This list is under construction and at present only covers events up to December 2023

Wednesday 8^th November, 4-5pm, MEMS Digital Showcase at Arts & Humanities Research Salon, featuring MEMS PhD students Jemima Bennett and Jon Pinkerton

Thursday 16^th November, 1pm:  Dr Anne Alwis, ‘Secret Sanctity: Deciphering concealment, disguise, and hidden knowledge in Late-Antique and Byzantine Hagiography’

Tuesday 21 November, 5pm-7pm, Canterbury Christ Church University:  Alan Stewart (Columbia University), ‘The First Coming in of the Strangers: An Experiment in Elizabethan Immigration’ – a joint event with colleagues at Canterbury Christ Church University

Saturday 25^th November: day conference organised by the Centre for Anglican History and Theology on ‘The Architectural Setting of Anglican Worship revisited’

Thursday 30th November, 5pm, Darwin Lecture Theatre 1: Dr Gabriele Bonomelli, ‘Dissent in Late Medieval and Early Modern England: opposition to religious and secular authorities through fictitious letters (1393-1603)’

Monday 4^th December (date to be confirmed), 2pm, Templeman Library: joint event with Special Collections on ‘Broadsides and Middling Culture’, with Prof. Catherine Richardson speaking

Thursday 7^th December, lunchtime: New MEMS PhDs Panel

Thursday 14^th December, 5:15pm, Darwin Lecture Theatre 1: Ye Olde MEMS Quizze

19th October, 5pm, Darwin Lecture Theatre 1: Dr Katy Mortimer (Canterbury Christ Church University), ‘Medieval Historical Writing and the Third Crusade: A Question of Failure?’

12th October, 5pm, Darwin Lecture Theatre 1: Early Career Showcase – come to hear exciting research from the Green Man to Mary I via Becket pilgrim badges, given by MEMS researchers, Peter Stiffell, Dr Cassandra Harrington and Lucy Splarn

5th October, 7pm, Grimond Lecture Theatre: Historical Association Lecture on ‘Saxons, Vikings and the written word in ninth century England’ given by our own Dr Robert Gallagher

30th June – 1st July: Connected Central European Worlds Conference, organised by Dr Suzanna Ivanic

16th-17th June: 9th Annual MEMS Festival

13th-14th June: Festival of Ancient Languages, organised by our colleagues in the School of Classics

13th June: Creative Heritage Day, in collaboration with the Centre for Heritage and the Institute for Cultural and Creative Industries

8th June, 5pm, Templeman Lecture Theatre: The 2023 Anselm Lecture, given by Prof. Barbara Bombi, University of Kent: ‘Memories of Italian merchants in fourteenth-century England: A tale of Fortune and Misfortune’.

1st June, 5:15pm, Darwin Lecture Theatre 1: MEMS Seminar, with our guest being Dr Amy Blakeway, St Andrews: ‘Legitimacy, Lieutenants and Loyalty: the practicalities of ruling Scotland from an English prison’

26^th May, 5:30pm, Templeman Lecture Theatre: The Renaissance Lecture, given by Prof. Ann Blair, Harvard University:  ‘The appeal of composite books for learned printers and authors in the Renaissance’

22^nd-23^rd May: Constables, Charters and Kent, a conference in collaboration with Kent Archives with the first day in at Kent Archives in Maidstone (with an exhibition), and the second in Special Collections on campus (with a temporary display), followed by a visit to relevant material in Canterbury Cathedral Archives

18^th May: Migrating Materia Medica symposium (organised by Francesca Richards and Dr Suzanna Ivanic as part of the Kent Material Studies Network)