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October 2013

Thucydides and the Modern Idea of History

8 October 2013, 3 pm

Neville Morley

The reception of the early Christian-Latin poets in the Middle Ages

15 October 2013, 3 pm

Ad Putter (Department of English)

The Garden as a Laboratory: Exploring the Domestic Gardens of John Hunter and Edward Jenner in the long 18th c

15 October 2013, 4.15 pm

Clare Hickman (Kings College London)

The Historic Conversations of Gods, Kings and Prophets: exploring the role of the dialogue across early Buddhist, Jain and Hindu literature

15 October 2013, 4.30 pm

Dr James Hegarty (Senior Lecturer in Indian Religions, School of History, Archaeology and Religion, Cardiff University)

Madame Bovary on the BBC: Adaptation, Space and Nation

17 October 2013, 5.30 pm

Kate Griffiths (Cardiff)

The Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology Launch Conference

19 October 2013, 10 am

The Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology Launch Conference

The Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology Launch Conference

20 October 2013, 10 am

The Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology Launch Conference

The Five Star Movement and Representative Democracy in Italy

21 October 2013, 5.30 pm

Annarita Criscitiello (University of Federico II, Naples) 

Sophocles’ Iliou Persis

22 October 2013, 3 pm

Lyndsay Coo

Latif Bolat in Concert at Bristol University

24 October 2013, 7.30 pm

Latif Bolat in Concert at Bristol University

The Stream of Tradition

29 October 2013, 3 pm

Adam Lecznar

Locating Dante's Theology

29 October 2013, 4.30 pm

Matthew Treherne (University of Leeds)

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November 2013

10x10 min flash papers on topics related to Religion

7 November 2013, 2 pm

Ten staff and postgrads from across the University will contribute 10 min flash papers on topics related to religion.

Wilkie Collins: New Directions and Readings

9 November 2013, 9 am

The Victorian Popular Fiction Association is pleased to announce a Study Day devoted to the work of Wilkie Collins

Might is Right? Ancient and modern debates

10 November 2013, 1 pm

Might is Right? Ancient and modern debates

The future of arts and humanities in a marketised educational environment

11 November 2013, 1 pm

The future of arts and humanities in a marketised educational environment

Running out of memory: inscribing the city in the cause of commemoration

11 November 2013, 6.30 pm

Running out of memory: inscribing the city in the cause of commemoration

The 2013 BIRTHA Lecture - Professor Paul Gough

11 November 2013, 6.30 pm

The 2013 BIRTHA Lecture

The future of communities and creative industries

12 November 2013, 1.15 pm

The future of communities and creative industries

Frames of the Author: Reading the Editor in Vitruviu

12 November 2013, 3 pm

Laura Jansen

A Labour of Death and a Labour Against Death: Memorial Tattoos and Historiography in Late Modernity

12 November 2013, 4.15 pm

John Troyer (Bath)

Fellini's '8 1/2': golden anniversary screening

12 November 2013, 6 pm

Fellini's '8 1/2': golden anniversary screening

The journeys of the Djan'kawu sisters: ancestral presence in aboriginal art

12 November 2013, 6 pm

The journeys of the Djan'kawu sisters: ancestral presence in aboriginal art

A workshop that follows a viewing of Federico Fellini's 8 ½

12 November 2013, 6 pm

George Ferzoco

'Experiment Ionesco'

13 November 2013, 1 pm

'Experiment Ionesco'

John Pickard and the Brodowski String Quartet: music masterclass

13 November 2013, 2.30 pm

John Pickard and the Brodowski String Quartet: music masterclass

Stanley Kubrick's symphonic odyssey: a talk and screening of '2001: A Space Odyssey'

13 November 2013, 6 pm

Stanley Kubrick's symphonic odyssey: a talk and screening of '2001: A Space Odyssey'

Shirley Williams: Remembering the 1970s

13 November 2013, 6.30 pm

Shirley Williams: Remembering the 1970s

Philosophy surgery for patients and healthcare staff

14 November 2013, 11 am

Philosophy surgery for patients and healthcare staff

Why does a theatre's history matter?

14 November 2013, 1 pm

Why does a theatre's history matter?

From Montmartre to Mars: Technologies of Travel in the early 20th Century Parisian Avant-Gardes

14 November 2013, 5.30 pm

Eric Robertson (RHUL)

Representations of Islam and the Islamic world in France, Germany and Italy

14 November 2013, 6 pm

Representations of Islam and the Islamic world in France, Germany and Italy

Rhymin’ and Stealin’: musical borrowing in hip-hop

14 November 2013, 8 pm

Rhymin’ and Stealin’: musical borrowing in hip-hop

How to watch the FIFA World Cup Brazil 2014: a sport salon

15 November 2013, 1 pm

How to watch the FIFA World Cup Brazil 2014: a sport salon

Queen Elizabeth I

15 November 2013, 6 pm

Queen Elizabeth I

Translating poetry: the impossible art? Plenary lecture

16 November 2013, 3.30 pm

Translating poetry: the impossible art? Plenary lecture

Translating poetry: the impossible art? Public debate

16 November 2013, 6.30 pm

Translating poetry: the impossible art? Public debate

Shared Identity through Shared Speech in Alcaeus’ Poetry

19 November 2013, 3 pm

Jessica Romney

Jonathan's Gym: Hellenism and Masculinity in Josephus' Account of David and Jonathan

