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Asian Connections: Flows of People, Medicine, Ideas, and Practices -- a one-day workshop.
07 May 2024
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
7 Owengate
Dr. Vanessa Wikie discusses her new book, "A Woman of Influence."
22 May 2024
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Collected Bookshop, 44 The Riverwalk, Durham
This workshop is a partnership between IMEMS (Durham University) and BRITAIX 17-18 (LERMA, Aix-Marseille University).
04 June 2024
8:45 AM - 5:00 PM
Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 7 Owengate
IMEMS is hosting a workshop for the project “Machine Learning and Marginalia” which is supported by the joint research seedcorn fund of Durham and Uppsala Universities. This event may be of interest to those working in Digital Humanities or library services, or to any researcher studying early modern book culture.
10 June 2024
9:30 AM - 4:00 PM
IMEMS, 7 Owengate
*with a contemporary twist. Join us at Castle on 11 June for medieval-inspired bowl food with snippets of medieval culinary research, chaired by Professor Sheila Cavanagh, this year’s Slater Fellow. This event is in partnership with the Institute of Medieval & Early Modern Studies and University College.
11 June 2024
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Bishops‘ Dining Room, University College
This hybrid workshop will explore the dynamic intersection between digital technologies and medieval studies, with a particular focus on medieval Italian research. This international workshop is run by School of Modern Languages and Cultures and the Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies.
12 June 2024 - 13 June 2024
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
ER143 / IMEMS, 7 Owengate
Philip Shaw, ‘Me wæs Deor noma’: Some Heorrenda-ous Problems in Personal Names, History and Heroic Legend
20 June 2024
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
IMEMS Research Showcase: Prof. Michael Wyatt, "Chivalric Genealogies around Orlando furioso and across the Middle Sea."
02 October 2024
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Dr. Amanda Herbert presents her talk, entitled: "Authorship, Identity, and Black Erasure: British Atlantic Manuscript Recipe Books, 1600-1850."
30 October 2024
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
7 Owengate, Durham
The annual World Heritage Site Public Lecture, featuring a lecture delivered by Ross Forbes, Chief Executive of the Durham Miners' Association, on the subject of "Mining World Heritage: What Makes Us Who We Are?"
07 November 2024
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Chapter House, Durham Cathedral, Durham UK
Emily Williams discusses “The materiality of absence: a conversation about preservation, decay and the teaching and writing of the past.”
27 November 2024
Matthew Eddy discusses “Information Against Empire: Black Doctors, Biodata and Democracy in the Atlantic World.”
05 December 2024
José Lingna Nafafe presents his talk: "Evidence that Demands a Verdict and the Verdict that Demands Abolition: Prince Lourenço da Silva Mendonça and the Black Atlantic Abolitionists’ Case in Rome and the Vatican Response for Universal Justice, 1684-1686"
22 January 2025
Ita Mac Carthy and Richard Scholar discuss the East Meets West project and the progress made so far.
23 January 2025
Dr J. D. Sargan shares CT data from several projects involving manuscript fragments and binding structures. He demonstrates how these data might be accessed using 3D rendering, segmentation, algorithmic flattening, and virtual reality, and asks, what's next for this kind of manuscript technology?
30 January 2025
Graham Barrett presents his talk: 'De viris illustribus: works and days in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages'
05 February 2025
Dorothy Cowie presents her research, "Virtual Reality investigations of the Silk Roads: progress and plans."
06 February 2025
Charles Fernyhough, “When memories come alive: A historical approach to studying memory vividness”
13 February 2025
Craig Barclay shares an account of recent developments at the Oriental Museum in Durham.
20 February 2025
Oriental Museum, Elvet Hill, Durham, DH1 3TH
John O'Brien discusses his project 'Travelling incognito: French controversial literature in early modern Europe.'
27 February 2025
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