Current events
The events below are organised by the College of Humanities. You may also be interested in events in the general University of Exeter events.
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| 26 January 2021 | 11:30 | Making Digital Editions: Whats, Whys & Hows of Digital Textual ScholarshipDigital Humanities Workshop. Registration required. Full details | Add event |
| 26 January 2021 | 17:00 | Peter Van Alfen on The Antigonid Coins Online projectPeter Van Alfen on The Antigonid Coins Online project (Recording TBC). If you would like to attend the seminars, please email Emma Nicholson (e.l.nicholson@exeter.ac.uk) or Annelies Cazemier (a.cazemier@soton.ac.uk) for a Zoom invitation.. Full details | Add event |
| 27 January 2021 | 16:00 | Linguistic Translation and Cultural Translation in Trilingual Inscriptions with Dr Rachel MairsLinguistic Translation and Cultural Translation in Trilingual Inscriptions with Dr Rachel Mairs. Full details | Add event |
| 28 January 2021 | 10:30 | How to Write a Data Management PlanDigital Humanities Workshop. Registration required. Full details | Add event |
| 28 January 2021 | 15:30 | Feeding Anglo-Saxon England: The Bioarchaeology of an Agricultural Revolution with Professor Richard ThomasFeeding Anglo-Saxon England: The Bioarchaeology of an Agricultural Revolution with Professor Richard Thomas. Full details | Add event |
| 28 January 2021 | 17:00 | Genos between phusis and technêEmanuela Bianchi (New York University). Respondent: Gabriele Galluzzo (University of Exeter). Full details | Add event |
| 2 February 2021 | 13:30 | Professor John Saunders (Cardiff University)tbc. Full details | Add event |
| 3 February 2021 | 15:00 | Environmental trust as Context and Condition for Economic Transactions: The Case of Ancient Rome with Dr. Filippo Carla-UhinkCAH seminar: 'Environmental trust' as Context and Condition for Economic Transactions: The Case of Ancient Rome' with Dr. Filippo Carlà-Uhink (Universität Potsdam) Join Zoom Meeting https://Universityofexeter.zoom.us/j/94150448373?pwd=SzFiSFhpNVAvbEx0OW9NdGUvR1VsUT09 Meeting ID: 941 5044 8373 Password: 112162. Full details | Add event |
| 3 February 2021 | 16:00 | Virginia Bainbridge (Exeter), 'The Syon Abbey Prosopography Project: Lives of the Brothers c.1415-1622'Dr Virginia Bainbridge, one of our honorary research fellows, joins us to talk about the Birgittine brothers of Syon Abbey. Although the origins of Syon Abbey lie outside the Southwest, its extant medieval books are currently housed in Exeter's Special Collections - which makes this talk of particular interest to Exeter scholars. Full details | Add event |
| 10 February 2021 | 16:00 | John Cooper (Exeter), 'The Akhbar al-Sin wa-l-Hind: 9th-10th Century CE Indian Ocean Seafarer Narratives'Dr John Cooper shares initial thoughts from his new research project on ninth-century nautical/travel/wonders literature, mainly 'The Accounts of India and China' and 'The Wonders of India'. He will present an overview of these works, their manuscript and translation history, the cultural milieu of their production, and their influences (e.g. on the Sindbad stories and hence the Arabian Nights). Full details | Add event |
| 10 February 2021 | 16:30 | For Everyone: The Participatory ArchiveDigital Humanities Seminar Series. Pip Willcox (The National Archives). Full details | Add event |
| 10 February 2021 | 17:00 | Margaret Schotte (York University, Toronto): Recovering Evidence of Hydrographical Education in New FranceThis is a Centre for Early Modern Studies and Centre for Maritime Historical Studies Joint Seminar. Margaret Schotte (York University, Toronto), ‘Lessons from Book Lists: Recovering Evidence of Hydrographical Education in New France’. For joining details please email CEMS@exeter.ac.uk. Full details | Add event |
| 16 February 2021 | 10:30 | Introduction to Digital EditingDigital Humanities Workshop. Registration required.. Full details | Add event |
| 16 February 2021 | 13:30 | Professor Neil Messer (University of Winchester).tbc. Full details | Add event |
| 18 February 2021 | 13:30 | Managing Humanities DataDigital Humanities Workshop. Registration required. Full details | Add event |