19 November 2013, 4.30 pm

James E. Harding  (University of Otago, NZ)

School Seminar – Research

26 November 2013, 11.45 am

Chair – Beth Williamson (DHR, School of Humanities)

School Seminar

26 November 2013, 4 pm

School Seminar

Beyond Ecphrasis: Poets and Portraits in Renaissance Italy

28 November 2013, 5.15 pm

Federica Pich, Leeds University

Religious and Secular in Modern Europe: The Factors to Take into Account

28 November 2013, 7 pm

Grace Davie (Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Exeter University)

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December 2013

Recognition and Realism in Euripides’ Electra

3 December 2013, 3 pm

Victoria Wohl (University of Toronto)

Religion and Theology Research Seminar Series 2013-2014

3 December 2013, 4.30 pm

Stefano Zacchetti (Balliol College, University of Oxford)

Distanciated cities? Tales of urban location, sociality and mobility in contemporary Italian migration literature

5 December 2013, 5.15 pm

Jennifer Burns, Warwick University

What is Scripture about? Meaning and the Transmission of Christianity in Late Antiquity

10 December 2013, 3 pm

Bella Sandwell

To Scale: Gay and Lesbian Spaces in East Berlin

10 December 2013, 4.15 pm

Josie McLellan (Bristol)

Le débarquement en Normandie: nouveaux enjeux nouvelles approches?

18 December 2013, 5.30 pm

Olivier Wieviorka (E.N.S.)

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January 2014

Britain’s Pagan Heritage

28 January 2014, 4.15 pm

Ronald Hutton (Bristol)

“Lazy Bums”, “Handbags”, and “God’s DNA”: Some Thoughts on the Common English Bible of 2011?

28 January 2014, 4.30 pm

Jonathan Campbell (University of Bristol)

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February 2014

The religious landscape of contemporary Italy

6 February 2014, 5.15 pm

Stefano Allievi, University of Padua

Roundtable: ‘Past Futures/Future Pasts’

11 February 2014, 4.15 pm

Keri Facer (Education, Bristol; AHRC Connected Communities Leadership Fellow) Anke Holdenried (Bristol)

Imagining the Philosophical Otherness of the East as ‘Atheism’ in Early Modern Christian Philosophy

11 February 2014, 4.30 pm

David Leech (University of Bristol)

Beckett’s prose works and theories of the face

13 February 2014, 5.30 pm

David Houston Jones (Exeter)

Muslim Judges in Colonial India

25 February 2014, 4.15 pm

Nandini Chatterjee (Exeter)

“What is life?"  Theology and Vitalism

25 February 2014, 4.30 pm

Carmody Grey (University of Bristol)

The Avatars of Guibourc: the evolution of a major epic heroine

27 February 2014, 5.30 pm

P. Bennett (Edinburgh)

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March 2014

L’Ecrivain mis en scène : la littérature comme sujet de la littérature

6 March 2014, 5.30 pm

The Christianson Lecture, Romuald Fonkoua, Director, Centre International d’Etudes Francophones, Sorbonne

Nineteenth Joint Postgraduate Conference (8-9 March 2014), Theology and Religious Studies

8 March 2014, 9 am

Organized by Oleksandr Demchenko and Justin Whittacker

Literacy and Entertainment in the Medieval Manor

11 March 2014, 4.15 pm

Peter Coss (Cardiff)

Christian-Muslim Relations and the Concept of 'Person'

11 March 2014, 4.30 pm

Damian Howard, SJ (Heythrop College, University of London)

Seeing Visions in Western Medieval Christianity

25 March 2014, 4.30 pm

Carolyn Muessig (University of Bristol)

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April 2014

School Seminar – Teaching

1 April 2014, 4.15 pm

Chair – James Thompson (DHTL, School of Humanities)

The “Roman Question”  in Italy’s Holocaust

1 April 2014, 5.15 pm

Robert Gordon, Cambridge University

St Martin of Tours, chronology, and textual analysis

29 April 2014, 4.30 pm

Philip Burton (Reader in Biblical Language and New Testament Studies, Birmingham University)

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May 2014

France and Europe

7 May 2014, 5.30 pm

Helen Drake (Loughborough)

Religion and Theology Research Seminar Series 2013-2014

13 May 2014, 4.30 pm

Hilary Carey (University of Bristol)

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July 2014

Dan Geffrey with the New Poete: Reading and Rereading Chaucer and Spenser

11 July 2014, 10 am

An international conference at the University of Bristol, Friday 11 - Sunday 13 July 2014. Supported by the Modern Humanities Research Association, the Department of English, and the Centre for Medieval Studies.

The World of the Newport Ship

17 July 2014, 9 am

The World of the Newport Ship Conference, 17-18 July 2014

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