2023/24

• 11 October, Nicola Morato (University of Bergamo), ‘Arthurian Stories in the Latin East. Traces and Re-enactments’
• 25 October, Daniel Wakelin (University of Oxford), ‘Kept ordinarily: everyday creative writing at Fastolf’s house’
• 8 November, Tim Glover (University of Cambridge), ‘Richard Rolle as a Compilatory Author: Rethinking Compilation, Order, and Authorship in Late-Medieval Religious Literature’
• 22 November, Lotte Reinbold (University of Cambridge), ‘Legible Characters: Chaucer, Pope, and 18th-century Medievalism’
• 24 January, Jack Colley (University of Cambridge), ‘Translating Sallust in Early Tudor England: Towards an Edition of CUL MS Nn.3.6’
• 7 February, Kathryn Maude (American University at Beirut), ‘“The common relation of the country”: Literary Methodologies and Documentary Sources’
• 21 February, Alicia Smith (University of Cambridge), ‘The brothel and the cell: ‘thinking with’ enclosure in the medieval lives of the harlot saint Thais’
• 1 May, JD Sargan (University of Georgia), ‘Trans Histories of the Medieval Book: Experiments in Bibliography’
• 15 May, Philip Knox (University of Cambridge), ‘Imagining Sexual Politics in Late Medieval England and France: Jean de Meun, Chaucer, Christine de Pizan, Aristotle’.

2022/23

• 26 October, Ayoush Lazikani (University of Oxford), ‘On Lofsong of ure Louerde: A Needful Song’
• 9 November, Liz Herbert McAvoy (Swansea University), ‘Arboreal Articulation: The Testimony of Trees in the Late-Medieval Religious Imaginary’
• 23 November, Marcel Elias (Yale), ‘The Politics of Sameness: Islam in Europe, 1200-1450’
• 25 January, Anthony Bale (Birkbeck), ‘New news in England in the later fifteenth century’
• 8 February, Hannah Lucas (University of Cambridge), ‘A Practical Theory of Contemplative Criticism’
• 8 March, PhD research presentations
• 26 April, Kathleen Tonry (University of Connecticut), ‘Keeping Time: Calendars, Almanacs, and Temporality in Fifteenth-Century Books’
• 17 May, Devani Singh (University of Geneva), ‘Chaucer’s Early Modern Readers’.
• 31 May, Alexis Statz (University of Cambridge), ‘La Figure et L’Exemplaire: Diagrammatic Thinking in Guillaume de Deguileville’s Pèlerinage de vie humaine’

2021/22

• 13 October, Jessica Berenbeim (University of Cambridge), ‘Erkenwald’s Inscription’
• 27 October, James Simpson (Harvard Univeresity), ‘Giving and Gaining Voice in Civil War: Alain Chartier’s Quadrilogue Invectif in Fifteenth-Century England;
• 10 November, Leah Tether (University of Bristol), ‘The Bristol Merlin: Travels, Treasure and Waste’
• 24 November, Alex da Costa (University of Cambridge), ‘The selling of “spyrituel rychesses” by Caxton and de Worde’
• 26 January, Elizabeth Archibald (University of Durham) ‘Baths of bliss: attitudes to bathing in medieval literature and society’
• 9 February, Henry Ravenhall (University of Cambridge), ‘Bookish Attachments: Reading the Touch of Medieval French and Occitan Romance’
• 9 March, Ryan Perry and the Whittington Team (University of Kent), ‘Whittington’s Gift: Introducing a project on London and Middle English Religious Literature’
• 18 May, Rebecca Field (University of Cambridge), ‘’From Rhetorical theory to Spiritual Pedagogy in The Cloud of Unknowing’
• 1 June, Gustav Zamore (University of Cambridge), ‘Lay Resistance to Episcopal Authority: In Fourteenth- and Fifteenth Century England’

2020/21

• 14 October – Julie Orlemanski (University of Chicago), ‘Prosopopoeia and the Limits of Literary Form, in Chaucer’s Dream Poems’
• 28 October – Hannah Bower (University of Cambridge), ‘Bodies in (and out) of Time: Recipes, Romances, and Beyond’
• 11 November – Daniel Sawyer (University of Oxford), ‘Incongruous Form: The “First English Sonnet”’
• 25 November – Roundtable Discussion: Thinking Through Medieval Pedagogy. Christopher Cannon (Johns Hopkins University), ‘What Did the Medieval Laity Hear When They Heard Latin?’; Irina Dumitrescu (University of Bonn), ‘50 Ways to Speak Your Sorrow: Isidore and Aelfric Bata in the Medieval Classroom’; Carissa Harris (Temple University), ‘Cursed Shrews, Homosocial Community, and Consolatory Pedagogies’; Jill Mann (University of Cambridge), Response
• 27 January – Jessica Rosenfeld (Washington University in St. Louis), ‘Just Feeling: Natural Law and the Nature of Emotions in the Roman de la Rose, Gower, and Langland’
• 10 February – Elizaveta Strakhov (Marquette University), ‘The Task of the Translator: Lydgate and the Work of Reparative Translation’
• 24 February – Christopher Baswell (Barnard College), ‘Kings and Cripples in the Lancelot Prose Cycle’
• 10 March – Panel discussion: ‘Hochon’s Arrow at (almost) 30’, John Arnold (University of Cambridge); Jo Bellis (University of Cambridge); Jessica Berenbeim (University of Cambridge).
• 19 May – Elaine Treharne (Stanford University), ‘In-between History, Literature and Scribal Practice: English 1100-1250’

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’