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 LAMPS seminars showcase the work-in-progress of postgraduate students (both PhD and MSc-level) of all disciplines working within the Late Antique and Medieval periods. Papers are twenty minutes long, followed by ten to fifteen minutes of questions. We then head to a nearby hostelry to continue the discussion!
Time and location
This term the seminars will take place in Room LG.06 in David Hume Tower, George Square at 6:15pm. For abstracts and more details please join our Facebook group (EdinburghLAMPS), mailing list (Email: lampsedinburgh@gmail.com), or visit our website, lampsedinburgh.wordpress.com. All are welcome.
Event schedule
Semester 2, 2019-20
Classics In the Middle Ages: Reception and transformation
| Date | Speaker | Topic | Notes |
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Monday 20 Jan |
Patrick Huang (SOAS, University of London) |
'How did Medieval scholars regard Ancient Greek music notation?' | 2.12 Appleton Tower |
| Monday 27 Jan | Justin Biggi | 'A translation of ideas: An analysis of sight-based metaphor between Saint Augustine, Plato and Neoplatonists' | TR07, Old College |
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Monday 3 Feb |
Samuel Azzopardi (University of Edinburgh) |
'Social nobility and dower in Late Antique Roman Law' | G.01, 50 George Square |
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Monday 10 Feb |
Michael Micci (University of Iceland) |
'Building narratives through the visions of the past in Late-Medieval Iceland' | LG.10, David Hume Tower |
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Monday 17 Feb |
Eilis Coughlin (Independent Scholar) |
'The Cassinese 132 manuscript: Analyses on the representations of pagan gods in the Middle Ages' | LG.10, David Hume Tower |
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Monday 24 Feb |
Ethan Schmidt (University of Edinburgh) |
'Ancient statues in New Rome' | G.01, 50 George Square |
| Monday 2 Mar |
Andrew Levie (University of Edinburgh) Mark Marchenko (University of Edinburgh) |
'Theseus, Thebes and chivalry: Geoffrey Chuacer’s intertextual skills in undermining a portrait of knightly rulership within “The Knight’s Tale”' 'Sir Thomas Malory’s “La Morte Darthur” as Aristotelian tragedy' |
LG.10, David Hume Tower |
| Monday 9 Mar | Roberta Marangi (University of St Andrews) |
'A masculine ending: Decapitation and the Story of Chiomara in Plutarch’s "Moralia" and Christine de Pizan’s "Le Livre de la Cite des Dames"' TW: rape and violence |
G.01, 50 George Square |
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Monday 16 Mar |
Giuseppe Colonna (University of Italian Switzerland, Lugano) |
'Simplicius on the category of “When”: A Late-Antique account on being on time' | G.01, 50 George Square |
| Monday 23 Mar | tbc | G.01, 50 George Square | |
| Monday 30 Mar |
John Colley (Oxford University) |
'"[N]oyous for to carye”: Chaucer’s “Ebrayk Josephus” and "The House of Fame"' | LG.10, David Hume Tower |
| Monday 6 Apr |
Michael Hammet (Columbia University) |
'“Cleave to the Mediator”: Augustine and Medieval demonological reception of classical transformation narratives' | G.01, 50 George Square |
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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