Centre for the Study of the Middle Ages (CeSMA) 

Interdisciplinary Research Seminar

Wednesdays, fortnightly, at 4pm in the Senior Common Room (Arts Building, First Floor)

PLEASE NOTE: the final seminar of this term will be held in Arts Lecture Room 1 (LR1), to be followed afterwards by festive drinks and nibbles in the Senior Common Room.

ALL STAFF AND STUDENTS WELCOME

For further information on the seminar, or to be added to the mailing list, please contact Dr Philippa Semper (p.semper@bham.ac.uk)

Autumn 2012

10 October
Research Connections session, followed by a wine reception. This session will provide a chance to get to know the research interests of staff and postgraduates in medieval studies across the College, and to welcome new staff and postgraduates too.

24 October
Duncan Probert (Research Fellow, King’s College London)
‘Profile of a Doomed Elite: The Structure of English Landed Society in 1066’

7 October
Elizabeth L’Estrange (University of Birmingham)
***CANCELLED OWING TO UNIVERSITY POWER OUTAGE***

21 November
Sarah Macmillan (University of Birmingham)
‘Imitation, identity and medieval practices of mortification’

5 December 
Chris Wickham, University of Oxford
Arts Lecture Room 1
‘Administrators' Time: The social memory of governmental elites in ninth to twelfth-century Europe and Asia’