| 19 February 2021 | 13:30 | Geospatial Technologies - Introduction to GISDigital Humanities Workshop. Registration required. Full details | Add event |
| 24 February 2021 | 16:00 | Sarah Kay (NYU), ‘Phenomenal! Star Maps and their Manuscripts’Prof. Sarah Kay joins us from New York University to introduce us to some medieval star maps. Prof. Kay is an expert in medieval French and Occitan literature, which she combines with interests in medieval philosophy and modern theory. Full details | Add event |
| 25 February 2021 | 15:30 | Centre for Early Modern Studies: Postgraduate ShowcaseThe Postgraduate Showcase is an opportunity for attendees to learn more about the early modern research currently being undertaken at Exeter, and it has been a great success in previous years. At the event MA and doctoral candidates present briefly (5-10 minutes) on their work, introducing their research interests, and summarising and explaining their key research questions and source material. For joining instructions please email CEMS@exeter.ac.uk. Full details | Add event |
| 25 February 2021 | 16:00 | Mercury in late antique and medical sources: practice and theoryMercury in late antique and medical sources: practice and theory Matteo Martelli (University of Bologna). Respondent: David Leith (University of Exeter). Full details | Add event |
| 9 March 2021 | 11:30 | How to Write a Data Management PlanDigital Humanities Workshop. Registration required. Full details | Add event |
| 9 March 2021 | 17:00 | Katerina Panagopoulou on her book, Τhe Early Antigonids: Coinage, Money and the EconomyKaterina Panagopoulou on her book, Τhe Early Antigonids: Coinage, Money and the Economy (Recording TBC). If you would like to attend the seminars, please email Emma Nicholson (e.l.nicholson@exeter.ac.uk) or Annelies Cazemier (a.cazemier@soton.ac.uk) for a Zoom invitation. Full details | Add event |
| 10 March 2021 | 15:30 | Centre for Early Modern Studies: Ruth Connolly (Newcastle), The Poetics of Prostitution in Ben Jonson's 'On the Famous Voyage'At this seminar Ruth Connolly (Newcastle) will present on 'Waste matter: The Poetics of Prostitution in Ben Jonson’s ‘On The Famous Voyage’. For joining instructions please email CEMS@exeter.ac.uk. Full details | Add event |
| 10 March 2021 | 16:00 | Research Masterclass: Topic TBCResearch Masterclasses are directed towards the Centre's PhD students and offer expert discussion and insights into particular types of evidence or approaches. Full details | Add event |
| 10 March 2021 | 16:30 | Noughts and Crosses and Zeroes and Ones: Intersectional Feminism and Digital HumanitiesDigital Humanities Seminar Series. Prof Caroline Bassett (Cambridge). Full details | Add event |
| 18 March 2021 | 12:30 | Intermediate Digital EditingDigital Humanities Workshop. Registration required. Full details | Add event |
| 22 March 2021 | 16:00 | Ancient cabinet of curiositiesAncient cabinet of curiosities Véronique Dasen (University of Fribourg). Respondent: Dunstan Lowe (University of Kent). Full details | Add event |
| 23 March 2021 | 13:30 | Reflectance Transformation Imaging - Introduction to RTIDigital Humanities Workshop. Registration required. Full details | Add event |
| 24 March 2021 | 15:00 | Orme SymposiumThe annual Orme Symposium showcases the work of three of our postgraduate researchers. Each speaker will give a 20-minute paper, followed by either joint or individual question and answer sessions. Full details | Add event |
| 24 March 2021 | 15:30 | Centre for Early Modern Studies: Early Modern Futures Reading GroupThe Early Modern Futures Reading Group was established in 2019 to discuss and address the issue of decolonising the university, and in particular what this means for scholars of the early modern period. Each session uses an article, chapter or blog post as the basis for discussion as we work towards an understanding of anti-racism and decolonising, and consider what action to take within the research centre or our own disciplines. Early Modern Futures is now a regular part of the Centre’s programme of termly events, and we have a ‘Team’ which allows us to keep track of readings, suggest new ones, and to share other resources and experiences. To become a member of the reading group and to be added to our Team, please email CEMS@exeter.ac.uk. Full details | Add event |
