Late Antique and Medieval Postgraduate Society seminars
Late Antique and Medieval Postgraduate Society seminars take place throughout the year and are open to all.
Seminar description
The Late Antique & Medieval Postgraduate Society (LAMPS) seminars showcase the work-in-progress of postgraduate students and recent graduates of all disciplines working within the Late Antique and Medieval periods. Papers are twenty minutes long, followed by ten to fifteen minutes of questions.
Time and location
This term seminars will be on the theme of Exploring Environment from the Late Antique to the Medieval on Mondays at 6:15 pm on Collaborate. Please like the LAMPS Facebook page (@lampsedinburgh) or join its mailing list (e-mail lampsedinburgh@gmail.com) for access to the link each week.
Event schedule
Semester 2, 2021/22
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
|
Mon 7 Feb |
James Cogbill (University of Oxford) |
'Imperial relatives in the 14th-century Byzantine provincial landscape' |
| Mon 21 Feb |
María del Carmen Muñoz Rodríguez (University of Seville) |
'An ecofeminist reading of "Grendel’s Mother"' |
| Mon 7 Mar |
Ben Hatchett (University of Cambridge) |
‘"Ut renovetur orbis": The development of John of Rupescissa’s apocalyptic representation of the Black Death' |
| Mon 21 Mar |
Emily Fu (University of Edinburgh) |
'The place of the Iona crosses' |
| Mon 4 Apr |
Adrienn Orosz (Eötvös Loránd University) |
'The environment of the letter. Medium, arrangement and temporality of initials illuminated with the temptations of Christ in Romanesque and Gothic psalters from England and France' |
Semester 1, 2021/22
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
|
Monday 11 Oct |
Adrienn Orosz (Eötvös Loránd University) |
'The Body of an Unusual Monster: Bes as the Source of Inspiration of the Blemmye on the Piri Reis Map' |
| Monday 25 Oct | Catrin Haberfield (University of Manchester) |
'Approach with Caution: Rejecting ‘monstrosity’ in The Marvels of the East' |
|
Monday 8 Nov |
Claire Lober (University of Edinburgh) |
'The Bones of Cadwalladr' |
|
Monday 22 Nov |
Reading Group Night |
TBC |
|
Wednesday 1 Dec |
Round Table on the theme of 'Pre-Modern Migrations: Communities, Ideas and Materials on the Move' |
Run in collaboration with the CMRC, the Edinburgh Early Modern Network and the Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Research Group (Details TBC) |
| Monday 13 Dec |
Winter Social Event |
Further information
Please contact the organiser if you have any questions.
Late Antique and Medieval Society (LAMPS)
Contact details
- Email: lampsedinburgh@gmail.com
- Web: LAMPS website
- Web: Wiki
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