The Medieval and Early Modern Collaborative Network
About us
The Medieval and Early Modern Collaborative Network (MEMC) is a听cross-disciplinary听research centre听that fosters collaboration, training, and research across disciplines. We host a regular seminar series, student reading groups, workshops, and special events. Our affiliates belong to a wide range of departments and faculties across the university.
We also support postgraduate students and early career researchers in a community that encourages intellectual range and exploration.听
Our research
These are our current medieval and early modern research projects:
- :听A regular seminar series that explores the medieval from a non-Eurocentric perspective, led by H茅l猫ne Sirantoine
- Pico della Mirandola鈥檚 Virtual Library Project:听A digital humanities project to recreate the now-lost library of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-94), led by Francesco Borghesi
- :听听An international project to edit the corpus of medieval Norse-Icelandic skaldic poetry, convened by Margaret Clunies-Ross.
- : The website of the Better Strangers project, developing fresh approaches to the teaching and learning of Shakespeare and Literary Studies at school and university, led by Liam Semler.
- Sydney Spanish Liturgical Music Manuscript Project:听A number of manuscripts of Spanish liturgical chant are currently being studied by an international group of scholars led by Jane听Morlet听Hardie.听
- ARC Centre for the History of Emotions:听Using historical knowledge from Europe, 1100-1800, to understand the long history of emotional behaviours.听The funded activities of the Centre have ended, but a lively group of scholars continue as 鈥淪ydney Emotions Scholars,鈥� led by Alan Maddox.
- Rare Books & Special Collections:听Ongoing collaborations to investigate, valorise, and publicise the exceptional holdings of the University of Sydney鈥檚 libraries and museums.
Our people
Our collaborative network is听made up听of academics and researchers from the University of Sydney. We welcome the opportunity to connect with听other听researchers in various and similar听disciplines.听
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- Dr 闯辞丑苍听骋补驳苍茅
- Associate Professor
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- Professor Emeritus听Margaret Clunies Ross
- 笔谤辞蹿别蝉蝉辞谤听Jonathan Wooding
- Emeritus Professor Margaret Clunies Ross
- Dr Robert Curry
- Ms Hilary Davidson
- Dr Jane Hardie
- Dr Roberta Kwan
- Dr Andrew Mellas
- Dr Penelope Nash
- Dr Simon Polson
- Associate Professor John Pryor
- Dr Juanita Ruys
- Dr Nicholas A. Sparks
Our events
The collaborative network holds lectures, workshops and reading groups throughout the year to showcase our academics and their work. To register for an event or find out more, email听slam.events@sydney.edu.au.
Visit the for our upcoming events and seminars.
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- 30 November 2018: Nicola Parsons on Jane Barker鈥檚 Patchwork Screen Novels and Domestic Material Cultures听
- 26 October 2018: Kate Flaherty (ANU) Shakespeare and the Suffragettes听
- 27 September 2018: Colloquium Celebrating the Work of Bev Sherry and Ursula Potter听
- 31 August 2018: Renaissance Literature and Visual Arts
- 22 June 2018: Early听Modern听Literature and Culture group presents Early Modern Music听
- 25 May 2018: Literary Studies in the 21st听Century听
- 6 April 2018: Editing Early Modern Texts听
- 25 February 2018: Food and Drink in Early Modern Greece 鈥� Alfred Vincent听
- 15 February 2018: Acord Medieval Ensemble Concert, Medieval and Early Modern Centre
To find out more about these past events, please contact us.
Newsletter
Read past editions of the Medieval and Early Modern Centre Newsletter.听听to receive the newsletter.听
Our theme for 2020
Why a Theme?听
MEMC would like to bring our diverse community into conversation more regularly around major issues in our field. An annual theme allows us not only to find specific thematic and analytical resonances between our research projects, but also to bring our community up to speed with new developments in medieval and early modern studies. We aim to align our theme with active research in the MEMC community and with specialties of the year鈥檚 visitors and speakers.听听
Language 鈥� Mobility 鈥� Communication听
The 2020 theme invites us to reconsider the premodern world as a space of encounters: linguistic, cultural, textual, economic, material, etc. Encounters were both local and global, personal and corporate. Recent scholarship 鈥� stimulated by global history 鈥� has begun to revise our view of premodern chains of transmission, whether of the classical heritage, of disease, or of material culture. How do we fruitfully rethink the complex system of exchange that characterises the world before 1800?听
We offer a short bibliography (pdf, 922KB)听from a range of disciplines that we invite the MEMC community to dip into over the course of 2020, as we build toward an end-of-year symposium that will allow us to take up this discussion as a Centre.听
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