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Spring 2021

• The Hidden Thoughts of the Soul: Exploring the Mind in the Works of Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)
  

  Monday 8 February, 5pm, Aaron Kahn, Sussex Centre for Language Studies

• The Annual Shakespeare Lecture: ‘Silken Terms Precise: Shakespeare’s Textile Imagination’

  Monday 22 February, 5pm, Hester Lees-Jeffries, St Catharine’s College, Cambridge

• Rhetoric in Research in Media, Arts and Humanities
  

  Thursday 18 March, 4pm

  Presented in collaboration with the History Work in Progress Seminar

• Samson’s Transgender Craze: Milton & the Legal Histories of Transphobia

  Wednesday 21 April, 5pm, Colby Gordon, Bryn Mawr College, ‘Samson’s Transgender Craze: Milton & the Legal Histories of Transphobia'

  Presented in collaboration with the Centre for the Study of Sexual Dissidence & the English Colloquium

• The Premodern Critical Race Studies Reading Group

  The Reading Group met regularly throughout the term. Please contact rachel.stenner@sussex.ac.uk for more information.
  

 

  

Autumn 2020

• Divination, Astrolabes, & Arabic Mathematics in The Canterbury Tales and Troilus & Criseyde

  Monday 5 October, Dr Shazia Jagot, University of York, 'Divination, Astrolabes, & Arabic Mathematics in the Canterbury Tales  & Troilus & Criseyde'

• Work in Progress Flash Presentations

  Monday 2nd November, Work in Progress Flash Presentations - an open session for all CEMMS members and interested parties to present for five minutes on developing work in the early modern or medieval fields

• Thinking Race and Empire with Russians and Tatars in Early Modern England

  Monday 23 November, Professor Ladan Niayesh, University of Paris, 'Thinking Race & Empire with Russians &  Tatars in Early Modern England'

• The Premodern Critical Race Studies Reading Group
  

  The Reading Group met regularly throughout the term. Please contact rachel.stenner@sussex.ac.uk for more information.

 

Summer 2020

Owing to the pandemic, CEMMS' Visiting Speaker Series in spring 2020 was cut off part way through. Not to be deterred, we gathered for several online events. 'Premodern Potluck' saw members give 10 minute flash presentations on topics including medieval Sussex nuns; diagrammatic analysis of The Canterbury Tales; manuscript illuminations of Islamic libraries. We have formed a reading group on the topic of Premodern Critical Race Studies, aimed at bringing together research, pedagogy, and discussions of the field at large. And the end of July saw Samera Hassan and Lubaaba Al-Azami, leaders of the Medieval and Early Modern Orients project, present their work via Zoom. 

 

Autumn 2019  

• The Life and Times of Michael Würth: Writing an Historical Biography of a Man Accused of Witchcraft in Germany in 1663

  Thursday 24 October, Professor Alison Rowlands, University of Essex, ‘The Life and Times of Michael Würth: Writing an Historical Biography of a Man Accused of Witchcraft in Germany in 1663’

  Presented in collaboration with the Department of History Work-in-Progress seminar.

• Language and Power in Tudor Royal Texts: A Case for Corpus-Assisted Historical Discourse Analysis

  Wednesday 6th November, Dr Mel Evans, University of Leicester: ' Language and Power in Tudor Royal Texts: A Case for Corpus-Assisted Historical Discourse Analysis'

  Presented in collaboration with ROLLS (Research on Language and Lingustics at Sussex)

• Sidney's Poetry: the Rhetoric of Courtship Revisited

  Monday 18 November, Professor Catherine Bates, University of Warwick: 'Sidney's Poetry: the Rhetoric of Courtship Revisited'

• Credit, Creditability, and Corporations in Early Modern Travel Writing

  Wednesday 27 November, Dr Natalya Din-Kariuki, University of Warwick, in collaboration with the English Colloquium: 'Credit, Creditability, and Corporations in Early Modern Travel Writing'

• People of Print: Printers, Stationers and Booksellers, 1500-1830

  12 - 14 September 2019

  Plenary Speakers: Professor Lisa Maruca, Wayne State University and Professor James Raven, University of Cambridge

  Whether we view them as tastemakers, ideological brokers, or entrepreneurial opportunists, the personnel of the book trade undeniably shaped the book cultures of the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. While capital, technology, and markets are all powerful factors in the trade’s development, its people are its most significant agents. Current research across periods is demonstrating the creative agency of book trade personnel, and the extent of their cultural and political engagement. As recent monographs and essay collections demonstrate, book trade history in this period is now firmly established as a field of study. Much remains to be done, however, to understand and theorise the cultural and social activities, subjectivities, and identities of book trade personnel. This interdisciplinary conference will re-evaluate their roles and explore directions for future research. We seek to draw together book history, printing history, reading history, and literary studies. Further information 

  This conference was organised by the Print Culture, Agency and Regional Identity Research Network, with the support of:

  • The University of Sussex
  • York St John University
  • Sheffield Hallam University Humanities Research centre