Events
Each year we host a seminar series around a particular theme or topic, a number of public lectures, and a variety of conferences, colloquia and other types of event.The list below displays all IMEMS and IMEMS-sponsored events, as well as other events taking place in and around Durham. You can also filter by category.
Please also see our information page, which provides details on how to find us, accommodation and travel information, in and around Durham.
Tuesday 29 January 2019
- Writing and Walking in the Middle Ages: Pilgrim Libraries 5:30pm to 6:30pm, Priors Hall, Durham Cathedral , Professor George Greenia
Monday 4 February 2019
- MEMSA Epiphany Term Seminars:Agreynge well / vnto my bokes all’: Wynkyn de Worde, Stephen Hawes, and the Improvisation of Genre in Early Tudor Print 6:00pm to 7:00pm, World Heritage Visitor Centre 7 Owengate Durham, Laurie Atkinson, Contact admin.imems@durham.ac.uk
Tuesday 5 February 2019
- Work in Progress Epiphany Term 1:00pm to 2:00pm, World Heritage Visitor Centre 7 Owengate Durham, Dr. Benjamin Pohl , Contact admin.imems@durham.ac.uk
Monday 18 February 2019
- MEMSA Epiphany Term Seminars:Records and Recording: Accounts and Accounts of Peasant Reeves in Late Medieval Durham 6:00pm to 7:00pm, World Heritage Visitor Centre 7 Owengate Durham, Ryan Wicklund, Contact admin.imems@durham.ac.uk
Tuesday 19 February 2019
- Work in Progress Epiphany Term:‘Fairs in Early Modern Britain and Ireland: Commerce, Custom and Community’ 1:00pm to 2:00pm, World Heritage Visitor Centre 7 Owengate Durham, Dr. Jessica Davidson , Contact admin.imems@durham.ac.uk
Friday 22 February 2019
- IMEMS, History of the Book Workshop 11:00am to 5:00pm, Palace Green Library Learning Centre, Various, Contact admin.imems@durham.ac.uk
Monday 4 March 2019
- MEMSA Epiphany Term Seminars:‘Thou hast wak'd/ A Lyoness’: Female characterisation in James Shirley's The Politician 6:00pm to 7:00pm, World Heritage Visitor Centre 7 Owengate Durham, Kate Foy, Contact admin.imems@durham.ac.uk
Tuesday 5 March 2019
- Work in Progress Epiphany Term 1:00pm to 2:00pm, World Heritage Visitor Centre 7 Owengate Durham, Dr. Venetia Bridges , Contact admin.imems@durham.ac.uk
Wednesday 13 March 2019
- Work in Progress Epiphany Term 1:00pm to 2:00pm, World Heritage Visitor Centre 7 Owengate Durham, TBC, Contact admin.imems@durham.ac.uk
Monday 18 March 2019
- MEMSA Epiphany Term Seminars:'Mary's Tree: Expressing Pain in Late-Medieval Marian Devotion' 6:00pm to 7:00pm, World Heritage Visitor Centre 7 Owengate Durham, Hope Doherty, Contact admin.imems@durham.ac.uk
Saturday 20 April 2019
- IMEMS/Blackfriars 15th Public Lecture: “Did manners maketh the medieval man? Etiquette at the twelfth-century dining table”. 11:00am to 1:00pm, Blackfriars Restaurant, Newcastle upon Tyne, Dr Fiona Whelan, Contact admin.imems@durham.ac.uk
Monday 6 May 2019
- Durham World Heritage Site Lecture: ‘Mind the Gap: who benefits from Heritage?’ 6:00pm to 8:00pm, Hogan Lovells Lecture Theatre, Room PCL048, Durham University, Professor Dr Friedrich Lueth, Contact admin.imems@durham.ac.uk
Tuesday 7 May 2019
- Durham World Heritage Site 2019 Workshop 9:00am to 12:00pm, Senate Suite, Durham Castle, Professor Dr Friedrich Lüth, Contact admin.imems@durham.ac.uk
Tuesday 14 May 2019
- IMEMS/CVAC Lecture: 'The Print Before Photography' 5:30pm to 8:00pm, tbc, Antony Griffiths, Contact admin.imems@durham.ac.uk
Wednesday 15 May 2019
- IMEMS/CVAC Workshop 10:00am to 11:30am, Senate Suite, Antony Griffiths, Contact admin.imems@durham.ac.uk
Tuesday 21 May 2019
- IMEMS/CCS/USHAW Lecture:‘Staging Magic in English Catholic College Drama’ 5:30pm to 7:15pm, Exhibition Hall, Ushaw College, Alison Shell, Contact admin.imems@durham.ac.uk
Wednesday 22 May 2019
- IMEMS/CCS/USHAW Workshop 9:00am to 12:00pm, tbc, Professor Alison Shell, Contact admin.imems@durham.ac.uk
Tuesday 11 June 2019
- 11th Wilhelm Levison Memorial Lecture: England and the Continent in the eighth century: but which parts of the Continent? 5:30pm to 8:00pm, Priors Hall, Durham Cathedral, Professor John Blair, Oxford University, Contact admin.imems@durham.ac.uk
Wednesday 12 June 2019
- 11th Wihelm Levison Memorial Workshop 2019 9:00am to 12:00pm, Seminar Room 1, History Department, 43 North Bailey, Durham, Professor John Blair, Oxford University, Contact admin.imems@durham.ac.uk
Monday 8 July 2019
- Thirteenth Annual MEMSA Conference 2019: 9:00am onwards, Durham University, various, tbc, Contact imrs.memsa@durham.ac.uk
- Northern Bridge Palaeography Summer School 2019 9:00am onwards, Durham Universitiy, tbc, Contact admin.imems@durham.ac.uk
Monday 22 July 2019
- Durham Early Modern Studies Conference 2019 9:00am onwards, Durham University, tbc, Contact admin.imems@durham.ac.uk
Tuesday 10 September 2019
- Residential Research Library Inaugural Conference: Libraries, Learning and Religious Identities 1:00pm onwards, Durham University, Contact admin.imems@durham.ac.uk
Wednesday 16 October 2019
- History of the Book Lecture until 12:00am, TBC, Associate Professor Martha Dana Rust, Contact admin.imems@durham.ac.uk
Wednesday 8 July 2020
- Durham Early Modern Studies Conference 2020 9:00am onwards, Durham University, various, Contact admin.imems@durham.ac.uk
Tuesday 6 July 2021
- Durham Early Modern Studies Conference 2021 9:00am onwards, Durham University, various
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