Research Seminar

The Research Seminar meets on Fridays at 3pm in room 2.07 of the Arts One Building, Mile End Campus. Papers last 45 minutes and are preceded by tea in The Gallery and followed by discussion. Those attending are welcome to join the speaker for dinner.

Programme for 2011-2012

Semester 1

4 November 2011
Amanda Dotseth, Courtauld Institute of Art
‘Fernán González and His Legacy: Monastic Foundation Legends in Medieval Castile’

25 November 2011
Hilary Pearson
‘Converso voice or converso silence?’
Edward Cooper, Queen Mary, University of London
‘Los castillos señoriales y los conversos de Castilla en el siglo XV’
Respondant Juan-Carlos Conde, Magdalen College, Oxford & MIMSS

9 December 2011
Gemma Pellisa, Universitat de Barcelona
‘Descripción del corpus de la ficción sentimental catalana’

Semester 2

27 January 2012
Jamie Wood, University of Manchester
‘Violent becomings: discipline, education and identity formation in the monastic rules of Visigothic Spain’

10 February 2012
Piers Baker-Bates, The Open University
Tom Nickson, University of York
‘Toledo and Guadalupe: locating the Virgin in late Medieval Spain’

If you would like to offer a paper for the seminar or be added to our mailing list please contact the director, Rosa Vidal Doval.