IMEMS Seminars 2012-13
IMEMS Seminar Series 2012 - 13
Culture, Imagination and Memory: Medieval Narratives of Time
This seminar series builds on and extends the theme of the IMEMS’s 2010-11 Seminar Series, ‘Through a glass darkly’, particularly the last strand of that series, which centred on the themes of time, art and memory, and via a series of papers by visiting speakers, began to explore the process of past, present and future; the necessary placing of the concept of the future within the larger notion of time; and the relation of temporal and eternal worlds.
The new series which will run across 2012-13, has two chronological points of focus: the first the extraordinary efflorescence of cultural activity in the central medieval period, 1000-1250, the second the equally extraordinary cultural pre-conditions of Northumbrian society in the seventh century. One of the most iconic productions that stemmed from this internationally recognised period of imaginative intellectual and artistic output was the Lindisfarne Gospel book. Exploring the construction and interpretation of cultural narratives in relation to confronting and making sense of time, both in the past and in the present, this seminar series will include visual narratives (books, images and artefacts); narratives mapping the mind and memory; theological, astrological and cosmological narratives; historical narratives (past and present); and literary narratives. The role of the imagination and memory – individual and cultural - in shaping narratives will be of particular interest.
This project links closely to the three month period in which the Lindisfarne Gospels will be housed at Durham, and the IMEMS’s activities in relation to the exhibition. The specialist knowledge of invited external speakers and members of the IMEMS, combined with the particular emphasis of the IMEMS on interdisciplinary research, dialogue and collaboration, the profound relevance of the theme to the remit of the Institute, and the exciting synergies with ongoing projects, will ensure that the seminar series yields exciting new collaborations and research outputs that are at the forefront of their field. Contributors have been chosen for their wide-ranging and interdisciplinary interests, which span archaeology, social and cultural history, literary studies, theology, art history and history of the book.
Michaelmas Term 2012
| Tuesday, 16th October, 5.30 pm. Venue TBC Title tbc Dr Luke Sunderland, Durham University |
| Tuesday, 23rd October, 5.30 pm. The Birley Room, Hatfield College |
| Wednesday, 7th November, 5.30 pm. The Senate Suite, Durham Castle Annual History of the Book Lecture 2012: ‘Time and the Man: Authorship in the High Middle Ages’ Dr Greti Dinkova-Bruun, Pontfical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto |
| Monday, 19th November, 5.30 pm ER142, Elvet Riverside 5th Wilhelm Levison Memorial Lecture: ‘Anselm in the Anchorhold: the influence of Anselm of Canterbury on the English Anchoritic Tradition’ Dr Susanne Schenk, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen |
| Tuesday, 27th November, 5.30 pm The Birley Room, Hatfield College Money and its use in the periphery of Europe: Innovation, conservatism and time Prof. Svein H. Gullbekk, University of Oslo |
| Tuesday, 4th December, 5.30 pm The Birley Room, Hatfield College Marking Time: Canon Law Reform in the 12th Century Dr Danica Summerlin, Stephan Kuttner Institute for Medieval Canon Law, Munich |
Epiphany Term 2013: IMEMS Events
Series: Lindisfarne: The Imagination of Time
| Tuesday, 22nd January, 5.30 pm. The Birley Room, Hatfield College The Archaeology of Anglo-Saxon Lindisfarne Dr David Petts , Durham University |
| Tuesday, 5th Fabruary, 5.30 pm. The Birley Room, Hatfield College The Irish Tradition in Northumbria after the Synod of Whitby Dr Clare Stancliffe, Durham University |
| Tuesday, 19th February, 5.30 pm. The Birley Room, Hatfield College Northumbrian book production in the seventh and eighth centuries Prof Richard Gameson, Durham University |
| Tuesday, 5th March, 5.30 pm. The Birley Room, Hatfield College Conundrums of text and language in the Lindisfarne Gospels Prof Richard Marsden, Nottingham |
| Tuesday, 12th March, 5.30 pm. The Birley Room, Hatfield College The secondary decoration AND/OR The Evangelist symbols Dr Heather Pulliam, Edinburgh University |
Easter Term 2012: IMEMS Events
Series: Lindisfarne, Time and Memory: Legacies and Narratives
| Tuesday, 30th April, 5.30 pm. The Birley Room, Hatfield College ‘THE LINDISFARNE GOSPELS: ALDRED’S GLOSS for God and St Cuthbert and all the Saints Together who are in the Island’ Prof Eric Stanley, Oxford |
| Tuesday, 21st May, 5.30 pm. The Birley Room, Hatfield College The Lindisfarne Gospels and the Performative of Manuscript Decoration Dr Carol Farr, Independent Scholar, London |
| 18th June, 5.30 pm. The Birley Room, Hatfield College The apparatus and canon tables of the Lindisfarne Gospels Prof Thomas O’Loughlin, University of Nottingham |
Michaelmas Term 2013: IMEMS Events
Series: Lindisfarne, Time and Memory: Legacies and Narratives
| Tuesday, 15th October, 5.30 pm The Birley Room, Hatfield College The Book of Durrow and Lindisfarne Gospels Prof. Nancy Netzer, Boston College |
| Wednesday, 30th October, 5.30 pm, The Senate Suite, Durham Castle Annual History of the Book Lecture 2013 Prof. Michelle Brown, University of London |
| Tuesday, 5th November, 5.30 pm The Birley Room, Hatfield College Lindisfarne Gospels and Frankish MSS: contrasts and comparisons Prof. David Ganz, Emeritus Professor of Palaeography |
| Tuesday, 3rd December, 5.30 pm ER 142, Elvet Riverside 6th Wilhelm Levison Memorial Lecture: Northumbria and the Continent around the time of the Lindisfarne Gospels Prof Jo Story, University of Leicester |
IMRS/IMEMS Conference Series
Summer 2013
| Early Modern Catholicism |
| Intellectual Networks in the Long Seventeenth Century |
| Producing Text and Gospel Commentary in Medieval Perspective |
Three conferences in June and July will mark the launch of the University’s Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies and the Durham exhibition of the Lindisfarne Gospels, and celebrate the rich resources of the city’s historic libraries – Cosin’s Library, the Cathedral Library, and the Library of Ushaw College.
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