Events from the 01 January 2024 - 31 December 2024 Reset
Giles Gasper and Brian Tanner, "Observing and Marvelling: Sun Dogs and Halos in the Margam Annals"
31 January 2024
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
7 Owengate
Joanna Barker, "Moving forward with Elizabeth Montagu Catalogue Online"
08 February 2024
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Graeme Small and Christian Liddy, "Cities in History: Next Steps"
22 February 2024
A round table jointly hosted by Durham University’s Institute for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (IMEMS) and School of Modern Languages and Cultures (MLAC) Orane Onyekpe-Touzet, Guillaume Pigeard de Gurbert, and Richard Scholar (chair)
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
7 Owengate, Durham, DH1 3HB
Book launch event for Tom Hamilton's "A Widow's Vengeance after the Wars of Religion: Gender and Justice in Renaissance France"
28 February 2024
A panel-discussion celebrating the launch of Debapriya Sarkar’s Possible knowledge.
06 March 2024
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Online via zoom.
Book launch for Richard Gameson and Andrew Beeby's "Pigments of British Medieval Illuminators"
14 March 2024
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Asian Connections: Flows of People, Medicine, Ideas, and Practices -- a one-day workshop.
07 May 2024
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Dr. Vanessa Wikie discusses her new book, "A Woman of Influence."
22 May 2024
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Collected Bookshop, 44 The Riverwalk, Durham
Roundtable discussion with a presentation by Dr Adrian Green (History): ‘Roast beef with mustard: Durham’s Georgian Prosperity (and Poverty)’, and an opportunity to bring together different areas of knowledge about the exchange and display of wealth in the Georgian North.
03 June 2024
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Hallgarth House, 77 Hallgarth Street, Durham.
This workshop is a partnership between IMEMS (Durham University) and BRITAIX 17-18 (LERMA, Aix-Marseille University).
04 June 2024
8:45 AM - 5:00 PM
Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 7 Owengate
IMEMS is hosting a workshop for the project “Machine Learning and Marginalia” which is supported by the joint research seedcorn fund of Durham and Uppsala Universities. This event may be of interest to those working in Digital Humanities or library services, or to any researcher studying early modern book culture.
10 June 2024
9:30 AM - 4:00 PM
IMEMS, 7 Owengate
*with a contemporary twist. Join us at Castle on 11 June for medieval-inspired bowl food with snippets of medieval culinary research, chaired by Professor Sheila Cavanagh, this year’s Slater Fellow. This event is in partnership with the Institute of Medieval & Early Modern Studies and University College.
11 June 2024
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Bishops‘ Dining Room, University College
This hybrid workshop will explore the dynamic intersection between digital technologies and medieval studies, with a particular focus on medieval Italian research. This international workshop is run by School of Modern Languages and Cultures and the Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies.
12 June 2024 - 13 June 2024
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
ER143 / IMEMS, 7 Owengate
Philip Shaw, ‘Me wæs Deor noma’: Some Heorrenda-ous Problems in Personal Names, History and Heroic Legend
20 June 2024
Roundtable discussion with a presentation by Professor Gary Kelly (English, University of Alberta): ‘Popular Antiquities, the Georgian North, and the Invention of National Folklore’ (a paper postponed from our symposium last September).
24 June 2024
IMEMS Research Showcase: Prof. Michael Wyatt, "Chivalric Genealogies around Orlando furioso and across the Middle Sea."
02 October 2024
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Dr. Amanda Herbert presents her talk, entitled: "Authorship, Identity, and Black Erasure: British Atlantic Manuscript Recipe Books, 1600-1850."
30 October 2024
7 Owengate, Durham
The annual World Heritage Site Public Lecture, featuring a lecture delivered by Ross Forbes, Chief Executive of the Durham Miners' Association, on the subject of "Mining World Heritage: What Makes Us Who We Are?"
07 November 2024
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Chapter House, Durham Cathedral, Durham UK
Emily Williams discusses “The materiality of absence: a conversation about preservation, decay and the teaching and writing of the past.”
27 November 2024
Matthew Eddy discusses “Information Against Empire: Black Doctors, Biodata and Democracy in the Atlantic World.”
05 December 2024