Birkbeck Medieval Seminar
This group aims to offer a forum for debate, news and support to those involved in Birkbeck's interdisciplinary MA in Medieval Cultures and the MA in Medieval History as well as to research students at Birkbeck and beyond, and all those with an interest in the history and cultures of the Middle Ages.
If you would like to propose future events, please contact Alison Finlay, Anthony Bale or Isabel Davis in the School of English & Humanities or John Arnold in the School of History, Classics & Archaeology.
Forthcoming event: Faith and Inwardness
Saturday 19th June 2010, 10am-5pm
Speakers
Professor Valerie Allen (John Jay College, City University of New York)
Dr Beth Williamson (University of Bristol)
Dr Robert Lutton (University of Nottingham)
Dr Sarah Salih (King's College, University of London).
Responses by Professor John Arnold (Birkbeck College, University of London); Isabel Davis (Birkbeck College, University of London); Zoë Opačić (Birkbeck College).
Further details to be announced. This event will be free but places are limited. To register for a place please email i.davis@bbk.ac.uk.
Archive of past events:
Rethinking Medieval Marriage
23 May 2009 10am – 5pm
Speakers
Glenn Burger (Queens College and Graduate Center, City University of New York), In the Merchant’s Bedchamber
Emma Lipton (University of Missouri), John Gower’s Politics of Marriage
Shannon McSheffrey (Concordia University, Montreal), Marriage by Ravishment in Fifteenth-Century England
Pamela Sheingorn (Baruch College and Graduate Center, City University of New York), Embodied Meaning in Images of the Married Life of Mary and Joseph
Respondent: Isabel Davis (Birkbeck College, London)
Where? Birkbeck College, University of London, Malet Street, Bloomsbury, London. WC1E 7HX
Free entry
For further information: i.davis@bbk.ac.uk
The Politics of Speech in Late Medieval England
Saturday 8 March 2008, 10.00am-6.00pm
Birkbeck College, University of London
Susie Phillips, Northwestern UniversityThe Trouble with Gossip in Late Medieval England Sandy Bardsley, Moravian UniversityScolding Women and Reproaching Men: Speech and Gender in Post-Plague England
Marion Turner, Jesus College OxfordSeeking the News: Parliament, Reportage, and Control in Ricardian EnglandAndy Wood, University of East AngliaThe politics of speech and silence in Tudor England
Paul Strohm, Columbia University
Response
10 March 2007
Doggerel: Disesteemed Verse in the Middle Ages
A one-day conference at Birkbeck College, University of London, Malet Street, Bloomsbury, London, WC1E 7HX 10am-5pm
Papers given:
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Clare Lees (Kings College, London). ‘Nonsense Verse?’
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Nicola McDonald (University of York). ‘Fragments of Desire’
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Anthony Bale (Birkbeck College, London). ‘Doggerel and Dirty Linen: Lydgate’s Tretise for Lauandres in its Contexts’
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Julia Boffey (Queen Mary College, London). ‘“Mysse-masche, dryff-draff’: Doggerel and Burlesque in Middle English Verse’
Organised by Dr Isabel Davis, School of English & Humanities, Birkbeck College
Email: i.davis@bbk.ac.uk
11th March 2006
GENDER AND LABOUR IN LATE MEDIEVAL ENGLAND
Programme: Caroline Barron, 'Labour and Gender in the Medieval London Workforce: The 'Golden Age' Reconsidered'; Andrew Butcher, ‘Labour and Gender: Towards a Fifteenth-Century Imaginary Urban Ethnography’; Catherine Batt, ‘Work, Gender, and the Academic’; Jeremy Goldberg, 'Adam, Eve and the Angry Man: Some Thoughts on the Gender Division of Labour in Late Medieval England'.
March 12 2005
SARACENS. Islam and Medieval England
For further information contact Anthony Bale
26 February 2005.
FORNALDARSÖGUR: SAGAS OF ANCIENT TIMES
Speakers were: Carl Phelpstead, 'Is Yngvars saga víðförla a fornaldarsaga?'; Richard North, 'The Riddles of Gestumblindi in Heiðreks saga: a tale from Denmark?'; Rory McTurk, 'A wimp in spite of himself: the case of Sigurðr Völsungr'; David Ashurst, 'Wagner, Morris and the Volsungs'; Ralph O'Connor, 'Stjörnu-Odda draumr and Icelandic legendary storytelling'. For further details contact Dr Alison Finlay.
February 28 2004
ST EDMUND: ROYALTY, MARTYRDOM, MASCULINITY
An interdisciplinary one-day conference on representations of St Edmund from the early middle Ages to the Early Modern period.
IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE INCLUDED ON THE MAILING-LIST FOR FUTURE EVENTS, PLEASE WRITE TO
Dr Alison Finlay
Department of English and Humanities
Birkbeck College
Malet Street
LONDON WC1E 7HX
E-mail: a.finlay@bbk.ac.uk
Tel: 020 7631 6077
Page updated by Anthony Bale, 20 November 2007