List of Past Events
This list is under construction and at present only covers events up to October 2023
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’
26th 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’
22nd-23rd 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
18th May: Migrating Materia Medica symposium (organised by Francesca Richards and Dr Suzanna Ivanic as part of the Kent Material Studies Network)