims and Phantoms: Place, Time and the St Thomas Way28th February - Postgraduate Showcase13th February - Medical Humanities and Medieval Literature? Voices, Breath, Feeling31st January - Learning to Write English: Problems and Evidence24th January - Annual Medieval and Early Modern lecture 2017 6th December - Self, Personhood, Ego-history: roundtable 6th December - Self, Personhood and Ego-history 28th November - Women's Literary Culture before the Conquest 22nd November - Medieval Maps and their Literature 21st November - Place and Planet in Medieval Literature 15th November - Postgraduate showcase 1st November - "The Online Piracy Act will take us back to the Dark Ages": Politics, Medievalism and Online Participatory Culture 19th October - Repackaging Genghis Khan: Legitimacy and History in Chinese-Language Histories under the Mongol Empire 17th October - Guy Geltner, 'More Facts and Less Mudslinging': PG Workshop in Pre-Modern Public Health 16th October - Pro salute hominum conservanda: Urban Infrastructure and Biopolitics in Later Medieval Italy 4th October - Here there be spiders: arachnophobia in early medieval texts 30th June - The Late Medieval and Early Modern Reformation Church 29th April - Midlands Viking Symposium 2017 25th-27th March - Global Byzantium 22nd March - Relics and the Insular World, c.600-800, CeSMA Annual Lecture, Speaker: Professor Julia Smith (University of Glasgow) 21st March - The Illuminators of the Middle English Poetic Tradition 7th March - The Normans in Southern Italy: What the Salerno Ivories Tell Us 21st February - Strategies of Parochial Management in Late Medieval England: Three Cambridgeshire Contrasts 7th February - Bilingual Manuscripts from the Silk Road 2016 6th December - Lay Vernacular Literacy in the Court of Edward the Confessor: Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 'C' and the Vision of Leofric 22nd November - Paper in the Medieval Literary Imagination 8th November - Towards a Historical Materialist Critique of Ethnicity: Armenianness between the Caucasus and Medieval New Rome 25th October - Centre for the Study of the Middle Ages Seminar 11th October - "All that Glitters" : Gender, value and exchange in Anglo-Saxon England 22nd March - Looking for Jesus: Evidence for the Cult of the Holy Name in Late Medieval English Religious Manuscripts 8th March - Paper in the Medieval Literary Imagination 1st March - Deconstructing 'dynasty': lineage and ethnicity in the golden horde and central Europe 23rd February - Roger II of Sicily: King of Capua. Rethinking the Creation of the Norman Kingdom of Sicily 9th February - Tibetan identity, Buddhism and the Bonpos 9th February - The Minimalisation of Christianity under Early Islamic Rule 3rd February - The emergency episteme of the 'tribe' in Afghanistan, 1850-2015 27th January - ISIS and the use and abuse of Early Islamic History 2015 10th November - CESMA Birmingham Postgraduates Panel 31st October - Death and the Afterlife in the Middle Ages 14th October - Lay Vernacular Piety in the Court of Edward the Confessor: Anglo–Saxon Chronicle C and the Vision of Leofric 14th October - Ecocritical Approaches in Medieval Studies: The Forest as a Symbolic Space 24th March - Expanding the oeuvre and patronage of Ricardus Franciscus: the case of British Library MS Arundel 249 10th March - Centre for the Study of the Middle Ages postgraduate session 24th February - Theme: the Estoria de Espanna Project 5th February - Living by the coast: economy, people and identity in a fourteenth-century coastal community 27th January - Family and faith: sensory experience and devotional memory in the Hours of Mary of Burgundy 2014 9th December - 'And he shall stand there all day with a rod': peasant farmers and their farm workers in thirteenth-century England 25th November - Centre for the Study of the Middle Ages Seminar 11th November - The Simeon Manuscript and its Scribes 28th October - Centre for the Study of the Middle Ages Annual Public Lecture - ‘Geoffrey of Monmouth and J. R. R. Tolkien: myth-making and national identity in the twelfth and twentieth centuries’, Carl Phelpstead (Cardiff) 7th-10th October - Marrying texts with material culture: The Balkh Art and Cultural Heritage Project 26th April - Midlands Viking Symposium 20th March - What do we know about the Vikings now? 2013 9th December - Beauty and the eye of the beholder: Jewish caricature and Christian devotions in the later twelfth century 2nd December - annual lecture: Dante and the Performative 25th November - Heresy, orthodoxy and the Codex Amiatinus Christ in Majesty 18th November - The Fourteenth Century in Zooarchaeological Perspective 23rd-24th May - Birth, sex and death: rites of passage in the medieval and early modern world 2012 14th May - CeSMA Annual Public Lecture “Reinventing the Middle Ages” - Professor Dame Janet L. Nelson (King’s College, London)