Medieval and Ancient Seminar Series 2011-12
Faculty of Arts and Humanities
MARS is a seminar series that brings together the wealth of research conducted on the ancient and medieval worlds within the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. This year´s programme covers subjects from ancient Greece and Rome to the dissolution of the monasteries, and from Herakles to the Celts.
MARS Programme 2011-12
Wednesdays, pre-paper drinks start at 5.00pm; papers begin at 5:30pm
Humanities Research Institute
SEMESTER 1
Week 3 (12 October)
David Luscombe (HIST)
Biblical History in the Middle Ages and Peter Comestor
Week 4 (19 October)
Classical Association Session
Emma Stafford, Leeds
**Please note: this talk will be held in the Department of Archaeology Lecture Theatre (Northgate House G15, West Street)**
Herculean tasks: writing about Herakles in the 21st century
Week 5 (26 October)
John Collis (ARCH)
The demise and renaissance of the Celts, from late Antiquity to the 18th century
Week 9 (23 November)
PGR Student Session
Julia McClure (HIST)
Franciscan reflections on the colonial dimension of the liberal tradition of rights
Rachel Askew (ARCH)
Beyond the Castle Gate: a biographical approach to castle studies
Week 11 (7 December)
Mark Finney (BIBS)
Jesus in Visual Imagination: the Art of Invention
SEMESTER 2
Week 1 (8 February)
Helena Carr (HST)
An episcopal successor state? The evolution of a transalpine pass-region c.450-850
Week 3 (22 February)
Classical Association Session
Andy Fear, Manchester
A Day at the Races
Week 5 (7 March)
Steve Makin (PHIL)
What Aristotle thinks about flesh
Week 7 (21 March)
PGR Student Session
Ben Lacey (HIST)
Communities of Religion: Local Society and Medieval Christianity
Lauren McIntyre (ARCH)
Demography, diet and state of health in Roman York
Week 9 (25 April)
MARS/Hunter Archaeological Society Session
Hugh Willmott (ARCH)
Converting from Christianity: the dissolution of the monasteries and the building of a modern world
Week 11 (9 May)
Richard Flower (HST)
Cataloguing Errors: Classical Encyclopaedism and Late-Antique Heresiology
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT:
email : Julia Hillner (HIST) - J.Hillner@sheffield.ac.uk