UCL Interdisciplinary Medieval and Renaissance seminar series
UCL's Medieval and Renaissance Interdisciplinary Seminar is a graduate-founded and -run seminar which holds discussions across disciplines and departments.
UCL Interdisciplinary Medieval and Renaissance seminar series
06 Mar 2023 - 13 Mar 2023
The seminar takes questions of interest to Medievalists (writ large) as its point of departure.
Image credit: Wellcome Apocalypse, MS 49, f. 68r
All meetings will take place in room 431, 14-16 Taviton Street, WC1H 0BW (SSEES Building).
2022/23
Autumn Term
Hannah Bower (Churchill College, Cambridge) – ‘And bi þe bodi he him hent,/And al to peces here torent’: Violent Fragmentation and (Un?)Productive Uncertainty in the Seven Sages of Rome
Date: 12th December 2022
Time: 6:15 pm (GMT)
Spring Term
Professor Lesley Smith (Harris Manchester College, Oxford) - ‘‘Note to Self”: William of Auvergne Remembers his Audience’
Date: 6th February 2023
Time: 6:15 pm (GMT)
Jordan Koel (University of Michigan/Warburg Institute) - ‘Windows into the Workshop: Sculptural Animation and the Legitimization of Sculpture in the Middle Ages’
Date: 6th March 2023
Time: 6:15 pm (GMT)
Lucia Raggetti (University of Bologna): ‘How to Pull a Rabbit Out of a Turban? Entertainment and Deception in Arabic Technical Literature’
Date: 13th March 2023
Time: 6:15 pm (GMT)
If you have any questions, please email jack.ford.13@ucl.ac.uk.