2019/20
16 October – Greg Walker, Edinburgh University, ‘The Songs of John Heywood: Merriness, Malice, and the Death of Thomas More’
30 October – Nicolette Zeeman, University of Cambridge, ‘The Hypocritical Figure’
13 November – Alixe Bovey, Courtauld Insitute of Art, ‘Exchanges of Letters, Rings, Vows, and Blows: A Pictorial King Horn in the Margins of a Law Book?
22 January – Tim Machan, Notre Dame, ‘The Materiality of Old and Middle English’. Joint seminar with ASNC.
5 February – Hetta Howes, City, University of London, ‘Reflections on Becoming in a Medieval Prayer Sequence’
19 February – James Wade, University of Cambridge, ‘Folklore and Romance in a Fifteenth-century Miscellany’
4 March – Ryan Perry, University of Denver, ‘A Complete Canterbury Tales?’
29 April – PhD Presentations: Katherine Dixon, ‘Mirk, Memory and Meditation: the Devotional Depths of John Mirk’s Festial’; Conor McKee, ‘Piers Plowman and the Sacraments of Nature’
6 May – PhD presentations: Charlie Barranu, ‘Breaking the Rule? Reading habits and literary fiction in religious houses’; Joel Lipson: ‘A Romance Monstrously Birthed: Disrupting Genre in Walter Map’s De Sutore Constantinopolitano Fantastico’
13 May – Wendy Scase, University of Birmingham, ‘Visible English: Scribal Practice, Graphic Culture, and Identity’
2018/19
10 October – Caroline van Eck, University of Cambridge, ‘Objects without a History and the Problem of Style’
24 October – Roundtable: Elizabeth Tyler (University of York), Simon Gaunt (KCL), Olenka Pevny (University of Cambridge), Julian Weiss (KCL). Chair: Máire Ní Mhaonaigh (ASNC). ‘Medieval European Literature After the “Global Turn”‘
21 November – Orietta Da Rold, University of Cambridge, ‘The Character of Paper’
23 January – Daniel McCann, University of Oxford, ‘Consume and Devour: Fevered Passions in Discretio Literature’
6 February – Rory Critten, Université de Lausanne, ‘England In Europe: London, British Library MS Harley 2253 and the Traffic of Texts’
20 February – Ardis Butterfield, Yale University, ‘Medieval Lyric: A Translatable or Untranslatable zone?’
1 May – Helen Swift, Oxford University, ‘‘Present en sa personne’: Identity and Celebrity in Fifteenth-Century Franco-Burgundian Literature’
15 May – Scott Annett, University of Cambridge, ‘”I have no lust to pleye”: The “Pitous” Translation of Inferno 33 by Chaucer’s Monk’
2017/18
11 October – Francesca Southerden, Oxford University, ‘Two Adams: On Dante and Petrarch’s Views of Language in the Beginning’
25 October – Daniel Reeve, Institute of Cultural Inquiry, Berlin, ‘Form and Temporality in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Pearl’
8 November – Jon Whitman, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, ‘Can It Be Figured Out? Christians, Jews, and the “Literal Sense” of Scripture’
7 February – Jonathan Morton, Kings College London, ‘Beyond the Trojan Horse: Craft, ingenuity, and Secret Knowledge in the High Middle Ages’
21 February – Shazia Jagot, University of Surrey, ‘Un/Binding Chaucer’s Sufism’
9 May – Jackie Tasioulas, University of Cambridge, ‘‘Double Sorrow’ in Henryson’s Testament and Chaucer’s Anelida and Arcite’
16 May – Megan Leitch, University of Cardiff, ‘”Grete luste to slepe”: Sleeping Through It All in Middle English Romance, Drama, and Dream Visions’
30 May – Marco Nievergelt, University of Warwick, ‘Medieval Allegory as Epistemology: Dream-Vision Poetry on Language, Cognition, and Experience’