| 24 March 2021 | 18:00 | Orme Lecture: Elisabeth van Houts (Cambridge), ‘Hidden Memories: Medieval Obituaries on Lead, 800-1200’This year's annual Orme Lecture will be given by Prof. Elisabeth van Houts (Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge). The lecture will explore the medieval custom of burying elite men and women with lead plaques tucked away in their coffins, sometimes placed under their heads. They contained short texts of varying lengths from the name of the dead person to short obituaries which give biographical data and sometimes more expansive eulogies. Some have survived alongside their more public grave stone or tomb. Of particular interest is the conundrum that these plaques were hidden and never meant to be ‘published’ yet they were obviously crafted with great effort to pass on information. What audience did their authors have in mind?. Full details | Add event |
| 25 March 2021 | 17:00 | Early Medieval Glassmaking at Glastonbury and Barking Abbeys Lecture by Dr Hugh Willmott FSA Society of Antiquaries of London out of London Meeting in Exeter (now online because of Covid)Early Medieval Glassmaking at Glastonbury and Barking Abbeys Lecture by Dr Hugh Willmott FSA Society of Antiquaries of London out of London Meeting in Exeter (now online because of Covid) Please see the following page for further information on how to join the event https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sal.org.uk%2Fevent%2Fearly-medieval-glassmaking-at-glastonbury-and-barking-abbeys%2F&data=04%7C01%7Chumanities-executive-support%40exeter.ac.uk%7Cce38aa9420eb4362977508d8bbc15291%7C912a5d77fb984eeeaf321334d8f04a53%7C0%7C0%7C637465786268720122%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=RXQGtzrTI4O7Us91utOu6T%2FJnifX46eswWL%2BA80BMTo%3D&reserved=0. Full details | Add event |
| 15 April 2021 | 16:00 | Medicine in ancient Cyprus: the archaeological evidenceMedicine in ancient Cyprus: the archaeological evidence Demetres Michaelides (University of Cyprus). Respondent: Daniel King (University of Exeter). Full details | Add event |
| 3 May 2021 | 17:00 | Copper and human health in the Chalcolithic, the classical, and the age of COVIDCopper and human health in the Chalcolithic, the classical, and the age of COVID Julie Laskaris (University of Richmond). Respondent: Colin Webster (UC Davis). Full details | Add event |
| 12 May 2021 | 16:00 | Zubin Mistry (Edinburgh), 'Monasteries, Medicine and Reproduction in Early Medieval Societies, c.700-1000’Dr Zubin Mistry introduces to some of the sources for early medieval medicine, particularly in relation to infertility. Dr Mistry's work concerns medical knowledge and practice in early medieval societies. His interest in reproductive medicine has also led him to consider the political and social implications of infertility in the medieval world. Full details | Add event |
| 25 May 2021 | 17:00 | The Roman physician and the knowledge of the patientThe Roman physician and the knowledge of the patient Lauren Caldwell (UMass Amherst). Respondent: Chiara Blanco (University of Oxford). Full details | Add event |
| 26 May 2021 | 16:00 | Research Masterclass: Topic TBCResearch Masterclasses are directed towards the Centre's PhD students and offer expert discussion and insights into particular types of evidence or approaches. Full details | Add event |
| 24 June 2021 | 16:00 | Navigating between abstraction and observation: using astrolabes, globes and mirrors in the medieval MediterraneanNavigating between abstraction and observation: using astrolabes, globes and mirrors in the medieval Mediterranean Divna Manolova (The University of York). Respondent: Karen ní Mheallaigh (Johns Hopkins University). Full details | Add event |
| 5 July 2021 | 16:00 | Nutrition in ancient medicineNutrition in ancient medicine John Wilkins (University of Exeter). Respondent: Laurence Totelin (Cardiff University). Full details | Add event |