The Global Middle Ages Research Group in Sydney – 2016 Seminar Series Programme

The Global Middle Ages Faculty Research Group emerged out of the research interests of a dynamic group of academics at The University of Sydney who are working on the medieval and early modern period from a non-Eurocentric perspective. Our group is especially interested in studying the cultural productions and material conditions of a number of different Medieval and Early Modern empires and civilizations, as well as in exploring the historical, economic, intellectual, religious interactions and exchanges between them and Europe.

2016 Seminar Series Programme

The seminar series takes place in the SOPHI Common Room (Level 8, Room 822 Brennan MacCallum Building or the SLC Common Room (Level 5, Room 524 Brennan MacCallum Building). Click here for map

For more information please contact, Hélène Sirantoine: helene.sirantoine@sydney.edu.au
Visit the Global Middle Ages Research Group website: http://sydney.edu.au/arts/research/global_middle_ages/

Wednesday 6 April 2016
Place: SOPHI Common room 8th floor
Time: 4pm-5:30pm
Prof Vrasidas Karalis (University of Sydney, SLC)
“Heretical Translations and their political implications: Revisiting Paul’s Romans 13, 1-7 as a translation problem”

Wednesday 27 April 2016
Place: SOPHI Common room 8th floor
Time: 4pm-5:30pm
Dr Jan Shaw (University of Sydney, English)
“Anger, laughter and cross-cultural exchange in The Prose Life of Alexander”

Wednesday 25 May 2016
Place: SOPHI Common room 8th floor
Time: 4pm:5.30pm
Assoc Prof Andrew Gillett (Macquarie, Ancient History)
“Lessons from an older sibling: Late Antiquity, Global Middle Ages, and the dialogue with European identities.”

Wednesday 3 August 2016
Place: SOPHI Common room 8th floor
Time: 4pm-5:30pm
Dr Francesco Borghesi (University of Sydney, SLC)
“Renaissance Culture and Religious Pluralism”

Wednesday 31 August 2016
Place: SLC Common room 5th floor
Time: 4pm-5:30pm
Dr Kimberley Knight (Center of Excellence for the History of Emotions, Sydney node)
‘Transmitting ideas to the peripheries: Scandinavian texts and their European context in the Later Middle Ages’

Wednesday 21 September 2016
Place: SLC Common room 5th floor
Time: 4pm-5:30pm
Dr Umberto Grassi (Center of Excellence for the History of Emotions, Sydney node)
‘Transgressions of the Flesh: Sex and Cross-Cultural Interactions in the Early Modern Mediterranean World’

Wednesday 26 October 2016
Place: SLC Common room 5th floor
Time: 4pm-5:30pm
Dr Esther Klein (University of Sydney, SLC)
‘Theories of historiography in medieval China’